On a quest for an ancient bloodline, family genealogist follows ancestor from the Fortress of Louisbourg to La Rochelle, France ...by Marie Rundquist and Earl David  Port at La Rochelle, France The devastating effects of the forced expulsion of an Acadian people from Nova Scotia in the mid-eighteenth century are no more apparent than in Louisiana-born Earl David's family genealogy. Marred by loss of life, forced separation, and exile, the David (pronounced “dah-VEED”) family history during the years between 1755 and 1759 pieced together by family historian Earl David and second cousin Robert David by way of their own, original records research and a quest for ancestry in France, is characterized by human tragedy on a grand scale. At the center of the cataclysm is paternal ancestor, Jean Pierre David, a Master Blacksmith for the King of France, Louis XV, who lived with his family at the Fortress of Louisbourg until the late 1750s .... Click here to read more!
 Travel by ancestry adds a new dimension to planning a vacation. With a search for ancestry as a primary focus, a vacation can span days, weeks, even centuries!
A visitor to the Grand Pré National Historic Site of Canada may encounter Evangeline, the fictional heroine of a poem written in the nineteenth century by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and her lover Gabriel, portrayed as a blacksmith's son, on the eve of their expulsion from Acadia. A visit to Grand Pré, Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 finds a very real blacksmith's son, his young Acadian wife, and their children, awaiting the same fate as their fictional counterparts, their story no less wrenching; their experience no less dramatic. Drive a short distance to an isolated beach in present-day Hortonville, and live the experience of this same blacksmith's son, his family, and others, as they board the ships that would forever separate them from their homeland, their footprints on the shore still fresh. Click here for more of this story.
 Travel by ancestry adds a new dimension to planning a vacation. With a search for ancestry as a primary focus, a vacation can span days, weeks, even centuries! At La Have, Nova Scotia, the headwaters of an Mikmaq-Acadian heritage and culture, travel by ancestry holds special significance for those who search for indigenous Mi'kmaq-Acadian roots. A drive to Petite Riviere might begin at nine in the morning and end in the seventeenth century -- at an ancient Mi'kmaq - Acadian burial ground. Follow a winding path through a farmer's field; and there, in a clearing, you may encounter a granite stone, guarded by a lone white horse -- the familiar surnames of founding ancestors, who lived nearly four hundred years ago, carved into its surface. Click here for more of this story.
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