Goals and mission
The Association, Levasseur d’Amérique Inc. is a non-profit organization, founded in 1988, in accordance to a federal charter. Its goals are:
- To join together and unite a large number of Levasseur and other descendants who have adopted the patronymic Borgia, Carmel, Carmell, Vassaur, Vassor, Vasser.
- To organize meetings and gatherings that reinforce links between the members of the great Levasseur family.
- To promote, develop and diffuse historical genealogical knowledge about the Levasseur families with Internet, an electronic Newsletter published three times per year also the publication of genealogical dictionaries.
- To maintain and update, on an ongoing basis, the genealogical data base available to members at all times on the Internet.
- To make available to members a family photo album and the Newsletters that the Association has published since 1988.
- To honor the memory of our forefathers and their descendants by way of monuments, plaques or symbolic gestures that commemorate historic events related to the Levasseur family.
- To gather all documents related to the Levasseur family for the purpose of constructing archives that will constitute the heritage or our Association and that will provide a source of information for historians and genealogists.
Your Association:
Your association is managed by a board of directors made up of members in good standing who volunteer and come from different regions.
The members of our association come from the United States (44%), English Canada (9%) and Quebec (47%). Our executive meets regularly and focuses its actions on genealogy, the production of publications, and the organization of gatherings for members.
L’Association des Levasseur d’Amérique inc is also a member of the “Fédération des associations de familles du Québec” (www.fafq.org).
