OurFamilyLinks.org - General Information

Welcome to our family's genealogy site
- we went "live" on 1 Aug 2008 -

Your webmaster/host is Chuck Filteau. Please feel free to contact us in regard to the people you find in our databases. The data contained herein has been compiled over many years on a best effort basis. While we believe the family links that we have made to be correct, you should always do your own independant validation to verify your own ancestry. The good news is: the great majority of information has sources attached to them. Unfortunately, we probably do have some errors. Sometimes the errors are mine - because I transcribed the information incorrectly; and sometimes the sources I used may have had incorrect or unreliable information. In any case, those errors will remain unless YOU contact us and give/suggest corrections. 
We WELCOME any additional information you care to share.

We are all related - cousins of one another.

The fact that you are visiting this site more than likely indicates that you are related to someone in one of our database. Please, DO send us pictures and family stories. We will be glad to post them.

You will find three different TREEs on the "inside"

• The FILTEAU tree has more than 115,000 people who are blood relatives or have married into the Filteau - Fecteau - Facteau - Felteau - Fecto - Facto family throughout Quebec and into the USA and other regions of Canada. We are all descendants of Pierre Filteau and Gillette Savard who were married in Quebec City in 1666. There are also a large number of links to ancestors who lived in the early years of Acadia.   I have spent more than 25 years gathering this information from a huge number of resources, including the Canadian census (1851, 1861.1871,1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, and 1921), US census (all years), and the 19x5 state census.
  
  More than 95% of the events/facts have sources.  In addition, to support the documentation of the people and familes, more than 4000 images for birth/baptism, marriage, death/burial, and census records are available. 
  

  There are only a few hundred Filteau (and variations) people who are listed but NOT linked.
  PLEASE, if you know their parents, get in touch with us so that we can get them linked to their heritage.

• The WALKER tree has more than 30000 people who are ancestors of (or otherwise related) to my wife's side of the family. She is from the New England area and her ancestors were early immigrants to the New World. She has more than 25 Mayflower ancestors; countless (well, almost countless) post 1066 European royal families (Plantagenet) and pre 1066 French (William the Conqueror and Charlemagne) as well as early Saxon families (Old King Cole); and even links (although they cannot with certainty be completely verified) to Mohammed the Prophet, Lady Godiva, and Marc Anthony. So please accept these links as being only probable, but they are fun to explore anyway. In addition, because several US presidents are descendants of English Royalty, there are links to those "cousins."

     Because the ancestry of my wife's grandmother is French-Canadian, that branch of the family is completely covered in the Filteau tree; especially because some of her 17th century 
     ancestors are the same as mine -- which makes us 7th cousins!

• The ODEGARD-BLEGEN tree documents the more than 20000 cousins and ancestors of my Norwegian mother - Hannah Odegard. Her uncle - Helmer Blegen - spent almost his entire life documenting his/our family's heritage going back to the 1200s in Norway. One of his handwritten notes says "and the parchment says...". My cousin, Lola (Braaten) Ruff, has continued to gather information on the families of the many cousins who immigrated into the Dakotas and the central part of Canada.

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Please click on one of the links below to VIEW the information in our database:

• Surnames
• Genealogy Home Page

This page was last updated on 30 Mar 2020.