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St. Michaels Cemetery
St. Martin de Tours Church to Repossess St. Michael Cemetery Spaces!
St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church in St. Martinville is in search of descendants of some of its cemetery?s oldest residents.
Debbie Hebert, bookkeeper and cemetery administrator for the church, said several plots in the church?s cemetery are either abandoned, in disrepair or have never been issued a title and the church is following the proper procedures to notify family members before other action is taken.
The Louisiana Cemetery Board governs the operations of cemeteries in the state and requires that for a period of 25 years, a list of these funeral plots must be published in a local newspaper in an effort to notify family members of their maintenance needs and current states.
The church also is required to send a registered letter to the last known family contact.
After the required attempts to contact decedents have been met, the cemetery authority is allowed to transfer ownership of the gravesites.
Stanley LeBlanc, born in New Iberia and currently living in Dallas, is concerned about disturbing these historic final resting places.
Heavily involved with a similar issue at St. Nicholas Cemetery in Patoutville, LeBlanc, who is an authority on the Teche Area?s genealogy, said it is a gray area and the church should proceed with a great deal of care and caution.
One of LeBlanc?s main concerns is the difficulty in finding descendants two or three generations down a family line who may be unaware of ancestor names or where the final resting place of their ancestors might be.
Leblanc said many of the surnames printed on the St. Michael?s Cemetery list are of those families that were original settlers in the area and their burial sites represent a great deal of rich history.
Published gravesites:
Aurilien Doucet
Prosper Lopez
Jules Champagne
M/M J Jules Babin
Arthur Gaudin Jr.
Teles Peltier
Camilia Elridge
Oreste Peltier
Valsin Bernard
Mrs. Anthony Albert
Adolphe Dugas
Clovis Romero
Rita Romero
M/M Evalture Bonin
Celestine Lavergne
William Montfort
Mrs. Eliante Dugas
Charles Blanchard
Adler Boudreaux
Jennifer Crocker
Rene Potier
C.M. Olivier
Felix Berard
Charles Theriot
Winston Smith
Adolph LaSalle
F.N. Vincent
Laurent Broussard
Septime Lasseigne Est.
John Ducloset Mouton
Mrs. Eloise Courville
Octave Price
Florence L.F. Savoy
Joseph Jean Rodriguez
Wilfred Lawrence
Clet Castille
William Eastin
Thomas
Albert Barras Est.
Jules Francoise
Darcourt Dugas Jr.
Celestine B. Dugas
John F. Franz
Alosia Eastin
Arthur Gaudin Sr.
Preston Boudreaux
Louis J. Bienvenue
Mrs. Eudolie Guilbeau
Lee Wiltz
Mrs, Gustave Menard
Lester Journet
Martha Gagne
Martin Cazine
Johnston, Hoffman, Keissel, Zweifel, Hoerner, Doclar, Huckins
Johnston Family Tribal Pages
JOHNSTON - Georgia to Louisiana
HOFFMAN - Germany to Louisiana, USA
KEISSEL - Germany to Louisiana, USA
ZWEIFEL - Switzerland to Louisiana, USA
HOERNER - Germany to Louisiana, USA
DOCLAR - Louisiana, USA
HUCKINS - Maine to Louisiana, USA
Louisiana Genealogy
LAGENWeb has uploaded a bunch of interesting records this month from several Louisiana parishes. My Yahoo Group, Louisiana Genealogy Blogs, has posted a link to the archives available. Some of the uploads were for the following parishes: Tangipahoa
East Baton Rouge
Franklin
Bossier
Madison
Orleans
Calcasieu
Union
Vernon
Catahoula
Allen
Moorehouse
Sabine
Rapides
Lafourche
Lincoln
I also surfed upon an interesting on-line story from Louisiana Road Trips. Surf in to read historical articles and stories from Louisiana!
I began testing the timeline at Our Story today. Surf over and see a few Family Tree Circles, Louisiana related, genealogy articles.
Louisiana Tribal Pages
I've added all of the search results from Family Tree Circles from Louisiana to my subscriptions. Family Tree says that it will notify me of updates to these journal pages. I've also created a site on Tribal Pages. They were in the news today on PR Web. Where did I come from?
For those of you who have not tried out Tribal Pages, you should really check them out! They have a unique mapping from Google maps that allows you to track your ancestors across the globe. Check it out here.. I've used the Family Tree Circles search results as an example and since I did not enter complete birth or death dates the mapping does not fully function, but you can get the general idea from their site. It also posts a list of all of your surnames that you are researching, has a guestbook, and an event calendar.
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