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CRITIC OF THE
LITERARY WORK OF:
SIGURET, Christian;
Bellemare, Lucien; Bellemare, Roger; « Les
ancêtres saintongeais des familles Bellemare, Gélinas et Lacourse », edition 2005.
By : Yves Gélinas ,
Gatineau, Québec, Canada and
Jacques Bellemare , Shawinigan, Québec, Canada, December 22nd, 2006
We
have received, at the « Centre Gélinas », several requests from our readers to give our appreciation
on the above mentioned book, directed by Mr. Christian Siguret.
Here is the result of our assessment,
summarized
here by one our researchers. As you can see, the work directed by Mr. Siguret
does not take into account the discoveries that several researchers have made
during the last quarter of the XXth century about the Jewish origins of our big
family. This book omits several
details. For example, he doesn't
recognize royalties and doesn't take into account the corrections made by researchers
about mistakes of origins and transcriptions.
In fact, he guides the reader on false tracks, thus causing prejudice to
people wanting to know their ancestry as well as to those who have the right to
the inheritance left by their forebears.
We
estimate that the present allegations of this book, by the omission, voluntary
or not, of well known and verifiable facts, undermine the truth, the honor, and
the just consideration of our heritage and that, therefore, these make it so
that the concerned persons (the readers) become in a way the victims of a
personal and historic slander. Besides,
the refusal, purposeful or not, of the book to recognize the real history of
the Gélinas, Bellemare and Lacourse also undermines the memory of the Gélinas
of the whole European continent who have been annihilated by the Nazis at the
time of the second world war for the simple reason that their name was of
Jewish origin; see «1941 – The disapearance of Anne
Gelina and her Relatives »
and «1624 – The City of Gelina ». Moreover, the Gélinas
patronymic, as we carry it, has been formally identified by the French
government as being of Jewish origin.
Then, how can we understand that the book takes the liberty to refute or
ignore such facts!
It
makes us very perplexed therefore because Mr. Siguret is considered by a good
number of people as being a researcher emeritus, and that, according to our
investigation to the French authorities at the Departmental Archives of the
Charente Maritime, we had the big surprise to learn that Mr. Siguret would
never have had access to the original documents that he pretends to have
studied. Besides, the management of the
Departmental Archives of the Charente Maritime confirmed to us that the references
cited in the book of Siguret do not correspond at all to the official numbering
as ordered by law. Therefore! Readers be warned...
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« A researcher in history must make it a duty and a honor to
himself to find the truth, and then to transmit it in its entirety; the whole
truth, only the truth and nothing but the truth; no more, no less. A well
done work makes for a conscience that is at peace with itself. ». Gellidius
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A
family history research goes well beyond the genealogical research. It must take into account the use of the
French language of the time that interests us;
the mentality of the time as well as the facts and historic events that
forced these people to behave in such manner as to protect the security and the
well-being of their own family. All these facets are interdependent, bound
between them and inseparable, if we want to transmit these facts in the most
exact, complete and clearest possible manner. This certainly makes the research
more difficult and take more time, but also a lot more satisfactory.
Research
in history permits us to discover a new world and thus better able to seize the
individual evolving in this other universe.
Besides, as discovered by one of our researchers in « 1394 - Jews of the
Pope and the village of Séguret », the Siguret patronymic
would also have gleamed a Jewish origin.
It would be interesting and important that Mr. Siguret also peels the
history of his own patronymic so that we can understand better that of the
Jewish people in