Thanks to those on the NOVA last who answered this question; the identity of the school was confirmed by Jay Schexnaydre of the St. James Parish list. > [Original Message] > From: GACHGS Webmaster <webmaster@gachgs.com> > To: <carolynlong@earthlink.net> > Date: 04/17/2008 10:02:18 PM > Subject: Re: St. Michael's School 1850 > > Carolyn, > > The school would be the "Convent" for which the town of Convent gets its name. This Convent was located approximately 3/4 of a mile up river from St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church. This school was known as the Academy of the Sacred Heart or St. Michael's Convent. The building was torn down many years ago. > > It was run by a religious order of nuns based in France. As a boarding school wealthy girls from all over Louisiana, the US and Central & South America attended the school. RSCJ is the initials for religious order of nuns "Religieux de Sacr�-Coeur de J�su" (Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). All Catholic priests, brothers and nuns that belong to a specific order sign their name with the initials of their order. Annette Praz was likely the headmistress of the school at the time when she wrote to Archbishop Antoine Blanc. > > This is not to be confused with the small white school house currently located next to the church which operated in the 20th century as a small parochial school and closed in the early 1970s. > > Sincerely > Jay Schexnaydre > Webmaster, GACHGS > > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Carolyn Long <carolynlong@earthlink.net> > > Subject: St. Michael's School 1850 > > Sent: 14 Apr '08 16:54 > > > > On the website for the Notre Dame Archives I found some correspondence > > between Madame Annette Praz, R.S.C.J., St. Michael, Louisiana and > > Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, regarding a pupil at the school, > > dated 1850. Would this be the St. Michael's School at Convent, Louisiana? > > Does anybody know what R.S.C.J. means? Thanks for your help. > > > > --- Carolyn Long > > --- [LINK: mailto:carolynlong@earthlink.net] carolynlong@earthlink.net > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.0/1383 - Release Date: 04/17/2008 9:00 AM

Here's an article about Claitor's purchase of Hebert Publications. Bob Claitor told me that they will extend SWLR to 1917. http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/magazine/18178334.html Judy Riffel Baton Rouge, LA

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Thanks Sue, I didn't know about that site. It must have been 10 years ago when someone looked this up for me. Nancy From: SUEWFISHER@aol.com > > Mary, > > Here is a website where you can fill out a form online and submit it for a > free lookup in the "Directory of Deceased American Physicians." > > _http://www.ancestralfindings.com/cd507.htm_ > (http://www.ancestralfindings.com/cd507.htm) > > Good luck, > Sue

Mary, The American Medical Assoc. printed a "Directory of Deceased American Physicians 1804-1929" I know there is a copy of it in the Library of Congress. It lists all the physicians who belonged to the AMA and died before 1929. In the listing for George A. Morrison it gives his date and place of death, year of birth, dates and place of practice, medical school, year of granduation, the citation for the obituary and cause of death. Very small print, on an 8.5 by 11 page, there are 4 columns across. Maybe you can find someone who can check this directory for you, or you may be able to find the directory somewhere else. If he did not belong to the AMA, he will not be listed. Nancy -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Mary Atwood" <atwood.too@gmail.com> > > On a fishing expedition with a specific individual in mind. > > The bait: William F. FISHER > b. about 1836 in Louisiana > > I'd like to find out where in Louisiana and connect him to his birth > family & siblings. He is supposed to be Irish. On one census it > shows both is parents as born in Louisiana. I don't have any > indication if this family is in the New Orleans area or elsewhere. > > Meanwhile, this is what I know about the rest of his life: > > His wife is Emmeline possibly-BEACH who was born about Sept. 1835 in New York. > > In September 1866 they had a son (Henry Beach Fisher) born in > Wisconsin (Port Washington) or Michigan. > > William F. Fisher also went by W.F. He was a physician. > > The family shows up in Manistee Michigan in 1870. There was a > daughter, Jenny B. Fisher, born in 1871 in Minnesota. On the 1880 > federal census and 1885 Minnesota census the family is in Saint Paul, > Ramsey county, Minnesota. > > Dr. W.F. Fisher dies before 1900, and his son Henry B. Fisher moves to > Santa Clara county, California, taking his mother. She lives with him > until her death in 1921. > > Thanks for any help or suggestions. > > Mary > ~Northern California > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

I'd like to see additional columns for alternate spellings of the name submitted as "corrections"; there is one in the N.O. database that isn't correct, judging from other records of the period. If we had additional columns, we could then search on a variety of spellings. I have seen enough old records to know that sometimes the person doing the original transcription didn't write it correctly. Judy Vinson ________________________________ From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of peggy Sent: Fri 4/25/2008 12:34 PM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAORLEAN] Note on corrections Hi List! I just wanted to mention that you might want to be careful with birth & death index corrections. Often, the name was mis-spelled on the actual record, as I found out with several of my ancestors. Correcting it might lead to not being able to find the record in the Archives if you send in for records with the name spelled the way you know it to be, as they will be searching for what you send. Since the actual record has the name spelled a different way, it would not be found during your search request. peggy rooney ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Right, Peggy I always check with Bill first to find out what is on the original. penny ----- Original Message ----- From: "peggy" <rooneytoon29@earthlink.net> Subject: [LAORLEAN] Note on corrections Hi List! I just wanted to mention that you might want to be careful with birth & death index corrections. Often, the name was mis-spelled on the actual record, as I found out with several of my ancestors. Correcting it might lead to not being able to find the record in the Archives if you send in for records with the name spelled the way you know it to be, as they will be searching for what you send. Since the actual record has the name spelled a different way, it would not be found during your search request. peggy rooney

I'll take care of it Jan. Thanks for the heads up. Penny ----- Original Message ----- From: <romayor2@aol.com> Hi Dee,? I have a correction.? In N.O. Births the following: Peterson?? Rebecca?? Father Olof? Mother 's last name is Brooks not Broocks. ??????????????? Laura??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Brooks not Brool. This is my GGGrandmother. Jan in SE TX

got it thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darnell Brunner" <darnellbrunner@hotmail.com> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Corrections Penny, That's yours. Darnell Marie Brunner Beck {Dee} "The Woman who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Edward J Phelps 1822 - 1900 Orleans Parish Archives http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans.htm My Home Page http://members.cox.net/darnellmbrunner/home.htm -------------------------------------------------- From: <romayor2@aol.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 10:20 AM To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Subject: [LAORLEAN] Corrections > Hi Dee,? I have a correction.? In N.O. Births the following: > > Peterson?? Rebecca?? Father Olof? Mother 's last name is Brooks not > Broocks. > ??????????????? > Laura??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Brooks > not Brool. > > This is my GGGrandmother. > > Jan in SE TX > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1398 - Release Date: 4/25/2008 2:31 PM

Could the correction on the list be made in parens after the name with an asterisk saying that corrections requested by family. -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of PB Delery Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:54 PM To: Darnell Brunner; laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Corrections got it thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darnell Brunner" <darnellbrunner@hotmail.com> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Corrections Penny, That's yours. Darnell Marie Brunner Beck {Dee} "The Woman who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Edward J Phelps 1822 - 1900 Orleans Parish Archives http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans.htm My Home Page http://members.cox.net/darnellmbrunner/home.htm -------------------------------------------------- From: <romayor2@aol.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 10:20 AM To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Subject: [LAORLEAN] Corrections > Hi Dee,? I have a correction.? In N.O. Births the following: > > Peterson?? Rebecca?? Father Olof? Mother 's last name is Brooks not > Broocks. > ??????????????? > Laura??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Brooks > not Brool. > > This is my GGGrandmother. > > Jan in SE TX > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1398 - Release Date: 4/25/2008 2:31 PM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

List, I agree with Peggy. The NOVA-created, online indexes are a transcription of the indexes created, I believe, by the WPA in the 1930s. These indexes were the best reading at that time of what the record actually says. These indexes are historical in their own right and should be preserved as they are. It is standard practice to not change historical indexes. In addition to the rationale presented by Peggy, it should be remembered that there is not necessarily a "correct" way to spell a name. One relative may suggest one spelling and another a different spelling. Corrections can be made to be sure that the Orleans Online Archives index agrees with the original index. My name Hellmers occurs in the Orleans birth indexes as Halmens, Halmer, Helmer, Helmers, Herlms, Hillmers, and my favorite, Elmos. This is the way they should stay. These indexes should serve as the "official" indexes. If the Orleans Online Archives index agrees with the original, it should not be altered. Norm --- peggy <rooneytoon29@earthlink.net> wrote: . . . > I just wanted to mention that you might want to be > careful with birth & death index corrections. > Often, the name was mis-spelled on the actual > record, as I found out with several of my ancestors. . . . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

Mary, Here is a website where you can fill out a form online and submit it for a free lookup in the "Directory of Deceased American Physicians." _http://www.ancestralfindings.com/cd507.htm_ (http://www.ancestralfindings.com/cd507.htm) Good luck, Sue **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)

Hi List! I just wanted to mention that you might want to be careful with birth & death index corrections. Often, the name was mis-spelled on the actual record, as I found out with several of my ancestors. Correcting it might lead to not being able to find the record in the Archives if you send in for records with the name spelled the way you know it to be, as they will be searching for what you send. Since the actual record has the name spelled a different way, it would not be found during your search request. peggy rooney

Hey All This is another update for those who missed it. US Gen Web Archives has moved. We Thank rootsweb all these years for the space, but as a group we feel we are old enough now to get on our own two feet and move to our own space. Hey who doesn't love rootsweb. I use them all the time for the SS# index and their obit index pages. They might have something We don't have or if it is out of town papers and I am not sure where they are, I can always check them. The move includes all state and county (parish) archive pages. Orleans Parish is at http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans.htm Jefferson Parish http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/jefferso.htm All of Louisiana http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/lafiles.htm Right now the search engine is NOT working. They had so many at once on it that the new server could not handle it. So the smart people are building a new one. This takes awhile doing all the programming, then after it is built they have to feed the info into the search engines. which means basically is that the search engine has to read each file in the archives and memorize it. This is why google still picks up rootsweb sites in their search engines. They are programmed to read once a month or so, but their search engine reads every website out there that is free to the public. So until the engines catch up with themselves and us, there is NO search engine right now. One more last thing. 1. Links are broke, 2. some things haven't been linked yet, 3. search engines don't work. I have gotten all those emails, I am just not answering them one by one. I am doing it here right now. 1. Plenty of links are broke, I am still going through them to make sure they all go to the new ftp site and not rootsweb. Some one did do a find and replace, but like everything in life it isn't 100% perfect. 2. Things haven't been linked. That's all me, I have been in a depression since having to move from my hometown after Katrina and not even a year later my father died. That one hit me like a ton of bricks and I have been trying to pull myself out of the dumps. Some days are better then others. Plus my 20 year old child. Some people know and some don't but he is the kid you warn your kids to stay away from. I have tried everything but taking him out this world. But as Postal as I feel this days, I just might, I brought him into the world and I can take him out of it. 3. Search engines, see above answer again Darnell Marie Brunner Beck {Dee} "The Woman who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Edward J Phelps 1822 - 1900 Orleans Parish Archives http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans.htm My Home Page http://members.cox.net/darnellmbrunner/home.htm

Penny, That's yours. Darnell Marie Brunner Beck {Dee} "The Woman who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Edward J Phelps 1822 - 1900 Orleans Parish Archives http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans.htm My Home Page http://members.cox.net/darnellmbrunner/home.htm -------------------------------------------------- From: <romayor2@aol.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 10:20 AM To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Subject: [LAORLEAN] Corrections > Hi Dee,? I have a correction.? In N.O. Births the following: > > Peterson?? Rebecca?? Father Olof? Mother 's last name is Brooks not > Broocks. > ??????????????? > Laura??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Brooks > not Brool. > > This is my GGGrandmother. > > Jan in SE TX > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello, I came across a letter yesterday at the Archives Nationales concerning a Jacques Etienne Courreges from New Orleans. It is dated 1849. If anyone is interested, please contact me offlist. gis

Dee, you are soooo funny! I say slap the snot out of that 20 yr. old (you deserve respect).... And..... Thanks so much for all your hard work....its appreciated more than you could ever guess.... Betty ...aka: grumpysmom