Please contact me to share your knowledge, memories, memorabilia and photographs for an upcoming book.
This website …
- Encourages families with French ancestors to share information.
- Informs about New Mexico’s French legacy and stimulates dialogue.
- Creates new friendships to enjoy the diversity of our interwoven roots.
The French have been part of New Mexico’s legacy since the early 1500s. Families with French ancestry abound in New Mexico, as Frenchmen married Native American, Spanish, Creole, Anglo and other European women through the centuries. Women with French ancestry also founded families, and thousands of New Mexicans today have French blood.
In modern times, many people from New Mexico or who made New Mexico their home had French parents or married French men and women.
I am seeking to contact these families as well as lovers of history, please contact me at fmpatorni@earthlink.net.
Recent updates:
April 28 to May 20 , 2012, added to “All Names”: François Siote, François-Jean Rochas, ed Ozanne, Rouault, Roux, Salpointe, Boislinier, Casad, Clouthier, Durant, Alexander Girard, Grenier, Grossette, Robert Boissière, Dr. Bessette.
CONFERENCES:
I will be making presentations on the French in New Mexico at the following conferences:
Santa Fe, June 15-17, 2012: Genealogical Society of Hispanic America (http://gsha.net/Events.html).
Denver, October 4-7, 2012: Western History Association (http://www.westernhistoryassociation.org/conference/)
Past Conferences:
April 14, 21012, Santa Fe: Southwest Oral History Association Conference .
May 3-5, 2012, Santa Fe: Historical Society of NM 2012 Centennial Conference.