I knew my passport picture would get me somewhere; just never thought it would be to cemeteries, but I'm happy to be "above the grass" after all these years and to have gotten this far. Obviously, most people had to die to get there.

I've been a subscriber to Ancestry.com for about 30+ years.

Born and raised in Crowley, Acadia, LA; retired from the U.S. Marine Corps, as did my wife. I've been a member of the Pointe de l'Eglise: Acadia Genealogical and Historical Society since 1997 and I do volunteer work for them and the Acadia Parish Library remotely from Utah.

Right now, I'm helping with their Obituary Index, drawn from Crowley, Rayne and Church Point newspapers published in the 1870's to the present. That is what really got me into Find A Grave, comparing information and suggesting changes .

It took me a long time to learn that I did not descend from the Acadians (Cajuns). I should have guessed, as I looked around and saw relatives married to folks with surnames like: HANKS, SMITH, MURPHY , CARUTHERS/CREDEUR, DAVIS, LAUGHLIN, other K or Q'BODEAUX's, etc...; nary a Cajun in the lot.

I've done some family history work, with a lot of help from family and friends, trying to connect descendants of Joseph QUEBEDO/QUEVEDO from Colonial Illinois down into Louisiana, where they generally dropped the ending "O" and added "eaux" and occasionally changed the "Qu" to a "Ki" . (I'll blame the "Keb" on Texas.)

I knew my passport picture would get me somewhere; just never thought it would be to cemeteries, but I'm happy to be "above the grass" after all these years and to have gotten this far. Obviously, most people had to die to get there.

I've been a subscriber to Ancestry.com for about 30+ years.

Born and raised in Crowley, Acadia, LA; retired from the U.S. Marine Corps, as did my wife. I've been a member of the Pointe de l'Eglise: Acadia Genealogical and Historical Society since 1997 and I do volunteer work for them and the Acadia Parish Library remotely from Utah.

Right now, I'm helping with their Obituary Index, drawn from Crowley, Rayne and Church Point newspapers published in the 1870's to the present. That is what really got me into Find A Grave, comparing information and suggesting changes .

It took me a long time to learn that I did not descend from the Acadians (Cajuns). I should have guessed, as I looked around and saw relatives married to folks with surnames like: HANKS, SMITH, MURPHY , CARUTHERS/CREDEUR, DAVIS, LAUGHLIN, other K or Q'BODEAUX's, etc...; nary a Cajun in the lot.

I've done some family history work, with a lot of help from family and friends, trying to connect descendants of Joseph QUEBEDO/QUEVEDO from Colonial Illinois down into Louisiana, where they generally dropped the ending "O" and added "eaux" and occasionally changed the "Qu" to a "Ki" . (I'll blame the "Keb" on Texas.)