The word "Creole", which is a translation of the French "Créole" (itself borrowed from the Spanish and Portuguese), simply means "born in the New World". It was a non-racial label meant to distinguish the native-born population from immigrants from Europe and Canada as well as from slaves directly imported from Africa. (After the Sale of Louisiana, the term "Creole" was often used to distinguish people of Catholic, Latin backgrounds from newly arrived Americans and other Protestant anglophones.) Anybody, of any race, was considered Creole if they were born in Louisiana, spoke a Latin-based language (usually French or Spanish) and practiced Catholicism. The descendants of the expelled Acadians thus fulfilled the requirement to be considered Creoles, having been born on Louisianian soil while retaining a Catholic francophone identity. Documents from the late eighteenth century, such as militia rolls, make a distinction between "Acadians" (those born before or during "Le Grand Dérangement") and "Creoles" (those born after "Le Grand Dérangement"), often the children of the former group, with identical surnames and belonging to the same families. Today, members of these families—including, among many others, those with surnames such as Broussard, Hébert and Thibodeaux—usually consider these names Cajun rather than Creole.