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

Interesting...thank you Paula 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 Paula, Gut feeling tells me Santo Domingo too... Marsha > 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 >