My interest in genealogy began in 1972 when I discovered an old edition of "Les Memoires" published by "La Société généalogique Canadian Français". Inside the book was a story by a Canadian historian explaining how easy it was for French Canadians to trace their ancestors because of all the archives in the country. So I became an active member and started my own family genealogy. At that time, genealogy books were scarce, but after a few months, my ancestral line was done. With this accomplishment, I set aside the hobby for almost eight years. In 1984, a friend of mine, asked me if I could help him find his ancestors. So I started genealogy again and discovered the hundreds of new genealogy books. Since no one had done anything on the FONTAINE families, I decided to start working on them. After 2 years, I had almost 10,000 names in my family databases. In 1988, I heard about Roger Fontaine, contacted him, and started collaborating information.  A year later, I met Antoine Fontaine at the then annual Fontaine reunion in Granby, Massachusetts.  Since then, the three of us have been working in collaboration to keep the association alive and with our databases, produce books on the Fontaine families. Daniel Fontaine