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Ooo, the pilgrimages sound like a blast.

I'd like to go on a pilgrimage up north to Montreal and visit the basilica where my family records are kept.

I realize that all of it is digitized and available online but lately there have been a rash of church arsons in Canada and I would like to see them in person, just in case, and also visit a surviving house that has been added onto over the past 300 years, but one end has been uncovered and restored.

Here's the church ( and the steeple ):

https://www.basiliquenotredame.ca/

...and here, the people:

It's the annulment record of Marie (greaaaaaaat grandma) and her first hubby, Pierre.

If you recall I had posted about Marie and her unlucky first couple of husbands, and this document shows That they were granted an annulment because of impotence brought on by evil, one of her jilted suitors ( granny got around) worked some kind of hex at their wedding causing them not to conceive.

Marie was one of many young single ladies shipped over from France in order to increase the population as it were, and I'm sure she was Indicated as the one who could not have children , given the time period.

That's a gorgeous church! You absolutely should go see it, and whatever family records are stored there.

Yes, I remember your story about Marie. Isn't it astonishing to think what some of our ancestors went through to get here?