14 July 2008:  From the Gustave & Hélène Great-Branch... For those who always wondered what all the fuss is about the Acadian TINTAMARE festival, you will find this article interesting. 8 July 2008: FROM NOVA SCOTIA: An interesting article on our Acadian ancestors in Beaubassin...  2 Feb 2008:  NOTE TO OUR DELEGATES: Please check the e-mail address that we currently have for you as listed in the GREAT-BRANCH DELEGATES' table on the 'GREAT-BRANCHES' page.  If your address has changed, please let us know. 24 Mar 2008:  We are pleased to announce that the Association des familles Thériault du Nouveau Brunswick has asked us to design and implement their website for their World Acadian Congress 2009 reunion in the Caraquet, New Brunswick area. Construction continues on the site at www.terriau.org/rencontre2009.

For your pleasure and convenience, we have designed this site to read like a book...  it is easy to browse through each section and there are no commercial pop-up messages to distract you. To help create the setting for this story, we draw on our archive of Acadian music which you will hear as you read each section. But most important is that we try to mix the human element along with the historical and genealogical details to bring the 'past back to life' and to keep it interesting. So, take your time to read through each section. This is the JEHAN AND PERRINE TERRIOT FAMILY website. Our address is WWW.TERRIAU.ORG. Bookmark us, because we think that you will want to return.

ACADIANS & TERRIOT'S  While the majority of us are either French, Canadian or American, there are exceptions. And, as with many Acadian families, we have been scattered, and have scattered throughout many parts of the world. To further confuse those who are not familiar with us, we carry different versions of our Terriot name, including some of the following:
 

The more common or known versions are underlined while the others are possible variations. So, if your surname is listed above or is yet another variant of one of the above variations, then you are a member of our Acadian family, and we bid you a hearty Welcome!

While you are visiting with us, we want you to know that when we refer to Acadians in this website, we include anyone whose ancestors are Acadian;  whether «Cajun», Cadien, French Canadian, or Acadian descendants from other parts of North America, or of the world.

The only time that we will distinguish between the different groups will be when we discuss subjects which pertain to one of the groups, e.g., in music, food, language and migration. In any event, we are all part of the same family. And , while there is alot of variety in our family, there are a few common attributes which we will explore later.

The Terriot family currently has about fifteen (15) generations in North America and is very large. Most, if not all Terriot's on the North American continent trace their roots to Jehan and Perrine Terriot, the originators or progenitors of the Terriot family in North America. It was this courageous couple who first stepped on to the North American continent in the 1630's to begin a new life.

OUR WEBSITE...  This website is dedicated to our progenitors, Jehan and Perrine TERRIOT and focuses on their trek to the New World. We hope that you will pass this Acadian story on to your children and to the rest of your family. As part of our presentation, we also have photo tours of our ancestral village in France... the village of Martaizé and of the surrounding ancient province of Poitou, as well as of old Acadia in present-day Nova Scotia.
In addition, we will present the first nine generations of the Terriot family and explore the branches of the family and their migrations to different parts of the North American continent and other parts of the world. So, please browse through our  JEHAN TERRIOT ARCHIVE^© to get the emerging picture of this Acadian family. We stress the word "emerging" because the ARCHIVE is in its infancy and is a project that will continue to be a 'Work in Progress' for some time.

As shown in the chart above, our new and growing ARCHIVE currently includes:

• 9,536 individuals,
• 3,847 families,
• 1,482 different family names and
• 74 Great-Branches

GOALS & OBJECTIVES... Our goals with the JEHAN AND PERRINE TERRIOT^® website are the following: (1) to first make the Terriot story and its records available to as many members of our family as possible, (2) to continue the development of the Terriot genealogy to include as many of our family members as possible, and (3) to provide a communications link between the members of our family that promotes an understanding of the Terriot family, its history, culture as well as its people. Why?

Several reasons:

• Because we believe that it is important for us to know that of the billions of people on this small planet some of us share common parents and thus should not treat each other as strangers.
• Also because by understanding some of the strengths and weaknesses of our family, we might be able to use those strengths to improve our world before we leave. As to the weaknesses, we can learn to work around them and thus improve our lives and the lives of those around us.
• And one final reason, because of a simple desire to honor the men and women upon whose shoulders we came into this world.

As you can see in our ARCHIVE and from the photo above, I have also had the great fortune of marrying the former Rosemary Ann Vicino. We have two daughters, Nicola Ann and Jill Andrea. Jill is married to Ronald E. Wical and they have two sons, Joshua Andrew and Matthew Joseph. 

I have been interested in the Terriot genealogy for well over 30 years. I have been aided in this pursuit by my loving Mother, Elsie Dubé Theriault, the late Reverend Father Louis J. Cyr (who originally researched our family tree from our church records in 1967), and others like my paternal cousin, Claude Theriault (Denis, Joachim, Joseph T) who stimulated my interest in the Acadian story many years ago. Most recently, I have had the assistance of the sweetest lady in Saint Basile, NB; my dearest paternal Tante Georgette Theriault Cyr (Joachim, Joseph). Adding to my great fortune, my two other paternal aunts, Soeur Mariange Thériault, RHSJ and Tante Jeannine Thériault Lévesque from Saint Basile, NB have also added greatly to my knowledge of the family history and genealogy.

ACADIAN COOPERATION...So as you can see, the work that is represented in this website reflects the help, dedication and work of many people, and many genealogical and historical groups, societies and organizations. One very special group of individuals who are involved in supporting the work of this web site is the group of FAMILLE ACADIENNE TERRIOT ACADIAN FAMILY Delegates who are working with me to develop and document in a computer database the genealogy of the Terriot family in North America. You will read more about the Great-Branch Delegates in the 'Family Branches' section where each is identified. In general, I give credit in the 'Bibliography and Credits' section to all whose material we have used ... take a look at it when you get a chance.

Now, by using the Internet as our tool to research and distribute this information, we hope to find new information on our family and perhaps find some of the 'lost' or unrecorded members of our family.

WE'VE JUST PUT THE COFFEE ON...  So stay for a while... or come back when you can spend more time with us. 

If you wish to share this information with your family or use it for other non-commercial purposes, we have taken special care in designing the sections in this website for printing. If you wish to have a hardcopy of these sections for your family, just print each section as you go through the website. The entire website including the Archive will print on about 750 pages... yes, make sure that your printer is loaded with paper.

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Now, we would like to take you on a our 'Guided Tour' of our website. So, click on the 'Guided Tour' menu button at the top of the page and we'll take you by the hand through our website.