tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81279462009-10-10T14:37:36.372-05:00News and announcements for Peter-Family.net.Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03701407513545768128noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127946.post-16240264148705240392009-10-10T13:40:00.007-05:002009-10-10T14:14:38.930-05:00

I thought I'd share with you a little presentation I put together for an intro course in Cultural Geography I took at a community college last year. You saw a portion of the project previously in the Google map links I posted to this blog.The presentation is entitled Belgian Walloons of Leopold, Indiana: Their Villages of Origin. It is a very simple PowerPoint presentation converted to HTML. I

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I constructed two simple Google maps that might be of interest to some of you.The first map plots the villages of origin of heads of households who emigrated from the Semois River valley region in the Province of Luxembourg, Belgium to Leopold, Indiana. The household data comes from:Ducat, Jean. (1992) De Semois en Indiana. Biesme-Mettet, Belgium:Luxembourg Belge Amérique.Clicking on a marker

Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03701407513545768128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127946.post-8040006480050334302008-11-09T00:44:00.002-06:002008-11-09T01:02:34.914-06:00

Thanks to the research of Marjorie GOBIN, our cousin in Jamoigne, Belgium, I am now very excited to report the names of three of André PIERRE's siblings! (According to one source, André was the youngest of nine.)Jean-Joseph b: 30 April 1792Marie Jeanne b: 3 April 1800andJacques b: 1806We have photos of the birth records for Jean-Joseph & Marie Jeanne. Jacques' name appears as a witness to the

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While talking with some members of the Peninsula Belgian American Club in during Belgian Days in July, I was made aware of the following book:Lacourt, M. (2001). 17,200 Belges devenus Américains. Wavre [Belgium]: Cercle historique et archéologique de Wavre et de la région.Marcel Lacourt has made an effort to compile information for every Belgian immigrant documented to be in the US between

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I found this while surfing the 'net today:http://www.lesbulles.be/

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On October 4, 1830, Belgium declared independence from the Netherlands.On July 21, 1831, Leopold I ascended to the throne of the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Dear PETER / PETERS / PIERRE cousins, related families, possible relatives, and friends,There has been a groundswell of renewed interest in our shared history and so many new family contacts that I cannot keep track of all of you anymore! Per conversations with some of the cousins, I have been given the push I needed to finally establish a mailing list just for us. (Thanks Dave and Patrick.)The

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Thanks to the hard work of Dave Peter, the full version of PETER: The Andrew Peter Family by Rene Bouillon & David Peter is now available on the Peter-Family website. I know some of you (and me!) have been waiting a long time to get your hands on this book.All the photos are included and the book has been updated. You may even print your own copy of the book once you download the files.Go to this

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For those interested, we have finally uploaded to Flickr all our photos from our trip to Belgium this fall!Click below to view the photos in day by day chunks. Photos in the Semois River Valley in Wallonia start Day 6. You'll find photos of our GOBIN cousins in Day 10. Photos before Day 6 are in Flanders and Brussels.http://www.flickr.com/photos/p-h-o-t-o-l-i-f-e/collections/72157602749700092/

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Text from the book PETER: The Andrew Peter Family by Rene Bouillon and David Peter has been uploaded with permission from Mr. Peter.I quickly converted the files to HTML from MS Word using Word's conversion utility, therefore the pages are not completely user-friendly, but are manageable.Also, many photos are missing from the book. There must have been an error during transmission of the book via

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I have uploaded several Peter family photos, but there are many, many more to scan. Stay tuned...

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Greetings everyone!Time has flown since May 2004 when I purchased the Peter-Family.net domain and uploaded its homepage.I was thinking a blog might be a good idea so I could let you folks know the latest about the site, alert you to resources, and so forth.I hope you find it helpful.Deanna

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