Ancestry/Genealogy

trace my paternal family name back to 1660, Normandy, France. Funny thing though...my maiden name started out in France as something totally different from what it is now, due to the practice of people taking "dit" names.

If I go back through my paternal grandfather's line through his mom, I can trace her family name, "Roussel" back to a man born 1644, also in Normandy.

And then my father's mother, whose maiden name was "Auclair" I can trace back to a man born 1603 in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France, France.


If I take a less direct route through the family tree on my father's side I can go back to pre-Conquest days in both France and England (like 1020), although I don't know how completely accurate they are.