Hello. I am currently researching my 4x great grandfather, Jean Louis Regeas Laprade. I have accumulated many records to map his life, but there is a 38 year gap that I have been unable to solve yet.
He was born in 1741 at Lanoraie, Quebec, and I have his baptism church record. The next documents I was able to locate are his church marriage record and marriage contract, from 1779. He married Catherine Duval, and I collected baptisms of their children. The question I am trying to solve is what happened to Jean Louis during the 38 year gap. I have been tracking down various engagement records looking to find out if he was employed in the fur trade. I also have been looking through lists of soldiers, to determine if part of that time was in military service. But have not been able to find anything yet. I have also been hunting through census records, but as they are not indexed, its time consuming to sift across them. Any suggestions where I should be focusing my research efforts to try and fill that 38 year gap? Thank you. Erik LaPrade
