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I've slowly started working on a family history book focused on the Estacaille immigrants to North America

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Family Historian & Genealogist

My blog of my research progress can be found on the home page at https://estacaille.one-name.net

We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.

Jean Estacaille & Jeanne Marie Lapuyade Family

My 2nd great-grandparents in France, several of their children immigrated to North America and raised families.

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Jacques Estacaille & Elese Mirragon

One of several Estacaille branches that are probably related, but I haven't found the connection yet. Jacques immigrated from Bordeaux to the USA, married & raised a family in California.

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