France: The Motherland of Avoyelles: Ancestral French Cities and Villages of Avoyelles Creole and Immigrant Families

FULL COLOR EDITION Although sometimes considered Acadian, the families of Avoyelles are of a completely different French background. The first French to settle in Avoyelles began coming after a great Mississippi River flood in 1780 and were mostly pure French Creoles, descendant of the earlier French settlers who were the first families of Louisiana who migrated in 1720. (The Acadians, who bear different last names, settled in Parishes to the south of Avoyelles) Avoyelles was a safe and eas...