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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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. The parish was created in 1910. The majority of the area was originally settled by French Canadian colonists and former colonial marines (coureurs de bois) from such outposts as Fort Toulouse and Fort Kaskaskia and later included 19th-century French-speaking soldiers and immigrant families. The early ge...
Introduction This project will document parishes, cities and towns throughout Louisiana along with the people and families for which they were named and that were instrumental in their inception. These settlements were influenced by French, Spanish, Irish, Germanic, Italian, African-American and Anglo-American ethnicities, each maintaining a cultural distinction. Louisiana is divided into a nu...
Wikipedia =Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, often referred to as LSU) is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[7] The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. The current LSU main camp...
Barksdale Air Force Base (Barksdale AFB) (IATA: BAD, ICAO: KBAD, FAA LID: BAD) is a United States Air Force base in northwest Louisiana , United States, in Bossier Parish . It is contiguous to Bossier City, Louisiana, along the base's western and northwestern edge. Barksdale Air Force Base occupies more than 22,000 acres east of Bossier City and along the southern edge of Interstate 20. More th...
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Magnolia Cemetery Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA: Additional phone numbers: They both maintain a list of people buried at the cemetery. (225) 387-2464 (225) 383-6831
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Baton Rouge Parish was created in 1792 in the West Floridas area. The land was divided into E. & W. Baton Rouge Parishes in 1810. East Baton Rouge Parish was created on 1810, from Baton Rouge Parish and the parish was named in honor of the French phrase baton rouge meaning red stick. A red stick wa...
Please add profiles of those who were born in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Official Website Overview Baton Rouge, from French, meaning 'red stick', is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana . Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River , it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish , the most populous parish in Louisiana. It is the 99th most populous city in the Unit...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Shreveport, Louisiana. Official Website Shreveport is the parish seat of Caddo Parish and was the capital of Louisiana from 1863 to 1865 after Baton Rouge and Opelousas fell to the Union during the Civil War. It lies on the west bank of the Red River. History Wikipedia Shreveport, Louisiana, was founded in 1836 by the Shreve ...
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Vernon Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The area comprising Vernon was a part of a tract of land whose control was disputed in the late 18th century between the United States and Spain. They called this land the "Neutral Strip" and refrained from posting police or military personnel there. As a result, the area became a haven for...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was formed in 1805, the county is the heart of the Cane River Louisiana Creole community, free people of color of mixed-race descent who settled here in the antebellum period. Their descendants continue to be Catholic and many are still French-speaking. The Cane River Natio...
Return to USA Black Heritage Portal Blacks born in Louisiana prior to 1810 from the 1850 census of Louisiana, 647 People Return to the State of Louisiana Project , Sophy, , Adlam, New Orleans Municipality 2 Ward 2, Orleans, Louisiana, 1810, Louisiana, Female , J, B, Aimi, New Orleans Municipality 3 Ward 2, Orleans, Louisiana, 1805, Louisiana, Male , Francoise, , Alcantarat, New Orleans...
Most of the original caucasian settlers of Avoyelles have French origins. The original 50 or so families who settled in Avoyelles in the late 1700s mostly came from Pointe Coupee, and for the most part were the children or grandchildren of direct-French immigrants, known locally as French Creoles, not to be confused with the Creole families of New Orleans. A few of these early Avoyelles familie...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grant Parish, Louisiana. Grant was one of several new parishes created by the Reconstruction legislature in an attempt to build the Republican Party. Founded in 1869, it was named for U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant . The gubernatorial election of 1872 was disputed, leading to both parties' certifying their slates of local officers....
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was formed in 1807 and was named after the Bayou Lafourche. City buildings have been featured in television and movies, such as in Fletch Lives, due to its architecture and rich history. Long a center of sugar cane plantations and sugar production, in November 1887 the parish...
Come build their trees from the roots up, because like the man says .... "The blues are the roots; everything else is the fruits." - Willie Dixon Blues Hall of Fame inductees: Wikipedia Hall of Fame Inductees Musician Biographies from the PBS Series, The Blues Luther Allison Duane Allman Jeff Beck Elvin Bishop Mike Bloomfield Joe Bonamassa David Bromberg Big Bill Br...
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...
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United Confederate Veterans was an association formed in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 10, 1889 by veterans of the Confederate States Army and Navy.==History==See also: List of Past Commanders-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans==Background==There had been numerous local veterans associations in the South, and many of these became part of the U.C.V. The organization grew rapidly throug...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Webster Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was created on 27 February 1871 and was named for 19th-century American statesman Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Adjacent Parishes & Counties Lafayette County, Arkansas Columbia County, Arkansas Claiborne Parish Bienville Parish Bossier Parish ...
Bienvenue sur le portail français de Geni !====== For an introduction in English, please go to the International French Portal =====.==Objectif==L’objectif du portail se résume en quatre points…* Faciliter la coopération entre francophones dans la recherche généalogique* L’amorce de nouveaux projets communs qui concernent la communauté francophone* L’ identification de sources permettant aux no...
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 ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Official Website In 1838, Caddo Parish was created by territory taken from Natchitoches Parish; the legislature named it for the indigenous Caddo Indians who had lived in the area. Most were forced out during Indian Removal in the 1830s. The parish was initially a center of cotton plantations, developed by ...