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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 o...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Orleans Parish, LA.
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 Decemb...
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 ...
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 kn...
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 Sain...
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 "Cre...
Allibamonts (or Alibamons), as they were called by their fellow colonists, came to Louisiana from present-day Alabama at the end of the French period. Most had served as French soldiers at either Mobile or along the Alabama River when France controlled the region. At the end of the Seven Years' War, the Treaty of Paris of February 1763 awarded all of French Louisiana east of the Île of Orleans ...
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)
Immigrants from France to New Orleans after its entry into the United States. Mostly in the mid-1800s.
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 standard...
Founders of "old line" Carnival (Mardi Gras and New Year's) krewes and mystic societies in Mobile and New Orleans: Cowbellion de Rakin Society (1830, Mobile) Strikers Independent Society (1843, Mobile) T.D.S. (The Determined Set, 1844. Mobile) Krewe of Comus (1856, New Orleans) Lost Cause Minstrels (1867. Mobile) Order of Myths (1868, Mobile) Infant Mystics (H.S.S., 1869, Mobile...
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...
British and Anglo-Americans in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans and Louisiana
Personalities mentioned in Elizabeth Ripley's book "Social Life in Old New Orleans"
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 Tho...
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 Tul...
The Evening Star Sank on October 3, 1866 .........283 Parished Evening Star – On 3 October 1866, the Evening Star sank after sailing into a hurricane 180 miles east of Tybee Island, GA. Of the approximately 300 aboard, 283 perished. The ship contained lifeboats for only 60 people and not enough life vests for all on board. One group of survivors were picked up by a passing vessel and taken ...
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
------------------------------------ The Cognevich Family Project One of the goals of this project is to find a link and establish a tie to the Konjevic family in Montenegro, Croatia or any other country that was once part of the former Yugoslavia. Please help by adding all known people with the surname "Cognevich" to this project. Štefan (Konjevic) Cog...