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When DNA, colonial Louisiana history and genealogy collide[ part 1]

November 1, 2016 by Rodney Sam | Comments are off for this post

I finally persuaded my distant cousin, Marion, to submit her AncestryDNA results on gedmatch a few weeks ago. We both trace our ancestryRead More

News Alert! Apple Users Now Have Louisiana Creole Language Option.

September 20, 2016 by Christophe Landry, Ph.D. | Comments are off for this post

For Immediate Release “News Alert | A New App for for typing in the Kouri-Vini language is available for Apple’s Mobile Devices inRead More

Decrypting names and people in Creole genealogy through linguistic knowledge

September 15, 2016 by Christophe Landry, Ph.D. | Comments are off for this post

Louisiana Creole genealogy is notoriously difficult for many researchers. A major reason is linguistic; many of the records are not in English, and thoseRead More

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