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SEMANTIC DIFFERENCES 07/17/01 By Ron Thibodeaux Staff writer/The Times-Picayune Cultural evolution They're in their late 70s or 80s now, and their numbers are dwindling, but it's still possible to find at Acadiana's VFW and American Legion halls Army veterans who served as interpreters between their commanding officers and the French citizenry during World War II. For a Cajun GI, the gulf between the French of his upbringing in south Louisiana and the variety he encountered from the Cherbourg Peninsula to the streets of Paris proved to be choppy, but navigable. After all, it had been 340 years since the first Acadians arrived in the New World from the French countryside. While the mother tongue had been standardized in one direction, the language had taken a slightly different track in Acadie, diverging further in Louisiana as the Acadians absorbed other cultures into their own and transformed over time into Cajuns. As with other living languages, Cajun French continues to be influenced by regional variations, yet its basic framework of words and structures can be understood by fluent French speakers from other parts of the world. Here are a few examples of how Cajun French differs from standard French. CAR Standard French: voiture (vwa-choor) Cajun: char (shar) (People in France used the word that originally referred to carriages; Cajuns borrowed the word that originally referred to a horse drawn cart or wagon.) AIRPLANE Standard French: avion (ahv-yawn) Cajun: aeroplane (air-uh-plane) (Another product of the 20th century: the French devised their own word, while Cajuns adapted the English term used in America.) RAIN Standard French: pleuvoir (plue-vwahr) Cajun: mouiller (moo-yay) (An example of what linguists refer to as "semantic shift": mouiller means "to wet" in standard French.) NOW Standard French: maintenant (mehnt-naw) Cajun: asteur (es-toor) (The 17th century French phrase a cette heure, literally "at this hour," was retained by the Acadians and eventually shortened to a single word. Today, asteur is considered an archaic term in most of France.) RACCOON Standard French: NONE Cajun: chaoui (shah-wee) (Raccoons do not exist in France, and thus not in the French language; Cajuns borrowed the word from the Choctaw Indians.) RECEIVE Standard French: recevoir (res-vwahr) Cajun: recoir (res-wahr) (Cajuns shortened the standard French word.) SHRIMP Standard French: crevette (crev-et) Cajun: chevrette (shev-ret) (Cajuns use the original French word for shrimp; the modern standard French usage derives from the Norman regional variant, which developed after the Acadians relocated from France.) MOSQUITO Standard French: mousstiqque (moos-teek) Cajun: maringouin (The standard French word is used to some extent in Louisiana, but the more common Cajun term is believed to have been corrupted from a similar Indian word. In 1831, surveyors mapping an area of Iberville Parish were attacked by a swarm of huge black mosquitoes and decided to call that area Maringouin; the town founded nearby when the Texas & Pacific Railroad came through half a century later retained the name. CATFISH Standard French: poisson chat (pwa-saw shat) Cajun: barbue (bar-boo) (In standard French, the words for fish and cat are combined; the Cajun term means "bearded one," a reference to the fish's "whiskers.") BULLFROG Standard French: grenouille taureau (gren-wee tah-roe) Cajun: ouaouaron (wah-wah-rawn) (In standard French, the words for frog and bull are combined; the Cajun term derives from the sound of the bullfrog's low-toned croak.) © The Times-Picayune. Used with permission. » Send This Page | » Print This Page

CAJUN CULTURE EUNICE -- Barry Jean Ancelet is telling a joke. It has something to do with being a judge in a sauce piquante contest, something about how hot the sauces were. About half of the crowd at the Liberty Theater understand, and laugh. For the rest, those who can't understand Ancelet's smattering of staccato, thickly accented half-words and phrases, the punch line is forever a mystery. That's because almost all of "Rendez-vous des Cajuns," the weekly show at the Liberty, is delivered in Cajun French, a dialect understood by few outside of Acadiana and a foreign tongue even to some Cajuns. But the language is a key element of the show, which for the past 14 years has drawn local residents and some tourists to downtown Eunice on Saturday evenings for a 90-minute blend of indigenous music, humor and conversation. Billed as the Cajun version of "A Prairie Home Companion," but without some of the worldliness of that public radio feature, the show unfolds at 6 p.m. sharp on the stage of a renovated movie theater with a dance floor and 500 wooden chairs. "Bonjour, mes amis!" Ancelet, the host and a professor of history and French culture at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, proclaimed at the start of a recent show. A medley of Cajun French tumbled from his mouth as he waved his arm with a flourish to the parting of the heavy maroon curtains, and Donald Fontenot et les Cajuns de la Prairie, a group of mostly middle-aged musicians from Kinder, immediately rumbled into its set. Wailing in a thick accent, the singer, Donald Fontenot, pumped a three-button accordion to lead the band through "Grand Mamou Waltz" and "The Two-step de Balfa." Dancers, mostly elderly couples plainly dressed in jeans and cotton shirts, turned, twisted, swayed and swaggered across the sloping pine dance floor squeezed between the band and the front row of spectators. "This is one of the best places to dance around," Paul Dardeau of Ville Platte said, jaunting off the dance floor after one number. "A place like this is unique. That's the only thing to call it." The locals come for the music and the conversation. The tourists come because the setting feels authentic, like a real Cajun dance hall and, unlike some more well-known spots, because local residents are there. Not just for tourists Ancelet said he and several colleagues conceived "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" as a way to promote and preserve authentic Cajun culture. "One of the things we were concerned about was doing it in the culture's own terms. Not commodifying it only for tourism," said Ancelet. "It was one of the reasons why I insisted on doing this in French in the early goings. I wanted to make sure we were helping to support something, and not put another nail in the coffin of something we were allegedly trying to promote." On stage, he sticks to a simple formula: Introduce the band, let the band play, make small talk with the audience and just let the program roll. "The interviews I do on the air, live, in front of God and everybody, are totally unprepared. I'm no David Letterman," Ancelet said. "I have no idea what's going to happen. I have no idea if I'm going to get into a world of trouble or feel the fool," he said. Ancelet also sneaks in bits and pieces of Acadiana's history, using the program as an introduction to Cajun culture. It's a tactic he calls "guerrilla education." For all generations Conducting the show in the native tongue has consequences, because a show of hands on a typical night usually means a 50-50 split of French speakers and non-French speakers. That leaves non-French speakers with a choice of sitting silently through the show, or asking those who understand for a translation. This sort of forced integration can be a benefit to everyone. "It creates a conversation that would never have happened otherwise," Ancelet said. "Though I'm never too sure how I'm being translated out there." Ancelet's jokes are not side-splitters. But he delivers them in French, and that's one of the charms of the show for the Cajuns in the audience. "You can go other places and hear the good music and see the dancing, but this is smoke-free and we're back home on time," said 72-year-old Ollie Harmon, sitting next to her husband, Ray, near the back of the theater. The couple, from the town of Branch, both speak French and have been coming to "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" for 10 years. They used to dance the night away. Now they take their grandchildren to hear the music. That's what it's all about, Ancelet said. "Here, a kid -- a 10-year-old kid -- can see his grandma and grandpa loving this. He gets to dance with his momma, or dance with his grandma," Ancelet said. "And he might say, 'This is OK. I like this. Every once in a while, I'll listen to it.' That's OK." Still, even an activist such as Ancelet doesn't paint a rosy picture for the future of Cajun culture. "This is not enough. This is important. It fuels a lot of pride, a lot of cultural resurgence, but it's not enough," he said. "Until we find a way to restore the language and to restore the culture's ability to perpetuate itself in its own terms, this will disappear." . . . . . . . Staff writer Angela Rozas may be reached at arozas@timespicayune.com or (504) 467-1726. © The Times-Picayune. Used with permission. » Send This Page | » Print This Page

EUNICE -- It's a long walk from the parking lot at the end of Eisenhower Street and the scent of soggy hay underfoot hangs heavy in the Cajun prairie air, because yesterday it rained until the dogs drank standing up. Past the gates of the 16th annual World Championship Crawfish Etouffee Cookoff, where the aroma is a more enticing blend of butter, tomato, onion and crawfish, Danielle Gremillion has been busy all morning, stirring the roux that will buoy 15 pounds of crawfish tails. Just past noon, a crowd forms at her family's booth, lured by the sign proclaiming this the home of last year's amateur division champion, and Danielle begins serving up heaping $2 bowls of rice drenched in the rich, creamy, crawfish-laden etouffee, garnished with a big smile and a cheery thank-you. On stage, the Kenneth Thibodeaux Band cranks up a two-step, then another, then a waltz, all sung in French. Soon the musicians are joined by accordion player Garrett Doucet. As the band breaks into "Les Flammes d'Enfer," he cuts loose, coaxing rapid-fire riffs out of his squeezebox. Garrett and Danielle don't know each other -- he's from Church Point, she lives in Abbeville -- but they share a vital bond. He's 9 years old, she's 11, and they are part of a new generation of Cajuns whose parents, unlike the generation before, are intent on reinforcing and perpetuating their culture as the influences of modern America continue to erode it. Their interest in the music and cooking of their ancestors is significant these days, because the survival of Louisiana's unique Cajun culture in the 21st century is uncertain, if not downright imperiled. There remains no place in the contiguous United States like Cajun country, where one ethnic group influences much of the entire state yet cannot be found in significant numbers anywhere else. About 400,000 Louisiana residents, 10 percent of the state's population, listed Cajun or Acadian first as their ancestry in the 1990 census. Information from the 2000 census is not yet available. In Eunice, the old Cajun ways evoke a lifestyle instilled more than two centuries ago by the French-speaking Catholics who settled in south Louisiana after being forced out of their Acadian homeland in what is now Nova Scotia. Those ways remain embodied in people such as Dewey Patin, whose Cajun French accent is as thick as the leathery skin of his hands, hardened by a lifetime of fishing the Atchafalaya River Basin. At 92 years old, Patin still ventures every day into the expansive cypress swamp where he harvested the timbers to build his home in the 1940s, and where the solitude has insulated him like a floppy mattress of Spanish moss from the distractions of the outside world. But outside the living time capsule of the deep swamps, the cumulative effects of the suppression of the French language among native speakers and the incursion of modern American culture during much of the 20th century have left most Cajuns at a crossroads. Today, almost two decades after they were "discovered" by the rest of the country, Cajuns find their music still winning fans from coast to coast, their cooking more popular than ever, and widespread new efforts under way to preserve the French language in the state. Thus some are reassured that Louisiana's Cajun culture is regaining a solid foothold to embrace the future. Others see the bottle of hot sauce as half-empty. It's the volcano theory of cultural anthropology: A dying culture always undergoes a final eruption before it flames out altogether. There's a festival every weekend somewhere in Acadiana, but as locals gather to pass a good time, their fun belies the irony that Cajun customs once commonplace, such as the boucherie, have all but disappeared except when a festival is staged once a year to celebrate them. Years from now, folks in Houma and New Iberia might still be rocking to the music of Beausoleil as they wait in the drive-through line for their Cajun tacos. But the culture will be lost if a cypress tree falls in the Atchafalaya swamp and there's no one there who knows to say "Poo-yi!" What should be made of this surging interest in the unique aspects of Cajun life? Is it a true renaissance, or a last hurrah? Going nationwide It was back in the 1980s, once chef Paul Prudhomme took his blackened redfish on the road to New York and California and filmmakers started spicing Louisiana-themed movies with Cajun and zydeco tunes, that Cajun became cool. Suddenly, the rest of America couldn't get enough Cajun food, Cajun music, Cajun anything. Frito-Lay hired ersatz Cajun comedian Justin Wilson to hawk "Cajun Spice" Ruffles potato chips on national television, as all manner of new, pepper-heavy foods were wrongfully labeled Cajun and rushed onto grocery shelves and restaurant menus. Cajun musicians who performed for fun and pocket change when they weren't building furniture or driving school buses for a living were nominated for Grammy awards. Soon, curious tourists began venturing beyond New Orleans and the River Road plantations to see what all the commotion was about. >From Manhattan to San Francisco, what all the nouveau fans of Cajun chic didn't realize was that the culture they were celebrating as hip was, in fact, dying back in Acadiana, the result of almost three quarters of a century of ridicule and ostracism about the Cajun French language and pressure to conform to modern America. In the 1920s, the largely illiterate Cajun population had been forced by law to send its children to school, where the students were not allowed to speak the French they knew from home. Those who did were punished and shamed. Meanwhile, Louisiana had begun building roads linking remote Cajun villages to one another and the rest of the state. And in the 1940s, young men from the bayous went off to war with soldiers from the rest of the country. When they returned, they were a little less Cajun and a lot more American. "My older brother was raised only speaking French until he started first grade. I'm 54, he's 59," said Warren Perrin, a lawyer with offices in Lafayette and his hometown of Erath. "Dad goes to World War II. He leaves a Cajun, he comes back an American. All the soldiers came back imbued with this nationalistic spirit. When I was born in '47, Mom and Dad decided, 'Warren will never hear French from us. We're Americans now.' " By this time, the oil industry was booming across south Louisiana, and that also changed the way people lived. Prosperity promised by steady work in the oil patch pulled Cajun men away from the farming and fishing that had been the mainstays of their existence for generations. No longer did they have to hunt or trap when the farming or fishing was slow. Consequently, oil field work ate away at family ties and native customs that had thrived when parents and children lived together off the land. And the Cajun population was diluted, too, by the waves of Texans, Oklahomans and others who moved in to work in Louisiana's oil industry. Once television arrived in Acadiana in the 1950s, there was no turning back the Americanization of Cajun country. An effort that began in the late 1960s to revive the French language in Louisiana by teaching it in elementary schools backfired. The teachers, recruited from other French-speaking countries, insisted on standard French instead of the indigenous variety. Parents and grandparents were angered and frustrated to see another generation of Cajun schoolchildren being taught that their language -- and, in the process, their way of life -- was inferior. The chip on their shoulders grew larger and heavier. Meanwhile, the number of Louisiana residents who spoke French at home dropped by more than half between 1970 and 1980, according to the U.S. census. By the 1980s, the culture was in a severe depression, and a similar fate soon befell the petroleum industry that had pumped so much money into Acadiana. Then the rest of America got a taste of south Louisiana -- literally -- and everything changed. Cajun takes Manhattan Opelousas native Prudhomme had opened his hole-in-the-wall New Orleans restaurant, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, in 1979. When he set up shop in Manhattan for a month in 1985, he introduced the world to blackened redfish and other culinary delights and called his creations Cajun. The New York restaurant scene took notice. So did The New York Times, and the national news media weren't far behind. In an instant, Cajun cooking was a genuine phenomenon. Restaurants all over the country began adding Cajun items to their menus, and food companies expanded their product lines to include Cajun varieties of staple items. The craze spread around the world, as Cajun restaurants and demand for Cajun seasonings exploded across Europe and into Australia and New Zealand. The public's interest in Cajun food was augmented by a burgeoning appetite for Cajun music. At the forefront was Beausoleil, formed by fiddler Michael Doucet in 1976 after he began researching traditional Cajun music with the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In the coming years, the band turned up as regular guests on the weekly public radio show "A Prairie Home Companion"; appeared on cable television programs on MTV and Showtime; and performed at Carnegie Hall, at folk festivals across North America and Europe and in major motion pictures including "The Big Easy" and "Belizaire the Cajun." That helped attune mainstream America to the vibrant music that was the soundtrack for life in south Louisiana. This newfound national interest in all things Cajun offered south Louisiana an economic alternative: "cultural tourism." That fledgling enterprise provided a seedbed for a new self-awareness among those brought up in Cajun culture. It sprang from the realization that people from other parts of the United States, as well as Canada, France and beyond, wanted to see Cajun country for themselves and were willing to pay to eat, drink and dance their way across south Louisiana. It started gradually, but a few critical events in the past decade helped point the Cajun population toward what some would consider a full-fledged revival. There was a changing of the guard at the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, the organization responsible for the ill-fated effort to promote French instruction in elementary schools. Perrin, the Lafayette and Erath lawyer, became CODOFIL's president in 1994, and with a cadre of new officers and foot soldiers, he launched another campaign to spark interest in the French language among the Cajun people. With a more grass-roots approach, the CODOFIL newcomers began speaking up for the Cajun culture and reaching out to "their" people across the state. One outgrowth of that effort has been the development of French immersion programs in several school systems, where French is a part of the students' entire curriculum, not just a single foreign language class. That same year, about 6,000 Louisianians traveled to the first Congres Mondial Acadien, or World Acadian Congress, an international gathering of people of Acadian descent. It was held in Nova Scotia, where Acadian families were expelled by the British in 1755; that event, which came to be known as le grand derangement, is the taproot of Louisiana's Cajun culture. For Louisiana Cajuns, the experience of discovering their roots, getting to know newfound relatives and reveling in the familiarity of a place 1,600 miles distant had a profound effect, kindling in them a sense of pride that had been on the wane for many years. That epiphany set the stage for Louisianians to host the same event in 1999. The resulting panorama of parades, concerts, festivals and -- most important -- family reunions united tens of thousands of Cajuns not only with Canadian, French and other foreign visitors, but also with one another. Descendants of many transplanted Acadian families held large-scale reunions that summer; the Landry family gathering alone drew 1,000 people in Lafayette. Lt. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who oversees the state's tourism efforts, attended many of the reunions and found two recurring themes. "One, when I walked in, almost every single family said, 'You've got to come see the genealogy room. That's the most popular room that we have.' And everybody had names of ancestral family members as far back as whatever that family could trace," said Blanco, herself a Cajun who grew up in Iberia Parish. "The other theme that was repeated over and over was, 'Thank you for doing this. We never thought of ourselves as an important people, and now we know we are.' That, to me, was probably the most valuable thing that came out of those celebrations: the self-recognition of worth." Death of a culture? Not all Cajuns shared in that warm, fuzzy feeling, and many today think the Cajun people's days as a distinct group are numbered. Much of that pessimism remains rooted in the decline of the French language and the surrender of other conventions of ordinary life to modernity. Former fisher Errol Verret of Catahoula pondered the Cajun way of life and said, "As the old people die, that's disappearing slow but sure." Many customs that were quintessentially Cajun have all but died out, such as the boucherie, a communal butchering of a pig or other livestock to provide not only a fresh supply of meat in the days before refrigeration, but also a social gathering; and the veillée, a spontaneous trip to visit nearby family or friends in the evenings or on Sunday afternoons. "We'd go visit with three or four kids in the car, before television," said Allen Leger, 72, who with his wife, Anna Mae, reared eight children on their farm near Iota. "Then, when television came along, no one visited anymore, and there went the country life. People don't talk anymore." Artist George Rodrigue gained national attention for his paintings depicting traditional Cajun people and folkways, a prelude to his "Blue Dog" fame. The changes that have cost the Cajun people so much of what made them unique have not been lost on him. "If it wasn't for me being Cajun, I wouldn't be here where I am today," Rodrigue said. "I went off to art school in Los Angeles in 1963, and while I was in L.A. I realized how different Louisiana was. After four years in L.A., I came back to Louisiana and I wanted to paint the Cajun culture that I saw was disappearing. "I can remember, as a boy, seeing Cajuns going to the grocery store in a horse and buggy, in places like Carencro and Ville Platte. I came back from college four years later and all of that was gone. The culture was slipping away." Experts who study cultures know that they are always changing, even if the change is too incremental to be noticeable. But the modernization wrought by the 20th century's myriad influences certainly expedited things for the Cajun people. "There's no doubt Cajun culture is one small component, one of the little pockets all over the world where people are trying to hold on to something in the midst of a very rapidly changing world," said Richard Marksbury, a Tulane University anthropologist. Rodrigue spends most of his time now in Carmel, Calif., but he maintains close ties to south Louisiana, and he despairs at the long-term prospects for keeping the flame lit. "The similarity of all dying cultures is that they grow at the end and they become larger than life," the New Iberia native said. "They go out with a great hoorah, and then it's over, and everyone imitates their work. . . . The (Cajun French) language will die off, there's no doubt about that. The attitude won't." Life continues Many Cajun people aren't dwelling on the issue at all. They work, they shop, they play ball, they go to school, they live typical, modern lives like most other Americans, unfettered by the debate. Yet throughout Acadiana, little things in the everyday lives of ordinary people suggest a subtle reaffirmation that this is a culture worth keeping around. It's 13-year-old Joel Martin being named the most promising young Cajun musician in the Lafayette area, and beginning his acceptance speech by saying, "I just want to thank my grandpa for building my accordion and teaching me." It's the steady stream of people pulling into the Best Stop Grocery in Scott every afternoon for a link or two of boudin to enjoy as they drive home from work. It's the teen-age boys in Des Allemands running catfish traps like their dads and uncles, and selling bags of catfish fillets in their neighborhoods for spending money, instead of flipping burgers. It's the 600 people jammed into the Yambilee building in Opelousas for the 14th annual International Cajun Joke-Telling Contest, laughing until they cry at Quinten Dronet's stories about his hapless but endearing nannain, or godmother, and knowing what he means when he concludes by saying, "Life is nothing but fun and good, and the reason why it is so fun and good is because we in Louisiana know how to laugh." It's the kids at the junior high school dance in Church Point during the Easter vacation, amid the rap music of Nelly and the slow songs by *NSYNC, asking the disc jockey to play Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys and Wayne Toups. It's 61-year-old Roy Blanchard, now the maintenance man at the Holiday Inn Express in Henderson after fishing the waters of the Atchafalaya Basin for 28 years, chatting up guests at the motel's breakfast buffet every morning about life in Cajun country. The Cajuns have a tradition of adaptability, dating back to the Acadians' adjustment to the hot, muggy, mosquito-infested land of bayous, swamps and prairies vastly different from their sometimes-chilly, rocky homeland in the Canadian Maritimes. Given their spirit, it would be premature to prepare an obituary for this people, Tulane's Marksbury suggested. "As long as there are people who say, 'We are Cajun,' as long as there are symbols there for them to latch on to, as long as there is some oral tradition, there will be a Cajun culture," he said. "Too often we get caught up in the idea that it's on its last legs, it's on its last gasp. Some cultures do disappear. They're gone. They get assimilated into the greater society. But if Cajun culture can withstand 20th century Louisiana, all the changes that went on, I'd say that it's pretty much proven that it's going to be here for a good while." . . . . . . . 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Does anyone have a current email address for the Web Site manager of the Lafourche GenWeb? It's been a couple of weeks. Does anyone have the email address for the site's manager? Brian J. Oster Brian_Oster@vienici.com webmaster http://www.vienici.com

BTW, the Cathedral's website is: http://www.saintlouiscathedral.org/tableof.htm and the Archdiocesan Archives URL is: http://www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/ Again, happy hunting! Renée Renée Clay wrote: > Dear Alice, > > First, I would ask one of the librarians at the Louisiana Collection of the New > Orleans Public Library, especially Wayne Everard who is the webmaster for the > library at: weverard@gno.lib.la.us or Greg Osborne who does cemetery tours for > Friends of New Orleans Cemeteries. I don't have Greg's e-mail, unfortunately. The > library's phone number is: 504-529-READ. > http://nutrias.org/~nopl/info/louinfo/louinfo.htm > (I've probably told y'all this before but I have known some of these librarians for > almost 30 years. The whole staff of the Louisiana Division is terrific and always > willing to help. Many of you have had first hand experience, so you know what I > mean.) > > Greg is also friends with Robert Florence who wrote New Orleans Cemeteries : Life in > the Cities of the Dead. > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965708519/qid=1013868127/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-0287496-1266503 > > They both helped me save one of our family wall vaults from demolition in St. Louis > No. 3. > > One of those three wonderful people should be able to help you, but if not, contact > the Cathedral directly and call the Archdiocesan Archives. > > Best of luck! Let us know what you find out. > > Yours, > Renée > rvrclay@home.com > soon to be rvrclay@cox.net > > Alice Chauvin Bradshaw wrote: > > > one of my Chauvins buried here, i'm sure...where to go to find which one > > it is? anybody, any help out here? alice > > Saint Louis Cathedral - Early History > > http://www.saintlouiscathedral.org/historye.htm > > > > ==== LALAFOUR Mailing List ==== > > This is a FLAME free Zone > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ==== LALAFOUR Mailing List ==== > USGenWeb Archives > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Dear Alice, First, I would ask one of the librarians at the Louisiana Collection of the New Orleans Public Library, especially Wayne Everard who is the webmaster for the library at: weverard@gno.lib.la.us or Greg Osborne who does cemetery tours for Friends of New Orleans Cemeteries. I don't have Greg's e-mail, unfortunately. The library's phone number is: 504-529-READ. http://nutrias.org/~nopl/info/louinfo/louinfo.htm (I've probably told y'all this before but I have known some of these librarians for almost 30 years. The whole staff of the Louisiana Division is terrific and always willing to help. Many of you have had first hand experience, so you know what I mean.) Greg is also friends with Robert Florence who wrote New Orleans Cemeteries : Life in the Cities of the Dead. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965708519/qid=1013868127/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-0287496-1266503 They both helped me save one of our family wall vaults from demolition in St. Louis No. 3. One of those three wonderful people should be able to help you, but if not, contact the Cathedral directly and call the Archdiocesan Archives. Best of luck! Let us know what you find out. Yours, Renée rvrclay@home.com soon to be rvrclay@cox.net Alice Chauvin Bradshaw wrote: > one of my Chauvins buried here, i'm sure...where to go to find which one > it is? anybody, any help out here? alice > Saint Louis Cathedral - Early History > http://www.saintlouiscathedral.org/historye.htm > > ==== LALAFOUR Mailing List ==== > This is a FLAME free Zone > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

one of my Chauvins buried here, i'm sure...where to go to find which one it is? anybody, any help out here? alice Saint Louis Cathedral - Early History http://www.saintlouiscathedral.org/historye.htm

E-mail message From: cribbswh@tbi-set.org (cribbswh) Date: Sun, Feb 10, 2002, 3:19am (CST+6) To: obitcentral@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ObitCentral] Latest additions to the Obituary Links Page Reply to: obitcentral-owner@yahoogroups.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/0csqlB/TM ---------------------------------------------- Hi subscribers: In this post you'll find some of the latest links added to the Obituary Links Page http://www.obitlinkspage.com and Obituary Central http://www.obitcentral.com.   I say "some of" because there are many links which get added but I don't have my record book with me to record them.   Also, I am always updating links and search engines to bring the "latest, greatest, up-to-datest" information to you. Here are the links: MI - Genesee Co. - Genesee County Death Index MI - Genesee Co. - Genesee Cemetery Burials Index PA - Cambria Co. - Nanty-Glo Obituary Index MA - Plymouth Co. - Wareham Courier Obituary Index NM - Dona Ana Co. - Dona Ana County Area Obituaries NY - Ulster Co. - Kingston Daily Freeman Death Notices TX - Bowie Co. - Unclaimed Marriage Certificates MN - St. Louis Co. - Iron Range Research Center Obit/Cemetery Search KS - Lyon Co. - Obituary Index 1892-1989 KS - Lyon Co. - Obituary Index 1990-1999 CA - Los Angeles Co. - McKinley Ave. Intermediate School Yearbook 1914 KS - Washington Co. - Haddam & Washington County Obituaries OH - Hamilton Co. - St. Bernard High School Annual 1936 WA - Clallam Co. - Clallam County Obituary Index CA - Riverside Co. - Riverside County Pre-1905 Death Index KS - Ness Co. - Ness County Obituary Search Engine LA - East Baton Rouge Parish - Baton Rouge Gazette Extracts 1827-1841 OH - Pickaway Co. - Pickaway County Marriages OH - Logan Co. - Logan County Deaths MT - Fallon Co. - Fallon County Cemetery Inscriptions MT - Roosevelt Co. - Roosevelt County Cemetery Inscriptions CO - Kit Carson Co. - Kit Carson County Cemetery Inscriptions NE - Clay Co. - Clay County Cemetery Inscriptions NE - Franklin Co. - Franklin County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - Statewide - Dakota Freie Presse Obituary Index ND - Emmons Co. - Obituaries from the Emmons County Record ND - Emmons Co. - Emmons County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - Grant Co. - Grant County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - Hettinger Co. - Hettinger County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - McHenry Co. - McHenry County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - McIntosh Co. - McIntosh County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - Mercer Co. - Mercer County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - Morton Co. - Morton County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - Oliver Co. - Oliver County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - Pierce Co. - Pierce County Cemetery Inscriptions ND - Stark Co. - Stark County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Statewide - Dakota Freie Presse Obituary Index SD - Edmunds Co. - Obits from the Bowdle Pioneer SD - BonHomme Co. - BonHomme County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Charles Mix Co. - Charles Mix County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Gregory Co. - Gregory County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Hand Co. - Hand County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Hutchinson Co. - Hutchinson County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Jerauld Co. - Jerauld County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - McPherson Co. - Obituaries from Eureka Post SD - McPherson Co. - McPherson County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Turner Co. - Turner County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Walworth Co. - Walworth County Cemetery Inscriptions SD - Yankton Co. - Yankton County Cemetery Inscriptions CANADA - Saskatchewan - Obituaries from the Assiniboia Times CANADA - Saskatchewan - Obituaries from the Maple Creek News CANADA - Saskatchewan - Obituaries from the Medicine Hat News That's all the links for now.   Hey, do me a favor...please pass this post on to anyone or any list that you think it will be helpful to! Together, we can make the Obituary Links Page more and more useful to the genealogical community! Till next time, Bill Cribbs Obituary Central http://www.obitcentral.com Obituary Links Page http://www.obitlinkspage.com GenTalk.org http://www.gentalk.org GenHelp.org http://www.genhelp.org Past Faces http://www.geocities.com/pastfaces GenDirectory.com http://www.gendirectory.com This group is associated with Obituary Central http://www.obitcentral.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: obitcentral-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Obit of MERILDA (DAIGLE) LAVIGNE, 95, THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL Providence, RI 2.8.2002 00:13 MERILDA (DAIGLE) LAVIGNE - North Smithfield MERILDA (DAIGLE) LAVIGNE, 95, of Mendon Road, a homemaker, died Wednesday 6 Feb. 2002, at St. Antoine Residence. She was the wife of the late Romeo Lavigne. Born in St. Ferdinand D'Halifax, (Megantic) Province of Quebec, a daughter of the late Ludger and Eva (Cote) Daigle, she had lived at St. Antoine since 1996, previously living in West Warwick. Before arriving in the United States in 1928, she was a school teacher in a one-room school house in Canada. Mrs. Lavigne was an honorary member of Ladies of St. Anne of St. John Church. She leaves a son, J. Reynald Lavigne of White Plains, N.Y.; two daughters, Lucille Provencher of Victoriaville, Province of Quebec, and Jeannine Picard of Cumberland; three brothers, Bernardin, Aurelien and Bertrand Daigle, all of Montreal, Canada; and 13 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. She was the sister of the late Albert, Donat, Wilfrid and Honorius Daigle, Diana Blondeau, Rose Fortier, Annette Lanoix and Irene Corriveau, and grandmother of the late Peter Picard. The funeral and burial will be private.

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