Jan, Thank you for the information. Could you tell us the names of your ancestors that you found so that I can give that database a try for myself? Many thanks. Norm ________________________________ From: "jans884@bellsouth.net" <jans884@bellsouth.net> To: LAOrleans <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Looking for Lottman Kathy, My GGgrandparents were also located in Lafayette, Jefferson Parish in the 1850 census.  They were married at the Lafayette Presbyterian or Fulton St. Church, listed as being in Jefferson Parish in 1848.  I found this record at the FamilyHistory.com site.  Have you tried checking there? Jan S - Orlando, FL

Hello List, I have recently found part of my Born family, (Susanna Born married Sjaabe Tiden Lottman(n) about 1841, based on the knowledge that their 1st child was born May 1842, and for the longest time I was stuck" on them being in New Orleans, Orleans. However, the 1850 Census where they were located is Lafayette, Jefferson Parish. Since I had never been able to find a marriage record for them in NOLA, I suspect that they married in Jefferson Parish. Can anyone direct me to where I might go to find records in Lafayette, Jefferson Parish? Many thanks in advance, Kathy Cochran San Andreas, 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4726 - Release Date: 01/06/12

It's a personal letter, but I wanted to share the privilege my son had yesterday and also what he witnessed. the Dutch could have long ago forgotten us and our young men that never came home, but they have not. Joe Jr. has witnessed this more than once since his arrival in The Netherlands last year > > Begin forwarded message: >>> >>> Check out this video on YouTube: >>> >>> Mom and Dad, >>> >>> I am really sorry that we never got the chance to visit the Margraten Memorial during your visits in the early 1980s. Just never thought about this memorial of all those available. The attached video brings home some of the emotions and history of the memorial ceremony yesterday just south of Maastricht. Karen joined me at the ceremony as I laid a wreath as the Senior American officer in the Netherlands. It was a humbling experience to stand before the 8301 heroes and even more humbling to meet all the local residents who have adopted the graves since 1944. It it amazing how the Dutch have handed this tradition down from generation to generation. Yesterday, I met grandfathers with their grandchildren explaining the importance of the sacrifice of these man and how important it was for them in their lives. Dutch Politicians, Military and Religious leaders all talked about the freedoms we take for granted and how others had sacrificed to gain and preserve their freedoms. >>> But I was most touched by the local population and children. As I tried to thank them as an American...about how humbled I was by their commitment to adopt a fallen soldier and grave site...they were the ones who were profusely thanking me for their freedom and my sacrifices. It was a truly humbling event. We will send pictures as they come in this week. >>> Karen and I both miss you and hope all is well with you in Florida. Hopefully you are now into warmer weather and sunny days. > >>> Love Joe and Karen >>> Select >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVXKNxHsUdg&feature=youtube_gdata_player >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPad

Cate, thanks for your kind reply about my Memorial Day memory. My Dad would have been a fascinating addition to the interview project about the Louisiana WWII vets. He went to the opening of the D-Day museum in New Orleans and had a blast being with the old-timers and being able to make that part of history. Got a special memorial T-shirt and he was like a kid with a new toy. Unfortunately that was before my genealogy days and I had no thought about taping him myself. He passed away early in 2005 @ 87 and we brought him home to New Orleans to be buried in Greenwood in the family vault. Mother died in 2007 and we brought her back too, to be with Dad. We were the three little Muskateers taking on the world together and we had such great memories of it all. I am now doing my genealogy in story form. I am including the cold data, but wanted it to have more life than just the review of dates and places. Perhaps one day my children could publish it in book form, with what I leave them. Please pass along my thanks to Mr.Gilbeau and wish him much success in the project. He would have loved my Dad. My Dad loved Mr. Higgins, and although Mr. Higgins was rough and tough and "no nonsense, " my Dad looked at him as a role model and genius. Dad patterned his work ethic after Mr. Higgins's expectations, and that served him well for his entire work career. I could go on. Like you, I love reading and writing. Perhaps those talents will be a lost art soon, with the avalanche of iPods, etc. but I am going to hang on to my paper items until "they" take them out of my hands! Ha! Pat Pilgrim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cate Schweitzer-Toepfer" <voiceofshe@hotmail.com> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 > Pat and all, > The assistant archivist at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Neil > Gilbeau, with a grant from the Library of Congress has been doing > video/oral > interviews with veterans of military service from southeast Louisiana. > Sadly, the WW II vets are quickly disappearing so he is trying to record > them first ... Wow, Pat, would your dad, and no doubt many others' fathers > or grandfathers on this list have been a wonderful addition to the archive > he is compiling. He gives a copy of the DVD to the vet, sends one to the > Library of Congress and keeps one for the Nicholls archives. So far one > of > my relatives and a neighbor have participated and were delighted with the > outcome. And he has another relative scheduled for after June 10th. > Unfortunately this grant runs out on June 30th. unless he gets an > extension. > If anyone has a relative (or you yourself if you fit the criteria) who'd > like to participate in this program, please contact at my personal email > address and I'll connect you with Neil. > > I also sent Norm a personal reply and note on his posting which I'm sure > he > won't mind I also share with you all. Kind of an interesting footnote to > his post. > Thank you for sending this along ... I actually thought Memorial > Day > remembrance began after WWI, interesting its roots are in the Civil War, > which after all was so close to everyone's home. You may find this an odd > transition from your post, but it really isn't. You being an Abraham > Lincoln scholar, have you read the "alternate history, horror, comedy, > tragedy" - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith? I'm > only > about 1/3 the way through, so I'm in Abe's young life ... but it's an > interesting spin on what made him the man he became and I'm guessing the > end > he met. It will be a movie coming out on June 22 as well starring > Benjamin > Walker, Meryl Streep's son-in-law and produced/directed by the Tim Burton > team. I like this genre and still like to read real words with real > messages of longer than 20 words, not just sound bites ... old fashioned I > guess. Let me know what you think and how you are doing. Fondly, Cate > ;-} > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pat pilgrim > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 10:14 AM > To: Norm Hellmers ; laorlean@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 > > Enjoyed this very much. I am the Miro Street girl who landed in Texas. My > father, William Emile Lassalle, was a carpenter (graduate of Delegado > Trades School) who build the PT boats at Higgins, and in WWII was > stationed in San Diego (much to his chagrin..he wanted to fly!) where he > could repair the boats and turn them quickly back around for action. When > the war was over, he went to helicopter school and became a pilot for Bell > Helicopter until he retired. He taught the young men who flew in Vietnam > and when that war was closed, my parents lived in Isfahan, Iran, and he > flew > for the Shah of Iran before the revolution, in the Imperial Army teaching > those Irani young men to fly in fighting their war against Iraq. History > is > amazingly convoluted. I became interested in genealogy too late to help > him > get any acknowlegement for all that he did, but we remain proud of the > little guy (they knicknamed him "Satchel" at Higgins because at 5 feet, > two > inches and about 125 pounds, his foreman said he could fit in a satchel at > the plant) from Miro Street who hit the big times! Thanks for listening to > his story on this Memorial Day. Pat Lassalle Pilgrim > > ---- Original Message ----- > From: "Norm Hellmers" <n_d_hellmers@yahoo.com> > To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 9:30 AM > Subject: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 > > >> Dear List, >> >> The following is an excerpt from a Washington Post editorial: >> >> Memorial Day was, in its beginnings, a popular observance >> that developed spontaneously after the Civil War, when families began the >> custom >> of decorating the graves of their Union and Confederate dead on one >> particular >> day or another in springtime. These were people who could have had no >> illusions >> about the glories of war or the greatness of any Cause — not after >> approximately 620,000 dead and who knows how many more physically maimed, >> disabled or “casualties of the spirit.” >> >> Memorial Day was not then, and is not today, about victories >> won, national glory or the greatness of the armed forces. It is >> essentially the >> fulfillment of a personal obligation to remember — to say of someone we >> knew, >> or loved or whose name we read on a plaque or whose troubled face we see >> in a >> long-ago documentary film: You lost all, or nearly all, before your time >> had >> come, but you shall not be forgotten. >> >> Norm >> http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neworleans/victory_arch/one_soldier%27s_story.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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 Jan for the sweet reponse to my Dad's story. He wanted so much more for his wife and only child then he would have been able to do there in NO for us. I LOVE New Orleans and when I return I fall in love all over again. Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Dean" <janvdean@bellsouth.net> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 1:50 PM Subject: [LAORLEAN] "Satchel" Lassalle > Pat, that was such a great story! How neat that your Dad was able to > achieve his dream of flying. What an interesting life your parents had. > > Jan in New Orleans > > On 5/28/2012 12:56 PM, laorlean-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:14:05 -0500 > From: "pat pilgrim"<cwp5@suddenlink.net> > Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 > > Enjoyed this very much. I am the Miro Street girl who landed in Texas. My > father, William Emile Lassalle, was a carpenter (graduate of Delegado > Trades School) who build the PT boats at Higgins, and in WWII was > stationed in San Diego (much to his chagrin..he wanted to fly!) where he > could repair the boats and turn them quickly back around for action. When > the war was over, he went to helicopter school and became a pilot for Bell > Helicopter until he retired. He taught the young men who flew in Vietnam > and when that war was closed, my parents lived in Isfahan, Iran, and he > flew > for the Shah of Iran before the revolution, in the Imperial Army teaching > those Irani young men to fly in fighting their war against Iraq. History > is > amazingly convoluted. I became interested in genealogy too late to help > him > get any acknowlegement for all that he did, but we remain proud of the > little guy (they knicknamed him "Satchel" at Higgins because at 5 feet, > two > inches and about 125 pounds, his foreman said he could fit in a satchel at > the plant) from Miro Street who hit the big times! Thanks for listening to > his story on this Memorial Day. Pat Lassalle Pilgrim > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Kate, I have an uncle living in Slidell who served during WWII in the Navy.  He will be 90 in Sept.  Does Neil go as far as Slidell? H McCarthy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cate Schweitzer-Toepfer" <voiceofshe@hotmail.com> To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 12:48:14 PM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 Pat and all, The assistant archivist at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Neil Gilbeau, with a grant from the Library of Congress has been doing video/oral interviews with veterans of military service from southeast Louisiana. Sadly, the WW II vets are quickly disappearing so he is trying to record them first ... Wow, Pat, would your dad, and no doubt many others' fathers or grandfathers on this list have been a wonderful addition to the archive he is compiling.  He gives a copy of the DVD to the vet, sends one to the Library of Congress and keeps one for the Nicholls archives.  So far one of my relatives and a neighbor have participated and were delighted with the outcome.  And he has another relative scheduled for after June 10th. Unfortunately this grant runs out on June 30th. unless he gets an extension. If anyone has a relative (or you yourself if you fit the criteria) who'd like to participate in this program, please contact at my personal email address and I'll connect you with Neil. I also sent Norm a personal reply and note on his posting which I'm sure he won't mind I also share with you all.  Kind of an interesting footnote to his post.          Thank you for sending this along ... I actually thought Memorial Day remembrance began after WWI, interesting its roots are in the Civil War, which after all was so close to everyone's home.  You may find this an odd transition from your post, but it really isn't.  You being an Abraham Lincoln scholar, have you read the "alternate history, horror, comedy, tragedy" - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith?   I'm only about 1/3 the way through, so I'm in Abe's young life ... but it's an interesting spin on what made him the man he became and I'm guessing the end he met.  It will be a movie coming out on June 22 as well starring Benjamin Walker, Meryl Streep's son-in-law and produced/directed by the Tim Burton team.  I like this genre and still like to read real words with real messages of longer than 20 words, not just sound bites ... old fashioned I guess.  Let me know what you think and how you are doing.  Fondly,   Cate ;-} -----Original Message----- From: pat pilgrim Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 10:14 AM To: Norm Hellmers ; laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 Enjoyed this very much. I am the Miro Street girl who landed in Texas. My father, William Emile Lassalle, was  a carpenter (graduate of Delegado Trades School)  who build the  PT boats at Higgins, and in WWII was stationed in San Diego (much to his chagrin..he wanted to fly!) where he could repair the boats and turn them quickly back around for action. When the war was over, he went to helicopter school and became a pilot for Bell Helicopter until he retired. He taught  the young men who flew in Vietnam and when that war was closed, my parents lived in Isfahan, Iran, and he flew for the Shah of Iran before the revolution, in the Imperial Army teaching those Irani young men to fly in fighting their war against Iraq. History is amazingly convoluted. I became interested in genealogy too late to help him get any acknowlegement for all that he did, but we remain proud of the little guy (they knicknamed him "Satchel" at Higgins because at 5 feet, two inches and about 125 pounds, his foreman said he could fit in a satchel at the plant) from Miro Street who hit the big times! Thanks for listening to his story on this Memorial Day. Pat Lassalle Pilgrim ---- Original Message ----- From: "Norm Hellmers" <n_d_hellmers@yahoo.com> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 9:30 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 > Dear List, > > The following is an excerpt from a Washington Post editorial: > > Memorial Day was, in its beginnings, a popular observance > that developed spontaneously after the Civil War, when families began the > custom > of decorating the graves of their Union and Confederate dead on one > particular > day or another in springtime. These were people who could have had no > illusions > about the glories of war or the greatness of any Cause — not after > approximately 620,000 dead and who knows how many more physically maimed, > disabled or “casualties of the spirit.” > > Memorial Day was not then, and is not today, about victories > won, national glory or the greatness of the armed forces. It is > essentially the > fulfillment of a personal obligation to remember — to say of someone we > knew, > or loved or whose name we read on a plaque or whose troubled face we see > in a > long-ago documentary film: You lost all, or nearly all, before your time > had > come, but you shall not be forgotten. > > Norm > http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neworleans/victory_arch/one_soldier%27s_story.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 ------------------------------- 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

Pat, that was such a great story! How neat that your Dad was able to achieve his dream of flying. What an interesting life your parents had. Jan in New Orleans On 5/28/2012 12:56 PM, laorlean-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Message: 4 Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:14:05 -0500 From: "pat pilgrim"<cwp5@suddenlink.net> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 Enjoyed this very much. I am the Miro Street girl who landed in Texas. My father, William Emile Lassalle, was a carpenter (graduate of Delegado Trades School) who build the PT boats at Higgins, and in WWII was stationed in San Diego (much to his chagrin..he wanted to fly!) where he could repair the boats and turn them quickly back around for action. When the war was over, he went to helicopter school and became a pilot for Bell Helicopter until he retired. He taught the young men who flew in Vietnam and when that war was closed, my parents lived in Isfahan, Iran, and he flew for the Shah of Iran before the revolution, in the Imperial Army teaching those Irani young men to fly in fighting their war against Iraq. History is amazingly convoluted. I became interested in genealogy too late to help him get any acknowlegement for all that he did, but we remain proud of the little guy (they knicknamed him "Satchel" at Higgins because at 5 feet, two inches and about 125 pounds, his foreman said he could fit in a satchel at the plant) from Miro Street who hit the big times! Thanks for listening to his story on this Memorial Day. Pat Lassalle Pilgrim

Pat and all, The assistant archivist at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Neil Gilbeau, with a grant from the Library of Congress has been doing video/oral interviews with veterans of military service from southeast Louisiana. Sadly, the WW II vets are quickly disappearing so he is trying to record them first ... Wow, Pat, would your dad, and no doubt many others' fathers or grandfathers on this list have been a wonderful addition to the archive he is compiling. He gives a copy of the DVD to the vet, sends one to the Library of Congress and keeps one for the Nicholls archives. So far one of my relatives and a neighbor have participated and were delighted with the outcome. And he has another relative scheduled for after June 10th. Unfortunately this grant runs out on June 30th. unless he gets an extension. If anyone has a relative (or you yourself if you fit the criteria) who'd like to participate in this program, please contact at my personal email address and I'll connect you with Neil. I also sent Norm a personal reply and note on his posting which I'm sure he won't mind I also share with you all. Kind of an interesting footnote to his post. Thank you for sending this along ... I actually thought Memorial Day remembrance began after WWI, interesting its roots are in the Civil War, which after all was so close to everyone's home. You may find this an odd transition from your post, but it really isn't. You being an Abraham Lincoln scholar, have you read the "alternate history, horror, comedy, tragedy" - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith? I'm only about 1/3 the way through, so I'm in Abe's young life ... but it's an interesting spin on what made him the man he became and I'm guessing the end he met. It will be a movie coming out on June 22 as well starring Benjamin Walker, Meryl Streep's son-in-law and produced/directed by the Tim Burton team. I like this genre and still like to read real words with real messages of longer than 20 words, not just sound bites ... old fashioned I guess. Let me know what you think and how you are doing. Fondly, Cate ;-} -----Original Message----- From: pat pilgrim Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 10:14 AM To: Norm Hellmers ; laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 Enjoyed this very much. I am the Miro Street girl who landed in Texas. My father, William Emile Lassalle, was a carpenter (graduate of Delegado Trades School) who build the PT boats at Higgins, and in WWII was stationed in San Diego (much to his chagrin..he wanted to fly!) where he could repair the boats and turn them quickly back around for action. When the war was over, he went to helicopter school and became a pilot for Bell Helicopter until he retired. He taught the young men who flew in Vietnam and when that war was closed, my parents lived in Isfahan, Iran, and he flew for the Shah of Iran before the revolution, in the Imperial Army teaching those Irani young men to fly in fighting their war against Iraq. History is amazingly convoluted. I became interested in genealogy too late to help him get any acknowlegement for all that he did, but we remain proud of the little guy (they knicknamed him "Satchel" at Higgins because at 5 feet, two inches and about 125 pounds, his foreman said he could fit in a satchel at the plant) from Miro Street who hit the big times! Thanks for listening to his story on this Memorial Day. Pat Lassalle Pilgrim ---- Original Message ----- From: "Norm Hellmers" <n_d_hellmers@yahoo.com> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 9:30 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 > Dear List, > > The following is an excerpt from a Washington Post editorial: > > Memorial Day was, in its beginnings, a popular observance > that developed spontaneously after the Civil War, when families began the > custom > of decorating the graves of their Union and Confederate dead on one > particular > day or another in springtime. These were people who could have had no > illusions > about the glories of war or the greatness of any Cause — not after > approximately 620,000 dead and who knows how many more physically maimed, > disabled or “casualties of the spirit.” > > Memorial Day was not then, and is not today, about victories > won, national glory or the greatness of the armed forces. It is > essentially the > fulfillment of a personal obligation to remember — to say of someone we > knew, > or loved or whose name we read on a plaque or whose troubled face we see > in a > long-ago documentary film: You lost all, or nearly all, before your time > had > come, but you shall not be forgotten. > > Norm > http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neworleans/victory_arch/one_soldier%27s_story.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 ------------------------------- 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 Norm. Three of my ancestors are listed on the arch. I am proud to be an American. GOD BLESS AMERICA. Merle Fitzpatrick Farrington -------------------------------------------------- From: "Peggy" <rooneytoon29@earthlink.net> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 9:47 AM To: "Norm Hellmers" <n_d_hellmers@yahoo.com>; <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 > Thanx Norm!> > New Orleans Proud > > On May 28, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Norm Hellmers <n_d_hellmers@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> a > > ------------------------------- > 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

Enjoyed this very much. I am the Miro Street girl who landed in Texas. My father, William Emile Lassalle, was a carpenter (graduate of Delegado Trades School) who build the PT boats at Higgins, and in WWII was stationed in San Diego (much to his chagrin..he wanted to fly!) where he could repair the boats and turn them quickly back around for action. When the war was over, he went to helicopter school and became a pilot for Bell Helicopter until he retired. He taught the young men who flew in Vietnam and when that war was closed, my parents lived in Isfahan, Iran, and he flew for the Shah of Iran before the revolution, in the Imperial Army teaching those Irani young men to fly in fighting their war against Iraq. History is amazingly convoluted. I became interested in genealogy too late to help him get any acknowlegement for all that he did, but we remain proud of the little guy (they knicknamed him "Satchel" at Higgins because at 5 feet, two inches and about 125 pounds, his foreman said he could fit in a satchel at the plant) from Miro Street who hit the big times! Thanks for listening to his story on this Memorial Day. Pat Lassalle Pilgrim ---- Original Message ----- From: "Norm Hellmers" <n_d_hellmers@yahoo.com> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 9:30 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 > Dear List, > > The following is an excerpt from a Washington Post editorial: > > Memorial Day was, in its beginnings, a popular observance > that developed spontaneously after the Civil War, when families began the > custom > of decorating the graves of their Union and Confederate dead on one > particular > day or another in springtime. These were people who could have had no > illusions > about the glories of war or the greatness of any Cause — not after > approximately 620,000 dead and who knows how many more physically maimed, > disabled or “casualties of the spirit.” > > Memorial Day was not then, and is not today, about victories > won, national glory or the greatness of the armed forces. It is > essentially the > fulfillment of a personal obligation to remember — to say of someone we > knew, > or loved or whose name we read on a plaque or whose troubled face we see > in a > long-ago documentary film: You lost all, or nearly all, before your time > had > come, but you shall not be forgotten. > > Norm > http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neworleans/victory_arch/one_soldier%27s_story.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

Thanx Norm! New Orleans Proud On May 28, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Norm Hellmers <n_d_hellmers@yahoo.com> wrote: > a

That was beautiful, Norm.  Thanks so much for sharing. ________________________________ From: Norm Hellmers <n_d_hellmers@yahoo.com> To: "laorlean@rootsweb.com" <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 9:30 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Memorial Day 2012 Dear List,   The following is an excerpt from a Washington Post editorial:   Memorial Day was, in its beginnings, a popular observance that developed spontaneously after the Civil War, when families began the custom of decorating the graves of their Union and Confederate dead on one particular day or another in springtime. These were people who could have had no illusions about the glories of war or the greatness of any Cause — not after approximately 620,000 dead and who knows how many more physically maimed, disabled or “casualties of the spirit.”   Memorial Day was not then, and is not today, about victories won, national glory or the greatness of the armed forces. It is essentially the fulfillment of a personal obligation to remember — to say of someone we knew, or loved or whose name we read on a plaque or whose troubled face we see in a long-ago documentary film: You lost all, or nearly all, before your time had come, but you shall not be forgotten.   Norm http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neworleans/victory_arch/one_soldier%27s_story.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

Dear List,   The following is an excerpt from a Washington Post editorial:   Memorial Day was, in its beginnings, a popular observance that developed spontaneously after the Civil War, when families began the custom of decorating the graves of their Union and Confederate dead on one particular day or another in springtime. These were people who could have had no illusions about the glories of war or the greatness of any Cause — not after approximately 620,000 dead and who knows how many more physically maimed, disabled or “casualties of the spirit.”   Memorial Day was not then, and is not today, about victories won, national glory or the greatness of the armed forces. It is essentially the fulfillment of a personal obligation to remember — to say of someone we knew, or loved or whose name we read on a plaque or whose troubled face we see in a long-ago documentary film: You lost all, or nearly all, before your time had come, but you shall not be forgotten.   Norm http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neworleans/victory_arch/one_soldier%27s_story.htm

Times-Picayune announcement prompts review of 'official journal' law State law will have to be changed before the end of this legislative session to allow a non-daily newspaper in the New Orleans area to be the official journal for governmental advertising. lawmakers said Thursday. ...if the law is not changed, legal challenges can be filed if advertising continues in a non-daily newspaper. http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/times-picayune_announcement_pr.html#incart_river Gambit's covering this news, too: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/ http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2012/05/24/after-the-news-today-at-the-times-picayune Alexa Genealogy research since 1974 Ancestral hauntings - I ain't afraid-a no ghosts...

For those who missed this bit of news, the Times-Picayune will be cutting its printed issues down to three days per week beginning in this autumn. Not only are they chopping down the New Orleans area newspaper, but they are doing the same to newspapers in Alabama:  The Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and the Mobile Press-Register. http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/05/nolamediagroup.html#incart_river http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-times-picayune-20120524,0,494521.story Alexa Genealogy research since 1974 Ancestral hauntings - I ain't afraid-a no ghosts...

Thanks Norm, guess I was not holding my face right earlier, it is working just fine now. Jan S -------Original Message------- From: Norm Hellmers Date: 5/20/2012 9:40:24 AM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Search engine on web site Jan, Are you using this URL: http://usgwarchives.net/la/orleans.htm It's working for me. Norm ________________________________ From: "jans884@bellsouth.net" <jans884@bellsouth.net> To: LAOrleans <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 6:23 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Search engine on web site Am I the only one have problems with the search engine on USGenWeb Louisiana Archives?   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

Am I the only one have problems with the search engine on USGenWeb Louisiana Archives?     Jan S - Orlando, FL

Jan, Are you using this URL: http://usgwarchives.net/la/orleans.htm It's working for me. Norm ________________________________ From: "jans884@bellsouth.net" <jans884@bellsouth.net> To: LAOrleans <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 6:23 AM Subject: [LAORLEAN] Search engine on web site Am I the only one have problems with the search engine on USGenWeb Louisiana Archives?    Jan S - Orlando, FL

Shelley,   You’re good to want to return this to a family member. I looked at Ancestry.com and found four family trees that include Matthew Foster McKirahan and his wife Virginia Flanagan. None of the “home persons” are directly descended from this couple. They are all collateral relatives.   Here’s a thought. If you can send me a scan of the picture (a larger image is better, such as 300 ppi), I will post it online. I can then send a message to the people with the trees and let them know where they can download it.   There is also a website where you can upload the picture: http://www.deadfred.com/   If you want me to post it online and contact the relatives, send me a scan.   Norm ________________________________ From: Shelley Cardiel <cardiels@comcast.net> To: LAORLEAN@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:55 PM Subject: [LAORLEAN] MCKIRAHAN Family Photograph I've "rescued" a photograph of the MCKIRAHAN Children which was taken at the H. T. Martin Studio in Topeka, Kansas. The photograph was taken in the 1890's and pictures Margaret age 9 months; Charly age 5; Nellie age 7 1/2; Percy age 11; and Harry age 13.  The photograph is signed with compliments of M. F. MCKIRAHAN. Based on limited research I was able to locate the following information regarding this family: These are children of Mathew Foster MCKIRAHAN (1847-1913) and Virginia E. MCLIRAHAN (1849-1940).  This couple had 7 children including, Margaret; Percie; William Parry; Harry; Percy Porterfield; Helen Newell; and Charles Curtis MCKIRAHAN. Margaret V. MCKIRAHAN was b. 13 Aug 1892 in KS and died 7 Jan 1903 and is buried in the Topeka Cemetery in Topeka, KS. Charles Curtis MCKIRAHAN (b. 1888 in Topeka, KS) married Eva E. REES on the 28th of May 1915 in La Grange, IL.  A son Boyd Rees MCKIRAHAN was born on 24 Aug 1916 in Cook Co. IL to Charles Curtis MCKIRAHAN and Eva Edna REES.  They listed their home residence as Topeka, KS at the time of birth, however, a late filing in 1941 lists their residence at that time as New Orleans, LA. Another son, Charles Curtis MCKIRAHAN Jr. was born 11 Apr 1918 in LaGrange Park, IL to parents Charles C. MCKIRAHAN (born Topeka, KS) and Eva Edna REES (b. Minneapolis, MN).  Father Charles was an Engineer at the time of his birth. Census information for the family is as follows: 1920 census of Tulsa, OK: Percy MCKIRAHAN, age 37 - born in KS, father born IL, mother born PA Zella MCKIRAHAN, age 30 Mary Lee MCKIRAHAN, age 4 Charles F. MCKIRAHAN. Age 10 months Jessie MCLELAND, age 20 1930 census of Tulsa, OK: Percy P. MCKIRAHAN, age 47 Zella MCKIRAHAN, age 40 Mary L. MCKIRAHAN, age 14 Charles F. MCKIRAHAN, age 11 Richard N. MCKIRAHAN, age 5 Roxie GAINER, age 23 Viola GAINER, age 19 Jun RUNYON, age 23 I am hoping to locate someone from this MCKIRAHAN Family so that the photograph can be returned to its rightful place with family.  If you are a member of this family, or you know someone who might be, please contact me. Thanks, Shelley

I've "rescued" a photograph of the MCKIRAHAN Children which was taken at the H. T. Martin Studio in Topeka, Kansas. The photograph was taken in the 1890's and pictures Margaret age 9 months; Charly age 5; Nellie age 7 1/2; Percy age 11; and Harry age 13. The photograph is signed with compliments of M. F. MCKIRAHAN. Based on limited research I was able to locate the following information regarding this family: These are children of Mathew Foster MCKIRAHAN (1847-1913) and Virginia E. MCLIRAHAN (1849-1940). This couple had 7 children including, Margaret; Percie; William Parry; Harry; Percy Porterfield; Helen Newell; and Charles Curtis MCKIRAHAN. Margaret V. MCKIRAHAN was b. 13 Aug 1892 in KS and died 7 Jan 1903 and is buried in the Topeka Cemetery in Topeka, KS. Charles Curtis MCKIRAHAN (b. 1888 in Topeka, KS) married Eva E. REES on the 28th of May 1915 in La Grange, IL. A son Boyd Rees MCKIRAHAN was born on 24 Aug 1916 in Cook Co. IL to Charles Curtis MCKIRAHAN and Eva Edna REES. They listed their home residence as Topeka, KS at the time of birth, however, a late filing in 1941 lists their residence at that time as New Orleans, LA. Another son, Charles Curtis MCKIRAHAN Jr. was born 11 Apr 1918 in LaGrange Park, IL to parents Charles C. MCKIRAHAN (born Topeka, KS) and Eva Edna REES (b. Minneapolis, MN). Father Charles was an Engineer at the time of his birth. Census information for the family is as follows: 1920 census of Tulsa, OK: Percy MCKIRAHAN, age 37 - born in KS, father born IL, mother born PA Zella MCKIRAHAN, age 30 Mary Lee MCKIRAHAN, age 4 Charles F. MCKIRAHAN. Age 10 months Jessie MCLELAND, age 20 1930 census of Tulsa, OK: Percy P. MCKIRAHAN, age 47 Zella MCKIRAHAN, age 40 Mary L. MCKIRAHAN, age 14 Charles F. MCKIRAHAN, age 11 Richard N. MCKIRAHAN, age 5 Roxie GAINER, age 23 Viola GAINER, age 19 Jun RUNYON, age 23 I am hoping to locate someone from this MCKIRAHAN Family so that the photograph can be returned to its rightful place with family. If you are a member of this family, or you know someone who might be, please contact me. Thanks, Shelley