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  • Tarte aux Sucre~ Sugar Pie

    One of my most favourite treats at Christmas is my Mother-in-Law’s (Mom) Tarte aux Sucre (Sugar Pie).  It is creamy, sweet, mouth watering, and perfectly paired with vanilla ice-cream! I love it especially when it is still warm from the oven. Just after I married her son, Mom hand wrote all her recipes and gave them

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  • Acadian Advent Traditions

    What types of Advent Traditions did you grow up with in your Acadian Home? In our home, we would put up the Christmas tree after Mass on the first Sunday of Advent.  My mom would put out her Advent wreath and light the first candle. Through the following weeks, we would decorate they whole house.

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  • Downloading Acadian Family GEDCOM Files

    As you can now see on our store, we’ve added nearly one hundred of our Acadian family trees to be download ready. So if you want to save paying for shipping and handling, you can now download a GEDCOM file that includes over two decades of research to create. That means you’ll have immediate access

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  • Welcome to the New Acadian.org

    Recently, Yvon’s son, Denis, his wife, Becky and his grandson, Nathan, took over the family business in hopes of not only continuing to provide the world the best Acadian genealogy information but also to bring it to the twenty-first century. This website has been migrated to better serve you, the visitor, to make it easier to order

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  • Markup: HTML Tags and Formatting

    Headings Header one Header two Header three Header four Header five Header six Blockquotes Single line blockquote: Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Multi line blockquote with a cite reference: The HTML <blockquote> Element (or HTML Block Quotation Element) indicates that the enclosed text is an extended quotation. Usually, this is rendered visually by indentation (see Notes

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  • Markup: Image Alignment

    Welcome to image alignment! The best way to demonstrate the ebb and flow of the various image positioning options is to nestle them snuggly among an ocean of words. Grab a paddle and let’s get started. On the topic of alignment, it should be noted that users can choose from the options of None, Left,

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  • Markup: Text Alignment

    Default This is a paragraph. It should not have any alignment of any kind. It should just flow like you would normally expect. Nothing fancy. Just straight up text, free flowing, with love. Completely neutral and not picking a side or sitting on the fence. It just is. It just freaking is. It likes where

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  • Markup: Title With Special Characters ~`!@#$%^&*()-_=+{}[]/\;:’”?,.>

    Putting special characters in the title should have no adverse effect on the layout or functionality. Special characters in the post title have been known to cause issues with JavaScript when it is minified, especially in the admin when editing the post itself (ie. issues with metaboxes, media upload, etc.). Latin Character Tests This is

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  • Markup: Title With Markup

    Verify that: The post title renders the word “with” in italics and the word “markup” in bold (and “up” is superscript). The post title markup should be removed from the browser window / tab.

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  • Template: Featured Image (Vertical)

    This post should display a featured image, if the theme supports it. Non-square images can provide some unique styling issues. This post tests a vertical featured image.

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