Some of the buildings at Louisberg in Nova Scotia
My focus lately has been on the Acadian family lines I married into so I'm searching for things related to French Canada. The other day I watched a webinar about New France called Epic Tales From New France: Dawn and Carol's Greatest Hits. While entertained by the two speakers and the stories they had uncovered in their extensive research into their family history in Quebec, I was struck by how when we talk about New France, the reference is usually to Quebec. Not that I have anything against that province but the family I'm researching wasn't in that part of the country. I want to find information about the Acadians, particularly about the family lines linked to my own family tree.
While Acadia was part of New France, at least according to Google, the contrast between the treatment of the two colonies was stark once the British took over. Perhaps that was also the case under French rule, maybe my research will uncover that fact or not. Their different treatment had a lot to do with the placement of the colonies and perhaps with their alliances too. So it looks like history and geography will come up in my research.
The contrast in how the French colonies were treated also affected the records available for research now. The speakers in that recent webinar were able to take the family trees they were researching far back into the past, to 8th and 9th great grandparents. They gave a brief overview of the extensive records they had access to. Too bad records like those aren't the norm for Acadian research.
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