Rayleen, Interesting info. thank you, Marsha ----- Original Message ----- From: <RAYLEENMOM@aol.com> To: <acadian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 6:41 AM Subject: Re: [ACADIAN] Isle of Youth > The Isle of Youth (La Isla de la Juventud) is now an exceptional > educational facility for children from primary grades through high school. > If you > want to know more about it. I would look under Cuba Education system. > Rayleen > > > In a message dated 12/20/2010 6:49:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > marshaladner@att.net writes: > > Paula, > Gut feeling tells me Santo Domingo too... > > Marsha > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paula" <paulam@geusnet.com> > To: <acadian@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 4:07 PM > Subject: [ACADIAN] Isle of Youth > > >> The communists renamed the one off Cuba the Isle of Youth. >> >> Paula >> >> In French....Isles des Pins >> >> Fran Wilcox >> >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> >> wrote: >> >> I could not find a reference to Isle of Pines in: >> Brasseeaux Scattered to the Wind >> and >> Faragher A Great & Noble Scheme. >> online searches led to the ones in Cuba & New Caladonia. >> Could we have Isle of Pines in French & Spanish maybe this would help. >> Gut feeling tell be to start looking near Mole St-Nicholas, St-Domingue >> (Haiti) >> Thanks Paula..... I wonder if some Acadians stopped over >> there >> on their way to Louisiana.? >> Sure hope someone on list can help with this. >> There was an Isle of Pines off of Cuba. My father and brother >> vacationed >> there one summer before Castro's time. >> Paula in Texas >> >> Recently I was in touch with a fellow "Bergeron" researcher who >> happens to be my nephew. When he talked with grandther in the 70's >> he was >> told that some of the Bergeron family came to Louisiana from the "Isle > of >> Pines" >> >> Can someone help with this? I haven't heard of this until now. >> Thanks, M >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To check our Archive >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ >> ------------------------------- >> To subscribe to the list, please send an email to >> ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the > quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message. You will receive a >> confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" enrollment spam. Give it > the >> "Name" you would like us to call you. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To check our Archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ > ------------------------------- > To subscribe to the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the > body of the message. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to try & > stop > "machine" enrollment spam. Give it the "Name" you would like us to call > you. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To check our Archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ > ------------------------------- > To subscribe to the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message. You will receive a > confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" enrollment spam. Give it the > "Name" you would like us to call you. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message