 Welcome to Friday Night Bingo with Wikitree. And I have brought a project that I think we have bulked about two months ago maybe. So I'm really excited to welcome Cindy and Giselle with the Acadia project to Wikitree Bingo. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Thank you. This is really exciting. Now, for those of you that are, let me fix one here. See what we were talking about fixing here earlier. So for those of you that are in the project, definitely give us a shout out and let us know that you're in the project. For those of you that definitely know that you have a Cadian in your family line, give us a shout out as well. And for those of you that are curious if you have some in your line, give us a shout out in the chat as well. Because what we're gonna do is something a little different with this bingo than we normally do. We have a ladies night tonight and we're gonna separate this into two parts. A little bit of history at first, play bingo and then look at the notables that we normally look at and talk about research for this particular group and project. And my guests are gonna trade off with the chatting with you live and also chatting with me live. So let's go ahead and get started here. I wanna introduce you to the project page. This is, I love your page by the way. I meant to tell you this earlier that your page is very easy to understand. I am not familiar with Cadians like I should be. I know just the real basics. I could probably give you two sentence work. So I love going to your page and seeing everything laid out so I can understand what this project's about. And I guess let's start with this map. Yeah, yeah. So that map gives you a depiction of what Acadia looked like at the beginning. That's not the date of the map, but those are all of the areas that Acadia covered. Starting all the way with the northern half of Maine was actually the very earliest settlements of Acadia were in that area. And then the French expanded into Nova Scotia which is the main part of the map. And then what we would know as PEI today and Cape Breton today. We also covered the lower southern half of New Brunswick. I was a little bit surprised about the Maine. Yeah, well, you know, for Americans we've got the Acadian National Park there in Maine. And sometimes I think it's a little misplaced because the main body of Acadia was Nova Scotia. But the early formation of Acadia was in Maine. Interesting, interesting. And I will tell you a little joke going on inside my family. My husband is a Crockett in his line, very close. I think it's his great-grandmother. I don't research his line, but his great-grandmother. So when I was telling him about your project coming on he was all excited because he related it to Louisiana. Yes. So he's like, well, that's why I love my Cajun food. And I'm like, but dear, your family never even touched Louisiana or Maine or Canada. So it's kind of interesting how you see the pockets, I guess. So he's very excited to learn if his family is also part of the Cadians. And let's go ahead then and talk a little bit so everybody knows about the project. This is project pages set up, like all project pages on Wikitree, very similar. Go to the project page. I've dropped the link and it's all the way at the top of the chat. So if you've joined late, all you gotta do is scroll back up and see it. On a project page on Wikitree, right in the middle, there's a box and it shows you everything that you need to do to join the page. But Cindy's gonna give us some information on what is required to join. Yeah. Well, because the Cadians live so long ago, the conventions around the Cadians and the resources around the Cadians are somewhat specialized. And so we expect that people come with a little bit of knowledge. You know, first of all, you have to do the basics like sign the honor code. Mm-hmm. You have to be a member for at least 30 days so that you've learned how Wikitree itself works so that you've got the navigation and some of the conventions of Wikitree under your belt. And for that reason, we also require at least 100 contributions so that we can see you've been active and have had a chance to learn how Wikitree works. Then... In source. Well, that's one of the things that a lot of new people to Wikitree to understand the requirements for sourcing. Yeah. And I wanna mention that real quick that on the second half after the first bingo game, we're gonna talk about that researching for this particular group and sources. Yeah. And that's why we ask that people be pre-1700 certified because many Cadians are pre-1700 profiles. Mm-hmm. That brings us to a really good point that I wanna bring up. Again, this page is just was fantastic about telling me everything I need to know about your project, but the group as well and the culture, you'll notice that the project box, the sticker is here and you do make it clear that the Arcadians who lived in Arcadia prior to the end of 1763, they do get this project box. They do. So our project has many profiles because we put that box on all Acadians and then Giselle and I monitor the activity for those profiles, partly because it's easy to make mistakes. Yeah. It's easy to get families completed. And so we review everything. But what I would emphasize is that all of the profiles are open because it lives so long to go and they can all be edited. That's a really interesting point. I do not think I've had a project on that has that circumstance. So I'm glad you mentioned that. That's that kind of, I had to pause there for a second to think about that. Yeah, because they would, they have passed and it's passed the certain deadline for Wiki Tree when the profiles have to be open. And I'd love to that you've given us the codes, the codes for the stickers. So if they are migrating, if they're a descendant as well. So if somebody's in chat today that has like Cadian ancestors, they can use that descendant of a Cadian sticker, correct? Yes, they can. And people today do think of themselves as Acadians. Are using that time period is because it's about the project. Okay. The original time period is what the project is all about. And that is not to say that people today are not a Cadians. They are. But you're focusing on this section. Yes, well, our project is defined. We also include a few other people after 1763 who were deported to France and ended up in Louisiana. And so there's a place down there called the Wall of Names. If they're on the Wall of Names, they also are defined as a Cadian. And all the siblings, everybody in the family. So in that family, so with grandkids, if they're on the Wall Names, they would grandkids would not just the people that... All the siblings. Okay. And I do want to point out that I know this is kind of cheating. And we'll talk about this a little bit more. But before I forget, I really just don't want to forget this because it's important. It may come up in the bingo game. It may not. But could you just briefly tell us about the women's name and the middle name? Yeah. So Cadian women were at the forefront of using their own names. The French people did and still do that. And the French Acadians did that as well. So a woman is born with her last name at birth and she uses that name her whole life. Okay. And now middle names, so many Americans think of, you have a first name and a middle name. But again, the French all have one compound first name if they have multiple names. And I've spoken with some present day people who say, oh, I have four or five names and they're all considered a first name. That's what I was gonna say. So for WikiTree and for the convention, it would all go in the first name field and the middle name field would be empty. Correct. There's a radio button where you can say no middle name. And then now, could you tell us a little bit about this? What is D-I-T? Yeah. I hope I'm gonna say it right. It should sound like a deep name. Is that, how do you say it? D-name. D, okay. D-name. So that word if it were translated means said, which basically is like another name, like a nickname. Most D-names are associated with the last name. So they might be born with a certain last name at birth, but then they use this D-name to identify themselves more uniquely. And so that would go in their current last name if they actually used it in their life. And then there are a few, many fewer, but some that have a D-name for a nickname. And would you put that in the nickname field? Just like, okay. So that we're kind of familiar with. And I'm gonna let everybody, make sure you go to the project page. I'm gonna let everybody kind of look on their own as well because we're gonna talk more about this on the second half after the first bingo game, but I was so worried that we would forget those three items and I didn't want to forget those particular items. Let me come back up. So can you tell us for somebody who really doesn't know like myself, I know a little bit about it. I know that the deportation, I know the journal areas where they came from and where they went, but can you give us just a little history on these people? Yeah. So they came from France, starting in the early 1600s. And there were numerous waves of people coming in, but then the growth began organically as they started families and had children and so on. But it was not a very big community. In 1671, we had our first census, I say we, I mean, and there were about 500 people enumerated. And so many Acadians are related to each other because the communities were really small. So then you have in the Agumi as well. We were talking about an Agumi tool with ex-friends with Greg earlier today. We talked about it in my project as well a lot. Italy, I know talks about. So it was kind of interesting that you mentioned that. Yeah, I find when I'm working on Acadian profiles, I'm cousins to so many. So they started, as I had said before, in Maine, they moved their capital to Nova Scotia in about 1600s, Chazelle. And that was known as Port Royal. And then they spread out some major communities from there. So Grand Prix, Beau Bassin, hopefully I'm saying those right, those became important large communities kind of as offshoots of Port Royal. Then they didn't really begin populating Eel St. Jean and Eel Royale until the deportations happened. Those became the places people went to get away from the English in Nova Scotia. And then from the deportations, really, Acadians were sent so many places. Most of the English colonies, now US states, received Acadians. That's what you see in blue there. They were sent all along that coast and not all those communities wanted them. Oh, really? Oh yeah, they were very poorly treated. Many of them were, a nice word for it is indentured or forced into labor, we might call that slavery today. Was it because they were farmers, farm workers or not of nobility? They arrived with no possessions. They were forced out of their homes, often just wearing the pajamas they had on. They weren't able to bring anything really. Even true refugees records were lost during that time. Some of them were deported to England and imprisoned there. Many were sent to France and from France came back and ended up in Louisiana. And that's how we got the Cajuns from France. And if I'm looking at this map, the numbers where I see at the bottom, 400, 500, 500, 1100, those are the amount. Counts of people that, and that was around 1755. It started then. This is amazing to me. So this was before we were a country here in the state. So this is new to me. This is a great learning experience. This map really shows the entry. And if you notice too, it looks like is it New Yorkish area or between there had 2000? Well, in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, I think that number probably represents the multiple states. The multiple states. And it's really interesting because I would have never guessed that as well. I mean, the main was interesting. Now, what do the green arrows represent in the map? Are they migrating once they get to? Well, Acadians wanted to go back. Oh. This was a forced deportation. Acadians didn't want to leave. So in some cases, people tried to go back. Also, some were deported or escaped to Quebec, which is why today there's many Acadians in Quebec. This brings a good question. Where would the largest population be as of today? We've got some population statistics today. And I think the largest number outside of France is Quebec. Correct me, Giselle, if you think it's different. For the Acadians, it might be New Brunswick. New Brunswick, okay. Canada and New Brunswick. Well, it's definitely going to be, if we're outside of France, it's definitely going to be in Canada, Giselle. Did they travel to the islands? Which islands are you thinking of? The Caribbean islands or anything like that? Yes, there were Acadians who went to Santo Domingo, Haiti. Quite a good population there. And I think another island, I don't recall the name of it. I don't work with that location very much, but... I was thinking that, with the New Orleans type of entry, I can imagine they were also down around those waters as well and going in. It kind of is interesting. You add all these numbers together. This was just 1755, though. There were other time periods with large mounts. So many individuals were deported from Il Saint-Chin, PEI, and Il Royale. And then there were more. Just to recap this particular map, so they came to what is now the United States. This was not, these were colonies at the time. And then we discussed the green arrows and you briefly touched on they wanted to go back. I see the big arrow to England. So they came across the ocean. They got dumped here. And then they said, we want to leave. And so then in this particular time period, 1,100 went back to England. What? They did not want to do that. So they did not want to go to England. All of these deportations were forced. They really would have preferred to stay. And the reason the British got into the deportations is because the French would not sign the oath of allegiance to the King of England. Because the King of England, well, there were a number of reasons. One is he was not Catholic and all the Acadians were Catholic. And they didn't want to be in a position of being ostensibly loyal to the King of England who was fighting wars with the French. They would have been put in a very difficult position if they signed that oath of allegiance. So would you see that they went to England in this map? They did not want to go. And is there a certain parts of England that they stayed and remained? Or did most of them gather because they did not want to be there? They were imprisoned for the most part. So they went to the prisons that the British had for them. And later, many of them were then deported again to France. Same generation. Yes, same people. Can you imagine? I mean, for us in modern times, just to go fly across the ocean is a big deal. It takes time, but can you imagine these people are getting deported back and forth, left and right, and the same person, same generation, this is amazing. The same person might have been born in Nova Scotia, ended up moving to Eel St. Jean, then ended up getting deported to England, then got sent to France, and then many voluntarily wanted to go to Louisiana. So that could have been at least five moves. This is amazing information. I am so glad that you guys joined. I don't know about you guys that are watching. This is a big education because if you're looking at this and if you're in parts of Europe or if you're in parts of the States or Canada, this is history that I don't know about everybody else. I don't learn this in my history classes, and my son is in college, and I can tell you for sure, he did not learn this in high school or any type of environment. So this is fascinating information. I'm still kind of blown away how much they traveled in their own lifetime. In this timeframe, this was rough travel. It was, and many of the Acadians who were deported, they were all deported by ship. These are all ships taking them to these various places. Several of the ships going to France ended up in violent storms. They ended up sinking, losing some or all of their passengers. Many whole families just disappeared. That's what was my next question. Did they travel as a family and then their whole family would disappear? And that would be sometimes the end of that line. Yes. And we always talk about sources as genealogists, but on Winky Tree as well, there is really no source for died at sea. There's no death certificate that's gonna be issued back then. You might have the ship went down and they were listed on the ship. Yes. But as far as the death certificate, you're not gonna find that. And I'm gonna ask you to expand on this because I thought Carol asked a fantastic question since we're talking about this. Did any fight with the colonists during against the British during American Revolution? And I love Giselle's answers that we're gonna discuss this later. So watch because I think that's a brilliant question. Who do these individuals like and defend? America wasn't America yet and you've got the British there. So it's gonna be a fascinating topic. Thank you for asking that. Carol and Giselle, you've got your homework now for the second half of that as well. And I gotta agree, I did not know any of this. This is why I love Winky Tree. I love bringing the projects on Winky Tree bingo. A lot of people think, oh, there's prizes and this bingo is like a kid game. And it is and there are, but we learned so much from you guys that are working on this project. So thank you for working on the project and keeping everything kind of ship shape on it as well, but bringing the knowledge that you have to us because this is amazing. I'm kind of blown away by what I was not taught. I feel like I learned something new every day and I am very thankful for all of our project members who contribute and there's a lot of really knowledgeable people involved. And I think that's the power of Winky Tree. A lot of times I will tell everybody the power of Winky Tree is when two projects can share information. A DNA project can probably pretty much share with all the projects, but you have the one named studies that could share with this project or one place studies is fabulous with this project. Well, but also the power of Winky Tree is having others that are located globally bring the information or work on profiles as well. Everybody has their expertise and their little bits of information that they can bring to a project. So if those of you are watching and you're not a member of a project, definitely look at the list of Winky Tree projects. And if one interests you, check it out. I always tell people, if you have any questions about a project, reach out to the project leaders because I can tell you, we are so passionate about our projects. We don't always know everything. We're always happy to say, oh, I learned something new today, but we're also extremely passionate about sharing our knowledge and our love with the topic of our project. So definitely that. Okay, let's play the first bingo game, right? You ladies ready for that? Yeah. Okay. So for everybody that is watching that is new and a refresher, let me bring it up, a refresher for everybody that has played before. This is the way that we play bingo. I dropped the link in the chat a couple of times. It's also at the very top of the chat for the bingo, first bingo card. And what happens to win bingo is you've got to either get it diagonally, horizontally or vertically on a roll. And you will notice that the free space is there in this card and it is the Acadian flag. So go ahead and use your mouse and click on that free space now. If you ever click on a spot that you didn't want to click on, just click on it again and that little splotch, that little dabber splotch will go away. Bingo does go fairly quickly. I warn everybody, we've got the words from the project. They're gonna briefly explain each word, but then we're gonna move on. If you have a question about anything that we discussed during bingo, make sure to drop it in chat and we'll try and answer any questions. The other things that I wanna mention about bingo, if you've won in the last six months, you are not allowed to win another prize until six months has passed, but you can still play. And that brings me to the last thing I wanna mention about bingo. You will see people say bingo keep playing. That means that they're having fun, they're enjoying playing along with us, but they have probably won a prize and they can't win again for a couple more weeks. So that means keep playing. The first person who gets on a row either vertically, diagonally or horizontally and screams at me in chat, bingo is the first person to win the prize. And I mentioned that because five people could win at the same time, but it's whoever's the quickest to type bingo in the chat wins. And I'm gonna rely on everybody to yell at me that somebody has bingo as well. Okay, lady, so tell me one more time. We know we talked about this beforehand. This first bingo card is based on certain topics. Which topics? So what we did was divided it basically into the early years of Acadia and then the deportation and later years. Okay, so this bingo card will be the early years. You guys ready? Okay, Giselle? I think this is all you. I'm gonna do the first one. Okay, sorry to say, there you go. Yeah, so this is the French word for a horned beast. Oh. It's used in the census. Usually cows. 16, do I need this? Not 1604. 1604 was when the very first explorers made a settlement in what is now Maine. And I should have known, when you mentioned the National Park, I should have known that that had something to do with it. Then France or French? French, well, everybody came from France, fishermen. So while many Acadians were farmers, there were some people who were fishermen, including the Native Americans who lived there first. You know what I forgot to ask you? So when we talked about the people when they were deported, why were they deported? Well, we did talk about that in that the, the root of the problem was they wouldn't sign the oath of allegiance and become British subjects. But they were in France. Did they get deported to France first? They came from France. They were in Acadia. The British legally had won Nova Scotia and got it by treaty. Yeah. So they were the governing body of the land, but they wanted the Acadians to do more to, you know. To the Legion. So when they left France, they left France on their own to come to the colonies? Okay, that's the part I missed. Okay. And I saw somebody asked a question about the feed of Roy and there were a couple of Acadian women who were feed of Roy, but most of those were in Quebec. Okay. Indigenous. This is going to be an interesting topic as well. Indigenous. Well, there were many Indigenous people already there. Native American, well, not Native Americans. It would be covered by the First Peoples Project of Canadians and the Indigenous people and French people intermarried in many of those early years. And I will point out too that we just talked about the first peoples of Canada with Amy from Canada. We talked to her about this in a bingo right around the beginning of July, I believe because it was close to Canada today. Okay. This is an interesting one I learned about today. Yeah. So Antoinette Saint Etienne de La Chur probably could say that more Frenchy. But I don't have the accent like Giselle does. She was a very early woman. I think she was the first female born in Acadia. We have her profile, I think her profile. So hold that thought and we'll show you because I spent some time reading this profile and I think I might as well give a shout out to Murray who is a member of your project that also shared some Acadian profiles with me. New Brunswick and we talked about New Brunswick earlier in a large population. Yes. And as the deportations started in Nova Scotia many people went to New Brunswick to escape that and established forts there in defense of Acadia in New Brunswick. Penobscot, one of the indigenous tribes out of the area of Maine. And there's actually some pretty well-known Acadian mothers who were Penobscot. The same with Mekema. This was the primary tribe in Nova Scotia. Many of the natives who married into the French culture were Mekema. Acadia, the French word for the name of the area, the geography. So we have Acadians, the people, and we have a KD, the land. And where's the land at? What we're talking about if we say KD? Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia. So those would be the area, not in France though. Everything, no, not in France. In France, okay. Catholics. So that was the religion of the French who came and Catholic priests thankfully did a very good job of recording births and then deaths. We're very grateful for them. And keep that in mind, because I have a feeling this topic's gonna come up for research. All right. I have no idea how to say this word, but it means surgeon. Shazelle, can you say it? Chirurgien. Chirurgien. Parfait. Yes, and we have a number of surgeons. And every time I come across one of those surgeons, I think, what was it like to do surgery in Acadia in the 1600s or 1700s? Must've been difficult. Okay, is Mark my first one? I think Mark's my first bingo. See, I love it. You can see ladies, they gotta really yell at me because I get so fascinated by you guys in your bingo words, okay. So I think, you know, it's funny. I was just getting ready to ask if are you guys close? Does anybody have any bingos? Carol, please tell me that there were words this time. We had a smaller list this time. So please tell me you had some words kind of to dab with your mouse there. So Mark, congratulations on bingo. This is great. I wanna say, Mark correct me if I'm wrong, he won almost exactly six months ago. So this is his second time. So this is great that he's in bingo with us. So to get your prize, you can email Aowyn and let her know that you won bingo during the KDNs bingo. She will send you the link to the store, give you the more details, ask probably for details from you as well to get your prize. And it's up to $30 for WikiTree branded product again. I wanna show this mug, but you know, I'm gonna show you guys something else as well because WikiTree Day is coming up in November and one of the items that you can also get is the official 15th anniversary of WikiTree Day mug. So while you're watching WikiTree Day activities with the symposium in November, you could be drinking out of your limited edition WikiTree mug, but my favorite still the bingo mug. I won't lie. So congratulations Mark, that's pretty cool. Okay, so we're gonna change it up just a little bit. We've got a good base. We've got a good history. Now we need to know if we wanna work on profiles or if we wanna see some of the profiles, then we need to have a little bit of information from you guys. But before we start that, what I'm gonna do first is a bit of drop the second bingo card in the chat. So everybody has a chance to bring it up. Okay, have we answered, do we guys see somebody? I'm not sure what Elias Grace is. I don't, I don't. And I agree, Carol. This is much better. Several, I've always won away. We had Greg earlier and he gave me 50 words per card instead of anything. So it took a while for a couple of people just to get one, one there. Okay, let me go ahead and discuss some of the notables. Now your notables are pretty amazing notables that you have here. So as we go through the projects on Wiki Tree Bingo, we talk about these beautiful project pages. These are project pages of the Acadian project that you guys wanted to showcase. So why did you want to showcase this particular one? Marie-Christine Auvois is interesting because she was a native and she married an Acadian. Oh, that's interesting. Yes, and there were not many, but there were mixed marriages at the time. And it was probably needed to happen. It was a necessity. There's only so many females and males. And they were married in church. And we see in her marriage, not her marriage record, but in some of her children's marriage records. It is written that the mother was Marie Sauvages. In French, in English, it means savage. Oh. At the time, it didn't have the negative connotation that it has now. So that's why we know they were native. And what is also interesting is the priest also wrote in the records, in the children's records, her last name was Auvois or sometimes Dubois. Now, this is a French name. So if we have no records, we cannot prove that who her father was. There was one Dubois in a census records, but we cannot connect the two. So we don't know if her father was a Frenchman, Dubois. So she was a Metis in reality. Or if the priest said Auvois or Dubois means of the wood. Oh. Or did she mean that she was a native because she came from the wood? From the woods. And that was how he translated her name. We don't know. That's a very interesting, that's very interesting. So using the word of the definition savage as well as in the woods, it's interesting too that you guys documented the kind of timeline here too. So you can see how she lived. Yes. So I'm going on how she lived. Let's move on to, excuse me, let me go on to Renee. And why did you want to showcase this one? And this one kind of that was interesting to me because died in Philadelphia. He was deported to Philadelphia in 1755. Renee, he was born in Port-Awayal, but then the family moved to Grand Paris because at one point there were not enough space. All the land was occupied, so they moved to Grand Paris and the land was more fertile there in Grand Paris. And what is, Renee was a notary. He could sign his name. We can see his signature in one of the marriage records, which was very, very rare at the time. I would think so, especially for the location. You've got deportations. He moved around and he had some education. He had some education. What is particularly about Renee is he was married three times and he had 22 children. Oh my, he was busy. He was busy. He had to make sure to take care of all the kids. So as we go through, look at this, not only did he have that triplet, triplet, triplet, twin, twin, twin. Oh my. He had a set of triplets and three sets of twins. Oh. And the first woman he married, she was a widow and she had six children from her previous marriage. Oh my. So, no. And when he had his last child in 1748, he was 66 years old. That's a lot of what we would call today. And I thought this was interesting too. So he was taken prisoner by the Indians in his own home as well. This is just a really fascinating read of someone's life. So when we talk about doing profiles in Wiki Tree and adding to their biography, we wanted not only know their life, but what was going on around their timeframe of their life too. And you guys have done a really great job of showcasing both of those. Let's move on to, do you say Joseph or in French, how do you say Joseph? Joseph. Okay. I thought it was going to be a little different. And why is this one special to you? Joseph Broussard, very often we just call him Beau Salais Broussard because Broussard was, Beau Salais was his D-name. You can see the last names, but we often call him Beau Salais Broussard. We don't know where the D-name comes from. There are different hypotheses. Some say maybe it's because he had a big red beard. Beau Salais means a beautiful son. We don't know. But the village that he lived in, near Moncton, New Brunswick, it was called after him a village de Beau Salais. And what's special about Beau Salais Broussard is he was an Akkadian hero, a real, real-life Akkadian hero. He, from the age of 22 to his death, he was part of the Akkadian resistance in Akkadie. And the Mi'kma were his friends. He learned guerrilla warfare from them. And he organized Akkadian groups to attack. To attack in British forts and encourage them to keep on fighting. He managed to escape deportation and that was very rare. But finally, around the 1760s, he had to surrender to the British soldiers with his family because they were starving. And they were hiding in the woods for many, many years. So this is when we talk about some of the heroes for each particular project, this is one that is a hero to the Akkadians for fighting back and protecting what was his. Yes. He was imprisoned until 1764. And then in 1764, when the prisoners were freed, he decided to bring his family and many other Akkadians to Saint-Domingue, which is now Haiti. But the weather, the climate there and the tropical diseases were, Akkadians couldn't deal with that. So then he brought them to Louisiana, 1765. And in Louisiana, he's very, very popular. Anyone who is connected to Bossa-les-Brusa, it's a badge of honor. And we'll talk briefly, too, about how you have a particular DNA sub-project as well. So keep that in mind, everybody. We'll talk briefly about that, too, because I imagine that might be able to connect ancestry lines. Now, this is one that was in Bingo. Murray brought this up to me as well. This was one of his favorites. I think I got this one right. Is this one right? Is this one of the ones that I think that you guys also brought up? There was one that was... I'm not sure if this one is the one that was a nun? Yes, Antoinette Lander. Okay. She's one of my favorites, too. Oh, it's so well done, so well written. And it's a very, very good description of what life was like in Paul Royale in the late 1600s. And it also explains the importance of women in Acadie for the success of the settlements. And women were very busy at the time. I can imagine because raising children, but they also had chores. They had the homes chores, but they also helped on the land, I imagine, as well. And the Acadieans lived in very tight-knit communities. So they were also helping each other out if houses needed to be built or a dyke built or repaired. They were always there for each other. So they were very busy. And I love the photos here because I assume that these are places that you can visit to see how they lived as well. So I find this really interesting. This profile is so well done. It's just to talk about this, because as much was available, nothing without labor. So when we're talking this timeframe, whether you're a child or a parent or a grandparent, everybody worked to survive. And I think we find this across the world that that's what happened. I think we also lose kind of a fact of that, that we have it easy now. But this was a group of people that had to do the same thing that many around the world had to do to survive. You had to work very, very hard with labor. But they were also in this phase of constantly being deported as well and have to fight for their life, sometimes or their claims to their land. So that brings a different element into their day-to-day life. Yeah. This is a great profile. I agree with you. What I like is in the middle of the profile, there's a description by Vilbon, 1699. He was there in Portoel, and he described what he saw there. So, you know, he saw pear trees and apple trees and parsnip and turnips and fowl and partridge. So it gives us a good idea of how people lived at that time. And they lived how they ate, how they survived as well. And this is another reason why I like this, because you have it both in English and French. So I think this is a fabulous example of a multicultural, multi-language profile that can be done. It's just really great. It is a really nice profile. And you can see if you're looking at my cursor over on the right, you can see I'm probably not even halfway there. And this still has so much detail left to go. So I think it's really fantastic. The work that your project has done, when is your starting point? What year is your starting point, would you say, for your profiles and your project? Because this is 1618. 1600. 1600. Okay. 1604? 1604 is when the first people came, but she was born in 1618 in France. And she happens to be my eighth great-grandmother. Oh, that's great. And she is married to Antoine Bourgue, who was one of the first settlers. They came together and he was born in 1609. And I think it would be proper to mention too, because we're dealing with these time frames. Sources are not as easy to come by as if they were 1900. So that's a little bit why this particular project, they don't have a trail or the learning trail that you're used to seeing in some of the large projects. But what they have requested again, that you sign on our code, that you worked on Wiki Tree for a minimum of 30 days, but they also want you to work with some of the profiles. And if you need help finding a profile or asking if you've done the profile correctly, then reach out to one of these ladies and let them know, because they want to see your edits and they want to help you with this to kind of get an idea that these are not easy profiles. These are not easy to source. They're not easy to track. If you've got a lot of migration coming and going from the deportations as well. And just these time frames, it's tough. So definitely as you're reaching out to them, reach out to them with a profile that you worked on and let them see what you've got. We love to help people get connected to their families. That's great. And that truly is, I was thinking today, that truly is the power of Wiki Tree. We were talking earlier, we're trying to find missing cousins. And I can see where that would relate into this project as well, because sometimes when we go back this far, we just don't have all the necessary sources in the documents that make life easy for us now. And these ladies can definitely help you. And what I love about both of you too is you've got the English and the French. So you can translate, help translate. One of you could do English, one of you could do French or both and help us out when we get stuck in language, documents in a different language. So I really love that about this project as well. Let's see, do any of these Acadian profiles reach back to France to see those ancestors? Yes, indeed. Many are not connected to parents because we don't know who they are, but some of them are connected. And I've recently been working on a family that was found in the 1671 census, but then nothing was found out about them afterwards. So I put a note on G2G and got help from a French person who found people from that family in Belgium and other places back in France, back in Europe, I should say. So yeah, they're definitely linkages. And then post deportation, many of them stayed in France, lived and died there, had children there. So we also have that French connection. The French connection back. And do you have a lot going back and forth? Like it was interesting to see the Philadelphia. So do you have a lot going back and forth between what we now call the states in Canada as well? But I'm going to guess you don't have a lot, maybe indigenous that move, or the indigenous also picked up in this deportation? I think then most of the indigenous who had married into the French culture had already passed away. That happened much more in the 1600s. Because I was like, that would be an odd thing to pick up those in deport as well. The Philadelphia connection was because of deportation. It was a voluntary going back and forth with Philadelphia. It was they landed there as a result of the deportation. It's very fascinating and I think that they, as the profiles we just saw, they lived, they survived, and they were surviving, and then they were deported and had to start from scratch all over again. Like you said, they didn't have much. And for us to think, okay, we're going to lose where we're living, where we're sitting right now is going to go away at midnight. And then we're going to be thrown in a different country, a different place. Sometimes it sounds like different language as well. And we have nothing. Like you said, just close on your back. This is just hard to imagine how we weren't taught about this group of people. And maybe your family was even split up. Then went somewhere and the women went somewhere else. That's interesting. And Carol is bringing us again to a really nice point, the sources then. So let's talk about first, about research. Is that going to be the next step that you guys want to kind of dig into? How do we research? Because these are older profiles. So where would you like me to start with? Do you want me to start with the reliable sources? Yes, please. Okay. So we have many sources. The majority have links that you can see the sources online. And there are also prepared citations for each source. Oh, that's great. Very easy to use. I told you guys, this project has made it so simple for us as well. You guys have really done a fantastic job on your pages. Thanks to Cindy's talents for organization. Your talent for research. Well, congratulations. You can see that you have the citations right here. So you would simply just copy, modify if you need to. But you've got the church records. So we've got some of the Canadian church records going back. And I'm going to assume they're also in different locations as well. Yes. And we thought there's Port Roy. We've talked about that a little bit today. So this is really great that you've given us this information and we can go and search it or if I click on some of these links, will that take me to the actual parish registers? Some are transcriptions. Okay. You can click on this. Because my question is also, is it free to serve? It's all free. Okay. All free. There you have to click on name of a town and then the year. So maybe we can look at another one. Yeah. In this one, I'll tell you that because I've got my screen. So blowing up so everybody can see it's hard to kind of see when I click on something. But it's interesting how these sources are here. I wish I had these sources for listed like this and so many for the province of Georgia for the colonial periods. We have some, but we don't have them at this extent. Now these, this is interesting because I'm looking now at list of soldiers and sailors. And poor people who died in the hospital. Yes. And this is 1736. This is starting at, that's amazing. The majority of these records are in French. Some are trans, are translated in English, but the majority are in French. It does work as though comes handy for us because you can help us with this anytime. And you can ask a G to on G to G always volunteer, generous volunteers always ready to translate. I'm curious too. So when I'm searching for through a lot of these, will I see that D name or most of them have the more formal name? Some have the D name. That's actually how we know they used it. Oh, okay. If it's a marriage and the D name is used or if they were a father and the D name was used, and we know. You can click maybe on marriages or baptism at the St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia. Oh, one of my favorites places, Internet archive as well. Those are in English, they're transcriptions. Acadians who were married there after being deported there. This is fabulous. And I will say we use Internet archive quite frequently with the Southern colonies project as well. And this is great information, great record as well. And you give us the link. Do you give us a citation? Yes. To include. And actually somebody coming into the project, taking one of these sources and working through all the people that are mentioned to get that source onto existing profiles and profiles is a good project for somebody. So if you do have the Cadians and you want to learn a little bit more about their sources and how they are researching and finding the records and the citations that they are using to be consistent throughout the entire project, every project has different consistencies and citation requests. They are giving you all this information. So if you have these ancestors, you want to start looking at them a great way is to help the project out by including some of the researching and including some of these citations. Now, I know you mentioned Walla Names. Yes. And the Walla Names, what exactly is that? Is that a statue? Is it a memorial? Is it a monument? It's a list of about 3,000 names of Acadian refugees who settled in Louisiana between 1764 and 1785. No Acadians were deported to Louisiana. We think that they were deported there because there are so many Cadians and they went there voluntarily. And so these names are engraved on a wall at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana. And it's sort of a pilgrimage for people who have Acadian ancestors to go there and look at the wall and see their ancestors who were there. And just from bringing this up, I'm already fascinated. I'm seeing France. I'm seeing other places. I'm seeing Baltimore, Maryland. So even though we talked about the particular areas, Acadians could have come from all different areas. Those who emigrated to Louisiana, they came from a majority of two places. First from Acadie. They were freed from prisons in 1764. There were a few thousand who went to Louisiana. And then there were those who were in France who were deported to France and to England who left France. Acadians had their own identity. Even if France was their homeland, they couldn't get used to the customs there and the way of living. So when the Spanish offered them to go to Louisiana in 1785, about 1,500 went from France to Louisiana on seven ships. So these are the people on the Wall of Names. So if someone like, for example, your husband, if you want to know if their ancestors were one of the first settlers in Louisiana, there is a category, Acadians on the Wall of Names, where they can find with their relationship finder or the connection finder, they can see if they're connected to any person who is on the Wall of Names. Now, let me ask you this, since we're talking about research. If I have a suspicion that I had a vacating in my family, but I have no idea really where to start, my records go that maybe the parents were listed in a child's marriage. But I have no idea where those parents lived really or were born or died. Would you recommend then, if I know that the children were listed as Acadians, would you recommend then that I maybe switch over to your DNA project? DNA, yes. Yes, they had, if they had DNA tested, then check with the mothers of Acadia project also and the DNA project. Yes. I know this is a very large project for you guys, and you have a particular person who works solely on this particular one, and I want to make sure that we mention the person, who is it that works on? Denis Saba, he's the coordinator of Acadians project, and he's also the administrator of the Mothers of Acadia, or Acadia DNA project. He was chosen by Lucille Black-Consentino, who passed on the reins to Denis Saba. So he's the expert on DNA. And I think this is going to family tree DNA, the one that I've got highlighted in yellow. So if you think that you have some in Acadia, and you might want to spend some time on the project's DNA page, look around. If you have any questions, reach out. But also look around and click on some of the links that do go to project pages with example family tree DNA and see if you can dig into the DNA a little bit to find that missing link, if you believe you're Acadia, or not. And maybe you'll be able to solve your mystery that way and say, well, I thought we were, but we were not, or we were Acadians. So because I think that when you're talking about your project dealing with profiles from a very long time ago and trying to get the project completed with these originals, like the wall of names and things like that, that's a little bit further back and DNA might be the missing link to help you. It might be, but I wouldn't rule it out. So if you didn't find your family connection on any of the DNA sources, contact one of us, because we might be able to find, if you know somebody, you might be able to find the linkages for you. And I guess the other question that I have real quick is if I have a name that sounds French with a large population, say in Canada or Maine, that might not mean that I'm necessarily Acadian as well. But there's a chance that the better chance you are, but I just want to caution people before you put a sticker on your profile to kind of assume that you all have a little bit of a paper trail to go back. Many Quebecois also immigrated to the United States. And that's interesting too. That's a good way to also segue into our second Bingo card here. So if everybody will bring up your Bingo card, let me bring this down real quick. OK. Now, Jezo, I think this one is going to be your turn for the Bingo words. So I just want to remind everybody very quickly that we are going to go fast. We'll go a little bit faster because we're running a little bit over, but diagonally, vertically, horizontally, get them all the way across. First person that gets that and yells Bingo in the chat is the winner. You cannot win if you've won within six months. So Mark, you cannot win a second mug tonight. OK. Exile. Exile. About 10,000 people were deported as an Acadian. And so a lot of exiles around the world, France, England, New England colonies. And there was a sub-project with the Acadian's Project. It's the Acadian's In-Exile Project started by Jacqueline Giroir. So we're trying to trace everyone who was in exile. That's great. In 1763, why is the state important? Signing of the Treaty of Paris. It ended the Seven Years' War. Is Saint-Jean now Prince Edward Island? The first residents were Mi'kma, Mi'kma. And about 3,000 Acadians were deported to France from there in 1758. I just got to pause real quick. When we keep talking about it, I'm still just kind of picturing this. They just, so, you know, they're not going to support the local government. The locations no longer want them. They want them gone for various reasons probably too. They probably want their land as well. So they just say, OK, you guys, we're moving you. We're deporting you. And they go? For example, in Grand Paris, in Nova Scotia, there were 400 boys and men were summoned to the church under false pretext. They said, come for a meeting. And they were imprisoned there in 1755. And they said, OK, now your prisoners, your property will be, or taking your property, prepare for deportation in 30 days. And they lost everything. And after 1763, those who wanted to return to their homeland, their homestead was either destroyed or occupied by an English shittler. That was my guess, you know, but they wanted that land and somebody else moved in. And where are they going to go? In El Valle is now Cape Breton. There again, 1758, a second wave of deportations. Thousands of Acadians were deported to France. Prisoner, thousands of Acadians were in prisons and in Acadie, in England, in New England colonies also. Women were responsible for bringing food and clothes to the prisoners. And sometimes they hid necessary tools for them. So all the way back then they were doing it. Company of prisoners. She asked that question. In 1776, a man from Massachusetts, Mr. Eddie, had a great idea of invading Nova Scotia to make it the 14th American colony. So he gathered militiamen and he moved up north to Nova Scotia. And on the way, he recruited Acadians, about 18 young Acadians. So they were part of the American Revolutionary War. And they attacked Fort Cumberland. But they had been imprisoned there 13 years earlier. But it didn't go as planned. It's still part of Canada. The wall names, we discussed with that. Now, let me just make sure I understand correctly. So the wall names, there's only one wall name for saying that's in Louisiana. Yes. St. Martinville. Broussard is our famous Osalei Broussard. When Broussard, he was accused of fathering a child out of Whitlock. And it appears that when the lady, the woman who had the child when she gave birth, she shouted his name. Oh. At the time, under British law. That's all you needed. So he was accused and he went to prison. Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, military. We had military guys. I think we kind of explained that in British. That was kind of the bad guys for the Acadians. Yes. But in 2003, they apologized to the Acadians. 2003. Yes. The Queen Elizabeth II signed a royal proclamation saying that they recognized the wrongdooms by the crown. Very interesting. That's interesting. So, you know, not, you know, a year or two later, but it still came. Winslow's list. It's a census that was ordered by Colonel Winslow. He was the man responsible for deporting the Acadians from Grand Prix. So he ordered, when the men were imprisoned at the church, he wanted a list of all the men and the number of children and livestock, number of livestock and everything, because he wanted to make sure he had enough boats, ships to deport them to the New England colonies. So it's known as Winslow's. Yes. Escape. Escape. Yes. Now, we know that the women sometimes brought the necessary tools and everything. And there are interesting stories about famous escapes. For example, in my family, my fourth great-grandfather, Pierre Ananette Cormier, it appears that he escaped from prison dressed as a woman. Supposedly. Okay, now I got to ask, how do you know that? It's a legend. Stephen White, the expert genealogist, he's skeptical about that version. And he proposes maybe another version that's on Pierre Ananette's profile. I can definitely see that, especially after you mentioned that the women brought, you know, not only food, but items as well. So I can see how he could have gotten clothing that was brought to him as well to put on extra layers of skirts. I can see that. Okay, so we've got a bingo winner. I think Chris was the bingo winner on the word escape. That's kind of funny. So congratulations, Chris, on that. That's a great job. And Chris, is this your first time at bingo as well? Let me be beginner's luck. You're going to email Aowyn at wikitree.com. She is our forest elf, our tree elf, and she will get you the information, the link, and tell you all the details on what you can get. It's a wikitree branded item. So keep that in mind. And the price, I think it's $30 is the price point for that. So congratulations again, Chris. Thanks for joining us as well. And ladies, is there something that we've left off before we say goodbye? Well, I wanted to say we picked this date to play with Tree Bingo because of two important Canadian celebrations. The first one is July 28th. So just passed, which is the day of commemoration of the Great Appeal, which we've been talking about with the deportations. And they celebrated the 250th anniversary in 2005 in Grand Prix. Wow. And then the second day comes after, in a week and a half, which is Acadian Day. And that'll be celebrated August 15th. And they had the first National Acadian Convention in 1881. And they've been doing that, I believe, every year since then. Now, would Acadian Day be a celebration, maybe in slightly smaller scale, but still as important as Canada Day or 4th of July or Bastille Day? Or would it be a celebration where families come together and they celebrate? The culture would be to bring certain foods or events or music as well? The tradition is to have a Tentamar. That's a parade. Everybody comes together. And they have pots and pans and spoons. And they make a noise. And they walk in town. That's a Tentamar. Oh, that's great. That's really great. And do they have certain typical foods that they might? Does the Acadian culture have typical foods that they still to this day love and make? I know that when we talk about Cajuns, we know the Cajun food. But if we're talking more in Canada or the Northern United States, would it be fishing? Some type of fish that's more Acadian? If I wanted to impress somebody and bring them a particular dish, what would that be? In New Brunswick, it would be a Poutine Rappé. That's an acquired taste. That's how I knew my husband loved me when he said it was good. I think it's delicious. It's a boiled potato with pork in the middle. Poutine Rappé. And there's also Rappur. Again, potato and pork. Very simple dishes. That they had, that they grew. They survived on as well wherever they traveled. I use the word travel loosely. I should say wherever they were deported to. Well, I want to thank you guys for being part of this. Like I said, I've been really excited about you guys coming on to Bingo because I reached out to Cindy a while ago. And I knew that you were picking certain days that you wanted to come on. So you've been on our Bingo list for a while. And I want to also mention that you were a special request. Your project was a request to come on to our Bingo. And that's another reason why we reached out. So if you guys that are watching want to see a project that has not been showcased on our Bingo so far, definitely reach out to us, to me, and especially reach out to your project leaders and tell them, hey, let's be on Bingo because I have questions. Again, I want to mention that if you want to join the project, go to the project page that we've listed in the description down below. It's also on Wikitree's project page and it's also been in our chat at the very top. They would like you to begin on our code, 30 days on Wikitree, and also try creating an Acadian profile or helping edit and add sources to current ones. And when you do that, definitely reach out to these two ladies. They're very friendly, very accommodating. They love sharing their knowledge and getting to know you as well. And for those of you that are watching live, thank you so much for spending your Friday with us today. This has been a great learning experience for me. I think this is the Bingo that I've learned the most from. So I appreciate both of you joining us. And if you're watching us after the fact, thank you for joining us as well and make sure to check out the Cadian project page. Thank you, ladies. That was great. It was really fun. You're really great. Bye, everybody.