Callaway, Ewan. (2023, April 24). "‘Truly gobsmacked’: Ancient-human genome count surpasses 10,000: The majority of sequences come from people who lived in Western Eurasia, but samples from other regions are on the rise." Nature News: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01403-4

From the news release: "In 2010, researchers published the first genome sequence from an ancient human, using tufts of hair from a man who lived around 4,000 years ago in Greenland1. In the 13 years since, scientists have generated genome data from more than 10,000 ancient people — and there’s no sign of a slowdown."

Jourdan Thibodeaux has profound words: "Oh tu vis ta culture Ou tu tues ta culture Il n'y a pas de milieu." ("You live your culture or you kill your culture... there is no in between." ) Let his message sink in while you listen to his music.

Link to: La Prière, Official video for “La Prière” by Jourdan Thibodeaux et Les Rôdailleurs directed by Jourdan Thibodeaux and Drake LeBlanc, Télé-Louisiane https://youtu.be/-3AQ5BYrXXE

Published in the History of the Diocese of Hartford in 1900 in a chapter entitled, "The Acadians in Connecticut," beginning on page 63, were the names of the Connecticut towns where Acadians were exiled in 1755 and records of expenses. Historians spared no ghastly detail when they described how impoverished Acadian exiles were bound out, persecuted, and subjected to small pox.

Numbering among the published viewpoints of several, leading historians of the time, was an excerpt from a letter dated September 8, 1855, that was written by the Most Rev. William Walsh, Archbishop of Halifax, on the centennial anniversary of the Acadian expulsion.  He notes that following their exile in the United States, several Acadian families were able to find their way back to Nova Scotia, where they settled the untouched forests and shores of Baie Sainte Marie.

Reference: O'Donnell, Rev. James H. (1900). History of the Diocese of Hartford. Boston: The D. H. Hurd Company. https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Diocese_of_Hartford/eZBMAQAAMAAJ?gbpv=1

Submitted by family researcher, Edward Vidal.