The personal page of Denis Beauregard

I first came to the net for the fun.  I did some tavern politic but mostly, genealogy, since my entry on the ne in late 1991.  I was a temporary employee of Hydro-Quebec at that time and was connected thanks to that job, because the first privately owned ISP.

In 1991, I was a regular poster of soc.culture.canada and soc.roots (transformed in 1994 to give the soc.genealogy.* series that continues to grow with 20 newsgroups in 1997 and 30 in 1999.  I participated to the creation of soc.culture.quebec, but it is mostly by creating fr.rec.genealogie in 1993 and soc.genealogy.french in 1994 that I helped to build the French Internet. 

Ha, the fight for a French net...  Did you know that in 1991, there were French speakers who opposed to the use of French on the net?  The net was English, so they required we all speak English, even to talk to other French speakers.  I left my language trace at some places.  For example, I proposed the "vendre" in the newsgroup mtl.vendre-forsale (later mtl.forsale-vendre when I found that many persons were still posting ads to mtl.general because they were looking for mtl.forsale). In July 1995, I presented the first Web pages in French about genealogy (actually, the 2nd site, but the 1st closed its genealogy pages) first on a lent site, after asking for a site on a newsgroup, then on the IREQ served, closed after my job ended, and on the CAM.ORG server (my first personal account). www.genealogie.com finally appeared with room for future projects.  In the meanwhile, I can get a small return on time investment with a genealogy reference book, the Genealogical Dictionary of our Origins.  For sure if someone was hiring me as a consultant, it would help me to maintain the site and publish more and more material. 

You will find more about the history of this Web site in the "about" section.
 

My competencies:

Having an Engineer diploma (Polymtl '78, '85), I worked with four languages: Fortran (until 1985), 8088 Assembler (1984-1988), C language and C++ (1988-now) and the Realizer Basic (1993-1997), some kind of Visual Basic for Windows. My working environment was for long DOS and Windows 3.1; from time to time, I wrote a .cgi for the Web site.

Among my last projects at Hydro-Quebec: a user interface written with Realizer and the current version of a real time data sampler (Ziatech 8901 board and APIX samplers). 
 

Around 1975, I was interested in Short Waves.  Then, I was bitten by genealogy when I found the search room of Archives Nationales du Quebec in Montreal, then located in the Old Montreal. In 1981, I became a member of SGCF and in 1982, I subscribed for life. Since that, I spent thousands of hours to find more and more Beauregards and other related families, the Jarret, Jarest, Jarrais and Sharai (who kept the original name with some variations), the Vincent (10% descend from my Jarret) and the Davignon dit Beauregard. At this time, I have over 16,000 descendants of André Jarret sieur de Beauregard. 

In 1994, I published a list of genealogical resources available for cousins in New England, which get me the Percy-Foy price from SGCF.

In 1996, I begun to write the Genealogical Dictionary of our Origins which can be purchased on this site.  Volumes 1 and 2 and a supplement are available.  The purpose is to gather the European data about our ancestors before 1800.  This work is now a common reference that help our French cousins to do new search instead of repeating them.
 

I experimented roller blades twice in 1995, but after doing more bike than I should, I had to wait until 1997.  Then, I purchased some rollers and continued since that!  Sure I can't dance on my wheels, but after working long hours to write new pages or to prepare some files about new ancestors, what about relaxing by rolling the 11 km of the Longueuil trail along the St. Lawrence River or trying to do more than my personal record of a 25 km trail!