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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...
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...
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...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Richland Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was officially created on September 29, 1868. The name Richland was chosen due to the rich production from farming. Adjacent Parishes Morehouse Parish West Carroll Parish Ouachita Parish Caldwell Parish Franklin Parish Madison County Towns, Villages & Communities
Central Louisiana Veterans Cemetery is located in Leesville, Louisiana. Find a Grave
Wikipedia Port Hudson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Port Hudson, 20 miles (32 km) north of the city of Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Oak Grove, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. The land for the Oak Grove Cemetery was originally donated by Robert steele. The first person buried there was his wife, Rachel, who died July 15, 1850. The original lot was three acres, located in the fork of two roads. One road ran from Arcadia to Hodge, and the other road ran from Arcadia to Simsbo...
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...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Winn Parish, Louisiana. The parish was founded in 1852. It was named for Walter Winn or Winfield Scott. There was little military action in Winn Parish during the Civil War, but there was a problem with conscripts fleeing into the wooded areas to avoid military duty. That these conscripts refused to fight for the Confederacy is un...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Feliciana Parish was established in 1810, in the Territory of Orleans, which was admitted to the Union two years later as the state of Louisiana. With continued growth of population, in 1824 Feliciana Parish was divided into the East Feliciana and West Feliciana parishes. The Parish...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Before being divided, Carroll Parish was named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence and the last surviving signer of the document. It was organized by European Americans after the Louisiana Purchase. West Carroll Parish has a lo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Official Website West Baton Rouge Parish was formed in 1807; it was named Baton Rouge Parish until 1812. Many Baton Rouge residents took refuge in West Baton Rouge Parish during the Union occupation of Baton Rouge in 1862. The defeated Union army under the command of Major General Nathaniel P. B...
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 ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Official Website History Washington Parish was formed in 1819 is the most northeasterly of what are called the Florida Parishes. Great Britain took over control of this French territory east of the Mississippi River in 1763 after defeating France in the Seven Years' War. But France had also ceded some...
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 Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Vermilion Parish was created in 1844 and was named in honor for both the Vermilion River and Vermilion Bay. Adjacent Parishes Acadia Parish Lafayette Parish Iberia Parish Jefferson Davis Parish Cameron Parish Cities, Towns & Communities Abbeville (Parish Seat) Boston ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Union Parish, Louisiana. The parish was created on March 13, 1839 and was named for the Union of American states. Adjacent Counties & Parishes Ashley County, Arkansas Union County, Arkansas Morehouse Parish Ouachita Parish Lincoln Parish Claiborne Parish Towns, Villages & Communities Alabama Landing Bernice Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish seat of Houma was named after the Houma people. The native word houma means red, and the tribe's war emblem was the crawfish. Historians say the Houma are related to the Muskogean-speaking Choctaw, and migrated into the area from present-day Mississippi and Alabama. They firs...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Established in 1843, the name Tensas is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. The parish was founded in 1843 following Indian Removal. The parish was developed for cotton agriculture, which dominated the economy through the early 20th century. There has also been some cattle ranching in the 19...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The name Tangipahoa comes from an Acolapissa word meaning "ear of corn" or "those who gather corn." The parish was organized in 1869 during Reconstruction. Parts of this area had already been developed for sugar cane plantations when the parish was organized, but yeomen farmers occupie...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was founded in 1810 and was named after Tamanend, the Legendary Principle Lenape Chief & the "Patron Saint of America." St. Tammany was originally inhabited by numerous Indian peoples, including the Colapissas, Bayou Goulas, Chickasaw, Biloxi, Choctaw and Pensacola nations ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was created in 1811 and is located in the south-central region of the state. Adjacent Parishes Iberia Parish St. Martin Parish Assumption Parish Terrebonne Parish Cities, Towns & Communities Amelia Baldwin Bayou Vista Berwick Centerville Charenton Fl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Official Website St. Martin Parish was largely colonized in the 1700s by people from France and Acadia, resulting in a large concentration of French-speaking population today. The Acadians brought the tale of Evangeline, a young woman said to have been separated from her mortally wounded betrothed durin...