---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wanda Carlton <wjclac@cox.net> Date: Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Acadian Ancestors To: msattala@rootsweb.com Doug: I saw this article in my morning paper. Glad to know someone forwarded it to you yesterday. The Broussards are a very active group in this area who are doing much to document and record their ancestry Wanda Henson Carlton Descendant of Stephen Calcote and Mary Elizabeth Melton who were living in Attala County at time of Stephen's death -----Original Message----- From: msattala-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:msattala-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Cummins Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 9:41 AM To: msattala@rootsweb.com Subject: [MSATTALA] Acadian Ancestors Hunt for Acadian Ancestors Resumes in Louisiana Mark Rees, a University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor of anthropology and archeology, is leading two research assistants this summer in field work along the Bayou Teche near Loreauville. They want to learn where the Acadian exiles first settled in Acadiana some 250 years ago. It's all part of the New Acadia Project, or Projet Nouvelle-Acadie, a long-term, multidisciplinary project that could set the record straight about Cajun heritage. "We want to provide some measured facts and places of interest that speak to people in terms of their identity, who they are," Rees said. Oral tradition says descendents of Joseph Broussard -- the Acadian freedom fighter more commonly known as Beausoleil -- are buried in an abandoned cemetery there and that there are unmarked graves nearby. You can read the full story and watch a video in an article by Megan Wyatt in The Advertiser at http://goo.gl/1BXJXT. The Attala County Web Site is in need of contributions of photographs, documents, family letters, diaries, etc. Submit your material to Everette Carr at: <a href="mailto:attaladirector@gmail.com">Attala Director</a> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MSATTALA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message The Attala County Web Site is in need of contributions of photographs, documents, family letters, diaries, etc. Submit your material to Everette Carr at: <a href="mailto:attaladirector@gmail.com">Attala Director</a> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MSATTALA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Jeannie God Bless God Speed kymonroe@rootsweb.com ancestraltrackers.org