About the Gaston Guay Web Pages

This includes the information in the database files and the HTML pages which were either e-mailed to you or which you have downloaded from my website at  http://reset00.com or which I have placed elsewhere on the web:  you are free to share this information with others.

Over a period of 10 years and hundreds perhaps even thousands of hours I have accumulated and compiled this genealogical data from various sources by various means which have included telephone conversations, newspaper clippings, interviews, researching smaller databases in print form as well as on the World Wide Web and, sometimes it was from information provided to me by you.   I have compiled a large portion of it into a digital database but much more remains to be done. The digital database allows me to cross-reference and share information with you more easily.   It helps generate the HTML files which you are viewing as well.

I am not a genealogist nor do I work in this field.   I have never been paid to research, collect or compile this type of data.   I do this to help people find their roots in the Gaston Guay family tree.   I do this in my spare time, while sometimes I really ought be doing something else :-)    You are absolutely under no obligation to do so,   but if you have found this data interesting or usefull AND you would like to encourage me to continue you may send me a cheque or money order for $20.00, or a lesser or greater amount, at the address provided below.    This would definitely encourage and motivate me to continue compiling the data and share it with you through the web pages that I have posted on the world wide web or provide and share with you through emails.   I have, for my part, made this very same encouraging gesture to the software authors when I have used or enjoyed their freely distributed, freely usable software, some of which was used to produce this work ;-)

History

The whole thing began early in my childhood when my father would come home from work. He would sometimes look at me and say "Your grandfather's name was Liguori. His father was Cyprien and he was married to Rose Martel. Her father was JB Martel and his father was Cyprien. Your grandmother was Marie Anne Bradley and her father was Nathaniel Bradley and he was married toMarie Louise Meloche. And his father was John Bradley and his wife was Mary Blackburn and either his father or his father before him was a captain on a ship. All of the Bradley's here and around here are your cousins. They were my cousins. And you had a great aunt named Lida or Alida." She was my great aunt. She was grand-Pa's sister. "And they lived here and there. And you are related to such and such a family through this ancestor and you are related to this other family through that ancestor and to this family also although I am not sure exactly how but I remember MY father telling me.
Now grand father Cyprien's father, that was my grand-father's father, his name was also Cyprien and that's your great-grand-father's father..."

WOW!!! How could he remember all that stuff? I knew that somehow I would never be able to repeat it all to my children as he had done for me. And I knew that I had better write some of it down before I forgot. Then I started looking in books to see if I could find more. From there I went on to talking to people and making phone calls to relatives and total strangers who were very distant relatives that I'd never met before and that was how it all began...

I do not guarantee the completeness of the data contained herein or posted elswhere by me on the world wide web for the following reasons: 1) I am not a genealogist, 2) I have compiled these records from various unverified sources that I beleived to be correct, 3) the records were at first compiled only for my own pleasure and then for my pleasure as well as that of others and to help them find out the location in which the records might be found and verified by noting the places of birth, marriage and death of the person that they were interested in and then 4) to help create a bond between distant cousinswho may wonder how they fit in Gaston Guay's family tree and, finally, 5) by the very historical nature of the work it could never be complete where definitive data records cannot be found in the past and without a record of the latest birth, death or marriage. (Official documents and records of this data were not always preserved or accurate. In some cases, official records did not exist nor have I made any effort to seek out the records that do exist.)