Documentary Biography Series
Tranchemontagne
The Souliere Line
Eight generations of a French-Canadian family, from the shores of Brittany to the immigrants of Chicago. Their story, recovered from the records they left behind.
Tranchemontagne—"cuts through the mountain." It was a dit name, a nickname that became a family name, carried by generations of Soulieres across Quebec. This series traces one branch of that family from the earliest documented ancestor to the twentieth century, following the women and men who built lives, buried children, crossed borders, and left behind the paper trail that allows us to find them now.
"A boy fishes beside an ancient woman in Miami. She is in her nineties, he barely ten. Seventy years later, that boy will tell his daughter about the great-great-grandmother who taught him to fish—but he won't know her story. This series is that story."
The Episodes
The Verified Lineage
2
Jean Bernardin Suliere
m. (1) 1743 Marguerite Payment Lariviere (2) Marie Josephe Robitaille
Episode 2
Every Ancestor Deserves to Be Remembered
Documentary biographies like these transform traditional genealogical research into compelling family narratives—designed to be read, shared, and treasured.
Part of the Storyline Genealogy series: Documentary Biographies
From Research to Story