[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.

After two years of effort (2016-18), 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 Great Upheaval," which details the plight of these families from 1755 to their arrival in Louisiana.  I am concentrating now (and have been since 2018) 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).  I'm in the late 1860s in Book Ten, which is so large it requires four separate web pages.  After over a decade 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, which is genealogical, will not be near complete until Stephen A. White publishes his long-awaited Dictionnaire Généalogique Familles Acadiennes (DGFA)-2, which takes Acadian families from the 1710s into the 1780s.  Books Five, Nine, and Twelve here, historical in nature, and Book Eleven, another genealogical effort, are only begun.  Enjoy, but remember--this is still a work in progress. 
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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.com

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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:  12 March 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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