Arcadia Discussion Zone

Seredipty
I agree that there is an American connection
I think many need to think of the possiblity that America may have been home and refuge to the royal bloodlines...
the British cruel Expulsion of the French Acadians and confiscation of the land and goods from Nova Scotia

The connection of the families of the original Crusade familes
Saint Clair House of Lorraine Medicis "Counts of Champagne, Lords of Gisors, Lords of Payen, Counts of Fontaine, Counts of Anjou, de Bouillon, St. Clairs of Roslin, Brienne, Joinville, Chaumont, St Clair de Gisor, St Clair de Neg and the Hapsburgs...

there perhaps were these families who settled Nova Scotia
and after the persecution of the British
after the expulsion settled into the Cajun lands of Louisiana



found their homes with their families who had settled there earlier

The Spanish Governor, Ulloa decided in May 1766 to assign subsequent arrivals to strategic sites along the Mississippi River to aid in the Colonial defense. In July 12, 1767, 211 Acadians (about 50 families) arrived from Maryland [Ulloa incorrectly stated that they arrived from Virginia in a letter to Grimaldi dated July 23, 1767 - Brasseaux, Quest for the Promised Land, p. 92]. Ulloa assigned them to Fort St. Gabriel located at Bayou Manchac (then Iberville River) & the Mississippi River to counter the English Fort Bute on the opposite bank. Bayou Manchac (see map) was the international boundary between England and Spain. They left on August 7, 1767, arrived on August 17, 1767 and started dividing the land on August 18, 1767 [Letter from Ulloa to Grimaldi dated August 25, 1767 - Brasseaux, Quest for the Promised Land, pgs. 94-95]

Some of these moved back to the Acadian Coast in 1769 and afterwards but many remained and built St. Gabriel Church (1772-1776). Over 70% of the current St. Gabriel Church (which was in active use until 1953) is the original construction material. The Registers of St. Charles aux Mines in Acadia covering the period 1707-1748 (1 entry made on June 29, 1773) were turned over to St. Gabriel by the 1767 arrivals (it is assumed by the Allain family) and discovered in the DOBR Archives. These records are in DOBR vol. 1 and DOBR vol. 1.a. Revised. The Pointe Coupee Records are in the original v.1 and in revised v.1.b.

In his July 23, 1767 letter to Grimaldi, Ulloa said that the next Acadian arrivals would be sent to Fort San Luis de Natchez. In March 1768, 149 Acadians were sent to San Luis de Natchez, near present-day Vidalia, Louisiana - they arrived March 20, 1768. [Letter from Piernas to Ulloa dated March 27, 1768 - Brasseaux, Quest for the Promised Land, p. 120]. Note: According to Acadians in Maryland by Gregory A. Wood, p. 34, the group sent to Natchez included the majority of the Acadians at Port Tobacco and a few families from Upper Marlboro.



http://www.thecajuns.com/acadians.htm


"The registers of St. Charles de la Grand-Pré aux Mines were brought to Louisiana by the Acadians at the time of the expulsion. There were five volumes of them embracing the years 1687-1755. ... Very poor care was taken of them." As Gaudet points out in 1906, only bits and pieces of these five volumes have survived covering the years 1707 to 1748. There is hope that one or more of these old registers may yet show up: if so, then, as Gaudet explains, it will likely be in France as there is evidence that certain of the registers must have found their way to France.
http://www.blupete.com/Genealogy/Famille.htm

http://youtu.be/bCMvHWQagbc

First evidence of a camel originated in 45 million years in North America
A research team led by the Canadian Museum of Nature has identified the first evidence for an extinct giant camel in Canada's High Arctic. The discovery is based on 30 fossil fragments of a leg bone found on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, and represents the most northerly record for early camels, whose ancestors are known to have originated in North America some 45 million years ago.


camels traveled the Bering strait to the Mid East

The research, by Natalia Rybczynski, Ph.D., and co-authors including John Gosse, Ph.D. (at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia), and Mike Buckley, Ph.D. (at the University of Manchester, England), is described in the March 5, 2013, edition of the online journal Nature Communications

The Strait has been the subject of scientific speculation that humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge known as Beringia when lower ocean levels–perhaps a result of glaciers locking up vast amounts of water–exposed a ridge beneath the ocean.[3]

we know the camels did it