Hello Jim - although our family tree appears to have branched long ago, we share ancestors in Michel Larche Hache dit Gallant/Anne Cormier. I you descended through Francois (b.1707), and my line follows through his brother Jacques (b.1712).

I have an very comprehensive geneaology from Michel through about 1850. I would be happy to share it. I didn't compile it, but found it online at a very active message board. Please let me know if you are interested.

I would like to correspond with you (or anyone else!) about how the family became so far flung. Although my father's roots are deep in Nova Scotia, I grew up in Alberta in the west and am becoming very interested in this history. I am quite a beginner in terms of geneaology, but am learning through doing.

Like you, I will include a skeleton lineage:
Michel Larche Hache dit Gallant (1662) / Anne Cormier (1674)

--> Jacqeus dit Gallant Hache (b.1712) /Marie Josephe Boudrot (1717) - 11 children: Francois, Jacques-Phillipe, Jeanne Marie-anne, Pierre, Joseph, Marie, Cyprien, Charles***, Anne, Genevieve, Madeliene.

--> Charles Hache Gallant (1749) & Felicite Goutrot (1749) - 13 to 15 children??? Simone (1767), Francois/Francoise, Marthe, Felix, Mathurin***, Jacques, Marguerite, Simon, Charles, Euphrosine, Marie (1798), Pierre, Marie (1809)

--> Mathurin (1784) & Euphrosine LeBlanc (1790); 4 children - Marcellin*** Felix, Boniface, Albine

--> Marcellin (1813) & Helene Ryan (1814); 10 children - Euphrosine, Mederic, Mederic, Elisabeth, Helene Rose, Patrick***, Julie Ursule, Mathurin Antione, Marine Philomen, Antione

--> Patrick (1849) & Olive Desveaux (1850); 11 children - David, Marie Helene I, Daniel, Charlie Felix, Marcellin, Thomas***, Simeon, Marie Helene II (1886), Elisabeth, and Marguerite (of "Les trois Pignon" museum collection)

--> Thomas (1882) & Catherine Chiasson (1872); 4 children - Napoleon Roach(from Catherine's late husband), Lucy Anne, Charles Joseph***, Mary Olive

--> Charles Joseph & Helene Desveaux (1907) - 11 children including my father Tom... which leads to me.

Cheers to all, and I anticipate your responses to this thread!

Michael Gallant
Calgary, Alberta
mgallant99@shaw.ca