Gosselin is a very common last name in Quebec and in parts of New England. My ancestors were among the first North American settlors from Europe, having settled what is now Quebec City in the early to mid 1500's - yes, a full 100 years before the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth.
I have no Gosselin relatives that I know save for those in my own household. I have no Gosselin siblings and my father was an only child, so I'm always hoping a Gosselin or two will show up and be a cousin. I know that you are out there and I have a family tree, just have not met a Gosselin who is closely related to me.
Which leads me to some Gosselin distant cousins that get a lot of press. Not to mention a couple John Gosselin's with some pretty cool jobs, and a Jon Gosselin who apparently doesn't have a job at all, despite having a wife named Kate and eight children.
By far, Rick Gosselin, of the Dallas Morning News, has the coolest job. Rick Gosselin is considered the "Hall of Fame" scribe for the National Football League and is thought to be the guru of both the NFL draft and the prospects of quarterbacks throughout the league. Long lost cousin Rick Gosselin gets some pretty heavy hate mail from what I can tell as I seem to get dozens of messages a month from football fans confusing me somehow for Rick Gosselin and his often controversial NFL draft predictions. From what I can tell Rick Gosselin comes from good stock, just no clue if he's closely related.
Peter Gosselin used to be up in Maine as a TV reporter, now he's with the LA Times and has a mission to make middle class Americans understand the falling dollar in real terms. Peter Gosselin expertly makes the case for eroding financial stability in America. Since Peter Gosselin is at least from Maine, I bet we are not more than a few degrees of separation.
The number one non-legal search term on the Law for Life Blog? Well, Google says that it's "Jon Gosselin Employment?"; apparently nearly 1,000 people a month are wondering what this father of eight from "Jon & Kate Plus Eight" actually does for work. From my own police work on the web, Jon Gosselin lost a make-work job with the State of Pennsylvania, and now sits at home figuring out how to make a buck off his multiple births. The Dionne quintuplets, a messy affair involving five identical sisters of French Canadian descent (like all of us Gosselins) should teach Jon Gosselin about the tragedy that can come to celebrity for the sake of celebrity. I hope the Gosselin children can sort it all out as they get older. And Jon, get a job.
John Gosselin is the course superintendent at a splendid Donald Ross golf course in suburban Philadelphia, the Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square.
John Gosselin is a lawyer in Batavia, Illinois who has been licensed for nearly 50 years.
John Gosselin is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia.
John Gosselin is designer of pretty cool websites and advertising, his website is www.johngosselin.com, great web address!
This link is quite telling:
http://names.whitepages.com/John/Gosselin
Apparently, John Gosselin is the 180,299th most popular name in America and the 4,611th most common last name, just after Tejada and before Moritz.
My father, also John Gosselin, had a saying that your name and 50 cents could buy a cup of coffee, clearly long before Starbucks!
