Genealogical Queries / Recherches

Working on your Guédry or Petitpas family tree and reached a dead end? Try a genealogical query and let Les Guédry et Petitpas d'Asteur Genealogy Committee members put your research back on track. The Web contains some outstanding Query Forums for the Guédry and Petitpas families. Rather than developing a new query site, we'll use these existing query sites. Writing an effective query is the first step in getting that missing information.

TIPS FOR AN EFFECTIVE QUERY

• Keep it simple, specific and concise.
• Don't ask for the 'world'.
  Limit your query to one or two generations. Don't ask for information 'all the way back to Claude Guédry' or ask for 'all the information known on this branch'.
• Try to ask a specific question.
  Be specific in requesting information. Where possible, ask a specific question as "would like the place and date of marriage and children of Claude Guédry and Marguerite Petitpas."
• Provide as much genealogical information as possible.
  Provide as much genealogical information (birth, marriage, death dates and places, spouse(s), where lived, military service) as you know. Where information is estimated or uncertain, indicate such. Often one tidbit of information can open the door to that missing relative.
• Where possible, provide information before 1915.
  The major published sources of civil and church records in Louisiana terminate about 1915. If you can provide the date for a genealogical event before 1915, you increase your opportunity for a successful response to your query.
• Capitalize surnames in your query.
  

  Capitalizing the surname (e.g., GUÉDRY) highlights it and makes it easier for others to spot it in the query.

So - Click on a surname link and start solving those frustrating mysteries.