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Is anyone tracing ancestors from New Orleans, Louisiana?

Answer 1

I have extensive roots to Acadians, French, Sanish, Italian and German immigrants to the New Orleans area under the surnames Landry (x3!), Rousselle, Rodriguez / Lodriguss, Hebert, Buras and Braun.  "New" cousins are contacting me almost daily, so 2015 should see some great expansions of the tree!

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My mother was born in New Orleans but she met my biological father there ,now before my mother passed away she told me that I was half Sicilian, but I don't get it my biological father s last name is Taylor? I really need help

Answer 2

I have researched 10 or 12 people in New Orleans and Louisiana,I will help

but you must have dates ,names,where,possibly relatives,some records in

Louisiana are gone,mainly due to fire.

Answer 3

I am from the area. Most of my research comes from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

Answer 4

I am - my great-grandfather on the paternal side was born there. I can trace back a couple of generations (mostly), but then things peter out for me.

Answer 5

Hi cousin!

One of my brick wall mysteries is New Orleans based. The parents of Henrietta (Lowrie) Albert.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lowrie-332

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I looked at that. Very interesting profile :)

Answer 6

We have two major lines in New Orleans. My husband's Centanni family is very well known there due to a cousin Sam Centanni and his wife Myra, who are locally famous for their Christmas lights display. They owned the Gold Seal Dairy and have hundreds of local famiiy members.

We are also related by marriage to the Trauth family and their connections to the Boudreaux family of Cajun origins.

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I went as a child every year to see those Christmas decorations. They were fabulous!  I also loved D. H. Holmes and Maison Blanche window displays.

Answer 7

I Am!!! My Paternal Grandmother's line starts in New Orleans. Our surnames are Pappas, Larche, Goble, and Picon (Picou...not sure of the spelling). Hopefully I am successful. Some of those surnames lived in New Orleans but may have started out in Mississippi. Most of my paternal line stayed in the Gulf Area (Southern Mississippi and Lousiana....Surnames Walker, Jones, Magees, and Brumfield ).

Answer 8

I have traced my New Orleans ancestry back to the founding of the city. My 8th great grand uncle was Jean Baptiste LeMoyne de Bienville who founded the city. My 7th great grandfather was Claude Andre Dubreuil de Villars who was the contractor on many of the city's first buildings and built the city's first canal system.

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My mother's line is Dubreuil. Oral history said we were related to the Andre Dubreuil de Villars family line but am having trouble tracing my GGrandfather Jules Dubreuil (1863-1913) to this line....records are difficult to find.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sue deRada

suederada@gmail.com

 

Answer 9

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Yup! Father's family is from St. Bernard's Parish from a ghost community names Fazandeville mostly. Family names are Long, Lawrence, Minor and Charles primarily.

Answer 10

My GGrandmother Elizabeth Belmonte shows up in New Orleans, LA I have no idea where her family came from. I found a Jose Claudio L Belmonte 1852 from San Jose, Molinicos, Albacete, Spain married to Barbara Escudero 1874.

I am not sure if these are her parents or not? Anyone know of a Belmonte family in New Orleans?

Elizabeth Belmonte married James Fermin Faudouas in 1897

Sue deRada

suederada@gmail.com

Answer 11

I guarannteee ! 

 

Barbeau, Boisdore, Rochon, Bonaventure, Chastang, Fauvre, DeBuys (Dubois), DeJan, Duplantier, Durel etc etc etc 

C'est Bon ..

 

 

Answer 12

I believe my father Wayne Gerard Molaison was  from New Orleans,so was his mother Eula Mae Bourgeois Molaison. Jefferson parish I am told.