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The Acadians:Through Tranquility, Turmoil and Tenacity

Join our featured speaker Nicole Gallant Nunes as she shares her knowledge and experience in Acadian genealogy

This is presentation focused on the history of the Acadian people, beginning with the early settlement of Acadia in 1604 and touching upon their daily lives and current events in these thriving communities leading up to the period of the Acadian Expulsion beginning in 1755 in Nova Scotia. This presentation discusses the main events in the timeline of the Acadian Expulsion when the British forcibly removed over ten thousand people of the Acadian population from their homeland in what is now eastern Canada and thrusted them into exile and despair that spanned for decades in different locations across the world. We will be noting the devastating impacts of this great upheaval upon the Acadian community and concluding with their persistent determination to rebuild their lives, remembering those lost and preserving a culture that still thrives to this very day.

Nicole Gallant-Nunes is a professional and genetic genealogist from Massachusetts with over twenty years of experience specializing in Acadian, French-Canadian and early New England ancestry. She has had her own genealogy business, Treasured Trees Genealogy Services, for the last several years, assisting hundreds of clients with a wide range of research projects. She is an active member of several genealogical societies and volunteers her time at research centers educating people on many topics pertaining to genealogical research. She has been an expert guest speaker and has published several extensive research projects on Acadian and French-Canadian topics over the last few years. She is a frequent contributor of original records and reliable sources to early Acadian profiles on WikiTree as part of the esteemed Acadians Project. She is also the administrator of several Acadian and French-Canadian genealogy Facebook groups in order to help answer questions or guide people in their research. She is currently working on her Acadian Expulsion Memorial List Project in which she has set out to list every Acadian who was lost during the Acadian Expulsion by name. This project now has over 5,000 Acadians listed and she is still actively researching for that project.

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