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Acetaminamerican
Its disappointing enough to learn that my ancestors went from Quebec to Wisconsin; my head hurts tallying up all the ways the sconnies spelled the same person's name differently on different documents. they really had a hard time with french names (I know, I know, it wasn't just sconnies who anglicized names, but we know they were always drunk even back then).
It took my Grandmother watching a Detroit Tigers game with Dominican Republic born reliever Joaquin Benoit pitching to finally solve a decades old spelling/pronunciation barrier that had been preventing her from tracing the Quebecois lineage further back than father.
Because of that, she joked that he was a long lost relative, from a different family tree.