Girouard Family Reunion
The 1999 Reunion
The most recent Girouard family reunion was held in Morgan City, Louisiana in 1999, organized through the original girouard.org website. Over 300 family members attended, gathering descendants of the Acadian diaspora from across North America.
Morgan City was a fitting location — Louisiana has been home to a significant Girouard population since the Deportation era, when Acadian exiles eventually made their way to the bayou country and became part of what we now call Cajun culture. The name Girouard appears throughout Louisiana records from the eighteenth century onward.
Photos and details from the 1999 reunion were documented by Mike Girouard and remain at his site: girouard.org — 1999 Reunion.
The World Acadian Congress
While not a Girouard-specific event, the Congrès mondial acadien — World Acadian Congress — brings together people of Acadian descent from across the diaspora every five years. Because the founding Acadian population was small and closely intermarried, virtually everyone of Acadian descent shares some connection to every other Acadian family — Girouard included.
The Congress has been held in New Brunswick (1994, 2004, 2024), Louisiana (1999), Poitou-Charentes, France (2004), the Moncton region (2009), and Charlevoix, Quebec (2014). These gatherings include genealogy workshops, cultural events, and opportunities to connect with cousins discovered through records research.
Société nationale de l’Acadie maintains information on upcoming congresses.
Planning a Girouard Reunion
If you are interested in organizing a Girouard family gathering — whether a small regional meeting or a larger event — the genealogy data on this site provides a starting point for identifying and connecting family branches.
The Search page lets you find individuals across both the family tree database and the FamilySearch vital records. The Genealogy page shows full lineage for any individual, making it possible to identify which branches share a common ancestor and how closely they are related.