Dear Alice, Thank you for the a-mae-zn amount of information you find and send. The story of the Acadien's forced removal from Canada and their settlement in Louisiana is both intriguing and extremely informational. Clearly, it is genealogically related, since the migration of a whole culture to another part of the hemisphere is a significant part of our family (in the largest sense of the word) history. Thank you for reminding us that the Cajun culture is both rich and exotic and alive and close by. Reading information about other history, other cultures, is, in my humble opinion, one of the benefits and purposes of doing family history. Is it possible to research one's ancestors without getting a sense of the whole picture? I suppose to some of you, it may be, but as for me, I want to learn as much as possible about the people themselves, the time they lived in and what was going on in the world at the time. Otherwise isn't your research just a collection of names? Anyway, Thanks again for your contributions to this list. Laissez les bons temps roulez!! oh yeah. Cynthia Johnston Houston Alice Chauvin Bradshaw wrote: > http://www.mbrwh.com/map.html > > Cajun-Lynx~Un Chauvin est un Jingo ou, en englais, a violent > patriot".CONGRÈS MONDIAL ACADIEN-LOUISIANE1999 > http://www.cma-la99.com/en_home.html > AdoptionGenQuebec, http://www.members.home.net/bjq/, > http://www.expage.com/page/bayoumama http://www.expage.com/page/mojos, > MOJO Gonna Git'Ya! POO!!YAI!!