Meet Bob D'Aoust from Canada

Tom here.
Several years ago I got a phone call from Bob D'Aoust. He said he was in Charlotte on business, but lived in Canada. Because we shared a last name, he was wondering if we might be related. I sent him our family tree.

Soon after, he called Aunt Irene and asked about Grandpa's brothers and sisters. With that info, he figured out how we were related. Bob says he is my 7th cousin, once removed. I think that means we share a grandpa eight generations back on my side and nine generations back on his side. Got that? Bob has traced us all the way back to the 1600s.

We stay in touch by email, and occasionally talk on the phone. I send him all the obits on the Daoust family.

Here's his self-written bio:

Bob was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1945. He moved to Ottawa in 1947.

His Father's mother, Catherine and Sister Anne raised him until the age of 10 ages then his Father remarried in 1955. Bob had a great relationship with his stepmother Pat and they had countless wonderful times together. Pat and Percy started a new family when Bob was 16 years of age. Bob, attended elementary separate school and then on to the Ottawa Technical High School, graduating in 1963. Bob worked from the age of 11 on a paper route. While in high school Bob worked at a local food mart (Steinberg's Foods) as a pack and stock boy. Bob's first full time job after high school was with Northern Electric R & D Laboratory at Crystal Beach, Ottawa.

In 1964 Bob joined NCR Canada, moving to Belleville in 1967, got married and raised two great kids. He went back to night school for a number of years then moved to NCR Waterloo Engineering in 1982 as a Solution Engineer. Bob travels around the world resolving hardware and software problems on products designed and manufactured in Waterloo. Bob has a number of hobbies, stamp collector, messing around with his computer and working on the family genealogy. The genealogy bug started in 1987 after his son Jason asked his father about his Grandfather.

Bob is the author and publisher of the D'Aoust Genealogy Project Book.

He plans to continue working on the Genealogy project for many years and wishes to hear from any interested family members.