Download or read book The American Census Handbook written by Thomas Jay Kemp and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.

Download or read book The Canary Islanders of Louisiana written by Gilbert C. Din and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canary Islanders, or Isleños, of Louisiana, like some of the state’s other ethnic groups, have received little scholarly attention. Although they are a people who have remained largely unknown both inside and outside of Louisiana, the Isleños constitute a sizable portion of the state’s present Spanish-surname population. Utilizing a wide range of source materials, from Spanish colonial documents to oral interviews, Gilbert C. Din’s The Canary Islanders of Louisiana provides the first book-length study of the Isleños and a definitive history of their presence in the state. The few thousand Canary Islanders brought to Louisiana by Spanish governors in the eighteenth century came from a group of islands that, although ostensibly Spanish, had evolved its own distinctive culture and folkways. Settled in frontier areas considered strategic for the defense of the Louisiana colony, the Isleños suffered deprivation, neglect, and eventually abandonment. Living for the most part in remote back-country and delta communities, the Isleños remained isolated from their French and American neighbors. In the twentieth century, pressures to assimilate with the mainstream of Louisiana society have threatened their culture with extinction, though a few Canarians still retain much of their Isleño heritage. Gilbert C. Din’s study of the Isleños covers the entire range of their association with Louisiana. He begins with a brief survey of Canarian history and folkways and concludes with a discussion of the likely ethnic future of the increasingly assimilated Isleño descendants. Din provides a detailed history of the Isleño migration and colonial settlement; post-colonial community development; economic, social, educational, and political patterns; and the course of Isleño assimilation with the general Louisiana population. Offering his own skillfully argued answers to long-standing debates about early Isleño settlements, Din also corrects a number of factual errors on the part of previous historians who did not have access to the same range of archival sources. The Canary Islanders of Louisiana is a strong piece of historical scholarship. It makes an original and much-needed contribution to the history of a people, of Louisiana, and of the American South.

Download or read book Edward Duffel II His Family and the Families of His Children written by Elfer B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Duffel (b. 1786)practiced medicine in New Orleans. He married Marie Celeste Landry, the widow of Antoine Vives, in 1810. This book is a documented history of Edward and Marie, their children and grandchildren.

Download or read book Pre Federal Maps in the National Archives written by National Archives (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book List of Selected Maps of States and Territories written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Business of Jews in Louisiana 1840 1875 written by Elliott Ashkenazi and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Jewish settlement in Louisiana goes beyond institutional history to concentrate on commercial and social matters. The author's findings imply that Jewish immigrants to the South in the first half of the 19th century came from particular locales with similar social, economic, and religious backgrounds, and they chose to live in the South because of those traditions. The experience of Jews with commercial capitalism, rather than landowning, in agricultural societies, gave the Jews of Louisiana a comparable niche in America, and they participated in the commercial aspects of a regional economy based on agricultural production. Commercial and family connections with other Jewish groups facilitated their development into a settled community. In growth and decline, Jewish communities in Louisiana and elsewhere became permanent features of the landscape and influenced, and were influenced, by the areas in which they lived.

Download or read book Glimpses of Black Life Along Bayou Lafourche written by Curtis J. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes experiences of Black people who lived throughout the Mississippi RiverBayou Lafourche Region of South Louisiana during the period 18751975. These writings cover four parishes (counties) including Saint James, Ascension, Assumption and Lafourche. This area of Louisiana is steeped in American history, beginning in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. The regions uniqueness is revealed as we reflect on the Great Depression and the economy, the area and its people, the cuisine, health and home remedies, folklore (customs, fads, and superstitions), homesteads and family life, the three Rs and secondhand books, the music of our lives, our hometown heroes and their participation in the defense of our country starting with the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War, and much more.

Download or read book Special List National Archives and Records Service written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special List written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Worlds Apart written by Billy Joe Neese and published by Harry Neese. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of two families ? ordinary people intertwined with the dates, places, and extraordinary events of world history. Their names are not found in history books. Many, in the 18th century, could neither read nor write their names, but the Neeses and Falcons, despite any illiteracy, were part of the great movement of peoples from around the world who came to the New World to build the most powerful country on this planet. They established freedom as the bedrock upon which America stands. Our people endured much hardship and privation, but they did not give up in their determination to build America. Our people were among the pioneering immigrants who laid the foundation of our country ? the ideals of our country are steeped in the sweat and blood of these early Americans ? the Neeses and Falcons.

Download or read book Inventory of the Parish Archives of Louisiana written by Louisiana Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Joseph Landry Jr His Family and the Families of His Children written by Elfer B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Landry, Jr. (1752-1814), son of Joseph Landry and Marie Josephe Bourg-Godin, immigrated about 1855 with his parents to Oxford, Talbot County, Maryland, and in the mid-1760s moved with his widowed mother and the family to Ascension, Acadie County, Louisiana. In 1775 he married Izabel LeBlanc (d.1777), and in 1779 he married Anne Bujaux (Bujol). Descendants and relatives lived in Louisiana and elsewhere.

Download or read book Periodical Source Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Genealogical Periodical Annual Index written by Ellen Stanley Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Descending Families of Hypolite Chauvin II written by Phoebe Chauvin Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypolite Chauvin (ca. 1788-1856) was born in St. Charles, Louisiana and died in Houma, Louisiana. He was married in 1807 to Tarsile Marie LeBlanc. Ancestry is traced to Pierre Chauvin (ca. 1631-1699) who was born at Solesme, France and died in Montreal, Canada. Descendants lived in Louisiana, Texas, and elsewhere.

Download or read book The Descending Families of Zenon Chauvin written by Phoebe Chauvin Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zenon Chauvin was born April 1799 in St. Charles, Louisiana. He is a grandson of one Louis Marie Chauvin who was born 1702 in Montreal, Canada and moved to Kaskaskia, Illinois. Zenon married Madeleine Carmelite Robichaux 31 December 1716 in Plattenville, Louisiana. They were the parents of ten children. Zenon died 1772 in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Descendants lived primarily in Louisiana.

Download or read book From Tally Ho to Forest Home written by William D. Reeves and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-12-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of two plantations on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge examines the people and places around the tiny town of Bayou Goula in Iberville Parish from 1699 to 2000. It describes the different governmental policies that shaped the land tenure of the region. In chapter 3 the book describes the Acadian settlement and how two free people of color purchased several farms and consolidated them into the Tally-Ho plantation. Later chapters described the John Hampden Randolphs and the John D. Murrells, both investors from Virginia. Chapter six describes the rise and fall of the community of Bayou Goula. Chapter seven describes the African-Americans along Bayou Goula. Some of the family relationships are identified. Links between workers in the twentieth century and workers in slavery appear. Chapter eight relies on memoirs of life at Tally-Ho and the community of Bayou Goula. It presents happy remembrances of things past. The chapter discusses education in the community, daily life, transportation, and relations between the families. Chapter nine describes the founding of the George M. Murrell Planting & Manufacturing Co., the major sugar grower and heir of the 19th century planters. Finally, the book discusses the 20th century successes and failures in the sugar business.