Whoops - looks like I misunderstood this question! Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? My great grandfather, Joseph George Lebrun left Quebec in the 1860s at 11 years old. He married my grandmother, I believe in Lowell, MA and she is of the family Desjadons. I haven't yet gone up the line there, but both of these are mentioned in the Drouin records. Leslie > -----Original Message----- > From: acadian@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:36:54 -0800 > To: acadian@rootsweb.com, acadian@rootsweb.com > Subject: We have been at it 10 years & Let's do a roll call > > 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 > > > > . > ------------------------------- > 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