We are a group of people, all descended on the matrilineal side from Jean-Louisa McLaren Lejeune.  We have built this website to tell stories and share information about our ancestors and ourselves so that current and future generations have a place to start when they seek to find out there place in their family’s history.

Major Participants (January 2021)

Francesca Lejeune

Gordon Lejeune

Lea Chambers-Volpe

My grandmother, Ruth (Enke) Chambers, instilled a love of literature and family history in me from a very young age. I loved hearing her tell stories about the adventures of her youth, and treasure her memoirs, which she wrote when I was in my teens. I’ve been passionate about our family’s history for many years, and am thrilled to be contributing to this project, and (I hope) sharing that passion with the next generation of our family. 

Derek Chambers

I am an aging Caucasian male, happily retired, happily married, with lots of children, stepchildren, grandchildren and even some great-grandchildren, not to mention siblings, nieces and nephews, and their off-spring.  And I am just the physical manifestation of a unique combination of genes drawn from many ancestors, some of whom I knew, but about most of whom I know either very little or nothing at all.  I occupy a single node in an ever expanding sprawling genealogical network, a family tree.  My ego might shout that the tree begins with me – that the world did not exist before I arrived in it.  But I know otherwise and have the ancestors to prove it.

Time deposits successive layers of memory, generation by generation; the lower levels, their occupants and events, become buried, deeper and deeper, eventually disappearing into the overburden of the past, lost to all but the most diligent miner.  Partly, this is a consequence of the difficulty in finding relevant materials.  By creating this blog and populating it with stories, photographs, lists of memorabilia, and other related materials which have come to me, we hope to leave a record for those future family members who are curious about from whence they came.