Louisiana Acadiana Region Team
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Louisiana Acadiana Region Team
The purpose of Louisiana's Acadiana Region Team is to organize and focus the work on profiles within the region's parishes, which include: Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Cameron, Evangeline, Avoyelles, St. Landry, Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion, St. Martin, Iberia, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, St. Mary, Ascension, Assumption, St. James, St. John, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Charles.
The primary goal is to improve existing profiles, expand existing families, and add new families to the tree while maintaining WikiTree styles and standards. Individual Parish teams or one-place studies can be created as our members indicate an interest in them.
Team Members
Please contact one of our Project Leaders if you would like to join the Louisiana Acadiana Region team!
- Team Leader:
- Team Members:
Team Tasks
- Add parish categories to profiles, to help identify people who lived in the region.
- Add maintenance categories to profiles that need more work, bringing them to the attention of the Profile Improvement teams.
- Work on sourcing, connecting, and cleaning up errors using the following lists by parish.
- Note: Profiles that do not contain a relevant parish category, or that do not name the parish in one of the data fields, will not appear on these lists.
Place Names
Add to this list with link to documentation as variances are found.
- Acadia Parish - carved out of St. Landry Parish in 1886.
- Ascension Parish
- Donaldsonville - Historically named Lafourche-des-Chitimachas by French colonists. The town of Donaldson was founded in 1806, but the mostly French population called it La Ville de Donaldson. It was reincorporated in 1823 as Donaldsonville. (See Donaldsonville History and Wikipedia)
- Port Barrow was possibly a small village or neighborhood on the Mississippi River adjacent to Donaldsonville. It became a neighborhood of Donaldsonville. Not to be confused with Port Barre in St. Landry Parish.
- Avoyelles Parish: Hydropolis, very early French settlement which later [when? 1800s?] became known as Cocoville.
- Calcasieu Parish was created in 1840 from part of St. Landry as "Imperial Calcasieu". In 1870, Cameron Parish was created from the southern portion of Imperial Calcasieu. In 1912, the parishes of Allen, Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis were split off, leaving the current-day parish of Calcasieu.
- Lake Charles was originally established as "Charleston" in 1857; later renamed as Lake Charles in 1868.
- German Coast: was made up of current-day St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. James parishes [dates?].
- Evangeline Parish - carved out of St. Landry Parish in 1910.
- Chataignier - The earliest records of Chataignier were moved to Eunice in 1901 when the Eunice church was established. Records in SWLR for "Eunice Ch." prior to 1901 were actually from Chataignier when it was still in St. Landry Parish.
- Lafayette Parish:
- Carencro, the name is seen in records as "Carencro area" in 1790s but not in reference to a town. The town was first called St. Pierre in the late 1800s, then renamed to Carencro (when?), after the popular "carrion crow" (vulture) legend.
- Lafayette, formerly known as Vermilionville from 1824-1884.
- Youngsville, formerly known as Royville until 1908.
- Pointe Coupée Parish:
- Pointe Coupée Post was established in the 1720s, and was located upstream from the point crossed by explorers, immediately above but not circled by False River. The name referred to the area along the Mississippi River northeast of what is now New Roads.
- New Roads was probably established after 1776, when the Spanish built a Chemin Neuf, French for "New Road," connecting the Mississippi River with False River. It's somewhat unclear, but the area was referenced as "the new road" for many years. It doesn't appear to have been officially named as New Roads until sometime in the 1800s, and was named as the parish seat in 1847.Wikipedia
- St. Charles Parish: The church parish was established in 1740; the civil parish was formed in 1807. The church started out as La Paroisse de St. Jean des Allemands in 1723, but was moved and renamed in 1740 to St. Charles Borromeo. The church burned down and was rebuilt in 1806, when it was painted red and became well known as "The Little Red Church." It kept that name until It again burned in 1921 and was rebuilt with a white facade.
- Destrehan was named after Jean-Noël Destrehan, who acquired the plantation in 1792 that later bore his name. It isn't known exactly when the nearby town was established by that name, but probably not until the early to mid 1800s. Destrehan did not have a post office until 1916.
- St. John the Baptist Parish: Church was built in 1772; civil parish founded in 1807. (Note: This is different from "La Paroisse de St. Jean des Allemands" which was founded in 1723 but ceased to exist by that name in 1740.)
- Edgard was known as St. John the Baptist until it was renamed in 1850 to Edgard. Formerly part of the German Coast.
- St. Martin Parish - the church parish was part of the Attakapas region until about 1812[?]
- St. Martinville was formerly known as Attakapas Post, or sometimes just Attakapas, until about 1812[?]. Note that the term "Attakapas" often referred to the large regional area, and is not synonymous with St. Martinville.
- St. Mary Parish
- Morgan City was originally named as Tiger Island when it was surveyed after World War I; later named as Brashear City (when?); incorporated 1860; renamed to Morgan City in 1876.
- St. Landry Parish:
- Opelousas was originally known as Opelousas Post. It was known as simply Opelousas by about 1805, and was incorporated in 1821.
- Eunice - founded in 1894 out of Prairie Fakataique. Most of the city limits are located in St. Landry Parish, with a small southern part of it in Acadia Parish. A mostly unincorporated portion (north/east?) became part of Evangeline Parish in 1910 when the new parish was carved out of St. Landry.
Resources
The following resources have been identified for Louisiana's Acadiana Region:
(excludes sites accessible from the RootSearch tool)
Online:
- Regional: "Louisiana History: Old and New Place Names," by Stanley LeBlanc, thecajuns.com. A listing of old place names and their modern-day equivalents.
- Ascension Parish: space page containing a census index of some family heads for east Ascension Parish. Thanks to Dale Carmody for this work, which includes partial indexes of selected districts of the 1880, 1910, and 1940 censuses.
- Calcasieu Parish: High School Yearbooks, 1946-2015, from the Louisiana Digital Library.
- Iberia Parish:
- Map of Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles in Jeanerette, Louisiana Digital Library.
- Map of Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles at Fausse Pointe (current-day Loreauville), Louisiana Digital Library.
- St. Martin Parish:
- Map of Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles at La Pointe de Repose (on the Bayou Teche at current-day Parks), Louisiana Digital Library. See also a blog discussion at Bayou Teche Dispatches, "La Pointe de Repos — Early Acadian Settlement Site along the Teche," 3 Sep 2011
- List of Yellow Fever victims about Sept-Oct 1867, published in St. Martinville newspaper. See transcript on this G2G post.
Offline:
- Evangeline Parish: La Voix des prairies, Evangeline Genealogical and Historical Society newsletter, 1980-2015. See catalog entry on FamilySearch; also Table of Contents, 1980-2001 on Rootsweb.
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