What is the family tree of fortin.....what is the first fortin?

Question

I want to know my family tree

Answer 1

This is only the possible origin of the last name Fortin, it is not

necessarily where any of your ancestors originated.

Fortin

Last name origins & meanings:

French: diminutive of Fort.

A family from Maine, France, is recorded in Quebec city in 1652; others, from Normandy and Brittany, arrived in Montreal in 1672 and 1674.

To trace your family tree you must work back from yourself,

your parents, your grandparents, great grandparents and so on, one generation at a time. Start by asking your parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, to tell you everything they know about your family, names, dates of births, marriages and even deaths, record it all on paper and enter it onto a family tree software programme, there is a really good free one you can download at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/home/wel...

Answer 2

There are three separate lines named Fortin who settled in Canada. One was in the northeast along the St. Lawrence river, two in Quebec. I descend from two of them. Canadian genealogy is very easy once you trace your line of American ancestors back to the one who came to the US. That was generally between 1830-1850 when there was a terrible economy in Quebec and they flocked into Vermont, New York, Michigan and Massachusetts to get work. The three and a half works that help us trace our lines quickly are the PRDH from the University of Montreal, Centre for Acadian Studies at the Universite de Moncton (for the Acadian lines) and the Loiselle Marriage Index (especially for our first generation or two in the US). The Drouin records are also coming online through Ancestry.com, though they seem to be several million records short at the moment (so I only count it as a half).

If you would like to work on it, I can get you started. I love researching in Canada...and I am a Fortin through both of my maternal grandparents. You can email me through the link on my profile.

I would clarify one thing my friend Wendy said, though. Unlike most countries, Canada has a definitive beginning to lines. Their lines are extremely well-researched and the research is published by reputable universities. When you begin your research, your goal is to find everyone back to 1799, which is when the PRDH kicks in.

Answer 3

www.familysearch.org has this early listing: (also listings as FORTUNE)

Simon Fortin --Birth:   abt 1559 ,St-Cosme, de Vair, Sarthe, France  (also shown as JULIEN FORTIN, with Simon as his father))

Burial:   10 Apr 1617 ,Notre-Dame, de Vair, M, Le Mans, France  

Marriage(s)

Spouse:  * Marie Lavye (Lavie)    

Marriage:  26 Nov 1618  

  Notre-Dame, de Vair, M, Le Mans, France

But, like others have said, we can't do anything without some sort of name,  location, and possible date to start with--even if it is your grandfather so we can work backwards)

Answer 4

You are assuming that all Fortins are automatically related, and that all of them descend from one original person.  That is kind of an urban legend for family history, and not how it works.

Your family tree starts with YOU, AND works back from the present, to the past.  Never try to do it the other way around, it just does not work.  In addition, YOUR family tree/ ancestry is not your last name.. it is your ancestors.  Mom is your ancestor.. but her birth name is something else. Same goes for the grandparents, only one of 4 will be a Fortin.

It is absolutely required that you use records to learn who those persons are, not just what you "know", since obviously you will get to a point where no one is living, to provide the info. If you start right (using records/documents), that won't be an issue.  Some of it will be on the internet, but other facts (especially about living people) will NOT be online.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepo...

One list of the type of sources that you'll find information in.

And, people here will help along the way.