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• Genealogical database allows descendants far away 
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• Speaker takes mystery out of Cajun x-factor Cajun surnames
• Congres arrives sans Canadian influx
• Acadian image often distorted

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 France-to-Louisiana migration of Cajuns traced 

By LISA TRAMONTANA, The Advocate, 8/5/99
"Not many groups of people are more misunderstood than the Acadians of Louisiana.  'It's because they have rarely been depicted accurately,' Carl Brasseaux said during a presentation at Vermilionville in Lafayette."

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