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From: Judith Page <>
Subject: Re: CARAVAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS/HEBERT BROTHERS?
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 23:51:05 -0500


I for one believe that Lucie has worked very long and hard and has been
willing
to share all that she has learned with those of us who are researching out
families. Of course it is important to know the sorce of where everyone gets
their information. I for one have been told information on the families
that I
am researching from family members and then when I sent for death, marriage or
birth certificates, I found many errors. I would like to have as much truth to
my research as I can have. So to those of you who have found fault with Lucie,
please remember that most of us want the truth and that is what she is trying
to give us. I would like to say THANK YOU LUCIE, I have found much information
in what you have posted and your site has given me the correct information on
the families that you and I are decendents of. It would be a sad day for
all of
us researchers if Lucie should stop posting. Please Lucie for those of us who
gain from your work, don't stop. Judy.




At 10:31 AM 12/5/99 -0500, LucieMC wrote:
>Hi Mike..
>
>First, let me say that I've always been under the impression that this list
>was for the purpose of sharing genealogy and its history so I don't
>appreciate being banged around. In the past, I've said nothing when this
>has happened but it's getting kind of boring. If you would prefer that I
>not post to the list, I can absent myself very easily. The posts I make
>here are actually quite a lot of work but you wouldn't know that unless you
>are a regular postee. Another thing: I am not Stephen White's "pal" as
>you put it - however, I do respect him for the almost 30 years of research
>he has done on *our* behalf. Moreover, the historians I speak of at Moncton
>U did not include Steve, as far as I know. I could have let the information
>sent me pass but I thought people on the list would rather know the truth
>than not. I was told last week that history, whether oral, written or
>passed down should have a documented source. That makes a lot of sense if
>we are talking of the actual history of a people. If you want to engage in
>folklore, that is your prerogative. However, if some of us want the truth
>and essence of who we are, then that is our prerogative also.
>
>The other thing is that one has to wonder why some people have such a
>problem when we talk about the sources we should include with all of our
>information..... Lucie
>
>Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
>Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home
>http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6106
>http://www.geocities.com/lucieleblanc.geo/
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike Harris <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 10:04 AM
>Subject: Re: CARAVAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS/HEBERT BROTHERS?
>
>
>> Lucie and all:
>>
>> I've been watching this "what are your sources" debate for some time now
>and
>> frankly it's getting quite tiresome.
>>
>> Just because something wasn't documented, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
>> First Nations on this continent and in fact many cultures around the
>world,
>> rarely documented anything - they used an oral history to pass things down
>> from generation to generation. Even the sainted historians at the
>University
>> of Moncton wouldn't be able to find a written documented source that would
>> satisfy M. White and his pal Lucie. It's called folklore - and it's no
>less
>> valuable or real than written documented sources.
>>
>> I suggest that the phantom "caravan" might fall into that category - and
>the
>> overland migrations of Acadians to La. as well. If someone climbed in a
>> fishing boat and debarked up the shore a bit, there is likely no
>documented
>> source of how he got there.
>>
>> Just my $.02
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: LucieMC <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 6:47 AM
>> Subject: CARAVAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS/HEBERT BROTHERS?
>>
>>
>> > Good Morning Everybody - The other day I posted this to the list:
>> >
>> > >> LucieMC wrote: Hi Everybody - would anybody happen to have any
>> > information on the Caravan of Acadians that traveled from
>Massachusetts
>> to
>> > Memramcook in 1766? Thank you! Lucie".>>
>> >
>> > Well to keep the record straight, this caravan apparently never existed.
>> > Which means that the stories we've heard of some 200 or more Acadians
>> > treking on foot together through the woods back to Nova Scotia/New
>> Brunswick
>> > from Massachusetts never happened. (I'd been told there were up to
>400.)
>> > If I hear/find anything to the contrary on this, I will post it to the
>> List.
>> > Bona Arsenault mentions this in his book on the "History of the
>Acadians"
>> > but Moncton U tells me it was impossible. Again this is one of those
>> things
>> > where no reference or source is given for such information - I've been
>> told
>> > that the historians at Moncton U have never seen documentation that this
>> > actually ever happened. Is this another myth? Seems that could be so.
>> >
>> > On the otherhand, in Québec, I have found information that the Hébert
>> > brothers did such a trek - one first made his way there after the
>> > deportation years ended and settled on some land. It seems that he
>then
>> > returned to Massachusetts to find his brothers and together they went
>back
>> > to Québec with him. Do any of our Hebert cousins on the list have
>> > documentation about this piece of history that has been handed down to
>us?
>> > Thanks very much! for any help or information. Lucie
>> >
>> > Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
>> > Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home
>> > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6106
>> > http://www.geocities.com/lucieleblanc.geo/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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