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re: Your random but interesting family history
Posted on 6/28/18 at 3:49 pm to Pectus
Posted on 6/28/18 at 3:49 pm to Pectus
Mom's great grandfather from her father's side was a graduate of the first class of LSU Medical School.
Mom's grandfather on mother's side was the fire Chief of new Orleans and an AAU Track and Field gold medal winner in two events. Would have been the favorite for gold in the 1916 Olympics but they were cancelled because of WWI. He was the first person to jog down St Charles Avenue for exercise.
My great uncle on mom's side won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
My first cousin was the editor of Playgirl magazine.
Mom's grandfather on mother's side was the fire Chief of new Orleans and an AAU Track and Field gold medal winner in two events. Would have been the favorite for gold in the 1916 Olympics but they were cancelled because of WWI. He was the first person to jog down St Charles Avenue for exercise.
My great uncle on mom's side won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
My first cousin was the editor of Playgirl magazine.
This post was edited on 6/28/18 at 3:51 pm
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Posted on 6/28/18 at 3:57 pm to glassman
Adam and Eve are my great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents
Posted on 6/28/18 at 3:58 pm to Jack Daniel
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Jack Daniel
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:02 pm to OweO
quote:You have to check a website to know where some guy's penis is?
According to ancestry.com, I have some Iranian in me.
What's his name so we can avoid him irl too Chrisofer?
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:05 pm to glassman
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Mom's great grandfather from her father's side was a graduate of the first class of LSU Medical School.
Mom's grandfather on mother's side was the fire Chief of new Orleans and an AAU Track and Field gold medal winner in two events. Would have been the favorite for gold in the 1916 Olympics but they were cancelled because of WWI. He was the first person to jog down St Charles Avenue for exercise.
My great uncle on mom's side won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
My first cousin was the editor of Playgirl magazine.
You fell far from the tree.
God damn, Glass. At least my family was full of broke arse workin folks.
This post was edited on 6/28/18 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:07 pm to Pectus
My great-great grandfather killed a man in East Texas in the 1850s...his sentence was that he could never return to that county.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:09 pm to mikelbr
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You fell far from the tree. God damn, Glass.
No fricking doubt, Mikel.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:10 pm to glassman
quote:prove it
He was the first person to jog down St Charles Avenue for exercise.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:10 pm to mikelbr
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He was the first person to jog down St Charles Avenue for exercise.
Maybe regularly but this would be a hard factoid to verify.
Your great-grand-kids may one day brag about some of your exploits...
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:11 pm to OWLFAN86
Family lore, Owlvis.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:11 pm to doublecutter
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: there are only 5 families/names that are original Acadian
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What are the names?
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Not sure if this is what he's referring to, but the first 4 documented Acadian families in Louisiana were Landry, Richard, Cormier and Poirier in 1764 and settled on the Mississippi River in modern day St. James Parish. Resulting in the area being called the Acadian Coast and the first true Acadia (Cajun) settlement. The larger group which settled west of the Atchafalaya came a year later.
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: there are only 5 families/names that are original Acadian
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What are the names?
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Not sure if this is what he's referring to, but the first 4 documented Acadian families in Louisiana were Landry, Richard, Cormier and Poirier in 1764 and settled on the Mississippi River in modern day St. James Parish. Resulting in the area being called the Acadian Coast and the first true Acadia (Cajun) settlement. The larger group which settled west of the Atchafalaya came a year later.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:12 pm to glassman
quote:my family didn't just make up shite
Family lore, Owlvis.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:13 pm to soccerfüt
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Your great-grand-kids may one day brag about some of your exploits...
Highly unlikely..
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:14 pm to OweO
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I have some Iranian in me.
Rude. He has a name, Chris.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:14 pm to Pectus
i think my great or great great grandfather sent out barges/ferries to retrieve people on Last Island after the 1856 Last Island Hurricane.
dad has some receipts or something.
dad has some receipts or something.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:14 pm to Pectus
Grandfather worked with Walt Disney. They were close.
Disney gave him a signed painting of Mickey Mouse.
Disney gave him a signed painting of Mickey Mouse.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:17 pm to Pectus
Ancestors came over from Ireland in the 1700s, became officers in the American military during the revolutionary war, and was given land in the south after the war.
They had a functioning plantation in Mississippi for nearly 100 years until the war of northern aggression
They had a functioning plantation in Mississippi for nearly 100 years until the war of northern aggression
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:37 pm to Darkknight
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Not sure if this is what he's referring to, but the first 4 documented Acadian families in Louisiana were Landry, Richard, Cormier and Poirier in 1764 and settled on the Mississippi River in modern day St. James Parish. Resulting in the area being called the Acadian Coast and the first true Acadia (Cajun) settlement. The larger group which settled west of the Atchafalaya came a year later.
According to Ancestry.com "Sometime between 1759 and 1767 Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois and his four 2nd cousins moved from Acadia to St. James Parish. The brothers were the sons of Paul Bourgeois and Marie- Josephe Brun of Acadia. Their names were Paul (1731), Joseph (1734), Michel (1741), and Pierre (1745).
These 5 immigrants all decendents of Charles Bourgeois and Ann Dugas of the second generation may have been among the earliest settlers to occupy St. James Parish, having settled in the area prior to the establishment of the Parish."
It sounds like there may have been a bit of confusion as to who traveled to the area earliest. I am related to Paul Bourgeois by the way.
Posted on 6/28/18 at 4:39 pm to klrstix
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the etymology for Gumbo has its roots in Africa and it means Okra
Africans influenced by French culture.
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