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Surname Definition: See Family Crest below.

Origins: Essex, England AND Burgundy, France.

Alternate Spellings: CHANCE, CHANCEY, CHAUNCEUR, CHANNSY, CHANNSEY, CHAUNCY, CHANCY, LACHANCE, LACHANCEY, LACHANCY, LECHANCY, LECHANCEY, DECHANCY, DECHANCEY, CHANCEL, CHANSEL, CHANCEAU, DUCHANCEL, DUCHANSEL, DUCHANCEAU, CHANCELIER, LECHANCELIER, DUCHANCE, and more.

Surnames sharing the Rootsweb Soundex Code: CHANCE, CHANCEY, CHEWING, COMEAUX, CONES, COOMES, COONS.

Other Resources

• Family Crest
• 1066 Genealogy - Battle of Hastings etc
• CHANCE Family Genealogy Forum
• CHANCEY Family Genealogy Forum
• CHAUNCEY Family Genealogy Forum
• LACHANCE Family Genealogy Forum
• RootsWeb's World Connect Project
• Rootsweb Messageboards
• CHANCE page at rootsweb
• Ancestry.co.uk Global Search Results CHANCE
• USA Death Records
• TribalPages
• GeneaNet
• GenCircles
• GenesReunited $
• FamilySearch - The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world
• Answers.com – The world’s greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia
• Search Wikipedia – the free encyclopaedia
• DeadFred – Genealogy photo archive
• AncientFaces – Family Treasures
• Linkpendium
• Join the CHANCE / CHANCEY / CHAUNCEY Surname Project at FamilyTreeDNA
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• RootsChat – Genealogy, Family History, Local History, Messaging Forum and more
• CertificateSharing – free sharing of Birth, Baptism, Marriage and Death Certificates in English language only
• Access Genealogy’s Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania search engine
• The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• National Archives of Australia
• State Records Office, New South Wales, Australia
• Public Record Office, Victoria, Australia
• 244 records for CHANCE in the Archives of New Zealand
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Auckland City Libraries – family history resources, New Zealand
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
• Search Family Home Pages at FamilyTreeMaker
• Search Encyclopaedia Titanica – Titanic Passenger and Crew Research
• BLADES and CHANCE family, Maryland USA
• CousinConnect.com
• CHANCE and related families of Indiana, USA
• CHANCE surname resource centre at Surnameweb.org
• History of The Lachance Family - also known as Pépin dit Lachance
• Marcelline Lachance's Family Chart
• LaChance Ancestors

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