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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Acadia Parish, Louisiana . Acadia Parish was created on 1887, from St. Landry Parish and the parish was named in honor of the Acadians , descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia. The Parish seat is Crowley. The first settlement of what is now Acadia Parish was made by the exiled Acadians who were induce...
Welcome / Bienvenue! The Acadians of North America portal is here to facilitate those researching ancestors or relatives identified as Acadian descendants from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. We encourage everyone with a link to the Acadian culture to communicate and explore a common ancestry. From the earliest establishment of the...
Sources: Acadian Communities in Louisiana as they existed at the time of the first Acadians arrival to present-day Louisiana: Louisiana was under Spanish rule (1762-March 1801) at which time many records were recorded in Spanish (Hence the Spanish names often associated with French names). Louisiana was known as New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain, or Kingdom of...
Acadian (Cajun) and French Canadian Emigrants to Louisiana and the Gulf Coast - 1st generation heads of households. Resources Acadians in Gray Acadian-Cajun Genealogy & History Acadian Communities in Louisiana as they existed at the time of the first Acadians arrival to present-day Louisiana: Louisiana was under Spanish rule (1762-March 1801) at which time many records were recorde...
Scope of Project This project aims to identify Acadian French Corsairs (Privateers, Pirates) and the ships they sailed with Corsairs (Ships) Le Tigre Alain Bourg Paul Babin La Biche Jean-François Bourg Le Jason François-Xavier [Xavier] Bourg La Duchesse Joseph-Ignace Gaudet
Acadia University is a predominantly undergraduate university located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada with some graduate programs at the master's level and one at the doctoral level. The enabling legislation consists of Acadia University Act and the Amended Acadia University Act 2000. The Wolfville Campus houses Acadia University Archives and the Acadia University Art Gallery. Acadia offers o...
This project highlights the many notable figures who trace their roots to the Creole and Cajun communities of southern Louisiana.==Cajuns==Cajuns -- les Cadiens -- are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of French-speaking exiles from Acadia in what are now the Canadian Maritimes. About 500,000 Americans list themselves as Cajun, including...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the Geni profiles of those who went to or worked at F.C. Manning School of Business at Acadia University .