At the end of 2025, I was getting ahead of myself on the planning front. At that time my aim for 2026 was to concentrate on North American roots in the family tree, concentrating both on my own ancestors who link back to America's colonial past by establishing the closer lines that eventually lead back to those more distant relatives as well as working on the Acadian lines of the family that I married into.
The Acadian lines came to the fore much sooner than I anticipated. A post on Gail Dever's blog, Genealogy à la carte, carried the news about a free virtual presentation, "The History of the Acadians: Through Tranquility, Turmoil and Tenacity". I registered right away and sat through Nicole Gallant-Nune's talk as she took the viewers through the saga of the Acadians including the great derangement. I've always wondered what the McPhees and related families went through before they ended up on Isle Madame.
Ms. Gallant-Nunes's advice was to look at the Acadian project on Wiki Tree. So I've gone back to that site adding to the miniscule tree that I started there. This time I'm adding the links that will take me back to the Acadians that I'm interested in. I'm also starting to pull from my shelves the books on Acadia that I've gathered over the years. It looks like it might be time to access the information inside.
Sources:
Genealogy à la carte – https://genealogyalacarte.ca/
Wiki Tree - https://www.wikitree.com/
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