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Primarily for early colonists of French and Spanish Louisiana and British and Spanish West Florida who have descendants throughout the Gulf Coast.One goal is to develop standardized surname spellings to allow for easier matching and merging in Geni.Includes people mentioned in Winston De Ville's "Gulf Coast Colonials," Stanley Clisby Arthur's "Old Families of Louisiana," Grace King's "Creole Fa...
Please add Geni profiles associated with the disease best known as "yellow fever" to this project. Collaborators, feel free to add sections to the overview. ===what it is===Yellow fever, known historically as yellow jack, yellow plague, or bronze john, is an acute viral disease. The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of the female mosquito.Yellow fever is know...
War of 1812 Project around those who fought in the American-Anglo War of 1812 If you add a profile and know any specific battles they served in, please feel free to create a project for that battle and link it to this page under the 'add a related project' section to the right. General description from wikipedia: "The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the...
Wikipedia Tulane University of Louisiana is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university in 1847 and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884. Tulane is a member of the Association of American Univ...
Major American, British and Spanish players in the American Revolution on the Gulf Coast.See: "Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution" by Kathleen DuVal, Random House, 2015
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in New Orleans or Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Official Website New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the most populous city in Louisiana. Serving as a major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broad...
Battle of New Orleans== Wikipedia ====The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War of 1812.==American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase. The Treaty of Ghent had been signed on Decem...
Scholars are uncovering a grisly use, during the Second World War, of a former embarkation facility on the Mississippi River in Algiers, LA. Following the Japanese attack on the US base on Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt administration suspected that there may have been Nazi spies among the more than a million and a half German-speaking people living in Latin America. Through the State Department-r...
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA:
The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are currently members of the South division of the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). The team was founded by John W. Mecom, Jr. and David Dixon and the city of New Orleans. The Saints began play at Tulane Stadium in 1967.The name "Saints" is an allusion ...
Immigrants from France to New Orleans after its entry into the United States. Mostly in the mid-1800s.
Refugees from the Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) that immigrated into New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and elsewhere from 1791 to 1810.Resources* Settlers of St. Domingue, 1750-1800 * Surnames of Some Saint-Domingue Refugee Families * The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792–1809 * From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences * The 1809 Immigration of Saint-Domi...
Wikipedia =Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational, Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of 28 member institutions that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universit...
Cypress Grove Cemetery became the first cemetery built to honor New Orleans volunteer firemen and their families with the help of New Orleans philanthropist Stephen Henderson in 1838. Henderson’s estate left property to the Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association. The charitable association sold this property to fund the purchase of the cemetery site at the end of Canal Street and the for...
The German Coast (French: Côte des Allemands) was a region of the early Louisiana settlement located above New Orleans on the Mississippi River — specifically, in St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Ascension and St. James parishes of present-day Acadiana. Its name derives from the large population of German pioneers, who were settled in 1721 by John Law, and the Company of the Indies. When the ...
The Jewish Widows and Orphans Home, later the Jewish Orphans and now Jewish Regional Services, was founded in 1856. Please add Geni profiles of anyone associated with the organization, the building, the residents, and the philanthropy to this project.==notables==* Baroness Clara de Hirsch * Bessie Margolin * Isidore Newman ==history==From Jewish Children's Home MEDIA NOLA: A Project of Tulane U...
From Louisiana Creole people .As a group, the mixed-race Creoles rapidly began to acquire education, skills (many in New Orleans worked as craftsmen and artisans), businesses and property. They were overwhelmingly Catholic, spoke Colonial French (although some also spoke Louisiana Creole), and kept up many French social customs, modified by other parts of their ancestry and Louisiana culture. T...
The "Mighty Mississipi", "Old Muddy", "Old Man River". The Ojibwa called it, "The Father of all Waters". One of Americas greatest geographical wonders. With a length of 2,350 miles long, From Lake Itasca slithering through the heartland and feeding into The Gulf of Mexico. The largest and longest river in North America and number 4 in length in the world. Resting in and created by an ancient fa...
New Orleans: Port of Arrival Prepared by Elisabeth Lindsay = Genealogy Today Wiki =The New Orleans began as a trade port, established by the French 1717, aimed at the transport of goods up and down the Mississippi River. The venture, however, was not profitable and the port, along with the entire Louisiana Territory went from French to Spanish and back to French rule before acquisition by U.S. ...
New Orleans University was a historically black college that operated between 1873 and 1934 in New Orleans. It was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church and affiliated with a number of preparatory schools located in various parts of the state of Louisiana. It merged with Straight College in 1934 to form Dillard University. Wikipedia
Wikipedia =Dillard University is a private, historically black liberal arts college in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1930 incorporating earlier institutions that went back to 1869, it is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church.The campus is near Gentilly Boulevard and the London Avenue Canal, established in the 1930s. Alumni
First-generation European and African or Native American progenitors of Creole of Color families in Louisiana. Online Resources * “Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past” - LSU Libraries * frenchcreoles.com Print Resources * Jennifer M. Spear, Race, Sex and Social Order in Early New Orleans , Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009* Elizabeth Shirley Thompson, Exil...
This project is intended for Germans that immigrated directly to New Orleans, particularly in the 1800's, and left descendants there. This is for first generation immigrants only. Resources * The German people of New Orleans, 1650-1900 by John Frederick Nau (1958)* Germans of Louisiana by Ellen C. Merrill (2014)
This project is intended for the Irish that immigrated directly to New Orleans, particularly in the 1800's, and left descendants there. This is for first generation immigrants only. Resources * The Irish in New Orleans by Laura D. Kelley (2014)
Creole herein refers to people of French or Spanish descent born in the New World colonies, particularly in the Caribbean and French and Spanish Louisiana and West Florida, including those of European and mixed ancestry. Profiles are the immigrant ancestors of these families which primarily resided in New Orleans and surrounding areas (1st and 2nd generations). One goal is to develop standardiz...