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VOLUME 5: LOUISIANA

The settlement, after Deportation and Migrations, of Acadian Girouard and Giroir descendants of François Girouard and Jeanne Aucoin, in root area # 7, Louisiana and all their descendants in the Canada and the USA and wherever their routes have taken them in the world.
Acadian /Cajun Regions: Donaldsonville • Plaquemine • Paincourtville Plattenville • Pierre Part • la Fourche • St. James • Houma • Gibson • Bayou Black • Bayou Tortue • Bayou Teche • Franklin • St-Martinville • Broussard • Breau Bridge • Lafayette • Kaplan • Baton Rouge • New Orleans • Gretna • New Iberia • Morgan City • Thibodeaux and migrating to neighboring states in USA such as Texas and other states, wherever their routes lead them.
Highlights: Firmin Girouard is the first to establish in Louisiana, 1766 • Prosper Giroir is the first of the Giroir branches to arrive in Louisiana, 1785 • Description of the relationship between the Giroir branches and the Girouard branches • Acadian Girouards in the West Indies connected to the master chart • Description of how both branches arrived in Louisiana: Firmin Girouard by overland route and Prosper Giroir by boat from France, 1685 •maps •individual family genealogies of many branches of both Girouards and Giroirs from 1640 to 2002 • original master chart genealogy system establishing international links and international family identity for all the Louisiana Girouard and Giroir Acadian /Cajun descendants • old photos of ancestors and recent photos of family descendants • Acadian/Cajun history • Acadian illustrated feature stories of prominent descendants • visits with families and interviews • two complete sections, one on Giroir and the other on Girouard families.

The Giroir Branches: Tour of some Acadian Giroir regions with Mary Jane Siracusa chief organizer of the family reunions in Louisiana • a meeting with some very interested Cajuns Giroir and Girouard family genealogists in New Orleans • Profile of Alex Giroir who preserves an important part of the Cajun culture in Louisiana• visits with some Cajun Giroir families including many interviews • a Cajun dance • Visiting the French Quarter in New Orleans with some hot Cajun Music • a Cajun Giroir cook out down on the bayous • A boat tour of the bayous • hunting alligators •Some Acadians find rich oil fields on their land • former alderman of Morgan City, Cyrus Giroir and his family and many other Giroir branches. Estilitte Giroir branches • Etienne Giroir branches • Joseph Damase Giroir Branches • François and Madeleine Leblanc Giroir branches • François Appolinaire Giroir branches • Family reunions of the Giroirs and Girouards and The Second World Congress of Acadians in 1999, Louisiana. (CMA 1999)

The Girouard Branches: The early history of this Firmin Girouard branch in Canada at Grand Pré, Prince Edward Island, Restigouche, New Brunswick • Visit to many Girouard homes in Louisiana with accompanying interviews • the attempted lynching of the parish priest • Interviews with many families • The old plantation home in Broussard restored and a visit with its present owner Terry Girouard • Girouard cattle ranching, and champion horsemanship • a fais do-do experience at Whisky River • sugar cane farming • Adolphe Girouard branches • Leonce Girouard branches • Joseph Oscar Girouard branches • Dupré Girouard branches • World Congress of Acadians, 1999, Louisiana (CMA 1999).