[the author gazing at Île Ste.-Croix from the Maine shore, 30 July 2014]
All Cajuns are related!
This site is devoted to every aspect of Acadian/Cajun history and genealogy.
If you enter this site from another website and the Table of Contents in the frame to the left does not appear, go to www.acadiansingray.com directly, and the Contents frame should appear.
Here's a trick Cousin Anna shared with me about searching for names on the pages of this website. No matter which browser you use--Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome--just hit Ctrl-F on your keyboard, and a window will appear at the top of the page, allowing you to search for whatever you desire within that page.
Please note that there
is nothing for sale here, nor any kind of advertisement, nor will there
ever be. Feel free to copy anything, in any quantity, from this
website if it aids in the search for your ancestors. All I ask is
that you attribute what you use here to me.
Enjoy.
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I
have "finished" the agnatic (father-descended) outlines in "The
Acadians of Louisiana: A Synthesis" for all of the Acadian families
from their first days in French Acadia and British Nova Scotia (Book
Three) through their time in Louisiana up to 1870 (Book Ten).
I have also "finished" the family histories in Book Six, entitled "The
Acadian Immigrants of Louisiana," which details the plight of these families from
1755 to their arrival in Louisiana. More recently, I have
focused on corrections and additions to the Acadian
family lines in Book Ten, especially the daughters and their
husbands' families (what I call the allied families, who, with the
Louisiana Acadians, helped create the Cajun culture). Book Ten,
in fact, has become so voluminous it requires four separate web pages
to hold all the data. After
over a decade and a half of
effort on the "Synthesis," most of the "books"
devoted to the history of the Acadians in Acadie and Louisiana--One, Two, Four,
Six, Seven, and Eight--are largely done. Book Three will not
be satisfactorily completed until Stephen A. White
publishes his long-awaited Dictionnaire Généalogique Familles
Acadiennes (DGFA)-2, which takes Acadian marriages and the
resulting families, from the
1710s into the 1780s. Books Five, Nine, and
Twelve of the Synthesis, historical in nature, and Book Eleven, another
genealogical effort, are only begun. I am currently throwing
myself into Book Five, "The Great Upheaval." Enjoy what you find here,
and use it to your heart's content, but
please remember--this is still a work in progress. 10-13-24 sac |
Information you wish to share about the Cajuns of Louisiana, or any comments you may have about this website, can be sent to
Steven A. Cormier
email: GrayAcadian@aol.comPlease write "AIG" in the Subject box so that your message doesn't get eaten up by the AOL Spamanator.
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Keep in mind that this website, despite its age, is a work in progress. Please report all broken links, errors, omissions, and misinformation to the e-mail address above and earn a place in my Acknowledgments
Last update: 1 November 2024
[online in this configuration since 21 July 2000]
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Check out my wife Sandi's wonderful website, which features many of her oil paintings, including representations from our trip to France in August 2018, as well as her book on Ellis Island immigrants.
Acadian House, Poitou, France, 1773-2018
(Original at Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville)~
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