From the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1945 Volume II Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794 Pages 127-128 Most...
Category - Immigration
A speech given by Norman Marmillion, at St. Louis, Mo., July 2004 At the annual Conference of the French Heritage Society Over the last 11 years I have had the...
Joaquin Crespo arrived in New Orleans from Spain via Ellis Island in 1872. He worked at odd jobs and saved his money. On his travels along the muddy River Road...
Italians Invited To Come to Louisiana The Breadbasket continues… During the 1870s, many blacks left Louisiana for more desirable opportunities in the North...
1770 Land Grants at First and Second German Coasts of Louisiana …in the year 1770, from Legajo 2357 of the Archives of the Indies at Seville. Grants were made...
In 1764, a few Acadians, whose ancestors had settled the province of Acadia or Nova Scotia, arrived in the colony, and a few settled on the German Coast...
In 1722, hurricanes devastated the German Coast and many Germans considered leaving. In order to prevent this exodus, Governor Bienville conceded lands to the...
(Hover your mouse over bolded terms to see their definition.) Two Zweig families were listed as passengers on the pest ship Les Deux Fréres that arrived in...
Names from 1724 Census* *J. Hanno Deiler, Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent Changes in German Names These early...