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I LOVE MY TEAM!
I LOVE MY TEAM!
Goin' to the Super Bowl!

Out of town TARP bank visits my blog while on the job

From Wikipedia: "In October 2008, Key received some $2.5 billion in TARP funds, which its Chairman boasted would be used in part to grow even larger.^[24] "

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, either.

Tax Day Tea Party Louisiana

Updates Louisiana Genealogy Bloggers

Guess who I found on the Genealogy Blog Finder?
MY NOLA HERITAGE - Be sure to check out her genealogy research from Louisiana. Areas of primary interest include:

• Bossier Parish, LA
• Cotton Valley, LA
• Minden, LA
• Sarepta, LA
• Webster Parish Police Jury Ward 2

Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog also gave a brief mention of Louisiana Genealogy on Monday in this blog's first ever Louisiana tagged post! Ya'll sure know how to show a good time. lol :)

Who surrendered the state archives to the Federal Army?

Read about the Life and times of Col. J. M. Sandidge
Who surrendered the state archives to the Federal Army. The author even posted a headstone photograph.

Three books highlight Shreveport's quirks, mysteries, history

Have you had a chance to read Damon Veach's column, for Jan. 18th yet? Be sure to catch him online discussing The Battle of Mansfield and the WPA obituary Index, "This collection contained manuscript journals and ledgers of city government dating from 1769, the largest collection of bound New Orleans newspapers in existence."

Louisiana Family Group Sheets and more Louisiana Genealogy Bloggers!

Be sure to check out these two Louisiana Genealogy Bloggers recent posts!

My Big Fat Cajun/Irish/Scottish/English/German/French/Southern Family Blog -Tombstone Tuesday: My Paternal Grandparents Robert Bunyan Hall and Elia Légère Hall

Genealogical Journey - Carman's Crossings

Louisiana Family Group Sheets
344 Families have been submitted so far.

Submit Your Family Group Sheet
Supplies a very nice on-line form to submit your family information.

Family Group Sheets Project
30,000 family group sheets to choose from.

The above website also suggested submitting your GEDCOMS to Roots WebWorldConnect. The URL for more information is 404 concerning Turning Gedcoms into Family Group Sheets, BUT Google kept this in cache and found another page that was 404, FGS FAQ.

Turning GEDCOM's Into
Family Group Sheets

Q. Can I send in a GEDCOM instead of a family group sheet?
A. It is not feasible for us to accept GEDCOM's due to the problems it creates for the individual FGS Project managers. To accept GEDCOM's, it would mean that each manager would have to own some type of special program that will open a GEDCOM, a special virus program that would scan the GEDCOM for a virus, then a special program to convert the GEDCOM into a FGS. FGS Project state managers are just volunteers, who may or may not have the resources to obtain and/or store such programs, so requiring them to have this would result in the loss of valuable workers for the project.

If you would like to convert your own GEDCOM's into group sheets, (it is free and easy to do) you might consider doing this:

To convert GEDCOM's to group sheets:
Download the free version of Legacy. It is a genealogy program that can be found online at: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ Just click on the link for Standard version download. Fill out the required registration form and follow the directions. Legacy is a well known, reputable program that will allow you to convert your GEDCOM's into text format group sheets (it is really a full featured genealogy program that actually surpasses what FTM can do, and its use is widely endorsed by LDS) that you can then copy & paste into an email. Once you have Legacy set up, it takes only a coule of minutes to generate a group sheet for each desired family. The following directions are given by Allison Saxman of the Alabama FGS Project.

1. Open Legacy and import the GEDCOM file.
2. Click on "Name List" to locate the husband of the FGS that you want to prepare.
3. Once the right family is on the screen, click on "Reports"; then click on the tab that is marked "Family".
4. Under "Index Options" select Style 1; then select the One Column option.
5. Under "Report Options - Include", uncheck everything except "Alternate Given and Surnames" and "Birth & Death Dates On Names"
6. Under the "Sources" tab, click to include source citations (you may or may not want to do this)
7. There are other tabs you can click on to further detail your FGS if you wish.
8. When satisfied with the options you have selected, click on "Close" under Report Options.
9. On the right side of this menu window, click on "text" (default is set at printer/screen) and then "create".
10. Legacy then asks you for a file name and location to save it on your hard drive. Give the file name (something like JohnDoeFGS), then the location (you will need to create a new folder for your group sheets). Choose "Local Disk (C:), then choose the new folder you made for the group sheets.
11. Legacy then asks if you want to view your text file in your viewer. Say yes.
12. Check to make sure that the FGS looks like you want it to look. If you want to add/delete more information, go back to the "Report Options - Include" section of Legacy and make the necessary changes.

USFGS
FAQ's

Q. I hit the enter key before I was finished and lost all the information I had entered. Do I have to re-enter it all again to continue?
A. No, simply click on your back button/arrow and it will carry you back to the page that contains your information. Simply finish filling out the form and hit enter again. When you hit the enter key, the form is automatically sent to the proper state manager. Each state manager knows to watch for duplicate submissions, and will use the last one that was sent. OR Another solution to the problem of an electronic form being sent before the submitter is ready is to fill out the form offline. You'll find the command "work offline" in the file menu. When you're ready to send the form, you can go back to the command and click again (the check mark will disappear). If you accidentally hit the "enter" key while you're working offline, you'll be told the email address you're sending the form to isn't available, but just click on the button for continuing to work offline.

Q. Can I send in a GEDCOM instead of a family group sheet?
A. It is not feasible for us to accept GEDCOM's due to the problems it creates for the individual FGS Project managers. To accept GEDCOM's, it would mean that each manager would have to own some type of special program that will open a GEDCOM, a special virus program that would scan the GEDCOM for a virus, then a special program to convert the GEDCOM into a FGS. FGS Project state managers are just volunteers, who may or may not have the resources to obtain and/or store such programs, so requiring them to have this would result in the loss of valuable workers for the project. If you would like to convert your own GEDCOM's into group sheets, (it is free and easy to do) you might consider doing this.

Q. Will you correct my spelling or typing errors?
A. Email the state manager with (state name) FGS Correction in the subject line and what you would like changed on the group sheet in the body of the email.

Q. I have new information I would like to put on the group sheet I previously submitted.
A. Email the state manager with (state name) FGS additional info in the subject line and your new information in the body of the email. OR Go to the online FGS that you need to change. In your browser, click "File," "Save as," and save the file
to your hard drive; do not change the file name. Open the file in Notepad and make your changes. Save the file. Copy it into an email with the state, file name and the word correction in the subject line and send it to the state manager.

Q. If I do not know when a person died, can I still place him/her on the sheets?
A. I am not allowed to place living people's names on the web site. If they were born after 1903 and you do not have proof they are deceased, then do not add them to the group sheet. Just put living instead of their name and leave the rest of their information blank. If you add their name & information, then I will either inform you that your sheet can not be added or I may place "living" in the place of the name and delete all identifying data which was entered including dates and places. Estimate the date of death if you know they are deceased, but do not know the exact date

Q. I have a female head of household that isn't/never married but has children. How do I enter this family?
A If they had children but were not married, in place of the husband's name, put the word None, then fill in the rest of the group sheet normally. If they had a common law husband and children, fill the group sheet out normally but stipulate it by putting (Never married) in front of both the names. If they had children by different men, put (1) or (2) or (3) etc behind each childs name and under the documentation area make a note of (1) child of Jane Doe and Harry Smith, (2) child of Jane Doe and John Brown, etc., or child of Jane Doe and unknown father.

Q. Who owns the FGSs?
A. The submitter owns the sheets that they submitted. The FGS Project does not own any of the group sheets, and does not give permission for anyone to use them. We simply put them online for the submitter.

Q. If I do not know the name of a child, should I leave the space blank?
A. Place "unknown" in the name space and enter all data you do know.

Q. Can I send you an attachment with FGSs?
A. Please do NOT send me attachments. I will not open them.

Q. I don't want to give my name. Will my email address be enough?
A. No, we must have your name & email address, or name and snail mail address.

Q. I found a bad link or broken image. What do I do?
A. Email the state manager with (state name) FGS bad link in the subject line, the problem in the body of the email, and I will fix the bad link ASAP.

Algiers Historical Society Meeting

Algiers Historical Society's meeting this month features a Show and Tell. Bring your stories, photos and other mementoes of Algiers businesses throughout the decades, and we'll bring the coffee and the goodies! AHS meets in the Carriage House behind the Algiers Courthouse, 225 Morgan in Algiers Point, this Saturday (January 16) at 10 a.m.

Hope to see you this weekend!
Amy
504-322-7479

Amy Hubbell
President, Algiers Historical Society
305 Delaronde Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70114



Algiers Historical Society
http://algierspoint.org/AHS/
algiershistory@yahoo.com

Amy Hubbell, President
amyhubbell@aol.com

Frank Wagner, Vice President/Secretary
custer1012@cox.net

Kevin Herridge, Newsletter Editor
cockney@bellsouth.net

Russ Van Dyke, Treasurer
235 Lavergne St.
New Orleans, LA 70114
(504) 227-8249
banjoruss@yahoo.com

A few updates from my full mailbag: a-round-tu-it

There were over 300 obit records added or updated to the St. Charles Parish USGenWeb LAGenWeb Archives this week.

I found this Google Alert which was previously unread today. My mailbag is so full, I must apologize. It alerted me to the passing of Sue Eakin, a Louisiana author, on this Louisiana blog, by Lamar White, Jr. in September 2009. Please be sure to visit his blog post for much more information on Louisiana.

The Johnson Family has a few new photographs on Ancient Faces.

ProGenealogists is now on Facebook.

West Bank Genealogy Society Meeting

WBGS Membership Meeting
Saturday January 16, 2010
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Discussion:
Viewing a British production DVD about the Battle of New Orleans and interesting discussion following. Bring anything interesting you may have about an ancestor who was involved.

SNGF on Sunday

SNGF on Sunday


1) Answer the question: Do you have a genealogical “superpower”? (i.e., a unique research ability or technique that helps you track down records or assemble conclusions that others can’t?) If so, what is it?



I consider this blog format my superpower. I can go everywhere, read everything, and surf all things pertaining to Louisiana genealogy! Moo ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!

Seriously, though, I especially like the list of Louisiana Surnames Louisiana Researchers b/c it keeps growing and growing and growing. It is internet powered by Louisianians. If I can't find my relatives, I can go find someone elses and you can too!



2) Tell us about it in a blog post, a comment to this post, a comment to Dean's post, or a comment to this post on Facebook or Twitter.



Ok.


3) If you have a picture of yourself in superpower mode, please show it to us!

Google is the real super power who reigns equally with those who add their surnames to the Louisiana Surnames Louisiana Researchers list.  I Google Louisiana genealogy  all of the time. I love using Google.

Louisiana Surnames Louisiana Researchers Updated

The database and website has been updated to reflect the new surnames that have been added since December 5th or 6th 2009. The group may have to wait awhile until I can update THAT database, too.

If I were related to all those surnames..., we'd have a good time finding a pot big 'enough to cook in!
Whew! That's alot a gumbo! Yah'll come and get it. :)

Blog Stats 2009

Well, I've run the stats from 2009 and here are the results. 50% of those that arrive here read anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour or more. The majority utilize Google Search. Many new arrivals from out of the US surfed in to read, too. What I find the most interesting are the key words people used to find my blog. Key words can help me gear the blog towards my readership. I've highlighted potential future blog subjects in RED. Keep in mind the total visits IS correct, but the drill downs on key words and the pages are for the last 500 visitors.


Page Loads
26,654

Unique Visitors
16,610

First Time Visitors
15,250

Returning Visitors :)- Thanks for coming back!
1,360


Most Popular Webpages in 2009
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Key words of 2009
(This is only reflected in the last 500 visitors of 2009)
Num Perc. Search Term
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6 2.49% tregre and president davis
6 2.49% sugartown louisiana people 1800s
5 2.07% isaac l. barnes of louisiana genealogy
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4 1.66% baker's forever, Warren L. aker Jr.
3 1.24% colomb family of river road in louisiana
3 1.24% stories of 1957 huricane that hit cameron louisiana
3 1.24% St. James Parish, Louisiana, colonial records, 1782-1787
3 1.24% gaines landing arkansas
3 1.24% 1905 louisiana birth records "orleans parish"
3 1.24% Guillaume Babin and Jefferson Parish,LA
3 1.24% Jennings Louisiana Dugas Families
3 1.24% genealogy dugas louisiana
3 1.24% louis tregre and president davis
3 1.24% Comite´ des archives de la Louisiane
2 0.83% Ancestors of de Galvez & St Maxent
2 0.83% burial or removal by peters furniture monroe louisiana 1922
2 0.83% Cleveland family genealogy Southern Louisiana
2 0.83% laprarie cemetery, louisiana
2 0.83% history of verdun ville, louisiana
2 0.83% chauffe deaths in new orleans in 1944
2 0.83% berwick cemetery, basile, la.
2 0.83% jonesboro, louisiana old property map 1900
2 0.83% Jean Baptiste Laperouse
2 0.83% juan quave
2 0.83% louisiana genealogy forum
2 0.83% Sons of the American Louisiana Society
2 0.83% durousseau/balque
2 0.83% Ellen Harris St. Martinville Louisiana
2 0.83% "Karen Burney" genealogy
2 0.83% h obituaries orleans parish louisiana submitted by nova
2 0.83% hurt genealogy in louisiana
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2 0.83% [Louisiana+Alston+Barrow]
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2 0.83% guestbooks williams @yahoo.com @yaoo.it @msn.com @hotmail.com december 2009
2 0.83% johnson keel genealogy
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2 0.83% Duon Natchez district
2 0.83% durousseau genealogy "Family Photos"
2 0.83% WASHINGTON PARISH GENEALOGY
2 0.83% ron quave genealogy
2 0.83% whitney plantation
2 0.83% newspaper article on TRegre 1861
2 0.83% gremillon bergeron genealogy
2 0.83% andrew odom 1800s chicago to louisiana
2 0.83% current location of louisiana caddo indians
2 0.83% alexandria la genealogical society
2 0.83% arthur carmouche
2 0.83% greenwood cemetery shreveport
1 0.41% Louisiana Tomstone
1 0.41% William Meriwether in Shreveport, LA
1 0.41% colonial cemetery, independence, la survey of map
1 0.41% louis a tregre
1 0.41% beevers 2009 @hotmail.com, @live.com, @aol.com, @msn.com,
1 0.41% Cucchiara 1959 Louisiana
1 0.41% snyder cemetery mansfield, la
1 0.41% blog de trio de bouligny
1 0.41% Louisiana blog
1 0.41% shanklin mansfield louisiana
1 0.41% porche genealogy
1 0.41% Facebook:Joel kenney Bilbo
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1 0.41% pierrottie pronunciation
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1 0.41% Raphael Duplechain
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1 0.41% manteaux karolina-valiante
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1 0.41% south louisiana genealogy publishers
1 0.41% obituaries on january 5, 2007 in st martin parish louisiana
1 0.41% whitney plantation louisiana
1 0.41% destouet genealogy
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1 0.41% webb's in rapides parish louisiana
1 0.41% french creole surnames
1 0.41% edmar sonnier
1 0.41% LEJEUNES OF ACADIA - YOUNGS OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
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1 0.41% la tregre goes to richmond to see jefferson davis
1 0.41% list of people who died 1957 huricane audry cameron louisiana
1 0.41% grant@yahoo.ca+gmail.com+aol.com+cox.net+comcast.com
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1 0.41% 2009 guestbook campbell@yahoo.com@gmail.com@comcast.net@usa.net@hotmail.com
1 0.41% Pope Benedict's new year blessing
1 0.41% Richard Capers Fetner
1 0.41% patoutville louisiana
1 0.41% eunice la. 70535 city jail inmates
1 0.41% Gomez family tree of Louisiana
1 0.41% mafouz adoption registry
1 0.41% LOUISIANA DELORD FAMILY GENEALOGY
1 0.41% laberdure
1 0.41% porche genealogy pointe coupee, la
1 0.41% old families of louisiana
1 0.41% saint romain family of lake charles la. biography
1 0.41% vincent f rachal
1 0.41% Harpers in West Carroll Louisiana History
1 0.41% caddo indians, louisiana indians
1 0.41% "theriot" confederate pirates
1 0.41% abe lincoln family surnames
1 0.41% famous louisiana buried in shreveport
1 0.41% maps of lafourche parish louisiana 200 years ago
1 0.41% vien ici
1 0.41% plantations of tregre
1 0.41% LEJEUNE'S OF ACADIA - YOUNGS OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
1 0.41% +1 Martin cox.net yahoo.ca msn.com gmail.com 2009
1 0.41% Anne@yahoo.com @hotmail.com 2009 Txt Or Email List
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1 0.41% Show old church graveyard & headstones with names you can read in Denham Springs, Louisiana
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1 0.41% youngs of southwest louisiana
1 0.41% sitton-gibson genealogy
1 0.41% nichols state crocket louisiana 1981 pierre part
1 0.41% Acadian Louisiana surnames start with B
1 0.41% bruce linda @gmail.com@yahoo.com 2009 txt
1 0.41% assunto banks new orleans
1 0.41% +1 robin @hotmail.ca @hotmail.com @aol.com @msn.com
1 0.41% creole surnames
1 0.41% ferguson genealogy louisiana
1 0.41% JULIEN GREMILLION of france
1 0.41% historic camp claiborne
1 0.41% colfax massacre louisiana
1 0.41% geneaology texas
1 0.41% dr Meyer @yahoo.com @aol.com 2009
1 0.41% Harris Family,Caddo Parish LA
1 0.41% Darla M. Henry + Louisiana Genealogist
1 0.41% the camp claiborne news
1 0.41% "john o'brien" demaret genealogy
1 0.41% Lamothe cemetery, New Orleans, La.
1 0.41% louisiana genealogy .blogspot.com
1 0.41% genealogy sources respositories
1 0.41% "lake providence louisiana" & cobb
1 0.41% forcha family
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1 0.41% singletons in louisiana genealogy
1 0.41% cemeteries baton rouge
1 0.41% bossier history center
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1 0.41% hurricane-1 geocities
1 0.41% are there caves in louisiana
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1 0.41% "bourgeois" "civil war" "louisiana" "st. landry"
1 0.41% "Duon" Natchez district
1 0.41% washington parish +genalogy
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1 0.41% leBlue - the Farm (2002)
1 0.41% webster parish
1 0.41% louisiana creole surnames
1 0.41% melton family of amite mississippi
1 0.41% simmons plantation in mittie louisiana
1 0.41% genealogie fortier facebook
1 0.41% LE RACONTEUR INDEX, VOLUME XIV

SNGF on Sunday

I'm a day late with my Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, but here's my post anyway.

What was the best 2009 Genealogy Moment?
1) "What was your best Genealogy Moment during 2009?" This could be a research find, a fabulous trip, a found family treasure, etc. Your choice!

2) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, a comment to this blog post, or a comment to the Twitter or Facebook status line for this post.

It is a tie between the following two events last year that really made my year!
*I found a 3rd cousin on Facebook who shared my family tree all the way back to the 1600's.
*A genealogy lister shared with me a page from a book citing one of my ancestors immigration to the United States.