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From: Grayce Ezarik <>
Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Unknown roots
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:35:58 -0500

Hello, I am new to this list, though I have wanted to join for many
years, hoping that I would find my ancestors without another mailing
list.

Now I am so desperate, they may have been Acadian, even though, some in
the family say that it is so. Was it just an off comment, or were they
indeed those that were displaced back when?

My post is:

Two French Canadians, so the family tale has been. Could they have been
Acadians?

George Edward DEROUIN/DROUIN or another variant.
born ca 1847 / 48 Canada, language was LC, (according to the listing on
the census.

Family lore was: there was an Indian doctor in the family and that
they were Cajun.

A neighbor, cousin, uncle or brother
Joseph DEROUIN/ DROUIN born ca 1850 / 51 in Canada.

I found no trace in Canada, they wed Pennsylvania women, per the 1880
census of Clearfield County PA. Joseph does not appear again. George
died 1882 in PA, two years after his wife died, two sons born there,
orphaned and lost until 1910.

Could or would George and Joseph have gone to LA and back north to PA?

Thank You,
Grayce

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