The GED
files for these genealogies – who begat whom - are located at http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=madvintner.
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When I first 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 was 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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A former student 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 here is 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 [email protected].
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.
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Research
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This
page was last updated on 05/29/2011.