Rick Dondo's Family Tree
What's New (past 30 days)
Date of Last GEDCOM Import: 31 Oct 2025 15:18:29
2025/10/31
I have refreshed the site with data from a current (to this date) data extract; version fifty-eight. There are extensive additions pertaining to research done for a cousin to be married in 2026 to a young lady with a heritage that intersects with many of the families from the Saint-Claude - Notre Dame de Lourdes / Somerset, etc area and SW MB I had previously documented. The results are... FASCINATING!
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
2025/09/29
I have refreshed the site with data from a current (to this date) data extract; version fifty-eight. There are some additions pertaining to research done for cousins who recently lost parents or grandparents.
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
2025/06/16
I have refreshed the site with data from a current (to this date) data extract; version fifty-seven. There are some additions pertaining to research done for cousins who recently lost parents or grandparents. There are also changes and additions derived from my work to document burials in the St Boniface Cathedral Cemetery.
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
2025/04/23
I have refreshed the site with data from a current (to this date) data extract; version fifty-six. There are some additions pertaining to research done for cousins who recently lost parents or grandparents. There are also changes and additions derived from my work to document burials in the St Boniface Cathedral Cemetery.
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
2025/04/18
BIG NEWS!!!
I have just completed a transition of this website to a new and much faster server. Please feel free to get in touch with any concerns, observations, or suggestions you notice as arising from that change.
2025/02/19
This is the fifty-fifth full refresh of this site which uses a specialized website building application and it is based on data taken from your host's Ancestry tree on 2025/01/01 starting at 12:30 CDT.
It leverages the recent implementation of version 15 of the TNG application which includes many fixes for reported problems and new features.
It leverages the recent implementation of version 15 of the TNG application which includes many fixes for reported problems and new features.
As will be the case for the foreseeable future, that data was transformed considerably to ensure that more information pertaining to sources and citations is available to demonstrate why I believe what I have published.
Think I'm wrong? Bring your evidence and we will discuss your suggestions!
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*** My Main Tree:
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Though some family lines were extended back in time, this update reflects a level of attention to personal profiles over the past several months that was occasional, at best. This is largely due to the fact your host became engaged in a project with members of the Manitoba Genealogical Society's Cemetery Committee. This work is intended to develop a complete list of locations and contacts for cemeteries in Manitoba. Given the fact there are on the order of 1,470 such places in the province, we have much work ahead of us. Visitors here will benefit from the fact your host has already begun using the available processes to update the descriptions of cemeteries across the province.
There was one notable exception to the above. Your host lost his Uncle Alan Wood on 2025/02/09. He undertook to document his family history on behalf of his children, siblings, grandchildren and beyond; in other words, all the people who share in his heritage to some degree. It was an honour.
There was one notable exception to the above. Your host lost his Uncle Alan Wood on 2025/02/09. He undertook to document his family history on behalf of his children, siblings, grandchildren and beyond; in other words, all the people who share in his heritage to some degree. It was an honour.
I have since diverted into an intensive update to the Find a Grave content for the St Boniface Cathedral Cemetery. As a result, there are now hundreds more memorials documented there with thousands more et to come. This work has driven much of the work mentioned above aimed at extending family lines back in time .
In fact, there are updates that reflect activity related to two main areas of focus aside from the occasional change to simply reflect recent events affecting family members. Those are:
- specific research related to interest expressed by or identified to me by cousins or other family researchers with common interest
- new information contained in the 1931 Canada Census
*** Locations ***
This update reflects few of the effects of my continued efforts to normalize place names used in people's stories in order to leverage best the powerful feature of this website that relates to the map-based display of information about them.
As a reminder: this feature is the basis for the "Heat Map" option on many lists, a map that highlights the number of places mentioned in the stories of the people or places on a list. It also means it is possible on many displays to see pins placed where events took place and thus visualize how a person might have moved about during the course of their lives.
In the time since the last update, your host's focus has been to reduce the variety of spellings of some of the names of places in key Rural Municipalities in Manitoba. This is complicated by several factors, not the least of which are source usage of federal election ridings as a way to group locations in the province and the fact boundaries of many if not all of the RM's have changed over time, with some being absorbed and amalgamated. This process will take time to complete. For now, the results are beginning to be seen on the main "Places" page for Manitoba.
There is certainly work left to do.
As a bonus to all of us, this process of reviewing place names results in feedback resulting in changes to the profiles of the people whose lives or some portion of them are associated with the place(s) being reviewed. Thus, this update also includes some changes and additions to the information pertaining to various people and families that were already on my tree AND the addition of new ones.
Your host will continue to apply effort to improve both the accuracy of the place names and the assignment of appropriate GPS codes and level indicators to them (e.g., country, state / province, county / region, city / town, etc.). The statistics below now reflect the existing gap at the time the data was captured. Your host expects the NUMBER of unique place names to decrease for the next while, as redundant spellings of the same name are identified and eliminated.
*** Ongoing ***
This update also reflects changes to a variety of profiles on my tree that really centre around six ongoing activities:
- capture of current events observed by your host
- extension of the heritage my tree records for selected people based on expressed interest
- rendering visible more details from certain sources to enhance the understanding of why my tree reflects certain events and people
- rendering visible more of the citations my tree holds to support the events it reports (including other Ancestry Family Trees)
- adding more entries in the "Media" section, especially links to the "local history books" that are part of the University of Manitoba's Digital Collection and pertinent to the families on the tree
- an ongoing low-level effort to "normalize" place names for events that happened prior to Canadian Confederation in places that were NOT to become Manitoba
*** Cemeteries ***
As has been for some time and will continue to be the case: My work to catalogue graves and other final dispositions represents my contribution to bringing closure to as many people as possible by ensuring access to the virtual versions of the tributes made to those who have gone ahead. In my opinion, these efforts may assist many in planning visits to the physical locations in which the physical tributes persist. I expect to continuously improve this asset as I uncover misalignments between the best definitions of those places and many profiles on my tree. Correcting them will always improve the records offered here, and to Ancestry offering me new information about the affected people and their families. The tree is better for it. I invite you to browse the available list of cemetery definitions.
*** Public Sources ***
My work includes an interest in making available to all, selected information from my Ancestry tree that can be readily accessed via free and public resources. This is especially true of the links to memorials on the Find a Grave service, but extends to some of the Government of Canada resources organized by its "Library and Archives" department, in particular, and other departments.
I invite all visitors to seek out and read carefully the descriptions of those resources here. These are wonderful places to start your OWN research!
*** Subscription Sources ***
Also -- Still the case and expected to be this way for a long time:
Many of the records (items) specifically cited, regrettably, are stored in databases as part of the Ancestry service; to view them, an active Ancestry account is required. However, as part of my efforts to transform the data provided to me by Ancestry, an effort is made to make much more of the "descriptive" information about them available on this site.
That being the case: should you identify a SPECIFIC document or record cited to be of high value to you in remembering and honouring your ancestors, please feel free to get in touch. I will very likely be both willing and able to provide you with a digital copy of some kind.
*** Current Status ***
My research continues and new information and connections are revealed on nearly a daily basis. For the foreseeable future, as was the case for the past many months, I plan to continue to update this site on an irregular basis; one that I expect to be no less than once a month.
The site allows anyone to see all of the information I have recorded about deceased people. Without an account and specific privileges assigned to it, access to information about living people other than their name on this tree is restricted. Even with such privileges, at your host's discretion, they may give you access to only information about people with whom you share direct ancestors. In the event you want to see more, please get in touch.
Photos
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 | picryl - The World's Largest Public Domain Media Search Engine PICRYL is the largest media source for public domain images, scans, and documents. PICRYL is an AI-driven search & similarity engine. PICRYL makes the world's public domain media fun to find and easy to use. Get Archive LLC, creator of PICRYL, endeavors to provide information that it possesses on the copyright status of the content and to… | 10 Dec 2025 |
Documents
![Goulet Ancestry by Linda Anne Dupuis [2025]](documents/Tree.png "Goulet Ancestry by Linda Anne Dupuis [2025]")
Histories
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 | The Ancestor Hunt Kenneth R. Marks, founder of The Ancestor Hunt, a leading online resource for genealogy and newspaper research. Based in Arizona, I’ve dedicated the past two decades to helping family historians uncover their ancestors’ stories. Today, The Ancestor Hunt reaches more than 100,000 family historians through social media, guides, newsletters, and… | 14 Dec 2025 | |
| The Ancestor Hunt A Facebook page focused on helping genealogy and family history researchers achieve their goals | 14 Dec 2025 | |
 | New Horizons Genealogy Specializes in New England and New York Colonial American Genealogy, Ancestry and Family History. Our record collections include, Vital records, Arnold Collection of Rhode Island Vital Records, Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, Colonial and State Census records, Federal and State Census Mortality Schedules, Cemetery records, 1840… | 14 Dec 2025 | |
 | University of Calgary Digital Collections About We work closely with subject experts to create:• Unique digital collections that showcase University of Calgary library, museum, and archival primary holdings in many formats • Collections of interest to Albertans and Canadians • Educational resources for use across the curriculum Please note that the language, terminology… | 11 Dec 2025 | |
 | Access Genealogy AccessGenealogy.com contains one of the largest collections of free genealogy for your United States ancestry. Find hundreds of thousands of free websites with billions of names you can use to further your family genealogy! Specifically, we provide sources for birth records, death records, marriage records, census records, tax records, church… | 10 Dec 2025 | |
 | Interment.net This website contains 25+ million cemetery records, transcripts, and burial registers, from tens of thousands of cemeteries across the world, all contributed by genealogists, cemeteries, government agencies, and private organizations. | 10 Dec 2025 | |
 | City of Winnipeg - The Municipal Cemeteries Branch The Municipal Cemeteries Branch provides dignified interment services and maintains three City-owned cemeteries: Brookside, St. Vital (Saint-Vital) and Transcona. Including a search facility for graves in their care | 10 Dec 2025 | |
 | Les Filles du roi: What is fact cannot be changed - History of the Lazare Côté (1849) and Clarice Bergeron (1851) family How historical revisionists and feminists have slandered our ancestors Myth #1: Glamorous arrivals Myth #2: Forced motherhood Myth #3: Society's rejects and prostitutes Myth #4: Invaders | 4 Dec 2025 | |
 | Winnipeg Beach Historical Society In 2021, the Winnipeg Beach Historical Society was formed by Wendy Peter after attempting to find a historic photo of her 1910 Winnipeg Beach cottage to no avail. The society existed initially as a Facebook group where people began to share stories and photos and was a great place of connection during the global pandemic from 2020-2023. In… | 3 Dec 2025 | |
| Facebook page - Forgotten Manitoba Images of rural and not-so-rural places and scenes in largely abondoned parts of Manitoba | 3 Dec 2025 |
Individuals
| ID | Last Name, Given Name(s) | Born | Location | Tree | Branch | Last Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I402214455916 |
 Durand, Lucienne |
b. 19 Apr 1927 | Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, RM of Lorne, Manitoba, Canada  | Rick Dondo's Family | 15 Dec 2025 |
| I402101120328 |
Dacquay, Thérèse |
b. 20 Feb 1935 | Saint-Claude, RM of Grey, Manitoba, CANADA | Rick Dondo's Family | 14 Dec 2025 |
| I402006761315 |
Philippe, Marie |
b. 5 Dec 1846 | Bodelhuit, Morbihan, Bretagne, France | Rick Dondo's Family | 8 Dec 2025 |
| I400015137638 |
Dondo, Guillaume Marie "William" |
b. 10 Jul 1864 | Guern, Morbihan, Bretagne, France | Rick Dondo's Family | 6 Dec 2025 |
| I402212006124 |
Odic, Mabel |
b. 1913 | Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France | Rick Dondo's Family | 6 Dec 2025 |
| I402514407960 |
Mercier, Marie Eugenie Virginie |
b. Nov 21 1867 | Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France | Rick Dondo's Family | 6 Dec 2025 |
| I402558495801 |
Drohomereski, Hryhor "Henry" |
b. 1869 | Galicia, Austrian Empire | Rick Dondo's Family | 3 Dec 2025 |
| I402054485860 |
Drohomereski, Ivan Soroka "John" |
b. Abt. 1839 | Ukraine | Rick Dondo's Family | 2 Dec 2025 |
| I402602170577 |
De Pape, J.G. |
Rick Dondo's Family | 22 Nov 2025 |
Families
| ID | Father ID | Father's Name | Mother ID | Mother's Name | Married | Tree | Branch | Last Modified |
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| F7049 | I402601569084 | Lenglet, Auguste Melchoir Marie | I402601569070 | Blondel, Marie Joséphine Alexiana "Victoire" | 23 Mars 1893 | Rick Dondo's Family | 6 Dec 2025 |
| F6854 | I402077764061 | Dondo, Joachim "George" | I402153753264 | Roferet "Royer", Anne Marie | 24 Oct 1931 | Rick Dondo's Family | 6 Dec 2025 |
| F1278 | I402054485860 | Drohomereski, Ivan Soroka "John" | I402054485862 | Negrycz, Anastazia | Rick Dondo's Family | 5 Dec 2025 |