>>This is of interest to me because my Maternal Grandfather has his
>>family roots among these Acadians.
>
>My mother's side of my family tree is largely Franco-Americans whose
>ancestors presumably avoided le Grand Dérangement by the
>happenstance of being so far out in the borderland woods between
>Acadia and Massachusetts Bay Colony's northern province that nobody
>involved in the relocation knew they were there. Since that border
>wasn't legally settled until 1842, there was certainly plenty of grey
>area in which to hide...

Fascinating! While the Acadian branch of my Mom's family certainly got caught up in le Grand Dérangement, there were other branches - likely the Scottsman/Irish branch - that remained north of the Mason-Dixon line (or emigrated there after the fact - I'm not sure ATM). This is likely the case because Mom has found that we have ancestors who were officers on both sides of the Civil War.

Eventually, all the myriad branches found their way to San Antonio where they progressively married into what I consider the main-branch, which is mostly Hispanic and Native Americans and directly descended of one of the first Spaniard explorers AND the first Captain of Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, Jose de Urrutia.

(This guy was amazing. He lived among the Native Americans for seven years because he broke his leg during one of the first exploration missions. But he didn't just sit around. He wound up becoming so well known and liked that he was made the General-Captain over all the Native Americans in the region who were enemies of the Apache Nation.)