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Acadian Genealogy

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A list of Acadian families and ahnentafels of people of principally Acadian descent.

 


 

Politicians

  1. Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada - Needs finishing
  2. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada
  3. Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada
  4. Louis Stephen St-Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada
  5. Romeo Dallaire, General & politician
  6. Margaret Chase Smith, US Senator from Maine
  7. Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

 

Film / Musicians / Media

  1. Adrienne Barbeau & family
  2. Isabelle Boulay, pop star
  3. Genevieve Bujold, film star
  4. Celine Dion, pop star
  5. Robert Goulet, singer & film star
  6. Emeril Lagasse, celebratory TV chef
  7. Lynda Lemay, singer-songwriter
  8. Madonna, pop star
  9. Alanis Morissette, pop star
  10. Anne Murray, popstar - known as Canada's Songbird
  11. Anna Paquin, film star
  12. Luc Plamondon, composer & songwriter
  13. Theroux family, writers & broadcasters
  14. Rudy Vallee, musician & bandleader
  15. Roch Voisine, Canadian media personality

 


 

Sport

  1. Arthur Jean Belliveau, ice hockey star
  2. Brett Favre, NFL quarterback
  3. Ron Guidry, sports star
  4. Tom Landry, coach of the Dallas Cowboys American football team
  5. David Pelletier, Olympic ice skating gold medalist
  6. Maurice 'The Rocket' Richard, ice hockey star

 


 

Other

  1. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Confederate general
  2. Joseph Elzear Bernier, navigator & Artic explorer
  3. Toussaint Charbonneau (AT), husband of Sacajewa
  4. Billie Frechette, girlfriend of John Dillinger
  5. Louis Frechette, politician, editor and author; described as French-Canada's Poet Laureate.
  6. Rene Gagnon, flag carrier at Iwo Jima
  7. Marc Garneau, astronaut
  8. Rene Jette, leading French-Canadian genealogist
  9. Jack Kerouac, celebrated writer
  10. Josephine Laframboise, sister-in-law of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the USA.
  11. Calixa Lavallee, composer of the Canadian national anthem
  12. Moisant family, noted early aviators
  13. Cyprien Tanguay, historian & genealogist

 


 

Families

  1. Aide-Crequi
  2. Amiot
  3. Anctil
  4. Archambault
  5. Asselin
  6. Aubert
  7. Aucoin
  1. Badeau
  2. Baillargeon
  3. Barbier dit Minime
  4. Baril
  5. Beaudon (Baudon)
  6. Beaudry (Baudry)
  7. Belanger
  8. Belliveau
  9. Bercier
  10. Bergeron
  11. Bernier
  12. Bisson (Buisson)
  13. Blais
  14. Blanchard
  15. Bolduc
  16. Bonneau
  17. Boucher (I) dit Desrosiers
  18. Boudrot - aka Boudreau(x)
  19. Bourassa
  20. Bourgeois
  1. Cadieux
  2. Caron
  3. Cauchon
  4. Champoux
  5. Charpentier
  6. Choret
  7. Chretien - immediate family of Jean Chretien needs redoing.
  8. Cloutier
  9. Constantineau
  10. Convent
  11. Cormier
  12. Corriveau
  13. Cote
  14. Cottineau / Laurier
  15. Cusson
  1. Dallaire
  2. Demers
  3. Denevers - Boisvert - also De Nevers & Boisverd
  4. Depoitiers dit Buisson
  5. Desmarais (Desmarest) dit Maret
  6. Deschenes (See under Miville)
  7. Dion
  8. Doucet
  9. Dugas
  10. Duval-Dupolo
  1. Etienne (I)
  2.  

Feuillon

Fiset

Forest (I)

Forestier (I)

Foubert

Garceau

Gareman

Gaudet

Gauderot (Gaudrot/Gautreau)

Gelinas (Gélinas) / Jullineau

Gelinas-Gaillon

Gelineau

Germain

Giguere / Guiguere

Girouard

Godard

Goupil

Grenier / Garnier

Grenier / Garnier (II)

Gringas

Guay dit Castonguay

Guillet

Guyon

Hamel

Harbour (Arbour)

Hebert (I)

Hebert (II)

Hebert (III)

Heroux-Bougainville

Houde

Hubert dit Lacroix

Hubou

Hus

 

Jarry (Garry)

Jutras

 

Labadie

Lacerte-Vacher

Lacombe

Lamoureux

Landry - see http://www-sal.cs.uiuc.edu/~friedman/genealogy/Landry.htm

Langlois

Latouche

Lavergne

Leblanc

Leblanc (II)

Lecour

Lemaire dit St Germain - do interesting relatives

(Lemaistre) Lemaitre-Auger

Lemay

Lemoine

Le Normand

Levesque

Lizot / Lizotte / Lisson

Lorion

Lousche

 

Mabille

Martin dit l'Ecossais

Marcotte - Original French line

Marcotte - Line of Jacques

Marcotte - Line of Nicolas

Martineau

Menard

Menard (II)

Mercier

Mercier (I)

Merrin

Millet / Milette

Millet (II)

Milot

Miville

Mousseaux

Mullard

 

Noel

Niquet dit Monty

Ouellet

 

Paille / Paillard - FINISH

Paradis

Parent

Pastourel

Pelletier (I)

Perron-Laforme

Perusse

Petitpas

Pinard

Proteau

 

Rapin

Rate / Ratte

Renaud (I)

Richard (I)

Rivard-Loranger

Rocheron

Rochon

Rouillard-St Cyr

Rousseau (I)

 

St Pere

Saint-Pierre-Dessaint

Savard

Simoneau

 
  1. Tetreau / Tetrault
  2. Thibodeau
  3. Tousignan-Lapointe
  4. Trahan
  5. Tremblay
  6. Trottier (Pombert-Durusseau)
  7. Trudeau
  8. Tessier dit Lavigne
  9. Toureau / Tourault
  1. Vachon
  2. Verieu / Verieul
  3. Vien
  4. Yvon
     
         

 


 

Other related families

  1. Martin_(III), including Prime Minister Paul Martin.

 

Databases

  1. http://genealogiequebec.info/testphp/info.php?no=16168
  2. http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=charlebois47&id=I032119&ti=4317

 

Explore

  1. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wolfordsheppard&id=I134469 - varius interesting descendants
  2. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wolfordsheppard&id=I137150 (Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec)
  3. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wolfordsheppard&id=I133639 (Angelina Jolie)
  4. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=wolfordsheppard&id=I101655 (various interesting people)
  5. http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3496&&PHPSESSID=diri38tilii6uk96tbq2dmeqg6
  6. http://www.electroauthor.com/marcotte_genealogy/comeau.htm
  7. http://www.electroauthor.com/marcotte_genealogy/melancon.htm
  8. http://www.electroauthor.com/marcotte_genealogy/noble.html
  9. http://habitant.org/baillon/index.htm
  10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Quebec_senators
  11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Eus%C3%A8be_Casgrain
  12. http://www.happyones.com/genealogy/lheureux/famous.html
  13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Aur%C3%A8le_Asselin
  14. http://www.thepeerage.com/p15860.htm#i158598

 

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