Hello, I am new to this list, though I have wanted to join for many years, hoping that I would find my ancestors without another mailing list. Now I am so desperate, they may have been Acadian, even though, some in the family say that it is so. Was it just an off comment, or were they indeed those that were displaced back when? My post is: Two French Canadians, so the family tale has been. Could they have been Acadians? George Edward DEROUIN/DROUIN or another variant. born ca 1847 / 48 Canada, language was LC, (according to the listing on the census. Family lore was: there was an Indian doctor in the family and that they were Cajun. A neighbor, cousin, uncle or brother Joseph DEROUIN/ DROUIN born ca 1850 / 51 in Canada. I found no trace in Canada, they wed Pennsylvania women, per the 1880 census of Clearfield County PA. Joseph does not appear again. George died 1882 in PA, two years after his wife died, two sons born there, orphaned and lost until 1910. Could or would George and Joseph have gone to LA and back north to PA? Thank You, Grayce