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Using the Family Tree Maker 7, I filled it in & could not upload the info so starting this page, hoping to upload soon. Thanks to all I have Ouellette & Robitaille Families back to France (1600's) to Quebec Canada; then to Lewiston Maine. We were stationed in France twice so living their ourselves 5 yrs. gave us an insight to how it must have been crossing the Atlantic on a boat as we did it too. With 2 tours in Germany as well as France we got to visit 11 countries in Europe. How hard it must have been for the Sienko's/Story Families to come from Poland in the 1890's to MA going to Lewiston Maine. At that time Lewiston Maine was a French/English area. These Sienko's had to learn French as well as English & yet speak Polish at home. So many French came to Lewiston, they had their own churches & schools in each neighborhood, Where the children had 1/2 day in French, as well as a French Speaking High School & NewsPaper, so us living in France in the 1950s,60s, was like living in Lewiston Maine in the 1880's-1950. The French from Quebec came to Lewiston to work in the Mills & later the Shoe shops. Now it was not till 1933 that my Father Thomas David Turner married my Mother Sophie Sienko in 1934 in Lewiston, Maine. He came there in 1933 to work in the CC camps. He was one of the 1st to sign up in early 1941 but the USA would not take him as he had a family, so he went up to Canada & enlisted in the RCAF & was in England the next 4+ yrs as a aerial gunner, with Mitchell bomber besides all his sorties flying over Germany, he also took part in the aerial bombardment of the French Coast a few hours before the invasion fleet reached it. He came back with medals & legs full of flack, after he continued to fly always part of the crew with the USAF, flying everywhere. He died in Maine in 1958. I now have the Turner history from 1920's to Maine from Doaktown NB, Westmorland NB, Maine, MA back to the 1600's, a man I never really knew, I have the Turner's, Ward's, Colford's, Alan's, Goodwin's, Alden's, Adam's & history part of the Founding Father's & American History. Came to MA from England back to the Mayflower days. Going fro MA, Conn, New Brunswick, Maine, what history. I will try to upload these trees soon. Left is the Rene Gilman who married Liane Ouellette (both French also) s/o of Eusebe Guilman/Adelia Talbot 1900 Biddeford Maine; s/o Eusebe Guilmain/Abina Jacques. The exact line I do not have, as well as the Sienko before Poland, I know Stanley Sienko's sister married a Delekto & lived nearby in Auburn Maine. The Turner family's Somerset Co. Maine, buried in New Portland Maine there. The Ouellette History starts at the Ouellet site; so does the Robitaille.org site, thanks to all for helping me map the family of Demetrius s/o of Isral Ouellette, & Jean Baptiste Robitaille & Flavie Dumas, Their daughter Marie Robitaille my husbands's Grandmother married Demetrius Ouellette 1909 & as soon as I can, I will upload family pictures.
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