"Hi Marie ...
 
"Received the Cajun By Any Other Name books. My family was very anxious to get one, now they all have one, it was so professionally well-written. I was so happy when I received it.  Now,  my family are learning all about their ancestors. Thanks for writing this book, it's so very interesting, we can't put it down.  Your book " Cajun By Any Other Name " is being read with enthusiasm, from New England  to British Columbia ...very interesting and impressive ..."


Emile Broome (New Hampshire, USA)

"Hi Marie:
 
"I was reading through your book, Cajun By Any Other Name, again, and it made me think about just how intertwined my ancestry is with yours, along with every other person of Acadian- Mi'kmaq ancestry. One, I was thinking of was my grandfather Honore' Trahan.  He was captured by the English in Maine, and was listed as Mi'kmaq. He was deported to Port Tobacco, Maryland, and left for Louisiana with his family including another of my grandfathers, Blaise Lejeune, who was Honore's orphaned nephew. Their ship got blown off course and ended up in Texas where they were held prisoner for six months before being allowed to go to Louisiana.
 
"I remember reading about an ancestor of yours from Martinique. It is kind of neat because my grandfather Michel Doucet and his family, after being released from the Halifax prison, ended up in Haiti for a year before going to Louisiana.
 
"And I know you have German and Swiss ancestors, which I do not, but I was really surprised to find out years ago about the huge impact the Germans had on the Cajun culture. I went to High School in La Place, Louisiana, in St John the Baptist Parish, which as you know is right in the middle of the German Coast. La Place is famous for its Andouille Festival, honoring a sausage that no Cajun would live without. It was interesting that andouille actually came from the Germans. And then there is of course the most Cajun of musical instruments, the accordion, another contribution of the Germans.
 
"So it really does amaze me how all this ties together, then multiply that by the numbers who have similar ancestry. I really did enjoy your book."
 
Keith Doucet (Louisiana, USA)

"I just completed your book "Revisiting Anne Marie". WOW! What an amazing journey you have had and will continue to have as you delve further into your Acadian-Mi'kmac heritage. I was mesmerized as I continued to read on and on. So many of your reflections and emotions mirrored my own as I continue to assist my mother in her genealogical research.

"I want to thank you for your awe-inspiring writing of your own personal journey and also for taking the time to travel down to Louisiana and meet all of us. I know we did not have a chance to talk much with all the goings-on of everything these past few days but I want you to know that you touched us both very deeply.

"You have also re-ignited my passion for writing and I have decided to begin a journal of my own journey as I find out for myself (and not just from the endless handwritten pedigree charts and family group sheets of my mother's research) the true identity of my ancestors, how they lived and loved, and just how much they have handed down to me through the bloodlines."
 --Christine Guidry Law, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA