(We are still Bcc (Blind carboncopy) - pleblan@aim.com to make sure you can post) We have been at it 10 years & Let's do a roll call ============================== Ten years ago this week we formed this list to allow "more freedom" in what we could & could not discuss. [Enough Said] Could we do a roll call please? (also email me personally with suggestions for the list - pleblan@aim.com) Please start a new chain with the subject line your name Answer questions like this: IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? Who are you? Where you are? Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? What families are you researching? What Period? Have you had your DNA done which tests? Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? What else would you like us to know? What family associations do you belong to? Do you have a blog, web site or online database you would like to share? Any unique resources you will do lookups? Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too personal? Do you like our holiday breaks with recipes, family stories & traditions? Hold your brick walls we will try & work them after the roll call. .

I am in Arizona. I did my DNA with 23 and Me. There is a surprise with Oceanian. I think it comes from the Duplessis and Cormier family. I am trying to research it. I like the recipes, I collect cookbooks. I am researching Thibodeau, Duplessis, Cormier, LeBlanc, and some French Canadian families. I have been researching for over 50 years. So I have a lot, but as new research comes on I look and correct where I am wrong. Most of my research is original records. Karen Lynn On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Paul L LeBlanc via ACADIAN < acadian@rootsweb.com> wrote: > (We are still Bcc (Blind carboncopy) - pleblan@aim.com to make sure you > can post) > > We have been at it 10 years & Let's do a roll call > > ============================== > Ten years ago this week we formed this list to allow "more freedom" in > what we could & could not discuss. [Enough Said] > > Could we do a roll call please? > > (also email me personally with suggestions for the list - pleblan@aim.com) > > Please start a new chain with the subject line your name > > Answer questions like this: > > IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? > > Who are you? > > Where you are? > > Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? > > What families are you researching? What Period? > > Have you had your DNA done which tests? > > Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? > > What else would you like us to know? > > What family associations do you belong to? > > Do you have a blog, web site or online database you would like to share? > > Any unique resources you will do lookups? > > Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too > personal? > > Do you like our holiday breaks with recipes, family stories & traditions? > > Hold your brick walls we will try & work them after the roll call. > . > . > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Hi there! IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? - Please, NO!!! Who are you? My name is Leslie LeBrun Johnson, I am descended of the family BRUN, le brun and finally as our name has condensed - LeBrun. My great grandparents came to the USA (Lowell, MA) during the 2nd Exodus, 1800s. Where you are? My LeBrun family mostly reside in Massachusetts, still. I am currently in Florida. Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? Have never been. My daughter, now knowing our heritage, has a very strong yearning to go back to learn more. I would love to go back to see as well. What families are you researching? What Period? Ancestry has been "acting up" lately, so it's been very difficult to find my grandfather's family. I'd like to know more about the Deportation. I believe the Lebrun family escaped deportation and may have settled in the Madawaska region of what was, at that time, part of Maine. It's just a suspicion, certainly not a fact. Have you had your DNA done which tests? - I'm skeptical, being female. I'd like one of my brothers to go up through the male line, but am unsure how he feels about it. My mother's family has no Acadian. Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? I do some hunting for other family members here and there. What else would you like us to know? What family associations do you belong to? Aside from a couple of facebook pages, not too many. Do you have a blog, web site or online database you would like to share? Any unique resources you will do lookups? I like the Acadian Parish Remembered, which has now been absorbed by The Nova Scotia Archives - https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ and here. http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/default.asp?Search=THgen&orderby=title I found a bit of Madawaska history in the "History of Aroostook (Maine), Vol 1" that had a very interesting description of Acadians. If you'd like a link to the online book, just let me know. I saved it for my family. National Archives is good - oh gosh, there are so many!! Maybe this should be another project for us - put our resources out for all to share. Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too personal? All my life, I have said to myself "I want to go home." I never understood what or where that was, but this yearning is so fierce sometimes and even my mother fought me about it as I grew up. Researching this family tree has helped me put so many things into perspective. Sharing with others? YES!! Are we related? If we have the common family lines between us, it makes the world just that much more small, and our family just that more large. I love it. Do you like our holiday breaks with recipes, family stories & traditions? YES!!! My grandfather forbade the family to speak any French. No one knew, no one spoke about any of the past. If they did, I was too young to appreciate. I learned some in high school and in college and my father said that I "ruined the pronounciation of our last name - from "la brun" to "le brun" lol. We still cook some foods and have some traditions that come from so far back - I thought it was just my family. I love hearing about our Acadian roots and I relay much back to my family. ___ This is a remarkable group with remarkable stories and a rich history that begs to be told. With this group, we can keep the Acadians ALIVE through each of us. Anyone can put a name on a page, but with everyone's discussion - although I read more than I participate, these names come alive and it's something we can teach our children. One thing that I've learned is that above all things, is that to our ancestors, family was everything. I do mean - everything. We had the church, we had our family. They still mean something to some of us. Thank you for being here and helping us learn and come home. Leslie

IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? No Who are you? Bart O'Toole Where you are? Chicago, Il Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? Andre DesLauriers. Tracadie, NS. 1860 Charles Dagle. Miramichi, NB. 1860 What families are you researching? What Period? DesLaurier Daigle Have you had your DNA done which tests? FTDNA Ancestry 23andMe (do not use) Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? New England colonial What else would you like us to know? I am 1/8 (mostly) Acadian, but about 1/3 of my DNA matches are Acadian/Cajun. What family associations do you belong to? Thayer, Hull, Do you have a blog, web site or online database you would like to share? no Any unique resources you will do lookups? Not sure of the question. Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too personal? not familiar with. Do you like our holiday breaks with recipes, family stories & traditions? yes

Sorry We did the wrong Pierre. Anybody got an idea where to look for Pierre & Marguerite? Have you researched at the Ayer Collection at Chicago's Newberry Library? -----Original Message----- From: BART OTOOLE via ACADIAN <acadian@rootsweb.com> IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? No Who are you? Bart O'Toole Where you are? Chicago, Il Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? Andre DesLauriers. Tracadie, NS. 1860 Charles Dagle. Miramichi, NB. 1860 What families are you researching? What Period? DesLaurier Daigle Have you had your DNA done which tests? FTDNA Ancestry 23andMe (do not use) Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? New England colonial What else would you like us to know? I am 1/8 (mostly) Acadian, but about 1/3 of my DNA matches are Acadian/Cajun. What family associations do you belong to? Thayer, Hull, Do you have a blog, web site or online database you would like to share? no Any unique resources you will do lookups? Not sure of the question. Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too personal? not familiar with. Do you like our holiday breaks with recipes, family stories & traditions? yes .

IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? No. Who are you? Keith Lorando, retired from the Air Force Where you are? Rio Rancho, NM. Moved here after retiring. Am the only one in my family not living in New Orleans---though they still try to get us to move back there! Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? All my family still live in Louisiana, mostly in the New Orleans/West Bank area, though I also have family in Lafayette. I'm the only one of my siblings to have visited Quebec. Still hoping to one day to visit Acadia. What families are you researching? What Period? Pretty much all the Acadian lines, as my maternal line is 100% Acadian. Have just now started to focus on the specific family lines that were expelled during Le Grand Derangement. Among the many families, am focusing on Falgout/Falgoust/Falgoux, Chauvin, Orgeron/Augeron, LeBlanc, Guyon, Champagne, Montet/Montee, Michel, Picou, Rodrigue, Thibodaux, Landry, Rassicot, Bourg, Bernard, Remy, Savoie, Prejean, Boudreaux, Senette, Foret/Forest, Arceneaux, Breaux. Also researching the "Filles a Mariere" and "Filles du Roi" who are in my direct line (Autreiul/Le H'Autreaux, Boileau, Desbordes, Hardy, Rousselliere, Solde, Damize, Hiardin/Hyardin, Roy/Le Roy, and Morin). Hav you had your DNA done? Which tests? Yes, Ancestry DNA Autosomal and Family Tree Y-DNA 37 Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? Several. Biggest one is my paternal line, and researching to see if my Lorando/Laurendeau line from Quebec had any "interplay" with my Acadian ancestors. (My 8th Great Grandfather came to Quebec from Marsilly, France; anecdotal evidence shows he came over with the Carignan-Salieres Regiment and stayed in country after their mission was complete. We also have firm proof that he worked with the Guyon family in Quebec, and the Guyons are in my direct maternal family line.) Also working on my wife's genealogy, which is almost completely British/Irish, as well as trying to determine my paternal Grandmother's Kilpatrick (Scottish) ancestry. In addition, there appears to be a bit of New England British ancestry in my paternal line, and they may have had "interplay" with the Bergeron's in my maternal line. Am trying to get that mystery solved, as well. What else would you like us to know? Got started on our family genealogy project to find out something/anything on my paternal Grandfather and to find out something on my maternal Grandmother's Orgeron family line. She passed away before I was born and I didn't know much about her side of the family. Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too personal? Like it very much. Think the information provided is very interesting and informative.

Answer questions like this: IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? Who are you? Donald Voorhies Gassie II or Jr Where you are? Bradenton, Florida Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? I was born in Lafayette, last lived there in 1998. Some family in Brusly-WBR Parish pre - 1930, St. Martin Parish pre-1930 What families are you researching? What Period? Pre 1900: Mouton, Martin, Voorhies, Gradenigo, Broussard, Potier, Hebert, LaBauve, Poirier, Levert, Dupuy, Ferbos, Ducrest Have you had your DNA done which tests? Ancestry Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? What else would you like us to know? What family associations do you belong to? Do you have a blog, web site or online database you would like to share? Any unique resources you will do lookups? Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too personal? Do you like our holiday breaks with recipes, family stories & traditions? Hold your brick walls we will try & work them after the roll call. . . ------------------------------- 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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message