La Kermesse Recipe for Fun Still Music, Food and Family ; an Estimated 40,000 Will Attend the 25th Annual Franco-American Festival Before It Ends Today.

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While would-be "Idols" were singing their hearts out and dreaming of the future on the main stage at La Kermesse, many visitors to New England's largest Franco-American festival on Saturday were more interested in their past.

"This is why we came," said Steven Adams of Kennebunk, who was standing in front of a table stacked with dozens of local French- American genealogy records provided by the Franco-American Genealogical Society of York County.

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La Kermesse Recipe for Fun Still Music, Food and Family ; an Estimated 40,000 Will Attend the 25th Annual Franco-American Festival Before It Ends Today.

Within minutes, Adams and his mother, 77-year-old Eleanor Bartus, had discovered a family coat of arms that they had no ide...

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