Into every life a little rain must fall… or so they say! In the past several months, I have been dealing with website support problems. The situation has now fortunately been resolved. However, it’s possible that information on some subscribers might have been lost in the transition. If you believe you signed up and didn’t receive a notice about my new blog post or if your name is incomplete, please resubmit your request. My most sincere apologies!
How do you manage change?
At the end of my book about my ancestor, Jeanne Chevalier, I set myself three tasks. The first was to understand what Jeanne’s story meant in my life and that of my extended family. The second was to solve the mysteries surrounding the lives of Jeanne and her three husbands. The final task was to [⇒]
Now available: Jeanne’s Gift: Finding Home
Dear Subscriber.
I am overjoyed to announce that the sequel to my book on Jeanne Chevalier, my eighth great-grandmother is now available in both English and French! What started out as an attempt to describe the numerous adventures I’ve had during my research journey and the marvelous encounters with the extraordinary people who helped me in so many ways, has turned — after several rewrites, redirections, and edits — 
into something more. [⇒]
Jeanne’s Gift: The wonders of friendship
There’s an American saying, “Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.” Probably something similar exists in other languages as well.
I was reminded of the saying not long ago after a very lovely visit with a friend [⇒]
Request to subscribers to my blog
Dear subscriber.
Thank you so much for being on my mailing list. I definitely appreciate your support of my efforts to tell the story of the life of my ancestor Jeanne Chevalier (and perhaps your ancestor as well). My work continues on the next book describing the adventures I’ve had as a result of my research. However, before that book will be published, I need your help resolving a hopefully-easy-technological challenge (I’ve been told, it should take you a minute of your time!).
Google has decided to change their support for mailing lists through their “Feedburner” application which I had used for several years. Because of that decision, I have had to switch mailing list services to a new one called “MailerLite.” What does that mean for you?
It depends! If you received this message from “<lynne@lynnelevesque.com>, you don’t need to do anything! You are already on my new mailing list! Thank you! You can ignore the rest of this message.
However, if this message came from noreply+feedproxy@google.com, that means you are on the old list. If you want to continue receiving announcements from my blog, which I certainly hope you do, there are a couple of steps you need to complete in order to join the new mailing list.
First, subscribe to the new mailing list:
Find the “Subscribe to Blog” box in the sidebar of my blog page at (https://www.lynnelevesque.com/) or on any page on my website. Enter your email address and click on the “Subscribe” button. Follow the instructions in the confirmation email you will receive to complete your new subscription. You will then be all set and can proceed to the next step.
Second, cancel your subscription to the old mailing list to avoid receiving duplicate mailings.
It’s not clear how long the Feedburner list will remain active so you might want to unsubscribe from that list to avoid duplicate mailings. To do so, just click on the “unsubscribe now” link located at the very bottom of this message, on the left in between my name and Google’s address in California.
Clicking on that link will take you to a Feedburner web page where you will need to click on the “Yes, unsubscribe me now” button to cancel your email subscription to the old list. Don’t worry: you will continue to be subscribed to the new mailing list!
Please note, if you decide to subscribe to the new mailing list, please do so as soon as possible since I am not sure how long Google’s support of Feedburner mailings will continue.
I apologize for the extra work this is causing you, but hopefully you will find continuing as a subscriber to my list worth the effort!
And of course, feel free to email me at lynnelevesque@gmail.com if you have any problems or questions!
The Eight Creative Talents and Carl Jung
The blog post that follows has been written in preparation for the publication of my second book on the history of my ancestor Jeanne Chevalier. This post provides some background material to my journey to find Jeanne’s story, linking the new book to my past research on Carl Jung and creativity as well as on Jeanne’s life. The book, tentatively entitled “Jeanne’s Gift: Finding Home,” should be available by the end of February, 2022. Stay tuned for more news. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy reading about creativity! [⇒]
What did you learn from your family history research?
In an interview not long ago, I was asked several thought-provoking questions:
- “What is the value of knowing our family history?”
- “What is there to gain from understanding our past?” “
- “What did you learn about yourself by learning about your ancestry?”
- “Did knowing about your 8th great grandmother’s life change anything in your life?”
My Experiences in the Archives
I am continuing to write the sequel to my book on Jeanne – this one to include the stories of the remarkable people I met and extraordinary experiences I had during my search for Jeanne’s story. It is taking a lot longer to write for several reasons, not the least of which are [⇒]
Jeanne Chevalier, Fille du Roi: Her Story — Now Available
The first time I heard the name of Jeanne Marguerite Chevalier was over twenty years ago. A book about her life started to take shape in my head roughly eight years later, in 2002. Preliminary research followed. The drive to learn more about Jeanne and write her story, however, only became an obsession one cold February day in 2011 when I stood in St. Nicolas church in Coutances where she was baptized on June 8, 1643. And now, finally, I am happy to announce the publication of this first version of the history of her life, just one day before the 300th anniversary of her death.
Jeanne Chevalier, Fille du Roi: Her Story is now available at http://www.harvard.com for purchase in the United States and Canada. 
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November 2, 2016 — The Latest News
After months of silence, I am back writing for my blog and along the way, have run into some problems. I would like to apologize for any strange announcements that you might have received from my blog. I hope that we have resolved them and there won’t be any new “glitches.”
Silence has not meant absence of progress, rest assured. [⇒]