http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker Homemakers aren't all about diapers and dishes Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:07:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found out that Leonie's had an unknown sister. Lousie Adelle Dumanet was born in Choisy-Au-Bac is 1831. She died six months later in the same town in 1832. I also found her grandfather, Melchoir, who was a shoemaker in Choisy-Au-Bac. He died in 1818 and lived with his son, ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/03/19/leonies-lost-sister/ I decided to try some new authors and this was the result. Sharon Kay Penman- Here Be Dragons Here Be Dragons is the first of Penman's Welsh trilogy all taking place in the 13th century from the reigns of John, Henry III, and Edward I. This book is about the reign ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/03/19/some-book-reviews/ I have finally found proof that my 3rd Great grandfather was indeed the Louis Charlemagne Dumanet born in Choisy-Au-Bac in 1806. I went to the library where you can access ancestry international for free and typed in Dumanet. I found a Louise Adelle Dumanet born in Choisy-Au-Bac in 1831. I ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/03/17/family-in-loise/ I have always been fascinated by the vampire myth. I still have a journal primarily about vampire myths written in 2003, BEFORE Twilight. It is not a fictional story, just entry after entry on the vampire myth and where it may have come from. I was alone in Hawaii with ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/26/real-vampires/ This knight's armor wasn't exactly shining, but he is very interesting nevertheless. This is a rewrite. I think my writing was so terrible that I feel that I didn't give this prince enough respect. Enrique was the younger son of King Fernando III, a great-grandson of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Fernando ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/18/knight-in-shining-armor-of-the-weekenrique-of-castile/ I think that will be my project the next few months. I will work on finding Leonie. Last year I was looking for the Keiths and did find the family of Elizabeth McLin. This year my focus will be on Leonie's family. I know a lot about Leonie, but I ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/05/finding-leonie/ I searched the records of Oise for Leonie's birth record and could not find her in Oise. Either that is the wrong Louis Charlemagne or Louis moved to another area. Since I could not find any Patri's in Oise that is very possible. Louis was a merchant so he could ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/04/dead-end-in-oise/ Before I told you the basic story of my ancestors who immigrated from France. I have a lot of information about them once they arrived to the USA but they remain a mystery back in France. Because many of the records in France have not been indexed like they are ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/03/french-genealogy-part-deux/ My great great great grandmother, Leonie Louiza Dumanet, was born in France. Her family came to Tennessee in 1849 and had a tanning business along the banks of the Tennessee River. There were several French and Belgian families opening up tanning businesses, bakeries, etc in the small town of Lobelville, ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/01/31/french-genealogy/ I was doing some research on Melusine, an actual mythological being from Anjou and found a weird book "The Dragon Legacy: The Secret of an Ancient Bloodline" by Nicholas De Vere. I was specifically reading about Melusine but as I read on the book got weirder and weirder. It started ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/01/22/dragon-prince/