----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Strickland" <jans884@bellsouth.net> To: "LAORLEAN" <laorlean@rootsweb.com>; "NOGDCR" <NOGDCR@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Genealogy research and info > Just a little light spot for your day. > > Now everyone is doing genie research. Check this: http://www.msnbc.msn > com/id/23797072/ > > ***I have been saying that it's only a matter of time that we in NO will > find that we are all related***LOL > > Jan S - Orlando, FL > > > ------------------------------- > 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

The New Orleans Public Library has a card index that has listed the date of death for a person and where in the newspaper it is located. You can write to them in order to get a copy of the obituary. Do you know the date of death? What cemetery was he buried in? Blake E. Relle brelle@cox.net -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Cheramie Breaux Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:53 PM To: LAORLEAN@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAORLEAN] obit request-Davis I can't get to New Orleans. I just yesterday, found the death date and burial place of my g-g-g-grandfather, after searching for YEARS. He died in New Orleans. His wife, who died later, did have an obit published in both french and english newspapers. Can someone suggest a way I could find out if he had an obit anywhere? So I could ask someone to get it for me. :>) Thanks, Cheramie ------------------------------- 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 can't get to New Orleans. I just yesterday, found the death date and burial place of my g-g-g-grandfather, after searching for YEARS. He died in New Orleans. His wife, who died later, did have an obit published in both french and english newspapers. Can someone suggest a way I could find out if he had an obit anywhere? So I could ask someone to get it for me. :>) Thanks, Cheramie

----- Original Message ---- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23797072 From: Barbara <john316@wt.net> To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:16:10 PM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Genealogy research and info Hi Jan, The link does not work. Could you try again as I would like to read what it says. Thanks, Barbara Ann Cangiamilla ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Strickland" <jans884@bellsouth.net> To: "LAORLEAN" <laorlean@rootsweb.com>; "NOGDCR" <NOGDCR@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Genealogy research and info > Just a little light spot for your day. > > Now everyone is doing genie research. Check this: http://www.msnbc.msn > com/id/23797072/ > > ***I have been saying that it's only a matter of time that we in NO will > find that we are all related***LOL > > Jan S - Orlando, FL > > > ------------------------------- > 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: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.0/1341 - Release Date: 3/24/2008 > 3:03 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Hello List, I went to the Slidell Library and picked up a packet for the program. All five books mentioned were included in the packet. {as a loan of course} I have copied the introduction and details on the first session here. It seems like a lot to cover in a two hour session. If you are interested, I will copy the details of the other five sessions for the list also. Penny T The Creole Identity and Experience In Louisiana Literature and History The Creole identity in Louisiana life and culture emerged in the eighteenth century and has taken palpable form in several regions of the state. With its aura of fascination and exoticism, it has commanded both the imagination and the curiosity of Americans - readers and tourists. This program will enable readers to examine social class, race and culture in the shaping and transference of the designation--assumed or imposed--on groups in Louisiana’s history. The establishment of a permanent Louisiana Creole Heritage Center at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches as well as recent scholarly and popular presentations on Creole history, literature, folk life, and culture at regional and national Creole conferences in New Orleans, Chicago, Houston, and even California all testify to the enduring interest in the Creole experience in Louisiana. Literary texts for this reading series include several depicting Creoles in New Orleans. George Washington Cable, a New Orleans native, portrayed them in his novel The Grandissimes. Grace King and Alice Dunbar-Nelson presented early sympathetic and illuminating writing on the group. Anne Rice represents a more recent historical novel/romance in The Feast of all Saints. But other literary works present Creole life and experience in other parts of Louisiana. Northwestern Louisiana is the setting for Lalita Tademy’s Cane River, and rural south Louisiana is featured in Ernest J Gaines’ Catherine Carmier, which dramatizes the clash between African American, black Creole, and white Cajun agrarians, Historical texts include Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s 1917 essay, “People of Color in Louisiana” and selected chapters from Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, edited by Arnold Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon. This reading list will be supplemented with handouts and suggestions for further reading. “Discussion” items are supplementary readings that provide interesting contexts and background. They will be summarized where appropriate by the discussion leader and copies will be available to participants. Wednesday, April 23 Session I: Colonial Foundations of Creole Culture and Identity The introductory session begins with an exercise in which the participants articulate their understandings of the term “Creole” and how those understandings shape their sense of Creole identity. Beginning with “people of Color in Louisiana,” by Creole intellectual Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, discussion focuses on the origins of Creole elements and how they forged a culture and identity. Dunbar-Nelson laid the ground work for the study of gens de couleur in the early twentieth century, defining the caste system which evolved in Louisiana and describing how the subtle distinctions of various racial groups made complexion a crucial marker of social and political status. Readings: LEH Handout: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Louisiana.” Sybil Klein ED., Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2000, pp. 3-41. Other Handouts: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “The Stones of the Village”; Sybil Klein, La Chaudriene pele la gregue…./The Pot Calls the Coffee Pot”; short sketches by Lafcadio Hearn, “The Creole Character” {distributed at the session}. Discussion: Calvin Trillin, “American Chronicles: Black or White?”; Virgina Dominguez: White by Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Wonderful! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny Tveiten" <pennyt153@yahoo.com> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Library to hold program on Creole literature andhistory >I called this morning to register, and they called me back and said the >packets were ready and I could come by and pick it up. I'll go this >evening after work and let you know what it contains. She said I was the >first to call. > > Penny T > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Monday, March 24, 2008 Donated DNA to SMGF? You Could Get a $19.50 Profile Posted by Diane If you've participated in the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation’s (SMGF) DNA study, you may be able to get your genetic genealogy test results for just $19.50. SMGF’s collaboration with the DNA-enabled social networking site Genetree has provided an avenue for SMGF to release the DNA profiles in what study director Scott Woodward calls a “compelling, confidential” way. To be eligible for the offer, you must have ordered an SMGF participation kit prior to Oct. 23, 2007, and returned the properly completed kit to SMGF postmarked no later than Dec. 31, 2007. If that’s you, you’ll be able to access your mitochondrial (mt) DNA profile (with genetic information passed from mothers to their children), along with the pedigree information you submitted to SMGF, online through Genetree. You’ll need a free Genetree basic membership to view your profile. It’ll take about two weeks for your request to be filled—get instructions for obtaining your results on Genetree's "unlock" page. The SMGF study started in 2000 at Brigham Young University’s Center for Molecular Genealogy, with researchers collecting blood samples and pedigree charts at genealogy conferences. The goal? Build a database of DNA and corresponding genealogical information. Several years ago, the project outgrew the university and moved to SMGF, where the database now contains nearly 100,000 DNA samples and more than 6 million corresponding genealogical records from people in 170 countries. You can search SMGF databases and contact potential relatives through the site, but until now, participants didn’t receive their test results. On Genetree, which launched in beta last October, you can create profiles for yourself and deceased relatives, add DNA test results or order an mtDNA test ($99 or $149), search for relatives, share memories, build a family tree, and invite relatives and friends to participate. Genealogy Insider News Genealogy Web Sites | Genetic Genealogy ************** Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)

I called this morning to register, and they called me back and said the packets were ready and I could come by and pick it up. I'll go this evening after work and let you know what it contains. She said I was the first to call. Penny T --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

This same RELIC program begins March 25 at the St John the Baptist Parish Library on Hwy 51 in LaPlace at 2:30 P.M.I will be attending. Hope to see some of you there. Ruth **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)

Same here. If material becomes available, please let us know online. Thanks! Rose -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Wilson Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 5:48 PM To: peggy; laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Library to hold program on Creole literature andhistory Importance: High Peggy: Is there any way to get/order a copy of the materials? I live in TX and will not be able to get to the meetings. Thanks G. Wilson Granbury, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "peggy" <rooneytoon29@earthlink.net> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:47 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Library to hold program on Creole literature and history > > Library to hold program on Creole literature and history > Posted by Roberta Carrow-Jackson March 24, 2008 11:29AM > Categories: Art & Culture > > The St. Tammany Parish Library - Slidell Branch at 555 Robert Blvd. will > host a six-week series of readings and discussions about the literary and > historical significance of Louisiana's Creole population. > > Melissa Bryant, Adult Programming Coordinator for the St. Tammany Parish > Public Library, announced in a news release today the free Creole > literature and history program "The Creole Identity and Experience in > Louisiana Literature and History." > > Funded by the State of Louisiana and sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment > for the Humanities and the Louisiana Library Association, the program is > free and open to the public and will be held on Wednesdays from 6:30 to > 8:30 p.m., beginning on April 23 and concluding on May 28 for a total of > six sessions. Those interested in attending are encouraged to register in > advance at the library - call 985-646-6470. > > "The Creole Identity and Experience" will be conducted by Thomas Fick, > Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University. The six > sessions are entitled: > 1) Colonial Foundations of Creole Culture and Identity; > 2) Les Americains and the Creole Experience: Cultural Transformation, > Criticism and Defense; 3) Gens de Couleur Libre: Neither White nor Black; > 4) Gens de Couleur Libre: Between Privilege and Oppression; > 5) A Legacy of Triumph: Four Generations of Creole Women; > 6) Creole Identity at Mid-Twentieth Century: Assimilation and Survival. > > Texts include: George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes, The Feast of > All Saints by Anne Rice, Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, by > Arnold Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon, Catherine Carmier, by Ernest Gaines, and > Cane River by Lalita Tademy. > > "Creole identity and culture have become uniquely associated with > Louisiana and have both persisted and undergone dynamic change in our > state's history," stated James Segreto, Director of RELIC Library Programs > for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He added, "'The Creole > Identity and Experience in Louisiana Literature and History' will offer > the reading public an opportunity to consider why Creole identity has > evolved and migrated among groups over history and how class, race, and > culture have been used by writers of the Creole experience. Historical > articles and novels will serve as platforms to launch discussions about > this endlessly engaging subject." > > Pre-registration is strongly encouraged because of the limited number of > books and expected public response. > > > ------------------------------- > 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

THANK YOU, DEE, COLLEEN AND TO ALL THE VOLUNTEERS THAT DID TRANSCRIBING FOR HELPING US "THAT LIVE OUT OF TOWN" DO GENEALOGY RESEARCH IN OUR PJ'S AND KEEPING GENEALOGY FREE. JUDY BORN IN NEW ORLEANS LIVING IN FLORIDA ************** Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)

Finally there is something here in Slidell! I think I will try to attend and hope there is a good turn out so they will sponser more events locally! I already have some of the books in my collection. Anyone else planning on going? Penny T ----- Original Message ---- From: Wilson <redhangar@charter.net> To: peggy <rooneytoon29@earthlink.net>; laorlean@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 5:47:44 PM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Library to hold program on Creole literature and history Peggy: Is there any way to get/order a copy of the materials? I live in TX and will not be able to get to the meetings. Thanks G. Wilson Granbury, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "peggy" <rooneytoon29@earthlink.net> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:47 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Library to hold program on Creole literature and history > > Library to hold program on Creole literature and history > Posted by Roberta Carrow-Jackson March 24, 2008 11:29AM > Categories: Art & Culture > > The St. Tammany Parish Library - Slidell Branch at 555 Robert Blvd. will > host a six-week series of readings and discussions about the literary and > historical significance of Louisiana's Creole population. > > Melissa Bryant, Adult Programming Coordinator for the St. Tammany Parish > Public Library, announced in a news release today the free Creole > literature and history program "The Creole Identity and Experience in > Louisiana Literature and History." > > Funded by the State of Louisiana and sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment > for the Humanities and the Louisiana Library Association, the program is > free and open to the public and will be held on Wednesdays from 6:30 to > 8:30 p.m., beginning on April 23 and concluding on May 28 for a total of > six sessions. Those interested in attending are encouraged to register in > advance at the library - call 985-646-6470. > > "The Creole Identity and Experience" will be conducted by Thomas Fick, > Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University. The six > sessions are entitled: > 1) Colonial Foundations of Creole Culture and Identity; > 2) Les Americains and the Creole Experience: Cultural Transformation, > Criticism and Defense; 3) Gens de Couleur Libre: Neither White nor Black; > 4) Gens de Couleur Libre: Between Privilege and Oppression; > 5) A Legacy of Triumph: Four Generations of Creole Women; > 6) Creole Identity at Mid-Twentieth Century: Assimilation and Survival. > > Texts include: George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes, The Feast of > All Saints by Anne Rice, Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, by > Arnold Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon, Catherine Carmier, by Ernest Gaines, and > Cane River by Lalita Tademy. > > "Creole identity and culture have become uniquely associated with > Louisiana and have both persisted and undergone dynamic change in our > state's history," stated James Segreto, Director of RELIC Library Programs > for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He added, "'The Creole > Identity and Experience in Louisiana Literature and History' will offer > the reading public an opportunity to consider why Creole identity has > evolved and migrated among groups over history and how class, race, and > culture have been used by writers of the Creole experience. Historical > articles and novels will serve as platforms to launch discussions about > this endlessly engaging subject." > > Pre-registration is strongly encouraged because of the limited number of > books and expected public response. > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

Bless you, Dee. And thanks for all the trouble you take to keep our files free. Kathleen in Connecticut, by way of New Orleans -------------- Original message -------------- > Orleans Parish is now at http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans.htm > Jefferson Parish is now at http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/jefferso.htm > > > > As always, Like I said from day one, I promise to keep the files free free > and free for always and forever. > >

Peggy: Is there any way to get/order a copy of the materials? I live in TX and will not be able to get to the meetings. Thanks G. Wilson Granbury, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "peggy" <rooneytoon29@earthlink.net> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:47 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Library to hold program on Creole literature and history > > Library to hold program on Creole literature and history > Posted by Roberta Carrow-Jackson March 24, 2008 11:29AM > Categories: Art & Culture > > The St. Tammany Parish Library - Slidell Branch at 555 Robert Blvd. will > host a six-week series of readings and discussions about the literary and > historical significance of Louisiana's Creole population. > > Melissa Bryant, Adult Programming Coordinator for the St. Tammany Parish > Public Library, announced in a news release today the free Creole > literature and history program "The Creole Identity and Experience in > Louisiana Literature and History." > > Funded by the State of Louisiana and sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment > for the Humanities and the Louisiana Library Association, the program is > free and open to the public and will be held on Wednesdays from 6:30 to > 8:30 p.m., beginning on April 23 and concluding on May 28 for a total of > six sessions. Those interested in attending are encouraged to register in > advance at the library - call 985-646-6470. > > "The Creole Identity and Experience" will be conducted by Thomas Fick, > Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University. The six > sessions are entitled: > 1) Colonial Foundations of Creole Culture and Identity; > 2) Les Americains and the Creole Experience: Cultural Transformation, > Criticism and Defense; 3) Gens de Couleur Libre: Neither White nor Black; > 4) Gens de Couleur Libre: Between Privilege and Oppression; > 5) A Legacy of Triumph: Four Generations of Creole Women; > 6) Creole Identity at Mid-Twentieth Century: Assimilation and Survival. > > Texts include: George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes, The Feast of > All Saints by Anne Rice, Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, by > Arnold Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon, Catherine Carmier, by Ernest Gaines, and > Cane River by Lalita Tademy. > > "Creole identity and culture have become uniquely associated with > Louisiana and have both persisted and undergone dynamic change in our > state's history," stated James Segreto, Director of RELIC Library Programs > for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He added, "'The Creole > Identity and Experience in Louisiana Literature and History' will offer > the reading public an opportunity to consider why Creole identity has > evolved and migrated among groups over history and how class, race, and > culture have been used by writers of the Creole experience. Historical > articles and novels will serve as platforms to launch discussions about > this endlessly engaging subject." > > Pre-registration is strongly encouraged because of the limited number of > books and expected public response. > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Thank you so much!! Copper On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Darnell Brunner < darnellbrunner@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hey Nova, > > Just a little note to let you know that the Gen Web Archive Pages for > Louisiana have moved to http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/lafiles.htm > > Orleans Parish is now at http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans.htm > Jefferson Parish is now at http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/jefferso.htm > > As of right now the search engines only will work through > rootsweb.ancestry.com until the files are completely removed from there. > > New search engines are in the making and will arrive as soon > possible(hopefully). As time permits with the whole United States pages > are > moving and the massive amount of work that takes, depends on how long it > will take for new search engines. > > As always, Like I said from day one, I promise to keep the files free free > and free for always and forever. > > Please bookmark the new pages, as the other ones will be leaving soon. > > > 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.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans.htm<http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eusgenweb/la/orleans.htm> > My Home Page > http://members.cox.net/darnellmbrunner/home.htm > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Hi Dee and NOVA, When I was at the FHC yesterday, the director showed me the new stuff they are doing at _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org/) . The LDS is transcribing and posting tons of records. If you go to _www.labs.familysearch.org_ (http://www.labs.familysearch.org/) , the screen is divided into two parts. On the left are all the records that have already been transcribed, and on the right are all the ones where the images have been posted and that are in progress of being transcribed. You should see the stuff they are working on! The director has been a beta tester for them. And the records are cross-referenced. She told me she was looking up a relative's death certificate. But the site also gave her the marriage record of the relative's daughter, since his name was on it. Several other references, too related to his name appearing in other family member's records. One of the things they have on the left of the screen (transcribed) is the Soc Security Death Index. The one Ancestry has (and maybe the Soc Security website, too) is not complete. The earlier records, from the early 1980s and before, are not there. Sometimes too if someone did not live to collect his SS benefits, he was not included in the list. So I don't know if the LDS has the complete index or not. The director told me that Ancestry regards the LDS efforts as competition, since the LDS is offering everything for free. She told me there are I think 210,000 volunteers that are working on transcribing records for the FHL right now. She said that last year Ancestry pulled themselves out of offering their free subscriptions to the FHC since they were mad about the free transcription project, but that now the subscriptions have been restored. Some of the people working for Ancestry bailed or were laid off and went to the FHL. She said and I agree that Ancestry is geared to their stockholders now and not to genealogy. It's all about money. She was pretty fed up with the situation, too. I told her that the State Managers were pulling their websites out of Rootsweb. Colleen In a message dated 3/23/2008 9:58:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, darnellbrunner@hotmail.com writes: Hey Nova, Just a little note to let you know that the Gen Web Archive Pages for Louisiana have moved to http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/lafiles.htm Orleans Parish is now at http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans.htm Jefferson Parish is now at http://www.usgwarchives.org/la/jefferso.htm As of right now the search engines only will work through rootsweb.ancestry.com until the files are completely removed from there. New search engines are in the making and will arrive as soon possible(hopefully). As time permits with the whole United States pages are moving and the massive amount of work that takes, depends on how long it will take for new search engines. As always, Like I said from day one, I promise to keep the files free free and free for always and forever. Please bookmark the new pages, as the other ones will be leaving soon. Darnell Marie Brunner Beck {Dee} **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)

Library to hold program on Creole literature and history Posted by Roberta Carrow-Jackson March 24, 2008 11:29AM Categories: Art & Culture The St. Tammany Parish Library - Slidell Branch at 555 Robert Blvd. will host a six-week series of readings and discussions about the literary and historical significance of Louisiana's Creole population. Melissa Bryant, Adult Programming Coordinator for the St. Tammany Parish Public Library, announced in a news release today the free Creole literature and history program "The Creole Identity and Experience in Louisiana Literature and History." Funded by the State of Louisiana and sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisiana Library Association, the program is free and open to the public and will be held on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., beginning on April 23 and concluding on May 28 for a total of six sessions. Those interested in attending are encouraged to register in advance at the library - call 985-646-6470. "The Creole Identity and Experience" will be conducted by Thomas Fick, Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University. The six sessions are entitled: 1) Colonial Foundations of Creole Culture and Identity; 2) Les Americains and the Creole Experience: Cultural Transformation, Criticism and Defense; 3) Gens de Couleur Libre: Neither White nor Black; 4) Gens de Couleur Libre: Between Privilege and Oppression; 5) A Legacy of Triumph: Four Generations of Creole Women; 6) Creole Identity at Mid-Twentieth Century: Assimilation and Survival. Texts include: George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes, The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice, Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, by Arnold Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon, Catherine Carmier, by Ernest Gaines, and Cane River by Lalita Tademy. "Creole identity and culture have become uniquely associated with Louisiana and have both persisted and undergone dynamic change in our state's history," stated James Segreto, Director of RELIC Library Programs for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He added, "'The Creole Identity and Experience in Louisiana Literature and History' will offer the reading public an opportunity to consider why Creole identity has evolved and migrated among groups over history and how class, race, and culture have been used by writers of the Creole experience. Historical articles and novels will serve as platforms to launch discussions about this endlessly engaging subject." Pre-registration is strongly encouraged because of the limited number of books and expected public response.

Al Copeland, founder of Popeyes fried chicken chain, dies at 64 NEW ORLEANS - Al Copeland, who became rich selling spicy fried chicken and notorious for his flamboyant lifestyle, died Sunday at a clinic near Munich, Germany. He was 64. The founder of the Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken chain had been diagnosed shortly before Thanksgiving with a malignant salivary gland tumor. His death was announced by his spokeswoman, Kit Wohl. After growing up in New Orleans, Copeland sold his car at age 18 for enough money to open his own one- man doughnut shop. He went on to spend 10 modestly successful years in the doughnut business. The opening of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in New Orleans in 1966, however, caught Copeland's eye. Inspired by KFC's success, Copeland in 1971 used his doughnut profits to open a restaurant, Chicken on the Run. ("So fast you get your chicken before you get your change.") After six months, Chicken on the Run was still losing money. In a last-ditch effort, Copeland chose a spicier Louisiana Cajun-style recipe and reopened the restaurant under the name Popeyes Mighty Good Fried Chicken, after Popeye Doyle, Gene Hackman's character in the film "The French Connection." The chain that grew from the one restaurant became Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken. In its third week of operation, Copeland's revived chicken restaurant broke the profit barrier. Franchising began in 1976, growing the chain to more than 800 stores in the United States and several foreign countries by 1989. In 1983, he founded Copeland's of New Orleans, a causal-dining, Cajun-style restaurant. In the next two decades the chain expanded as far as Maryland and west into Texas. He also started Copeland's Cheesecake Bistro, Fire and Ice restaurants, and Al's Diversified Food & Seasonings - a line of specialty foods and spices for large national restaurant chains. In March 1989, Popeyes - then the third-largest chicken chain - purchased Church's Chicken, the second largest behind KFC. The two chains, operated separately, gave Copeland more than 2,000 locations. The Church's purchase was heavily financed, however, and escalating debt forced Copeland's company to file for bankruptcy in 1991. Although Copeland lost both Church's and Popeyes in the bankruptcy, he retained the rights to some Popeyes products, which he manufactured through his Diversified Foods & Seasonings plants, along with a few Popeyes stores. Copeland frequently made headlines away from his business empire. His hobbies included racing powerboats, touring New Orleans in Rolls Royces and Lamborghinis, and outfitting his Lake Pontchartrain home with lavish Christmas decorations, including half a million lights and a three-story-tall snowman. The display drew a lawsuit in 1983 from neighbors who said the resulting traffic held them hostage in their own homes. Survivors include five sons, Alvin C. Jr. and Christopher Copeland, both of Metairie; Alex Cody Copeland of Folsom; and Chandler and Chaz Copeland, both of Madisonville; four daughters, Bonnie Copeland, Alisha Catherine Copeland and Charlotte Copeland Womac, all of Metairie, and Cassidy Copeland of Madisonville; a brother, Gilbert Copeland of Covington; and 13 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending. * Editor's Note: The thing I will remember most about Copeland is that whenever I attended an event at his home, so some many of his childhood friends present. That is a testimony to the fact that he never forgot his roots. You will be missed Al. - Vincent Sylvain 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.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans.htm My Home Page http://members.cox.net/darnellmbrunner/home.htm