LOUISIANA ANCESTORS
Because of the difficulty in maintaining the
text files that I created, I will not update the genealogies at this site any
further, although I will add pictures as I find and scan them. The GED files that I will continue to keep
up are at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=madvintner.
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When I began to study our genealogy, I
started with the branch of our collective family for which I had the most
information already - my father-in-law's Louisiana ROME family. There is
a lot of information there, since I didn't confine myself to the immediate
family. It's as right as I can make it, but I'll continue to fix blunders
as I can. I put in a few pictures, but it's a lot of straight text. I hope Louisiana genealogy researchers will
find something here that is useful.
Ancestors of Irvin Joseph
Rome
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One of Irvin Rome's sisters married Joseph
Emile (JEB) BLUM. The background of the BLUM family is an interesting mix
of Acadians, many of whom came from France well after the Acadian tragedy, and
19th century German/French immigrants.
Ancestors of Joseph
Emile Blum
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Buddy KELLER is an old friend of the
Destrehan ROMEs. With the KELLER name, I knew he was surely a cousin of
Irvin ROME, and I was curious to see how closely related he was, so I pursued
his ancestry also.
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One of our former students (he has now
started on his career as a PhD chemist) here at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Department
shares much of my wife's Louisiana heritage. When I discovered that I
started trying to see how many families they shared, and got caught up in his
ancestry. So now I can present the
Ancestors of Juanita Rita Frederick
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Other Louisiana Families
There are a number of
other families that are part of the genealogy of these ancestral families, but
do not have any ancestors in them. For
convenience of finding all the people who share the surname, I have added links
to reports for some of these families – ARSENEAU/ARSENAULT
(Pierre, Acadian), ARCENEAUX (Michel, from Quebec), BAUDOIN
(Francois I), BERGERON (Guillaume), BOURGEOIS
(Jean-Baptiste), CHENIER,
FALGOUST, HIMEL, LEBOEUF, MATERNE, ORY, POURCIAU, RIVARD, TASSIN
(Francois), TASSIN (Pierre), TROXLER. I have made less attempt to trace these
families to their oldest roots, and I have spent less time on these families
than on ancestral families, but they are important members of the history of
our ancestors, so I have included them.
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Please
direct comments (broken links, content errors, and so on) to MadVintner@aol.com.
Mistakes - With this many names and dates, there are bound to
be mistakes. Some are no doubt
transcription errors, others are errors in my interpretation of data, a few are
errors in the texts I have used, and some resulted when I edited the
documents. All are, of course, my
responsibility, and I’d be happy to discuss errors. I’m most concerned with relationship errors. There are many omissions of dates and
offspring, some because I didn’t find the data, others because I was running
out of momentum towards the end and I wanted to get something on line. I would be happy to discuss these.
Names - I have not seen many original documents. Working from Madison, WI, my sources have
mostly been the published sacramental records from the New Orleans and Baton
Rouge Dioceses; the courthouse and church records compiled by Rev. Donald Hebert
for other parishes; the journals Les Voyageurs, New Orleans Genesis,
Louisiana Historical Quarterly, and Louisiana Genealogical Register;
and the civil proceedings of St. John the Baptist and St. Charles Parish,
translated by Glenn Conrad. I do not
know exactly when and for which families HUBER became OUBRE, HEIDEL became
HAYDEL, LECHE became LAICHE, and so on.
It undoubtedly occurred differently for different families, but in many
cases I have simply changed the name at a generation. I have also not tried to discover which family went by VICNER and
which by VICKNAIR, and so on. I hope
the present Vicknairs in Louisiana will forgive this oversight.
Printed
References – I have used many
abbreviations in the references, and have not given full publication
information in frequently-used references.
The references are all listed in References and Abbreviations.htm.
Electronic
Documents – My approach to electronic
documents has changed from my previous attempt. Too many of them disappeared, leaving the genealogical documents
riddled with broken links. All links to
electronic records available on the Web are now from a single page, Websites.htm.
In this way I hope to keep this document, and thus all the links,
reasonably current, without making major changes to all the documents at the
site.
The space is generously provided by Rootsweb. Please support continued free and low-cost genealogy on the Web.
Research
for these genealogies was done largely at the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin Library in Madison, Wisconsin. Visit them at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/.
I would like to thank them and recommend to all that you support your local
historical society with donations.
This
page was last updated on 9/15/2002.
