Louisiana Genealogy Yahoo Group Updates

The NOGDCR Yahoo group has been discussing the GRADENI or GRADENIGO, ROY, POE and CUMMINGS surname in Louisiana.   CREOLEGEN posted a tidbit about where to find succession papers: "...succession papers are filed in settlement of a person's estate. They detail the terms of the will, often include the cause of death and other information regarding real estate holdings, etc. They are filed in the parish in which the individual died."   The West Bank Genealogy Society WBGS Membership Meeting Saturday January 31, 2009 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Location: Westwego Library, 635 4th St., Westwego, LA Notes: Speaker: Margie Camardelle Topic: History of Marrero   Title:   HNOC Acadian Diaspora Symposium   Date:   Saturday January 31, 2009 Time:   8:00 am - 5:00 pm  Location:   Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, 621 St. Louis Street, New Orleans Notes:   See details posted in the "files" section at West Bank Genealogical Yahoo! Group

Louisiana Old Photos, ladaily uploads, and KISSIN KUZZINS

If you have relatives from Plain Dealing, Louisiana you may want to check out the photos on Louisiana Old Photos. There are a few really cute school photos over there.


I subscribe to the ladailyupload mailing list on USGENWEB. You may want to see what was uploaded or amended this month. There is also an LAGENWEB mailing list, but it is for internal use only. In otherwords, you may not send an email to this list unless it is to Unsubscribe.

KISSIN' KUZZINS has published a few querys concerning Louisianian's. You can read the genealogy article here. By CAROLYN ERICSON Contribuing writer, Lufkin Daily News, Tuesday, January 27, 2009. It seems alot of people in this area of the country (Lufkin) are from Louisiana or have died in Louisiana.

"Would like to hear from anyone having information on John Abram Adams, b.
12/11/1860 in Jasper County, Texas. He died in Natchitoches, Louisiana in
1933....read more."

The Louisiana Genealogisphere

Damon Veach has published a lovely article about Louisiana's genealogy and genealogy found in little known books: http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/magazine/38235484.html I'll have to check my Yahoo Group to see if this on is on the list that gets posted once a month. The Advocate now has a Twitter, I'd love to find Damon Veach on Twitter, but so far no luck. GeneaBlogie's, Craig Manson is researching ancestors in Louisiana. Read his post here about from which parishes and cities: http://blog.geneablogie.net/?p=933&cpage=1#comment-970 There is this sad post about the passing of an "Genealogy Angel" from LAORLEAN mailing list about her contributions to Louisiana genealogy and an obiturary link: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LAORLEAN/2009-01/1232502483 Irna Elizabeth Adams Centanni CENTANNI Irna Elizabeth Adams Centanni entered into rest on Thursday, January 15, AD2009. Wife of the late Rosario Centanni. Mother of Roy Dominic Centanni and the late Gene Anthony Centanni, Sr. and Kenneth James Centanni. Grandmother of Jason Patrick Centanni and Gene Anthony Centanni, Jr. Great-grandmother of Sean Patrick Centanni, Aidan Gareth Centanni and Erik Liam Centanni. Daughter of the late Ernest Adams and Alexina Francoise Hotard. Sister of the late Joseph Adams, Frank Adams, Lilier Adams, Albert Adams, Stella Adams, Percy Adams, John Adams and Jane Adams Penney. Born October 8, 1918 in Lockport, LA, Lafourche Parish. Lifelong resident of New Orleans, LA and Chalmette, LA. Resident of Magnolia, Texas since 2005. Past active member of the New Orleans Genealogical Society and St. Bernard Parish Genealogical Research Society. Viewing and Rosary service will be held on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church, 24001 Aldine Westfield, Spring, Texas. Funeral Mass at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Entombment in Calvary Hill Mausoleum in Humble, Texas. Crespo Funeral Home - Navigation Chapel 2516 Navigation Blvd. Houston, Texas 77003 (713) 225-9567

Natchitoches Parish Query

I am a volunteer researcher for the Texas Peace Officers Memorial. On 31 March 1906, Norton R. Moody was deputized by Nacogdoches County deputy sheriff Will Alders to quiet a house party in the Woden community. A shoot-out occurred and Moody was killed. A newspaper article mentioned he was buried in Pea Ridge. I have been unable to find the burial place of Moody in Nacogdoches or Shelby counties.

Norton R. Moody was born about 1867-1870 in Louisiana, the son of William & Acey Moody. He was listed in the 1880 Census of Nacogdoches County, but by 1900 he was living in Shelby County. He married Cora Furlow 16 December 1886 in Shelby County. At the time of the 1900 Census they had the following children: Azzie (dau), b. ca October 1889; Elsie, b. ca September 1892; Norman, b. ca April 1896; and Allen, b. ca January 1899.

Cora (Furlow) Moody later moved to Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana and died there in 1946. The Lufkin Library sent me a clip from The Weekly Sentinel, 8 March 1900 (Mrs. Lee Cordova) that mentions the Pea Ridge-Stringtown community and her burial at the cemetery near Frank Lazarine. I found the Lazarine Cemetery and Moody is not there. Texas maps and Google only produce a Stringtown in Newton County. Does anyone know where Norton is buried? Is he in Shelby County? Would appreciate hearing from anyone having information on this family.

Ron DeLord, rod.delord@cleat.org



Also from Natchitoches Parish Preservation Ning an update on the Kate Chopin House fire:

Blog post added by Jeffery K Guin:A lot has happened in the three months since Natchitoches Parish lost the Kate Chopin House to fire. Much goes into a salvage effort of t...

Blog post link:Kate Chopin House - Anatomy of a Heritage Rescue Operation

MLK Quiz and Family Tree

Quiz answers from Seattle Times


(1) What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
c. 1968: He was killed in Memphis, Tenn., where he had gone to support a strike by sanitation workers.

(2) Where did Rosa Parks become famous?
c. On a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest Dec. 1 lead to a yearlong boycott aimed to desegregate the bus system.

(3) Which president signed the first major civil rights act of this century?
b. Lyndon B. Johnson. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2 that year.

(4) Which president signed the law creating the Martin Luther King holiday?
d. Ronald Reagan. It was in November 1983, more than 15 years after King was killed.

(5) What was the name of King's first book?
a. Stride Toward Freedom. He was only 29 years old when it was published.

(6) Where was the tactic of the sit-in protest first used?
a. At a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The 1960 protest was one of the key moments in the civil-rights movement.

(7) Where did King deliver his "I have a Dream" speech?
c. At the Lincoln Memorial. He addressed a quarter-million people who turned out for the 1963 March on Washington.

(8) Who is the protagonist of the novel Charles Johnson is writing?
c. A bodyguard in Chicago. In the novel, this man was picked because of his resemblance to King.

(9) What foreign figure has King been compared to?
b. Mohandas Gandhi. King admired Gandhi greatly, and traveled to India in 1959.

(10) What year was the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday first observed?
d. 1986. The first legislation for the holiday had been proposed almost 18 years earlier.

(11) What black leader was killed five years before King's assassination?
c. Medgar Evers. The NAACP leader was murdered June 12, 1963.

(12) Why was King arrested in 1956?
b. Driving too fast. (He was driving 30 mph in a 25 mph zone.) That same year, in the very early days of the civil-rights movement, his house was bombed.

Copyright © 2009 The Seattle Times Company

About.com's Kimberly Powell has also posted a summary of MLK's family tree.

See also:
http://my.mlkday.gov/public/searchResults.aspx?st=LA&type=0

Search the Gulf South Historical Review

http://www.usouthal.edu/archives/html/manuscript/gshrindex_A-L.htm

Gulf South Historical Review - subject index

"The Gulf South Historical Review, formerly the Gulf Coast Historical Review, focused on the history of the coastal region from Florida's Big Bend to Texas. Sponsored by the history department of the University of South Alabama, this publication has ceased. Founded in 1985, the journal brought historical research and writing of the highest caliber to the public and academe. The Review sought to foster communication between the academic historian and those in all walks of life interested in history. The Review also published a number of the Proceedings of the Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference (now the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference). Back issues of the Gulf Coast / Gulf South Historical Review and the Gulf Coast / Gulf South History and Humanities Conference Proceedings may be ordered from the University Archives. Regular issues are $3.00 each, and proceedings issues are $10.00 each ($15.00 for cloth if available). There is no shipping charge for regular issues but interested parties should please add $2.00 shipping for the first proceedings issue, $1.00 for the second, and $.50 for each additional issue. For GCHR and GSHR table of contents, see Auburn University's web page at www.lib.auburn.edu/special/docs/ gchr.html. A subject index to volumes 1 through 20 is available on this website."

From URL http://www.usouthal.edu/archives/html/publications/arcorder.htm

Meeting an Irishman on Manchac today

From the Baton Rouge Genealogical & Histoy Society Blog:

An Irishman on Manchac
Dr. Paul McKeough will recount life on the bayou through the story of John McKeough, a farmer and merchant, who capitalized on land opportunities to British Army and Navy veterans of the 18th century.This meeting, sponsored by BRGHS, will be held at the Louisiana state Archives at 3851 Essen Lane between I-10 and I-12. The meeting will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 17th, and as always is FREE and open to the public.

Buena Park Library exhibiting creole portraits by LeDOUX (California) goes on to define "Creole."

Free looks ups in Louisiana

RAOGK has a listing of people willing to do free look-ups in Louisiana Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness website. The site asks that before you make a request of a volunteer please read the FAQ page. Here is a list of questions from the RAOGK website:

Is this a free service?
How do I make a request?
How much can I ask of a volunteer?
How much information about my ancestors should I send to the volunteer?
May I send the same request to more than one volunteer?
There is no volunteer in the area I am researching, what do I do now?
What should I expect from a RAOGK volunteer when requesting information?
Will RAOGK volunteers look up information on the living or help those looking for their birth parents?
Do RAOGK volunteers do in-depth researching?
How often do the volunteers do lookups?
When can I submit a different request to that same volunteer?
What if I receive no response from the volunteer?
What if my email bounces back from the volunteer?
How do I thank the volunteer after my request has been filled?
What else can I do to show my appreciation for the lookup that was done for me?
Where do you get your volunteers?

GeneaSearch also offers a free look up service on its site for Louisiana.

Books We Own also offers look ups for your surnames in several parishes in Louisiana.