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La Vois des Prairies - Table of Contents; Evangeline, Louisiana
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EGHS
P. O. Box 664
Ville Platte, LA 70586
Index to 1980 - Vol. 1    
No. 1 - Spring
Evangeline Parish Marriage Books I and II
Savez-Voux?
Exerpts of Local History
Local Cemeteries
Evangeline Parish Successions
No. 2 - Summer
The Meridian Sawmill
St. Peter's Catholic Church Cemetery
Evangeline Parish Successions
Evangeline Parish Marriage Books I and II
Andre' dit Lafleur-Brignac Marriage
No. 3 - Fall
Confederate States of America Election Abstract
The Father of Adam Tate (II), Ancestor of the Tates of Southwest
Louisiana: A Hypothesis
Chataignier History
St. Landry Parish Boundaries
Leon Manuel Cemetery
Dardeau Descendant Reminiscences
Evangeline Parish Marriage Books I and II
Evangeline Parish Police Jury Abstract
Legents of Granger
Historic Marker for Ville Platte
 
Index to 1981 - Vol. 2    
No. 4 - January
Vidrine-Vedrines, 1659-1788
Ardoin Cemetery
Ardoin History/History of Parish Names
William O'Donegan
History of First Baptist Church of Chataignier, La.
Opelousas Church Burial List
Evangeline Parish Marriage Books I and II
Pitre, Johnson, Manuel, and Guillory Cemeteries
Official Directory - Parish of Evangeline
No. 5 - April
The McCauley Family
Land Claim Abstract
Attales Cemetery
History of the Emigration of the Acadians
Louis Juchereau, Sieur de St. Denis
St. Landry Parish Postmasters of 1855
Sarrazin-Stephan-Colon dit La Violette
Soileau-Pellerin
The Creole Rebels of St. Landry Parish
Map of France
Sherry Wilson Manuel Family Chart
No. 6 - July
Etude sur l'Origine des Noms des Familles francaises
The First Vezena Family in Louisiana
guillaumin Statement of Non-Citizenship
Branding Irons of Record- Evangeline Parish
Gabriel Fuselier de la Claire
Chataignier Postmaster: Alphonse Guillet
White's Chapel Methodist Church
White's Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery
Vidrine-Vedrines at Opelousas
Transportation in the 1850s
Joachim Ortego Family Chart
Madame Noel Soileau: Marie Josephe Richaume
Naturalization Records, A Short Review
State, District, and Territory Abbreviations

No. 7 - October
The Guillorys' of Louisiana
Plantation Treasure in Louisiana
Lacase-Fourche Marriage
McCormick Cemetery
Ear Marks of Record - Evangeline Parish

Index to 1982 - Vol. 3    
No. 8 - January
The Chachere Family of Louisiana
An Early History of Kinder, Louisiana
McRill Cemetery
Juchereau St. Denis Family
No. 9 - April
The Dardeau Manuscript
Book of County Marriages 1889-1910
the DeVille Family of Switzerland, S. Carolina & Louisiana
Louisiana Deshotels and Allied Families
No. 10 - July
Joachin de ortega y Prieto
Cushman's Cemetery
Jeanne Mon(t)fort De Belle-Ille-En-Mer
the Leading Regional Languages of France
United States Post Offices in Louisiana, 1868
The Steamboat Saint Landry/Prairie Mamou Burying Ground
The Dardeau Manuscript References

No. 11 - October
The Antoine Attales Family
Basile Protestant Cemetery
United States Census Records Listing
William Bundick marriage to Mary Hay in Mobile
The Pucheu Family
Soap Making - A Dying Art Revived
1880 Census Records
Babineau Marriage correction

Index to 1983 - Vol. 4    
No. 12 - January
Immigration Book, Vol. 1
Gardner-Hinckley Cemetery
Paternal Ancestry of Lovina O. Wetmore
The Pelloquin Connection
Andrepont/Rattel Correction
Jeanne Montfort Guillory
John M. Smith
Smith Successions
Smith Civil Court Cases
No. 13 - April
The Glaze Family of South Carolina & Louisiana
Ville Platte in 1870
Francois Guyon Despres d'Herbanne, Early LA Pioneer
Indian Village Cemetery
McGee Cemetery
1816 Dye Recipes
Pierre Trahan and Anne Brasseux
The Sylvesters of the Spanish Opelousas Post Area
No. 14 - July
Notes on the Dubuisson Family
Anselm Civil War Letters
Langley Cemetery
White's Chapel and Poiret Place on Historic Register
No. 15 - October
The Billeaudeau Family of France, St. Dominque, and Louisiana
Duplechain Cemetery
Fenton Cemetery
Grand Prairie Cemetery
Tisseran de Moncharvaux
Narrative of an Elopement
Brief History of Sacred Heart Catholic Parish, Ville Platte, LA
The Early Sylvesters and Brignacs in the Spanish Opelousas Post
Area
The Care and Preservation of Old Photographs
Theodore Coreil
Bacon Family Records
John Edward Ortego Family Chart
Index to 1984 - Vol. 5    
No. 16 - January
Old Grand Prairie Church members
The Tate Cove Tates
Tremi family History
Guillory documents
Guillorys of Louisiana
Martin Duralde
A Cajun's Genealogy
No. 17 - April
Louis Fontenot-Louise Henry marriage
Fontenot Research Project
First Fontenots of Opelousas Area
Louisiana-Poitou, France Fontenots
Chart - Fonteneau Family of Portiers, Fr.
M. Document, Joachim Fonteneau-Marie Pradeau
M. Document, Louis Pradeau-Catherine Billouin
History of Bergeron Family
Charts - Theophile Bergeron, Louis Bergeron
Armide Miller, Marie Victorine Bertrand, Thomas LeJeune
Child's Memory of Orphan Train
Photos - Bergeron, Miller, Roy
No. 18 - July
The First Bundicks of Evangeline Parish
Children of Olide Ignas Fontenot and Melane Young
Photo of Olide Fontenot and Melane Young Fontenot
private Land Claims in Louisiana, St. Landry Parish
A West Family Line
Murphy West - Ancestor Chart
Armide Miller - Ancestor Chart
Miller Roots
Photo of Home - Joseph Bergeron and Aureline Roy
Thomas J. Watkins chart
The Family of Jeanne Montfort (b. 1693) ancestress of the
Guillorys of
Southwest Louisiana
Baptism of Jeanne Montfort (French and translated)
Translation from French, baptisms of Marie and Noel Nicolas
No. 19 - October
The Pitre Family
Acadian Pitre Family
Opelousas Are Pitre Family
Pierre Joubert and Catherine Pitre Family
Hebert-Milam Clan (A Creole Family of South Central La)
Letter to Governor Paul O. Hebert (1853-1856)
Whats in a name? Lejeune-Young (Joseph 1756-1847)
Children of Joseph Lejeune and Perrine Hays
Ville Platte in Retrospect
Photo - Joseph Wolf
Reference toMaius Lafleur and Leo Soileau

Index to 1985 - Vol. 6

   
No. 20 - January
The early Reed families of the Spanish Opelousas Post Area
Joseph Lejeune-Young (continued)
Photos - Henry Young, Jr.; Lucius Young, Laurie Savoie
Ste. Genevieve, Mo and Kaskaskia, Ill
Maps of Early French Stettlements of Upper Mississippi Valley
Savoie Cemetery
No. 21 - April
The Early Manuel Family in the Spanish Opelousas Post Area
William O'Donegan, First Settler and Tradesman of Ville Platte
Area
Mary Sharp, wife of William O'Donegan, of Spanish and American
Opelousas
William O'Donegan: The Louisiana Documentation
Mary Sharp (Schorb): The Pennsylvania Documentation
Anna Maria Schorb (Mary Sharp)'s Parents
The Descendants of Mary Sharp
Louisiana Places: Turkey Creek
Louisiana Places: Bayou Chicot
No. 22 - July
The Launeys of Evangeline Parish
Early 17th Century Dardeau's
Olin Manuel Home and Family Photo
Boisdore Family of Spanish Opelousas
Soileau and Fusilier research notes
Will of Pierre Manuel
Chataignier Cemetery
Birthplace of Pierre Manuel
No. 23 - October
Unity West of the Spanish Colonial and American Atakapas-
Opelousas Area
Ealine Campbell Wolford -- The 1781 Estate of Sarah Bonn, New
Iberia
Wests and their Callaghan and Russ connections
John Reed, Unity's first husband
James Campbell, Unity's second husband
Unity's neighbors relatives and known children
Other children of John Reed
West-Sellers-Bonn - and Campbell Family
Other Anglos in New Iberia, 1779-1781
A Marriage contract for Opelousas Post: 1769
Index to 1986 - Vol. 7    
No. 24 - January
The Ortega Family: Three Generations in Louisiana
Louisiana and Mississippi Lands: A Guide to Spanish Land Grants
at the University of Michigan
The Manuel Family of Louisiana Province
The National Genealogical Society
The Dore Family of the Spanish and Early American Attakapas-Opelousas Area
The Marriage of Philippe Fontenot and Marie Brignac in 1747
Duplechin Cemetery
No. 25 - April
<amie;-Laperriere
Judge Tate Endowment Fund
Manuel Ancestor Charts
Pierre Courville of Illinois
Locat-Chevalier Ancestor Chart
Fort Michilimackinac
Matte-Fux Ancestor chart
The Matte Family
No. 26 - July
Record of Appointments of postmasters - 1891-1930
Coreil Family: A preliminary study
Bernis Joseph Doucet ancestor chart
Laura Bell Stroderd ancestor chart
Joseph Francois Pitre-Josephine Soileau marriage contract
Same as above - translated
Reed Cemetery (Acadia Parish)
No. 27 - October
The Chapel at Belaire Cove (with photos)
Extracts on the Fuselier and Dubuisson Families
Succession of Marie Louise Lavergne
Opelousas Grammar School Examination - 1847
Index to 1987 - Vol. 8    
No. 28 - January
Duplechin Family
Ortega Addition
St. Augustine Church Cemetery
Community Effort at Opelousas in 1795
Notes on Montpierre, Boutin, and Sancier Families
Oath of Allegiance, 1769
No. 29 - April
Syndics of Southwest Louisiana in 1796
Le Grand Cirque
Heirs of Joseph Landreneau, fils
Guides to Guides: Historical Bibliographies & Genealogy
Tee Duralde Cemetery
Pierre Desautel's Canadian Land Grant: 1665
Mississippi Territory Petitioners of 1800
The Forgotten Tribe
No. 30 - July
Census of 1860 of the Ville Platte, LA area
LaHaye Family Article
Joseph Lamirande, An Early Louisiana Settler
Reed Cemetery (Allen Parish, LA)
Berwick Cemetery (Acadia Parish, LA)
Antoine Albert Family Article
No. 31 - October
Veillon Family Article
LaHaye Family Article
Research on the Fontenot Family
Index to Vol. 8, 1987
Index to 1988 - Vol. 9    
No. 32 - January
Sale for Taxes by the Parish Collector
Joseph La Mirande, His Will of 1795
The Fournerats of Southwest Louisiana
No. 33 - April
Parish Collector's Sale for Taxes, 1845, 1846
Desautels Land Grant, 1665
Theodule Rozat & LeonieFontenot Descendants
An Ortego Puzzle
L'Heritage de L'Avoyelles (Avoyelles Parish History)
No. 34 - July
Descendants of Theodule Rozat & Leonie Fontenot
A Note for Richard Researchers
Allen Parish Marriages
Billeaudeau: Erratum
LaHaye
Biography of Hyacinthe Robery
No. 35 - October
My Perron Ancestry
LaHaye (continued)
Charles Johnson: A 1794 Vignette
Descendants & Spouses of Theodule Rozas & leonie Fontenot (continued)
Bible Records: Tates, Reeds & Youngs
Train Depot Photographs Notice
Index to 1989 - Vol. 10    
No. 36 - January
The Rourk Family
Oil Discovered in Tate Cove
Bellard/Janis (Jany) Research
Mehtodist Church at Bayou Wauksha (Waxia)Abandoned Cemetery
Abstract

No. 37 - April
John Whitmore, Probable Progenitor of a North American
Whitmore/Wetmore Line
Louis David Young Cemetery
The Family of John Peter McDaniel
Jacob Bihm
Military Pension Records: A Source of Genealogical Data
Allen Parish Successions, 1911-1914
Chaumont Cove Cemetery
Louis Belaire Fontenot Cemetery

No. 38 - July
Jean Pierre LaFleur, Two Generations of Descendants
Saint Landry Prish, 1840 Presidential Election
Abandoned Cemetery near Prudhomme
A Smith Update
Shaw Family Bible Records
1913 Marriage Index - Evangeline Parish
No. 39 - October
Some Descendants of Robert Drouin
Ashford Cemetery Inscriptions
St. Landry Parish Election Results for 1836
Index to 1990 - Vol. 11    
No. 40 - January
Marguerite Trahan: Her Probable Ancestry
Descendants of William W. Wiggins & Elizabeth Sheffield
Chataignier Baptist Cemetery (continued)
Chapman/Ortolon
Emma Winfiele's Blackberry Wine Recipe
No. 41 - April
How the Buhler (Buller) Family Began in Louisiana
A Reluctant Warrior: John L. Young
Noel Soileau Baptism Record and Translation
Jean Soileau/Elisabeth Pellerin Marriage Record and Translation
The Robin Hood of Mallet Woods/Drouin Correction
Thomas Winfiele Bible
Charles Bourgeois Ancestor Chart
Reddell Cemetery
No. 42 - July
Guillory and Landreneau: A Document for the Avoyelles Parish Families
Bayou Chicot: A note on Late-Colonial Settlement
Cemetery Listings
The Evangeline Club in Ville Platte
James A. Reed 5-Generation Chart
Alexis Laurent Stagg's Bible
Notes from the Papers of Julius C. Vidrine
Branch Methodist Cemetery
Manuel Cemetery
Ellen Winfiele's Bible

No. 43 - October
A Brief Genealogical Outline of the Buller Family of Louisiana
The Meyer Family
Firman - Mayeux - Johnson - Broussard
Isaac Stagg Bible
Genetics, Genealogy, and Health
A Family Inquiry on Free-People-of-Color
Sonnier Cemetery

Cumulative Index, Vol. 1 through 11; 1980-1990

Index to 1991 - Vol. 12    
No. 44 - January
The Ortego Family of Southwestern Louisiana, 1750-1903
The Durocher and Jolibois Families
Pine Prairie (LA) Oil Field
Land Rental Agreement
A Small Cemetery (Manel Cemetery?)
Vincent - Moore - Trahan - Lapointe Ancestor Chart
Trahan - Taylor - Spears - LeBlanc Ancestor Chart
No. 45 - April
Landreneau and Bopf Families
The Veillon Family of Southwestern Louisiana (1750-1902)
In Search of a Lost Will (Samuel . Beard)
Joseph C. Wiggins and his family
No. 46 - July
The McGee Family of Southwest Louisiana
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Cemetery (Acadia Par., LA)
No. 47 - October
Notes on the Sideck Family of Colonial La, Colonial TX, & the
Republic
of Texas
Beaver Cree, LA & tahe Deafosse Cemetery
DelaFosse Cemetery
Attempted Land Fraud on Bayou Hufpower
A Joubert Land Claim: 1776-1812
Index to 1992 - Vol. 13    
No. 48 - January
The Attakapas Indians of Southwest Louisiaa
The Sloanes of Plaquemie Brulee
Duhon Cemetery
The John Madison Pitre
Madison Pitre Cemetery
Some Seventeenth Century Billeaudeau in France
Ortego Addendum
Maignaud Cemetery
No. 49 - April
The Mayer - Myers Family of Southwest Louisiana
The Ernest Soleau Home
Fontenot - Doucet Marriage Contract
No. 50 - July
Marcellin Garand's Progeny
Thomas Bryant
Thomas Rand Institution
Riverside Cemetery
Additional Sideck Information
Correction to Mayer Family Article
Two Letters from Bernardo de Galvez to Joachin de Ortega
No. 51 - October
The Venable Family of New Jersey and Southwest Louisiana
Some Lum Genealogy
Some Early Ville Platte Settlers
Pierre Savant: Louisiana Milita Captain of 1823
Index to 1993 - Vol. 14    
No. 52 - January
The Tear Family of St. Landry Parish
Some Grand Prairie, Louisiana Properties in 1816
Some descendants of Francois Carriere and Elizabeth Malauzet
More on Emma Winfiele's Blackberry Wine Recipe
The will of David Sloan
No. 53 - April
John W. Calliham and his Proven Children
The Coreil Ancestors in France 1695-1849
Historical Vignette from the Ville Platte Gazette
Postal Problem in Ville Platte
Some Descendants of Charles La Casse and Felicite Langlois
No. 54 - July
The Higginbotham Family
The Killing of Charlie Carroll
Leger - Doucet - Trahan Ancestor Chart
Nine German Families Sail to America on Board Freighter "Mississippi"
No. 55 - October
The Aguillards: A Los Islenos Influence
Basile, Louisiana - An Early History
Index to 1994 - Vol. 15    
No. 56 - January
The Aguillards: A Los Islenos Influence, cont.
Aguillard Ancestor Chart
Immaculate Concepton Church Death Records
Bonus from Attending Genealogy Meetings
Reed Cemetery; Guy, Louisiana
No. 57 - April
LaCasse Genealogy in Canada
St. Landry Parish Coroner's Inquest Book
Baptism of Andre' Carriere
More Information on the Sideck Family
Additional Teal information
Ortego - Landreneau Connections
No. 58 - July
Some Grand Prairie Louisiana Properties in 1816
Robert Turner: Turn of the Century Ladies' Man
Questions Regarding Higginbotham Family Origin
Additions and Correction to Higginbotham Family
Historical Vignettes from the Ville Platte Gazette
No. 59 - October
An 1899 Cattle Brand Transaction
The Garbarino Family of Southwest Louisiana
Burna Mae Deshotel Launey, WWII Nurse
Correction to Deshotel Article
Richard Cemetery in L'anse Megre
Additions to the McGee Family
Historical Vignette from the Ville Platte Gazette
Index to 1995 - Vol. 16    
No. 60 - January
The Two Families of John Lyons, Jr.
Southern Pacific RR and C. C. Duson - Help in Birth of Iota
Hensgens Family of Acadia Parish
Pedigree Chart of Gertrude Ophelia Trumps
Pedigree Chart of William Benjamin Ham
Pedigree Chart of Mable Marie Roger
Notes on the Calliham - Sandefur Connections
No. 61 - April
The Moss Family: From Virginia to South Louisiana
The Loner, Jean Baptiste Gardes
Death Records Immaculate Conception Church, Washington, LA
Village of Basile Incorporated
Pauline Miller: Her Possible Ancestry
Pierre and Jean Lafitte Crew List Available
No. 62 - July
The Succession of Pierre Clavis Saydeck dit Francois Le Compte - 1799
The Reed Cemetery at L'anse Megre
Addendum to the McGee Genealogy
No. 63 - October
The Family of Zebulon Robinett
Lutz and Carroll Family
Josephville Chapman: Probable Ancestry
St. Landry Parish Coroner's Inquest Book
Town Marshalls of Basile, LA
Pauline Miller: Additional Information
First Mayor of Basile, LA
Index to 1996 - Vol. 17    
No. 64 - January
The Langlois - Langley Family of Southwest LA
The Durio Cemetery of Allen Par., Louisiana
Death Records: Emmaculate Conception Church; Washington, LA
No. 65 - April
Brunet - Lestang; 1638 - 1900
Dupre' Cemetery Inscriptions
The Opelousas Guards
Some Residents of Beaver Creek in 1860
Christopher Viscardi
Veillon Family Ancestor Chart
No. 66 - July
Langlois - Langley Family Corrections
Buller - Langley alias Marshall
St. Landry Parish Coroner's Inquest Book
Ortego Cemetery; Evangeline Par., LA
No. 67 - October
The Brand of Joseph Butler, Sr.
A School of the Future in the Past - The Evangeline Preparatory
School in Basile
St. Landry Parish Inquest Book
Death Records: Immaculate Conception Church; Washington, LA
1997 - Vol. 18    
No. 68 - January
Anastasie Savoie: A Search for her parents
My Guillory Roots
Iota Homesteaded as Cartville; Famous for Artesian Wells
Thomas Rand, Jr.: Early St. Landry parish Baptist Minister and
Educator
St. Landry Parish Coroner's Inquest Book: 1906-1909
No. 69 - April
Descendants of Francois Guillory
What is a name?
Names
No. 70 - July
Ardoin
Tasso
What's in a name?
Tremingo
No. 71 - October
Knight of Columbus
Boatwright Family History
Ancestors of Louisa A Capers
Ancestors of Stephen P. Lynch
Death Records 1940 - 1942
Gautherot Family History
Index to 1998 - Vol. 19 (Each issue now has a surname index in the back)  
No. 72 - January
Veillons of Louisiana
Edward Marcel
Meyers - Guillorys
No. 73 - April
Caney Creek Cemetery
Cajun - Creole
Veillons, cont.
Auguste Guillory
John Jefferson Seiley
No. 74 - July
Civil War Recruit Poster
Creole Chargers Roster
Fontenot Cemetery
Old Evangeline Club Drawing
Seiley Family, cont.
Hadley - Dugas - Guillory
Veillon, cont.
No. 75 - October
Seiley, cont.
Ardoin's of Louisiana
Jeansonne/Johnson Cemetery
Note on Ardoins of Louisiana
Old laws and punishments
1999 - Vol. 20    
No. 76 - January
Ardoin, cont.
Guillory Sale
Hebert Family
Fuselier Family
Dubuisson Family
Hernandez Inventory
No. 77 - April
Veillons, conclusion
Fruge Chart
Richard Chart
Duel Citizenship
Taxes?
A Short History of Louisiana Before the Civil War
Old Photo - Home of the Reed Family
System of Transportation; National Archives of Ireland
No. 78 - July
Acadia: Origins of the Name
Acadian Roots
Acadian Family Names
The Acadian Memorial
1755 - The Expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia
Landry - One of the Earliest Historical Accounts of an
Acadian/Cajun
Veillon Cemetery
Ardoin History
The Early Acadian Period in Nova Scotia: 1605-1755
No. 79 - October
Grand-Pre Deportee's
Names on Church Wall
Map of Acadia
Ardoin Cemetery
What is an Acadian?
What is a Cajun?
Gazatte Story
Marriage in 1700s
2000 - Vol. 21    
No. 80 - January
Deportation Proclamations; Deportation Ships; The Loner;
Billeaudeau Chart; Ardoin Cemetery, cont.; Acadian Prisoners in
Halafax;
Acadian Prisoners in Ft. Cumberland; Louisiana Soldiers 1784--
1811
No. 81 - April
Life in 1500s; Shunning; Joseph Columbus Wiggins; Cajun-Cajan;
Joseph "Joe" DeRossier; Ardoin Cemetery, conclusion; Marriage in
Ireland; Excerpts Ville Platte Gazette; LeJeunes.