Family Group Sheet for Willard Smith / Mary Katherine Folz (F14416) : Our Family History

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Willard Smith

Male
Willard Smith

Birth	04 Jan 1845	Spanish, Algoma, Ontario, Canada
Death	16 Sep 1934	Algoma District, Ontario, Canada
Burial
Marriage
Father	Michael Smith \| F17538 Group Sheet
Mother

Mary Katherine Folz

Female
Mary Katherine Folz

Birth	8 Mar 1871	Frouard, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France
Death	27 Jul 1951	Walford, Algoma, Ontario, Canada
Burial	30 July 1951	Spanish, Ontario, Canada
Father	John Nicholas Folz \| F16721 Group Sheet
Mother	Marie Therese Bondidier \| F16721 Group Sheet

Mary Ellen Smith

Female
Mary Ellen Smith

Birth	18 May 1888	Spanish, Algoma, Ontario, Canada
Death	30 Sep 1943	Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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Eugenie Thérèse Smith

Female
Eugenie Thérèse Smith

Birth	17 Sep 1895	Spanish, Algoma, Ontario, Canada
Baptism	25 Sept 1898	Massey, Ontario, Canada
Death	Aug 1977	Sudbury, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Burial
Spouse	George Herbert Reilley \| F15575
Marriage	3 Jan 1911	Algoma District, Algoma, Ontario, Canada

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My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.