Re: OT Jeopardy Winner 12/15/2022

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On 12/22/2022 12:37 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 12/21/2022 7:10 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 11:12:28 AM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>
>>> Most of my cousins spell their names as one word, but I can assure you
>>> their dad's were born La Londe, not Lalonde even if they allowed
>>> bureaucrats to change it at the DMV or just decided it was easier. I
>>> know both of my La Londe uncles now mispell their name for public use.
>>> Its just easier. I'm a bit more of a rock. I'll refuse to do business
>>> with people who won't let me spell my name correctly and I took my birth
>>> certificate with me to make sure my name was correct at the DMV 40+
>>> years ago.
>>>
>>> One lady who runs an air gun parts store online said "I don't see why
>>> its a big deal for you to just take the space out."
>>>
>>> I told her, "That would be fraud. That is not my name."
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>>
>> So as it turns out Bob, we just may be distantly, indirectly related.
>> Seems my uncle (Donald Nugent, mothers brother) Married a Carmen La
>> Londe. They lived in a small little city in upstate NY called
>> Ogdensburg, Right on the St Lawrence River. (Across from Canada) They
>> had (I think) 3 kids ( 2 boys and a girl) Lived in Niagara Falls of
>> all places right down the street from the Love Canal. Which, if you
>> remember, was the subject of a huge media water pollution scandal back
>> in the 70's.
>> .
>> My uncle, a prisoner of war during the WW II Battle of the Bulge,
>> doing a hundreds of mile forced walk, survived that and died of cancer
>> late 80's . (Hmmmm) My aunt Carmen ( if I remember the family history
>> correctly) went on and got re-married to a catholic priest who gave up
>> the ministry to marry her.
>> .
>> I haven't been in contact with those cousins since before my uncles
>> death so I don't know anything about them. But I do have another
>> cousin in Ohio who says she occasionally talks to my cousin Kenny the
>> youngest boy.
>> .
>> By the way, my father was born in Canada, (1916) in a log cabin far up
>> north in a logging camp in Winnipeg  , My grandfather was a lumber
>> jack. I think I've mentioned that here before. My father told me some
>> really great stories about living in the lumber camp. So anyway, I'm
>> half Canuk.  Eh?
>
> The story is in the late 1600s the oldest La Londe in our line was a
> French NCO who chose to stay in America (Canada I think) when his last
> enlistment was up.  He was then a black smith and a constable after the
> service.
>
> My aunt went down the genealogy rabbit hole 25ish years ago, and that is
> whet she said she discovered.
>
>

Cool!!  Family History is always unique!!!