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Category Archives: New Orleans
J. Robb Bank
Into the New Year! I am looking at my bank …. ouch. I bet you didn’t know there was a J. Robb bank in New Orleans. I wish I could see the bank note prior to December 13, 1858. I … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, New Orleans, Railroads, Robb, Yellow Fever
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>The Dead Voudou Queen
>From the New York Times Marie Laveau’s obituary.
Posted in 1881, New Orleans, Queen, Voodoo
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Chatah-Ima – Like a Chocktaw – Louisiana’s bard
1813-1887Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette, an ecclesiastic of the Roman Catholic Church, was of European and American parentage; his father, Dominique Rouquette, was French, and his mother, Louise Cousin, was a native of Louisiana. He was born in New Orleans, and received … Continue reading
>Train Fare 1858
>Wikipedia Ponchartrain Railroad and see also The Smoky MaryClick on image to view larger size.
>Slave and Free People of Color Baptismal Records
> Newly released records from the Archdiocese of New Orleans. H/t from URL These records are in Spanish. From the Archdiocese website read more about these records: The Spanish phonetic spelling of a surname often varied significantly from the French … Continue reading
Posted in FPOC, Louisiana Research, New Orleans
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Let’s talk about the weather….
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q60UAAAAYAAJ&dq=Louisiana%20sunshine%20history&pg=PA75&output=embed My favorite part….. “It seldom has more than one day of freeze during the year and its winter temperature averages fifty-eight. It has more hours of sunshine than any city of the North or West, and for nine months … Continue reading
Posted in Louisiana sunshine, New Orleans, weather
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>’Cultural traditions’ by Bruce Nolan
>Tweet NOLA – Times Pic: New Orleans Catholic continue ‘cultural tradition’ of visiting 9 churches“It was 8:30 a.m. and the pigeons were wheeling sharply over St. Mary’s Assumption Church when the school bus braked to a stop on Constance Street. … Continue reading
>Treaty of Paris, remained in effect until 2003
>myNewOrleans.com – Louisiana Life, August 15, 5:55, by Jan Risher“Although the Great Deportation lasted from 1755 until 1764, legally the Order of Deportation, according to the Treaty of Paris, remained in effect until 2003.”
Posted in Acadian, Cajun, New Orleans
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>Facebook updates, my blog reads, cemeteries and Ancestry
>Facebook sure did make a quick turnaround with its TOS. No sooner did I post the last news story to the Copyright RootsWeb mailing list about the potential suit filed, than Facebook issued a statement to the news that there … Continue reading
>"Land of Free Genealogy", a new banner
>The mailbag was full this morning with interesting reads. Here are a few of my picks from the mailbag. The LAGenWeb mailing list posted that there is a proposal and discussion about several new banners going up on RootsWeb USGenWeb … Continue reading
