Download or read book French and Spanish Records of Louisiana written by Henry Putney Beers and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing years of extensive research, this authoritative and comprehensive guide to the records generated in the Louisiana Territory during the French and Spanish colonial periods is a major reference work. Henry Putney Beers has painstakingly traced all types of documents, including land, military, and ecclesiastical records; registers of births, marriages, and burials; and private papers. Far more than a mere bibliographical listing, the book provides a complete history and description of these records and their past as well as current locations. When microfilms or other copies of particular bodies of documents exist, Beers describes the circumstances of reproduction and lists the locations of the copies.In the first part of the book, Beers presents a concise account of history and government in Louisiana, concentrating on the formation of a record-keeping bureaucracy. His detailed discussion includes information on available archival reproductions, documentary publications, and the nature and size of holdings in pertinent manuscript collections. Beers's examination of parish, land, and ecclesiastical records will serve as a vital resource. In the remainder of the book, he provides a similarly comprehensive treatment of the records of what are now Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, and Arkansas.Beers traces repositories for these documents far beyond regional confines, locating some in Europe, Canada, and Cuba. For the early migrants to the region -- the Acadians, for example -- he describes source materials at the migrants' points of origin. He also provides information on documents that have been lost or destroyed, an important service that will save researchers much time.French and Spanish Records of Louisiana will prove to be of enormous value to a wide range of people: professional historians, local history buffs, genealogists, lawyers, archivists, and librarians.
Download or read book L Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Community Heritage in the Spanish Americas written by Howard Benoist and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Book written by Alice Eichholz and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.
Download or read book Beyond Freedom s Reach written by Adam Rothman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also became the property of the De Harts. But after Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862 during the American Civil War, Herera’s owners fled to Havana, taking three of her small children with them. Beyond Freedom’s Reach is the true story of one woman’s quest to rescue her children from bondage. In a gripping, meticulously researched account, Adam Rothman lays bare the mayhem of emancipation during and after the Civil War. Just how far the rights of freed slaves extended was unclear to black and white people alike, and so when Mary De Hart returned to New Orleans in 1865 to visit friends, she was surprised to find herself taken into custody as a kidnapper. The case of Rose Herera’s abducted children made its way through New Orleans’ courts, igniting a custody battle that revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction. Rose Herera’s perseverance brought her children’s plight to the attention of members of the U.S. Senate and State Department, who turned a domestic conflict into an international scandal. Beyond Freedom’s Reach is an unforgettable human drama and a poignant reflection on the tangled politics of slavery and the hazards faced by so many Americans on the hard road to freedom.
Download or read book The Searcher written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 National Genealogical Society Quarterly written by National Genealogical Society and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acadian Cajun Genealogy written by Timothy Hebert and published by Center for L Siana. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Hoyts written by Katie Hoyt Mott and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Percy Hoyt was born 11 June 1888 near Wilda, Louisiana. His parents were Joseph Lazare Hoyt (1858-1894) and Mary Jane Setliff (1865-1901). His paternal grandparents were David J. Hoyt (1813 or 1822-1864) and Nathalitte Gladen (1832-1886). He married Susan Marinda Blackwell (1893-1980). Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Louisiana and New Brunswick.
Download or read book Louisiana Descendants of Simon Aycock 1783 1981 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Acock/Aycock was a descendant of William Acock (b. 1705) of Virginia. He married Elizabeth Bennett in 1808 and they had at least six children. Descendants lived in North and South Carolina, Georgia, California, Montana, Washington and elsewhere.
Download or read book Acadian Genealogy Exchange written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Duhon House written by Eddie James Duhon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duhon family originally from Lyons, France. Jean Baptiste Duhon (ca. 1684-1746) immigrated from Lyons, France to Port Royal, Acadia, where he died. He was married to Agnes Hebert. Their son, Charles (ca. 1734-1793), was born in Port Royal. He immigrated to St. Martinville, Louisiana. He married ca. 1756 at Halifax, Acadia, Marie (Fran/Jo) Prejean (ca. 1736-1818). Includes related families also originally from France. Descendants live in Louisiana and elsewhere.
Download or read book Descendants of Augustin LeClercq written by Joan Ferris Curran and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Marie Augustin LeClercq, son of Francois and Marie Barbe (Dupont) LeClercq, was born August 29, 1744 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, a seaport town in northwestern France. He died 1801 in New Orleans. On Oct. 14, 1771 he married Marie Therese deMairé at St. Barthéléme Church in La Rochelle, France. She died in La Rochelle on 11 September 1780. Augustin and his six children, aged 10 to 17, left France and sailed from Le Havre 1790. They settled in Gallipolis, Gallia Co., Ohio. Descendants live in Ohio, New Orleans and West Baton Rouge, Louisiana and elsewhere.
Download or read book Library Catalog written by Daughters of the American Revolution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
