When the page you requested has opened up, you may
want to enlarge the window by clicking the “maximize” button so that the
lines won’t wrap, putting the ends of some lines at the left side of the
window. If you are viewing the article index and the columns do not line
up, go to View|Text Size and choose “Larger” or “Smaller”
instead of “Medium” which is the only setting where the columns
do not line up. You may want to browse the entries. If so, you should be
aware that the sorter paid no attention to capitals. Thus, LaGrange surnames
are filed along with Lagrange. To find a particular name or surname quickly,
use the Edit|Find feature (also called “Search”) on the menu
bar, and enter the beginning four or five letters of the surname or topic
you are researching. If it is a common surname, you should spell it out
completely (spell carefully, and check before you continue) then place
a comma and a space after it and type the beginning of the first name.
For example: LEBLANC, JOS will bring you to the location of those with
the name Joseph LeBlanc and variations of that name (Jose, Josefa, Josephe,
Josephine, etc). The next step is to find the location of the reference
in Terrebonne Life Lines, the quarterly publication of the Terrebonne Genealogical
Society, P. O. Box 295, Station 2, Houma, LA 70360.
The first number is the volume number. We have published
at this writing 20 volumes, one for each year, starting in 1982 and continuing
in an unbroken series through 2001. Each volume except the first one contains
four issues; Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
After the volume number you will see a colon,
followed by the page or pages on which the subject person’s name is found.
In volumes 1 through 14, each new issue’s pages started with number 1.
Starting in volume 15 (1996) page numbers ran from page 1 in the spring
issue to the end of the winter issue. Thus you will see references like
these:
Tassin, J.; 3:23 Wint '84
Tassin, Mr.; 16:263 Wint '97
The reference to J. Tassin is found on page
23 of the Winter issue of volume 3 (1984).
Another reference, Mr. Tassin, is found named
on page 263 of the Winter issue of 1997 (vol. 16). The Winter issues of
both years contain approximately the same number of pages, but in 1997
the pages were numbered differently.
The third and last part of each entry is the name
of the issue: Sprg for Spring, Summ for Summer, Fall, and Wint for Winter,
followed by the two-digit number for the year. A semicolon “;” separates
one entry from the next.
When you don’t have your quarterlies next to the computer, you could
select (highlight) the references that you may need and click on Edit|Copy on the menu bar, or the Ctrl-C hotkey, then Paste (Ctrl-V) that
to a word processor, such as Corel® WordPerfect, Microsoft® Notepad,
Microsoft® WordPad, or other. You may then print this to obtain a hard
copy that is more portable than most desktop computers. If your computer
is portable you don’t have to print, but then again you may not have a
printer connected, anyway.
We ask that you limit your copying to a few pages at a time. It would
be possible, though not practical or ethical, to copy the whole publication
and sell it as a book. We hope that you are both, but at least practical,
if not ethical. At the last estimate, we calculated that the book would
be over 1000 pages, printed three columns across the page in Arial Narrow,
font size 8. We are not making a huge profit, and what little we make goes
to buy genealogy books for the Terrebonne Parish Library, Genealogy Collection,
one of the finest in South Louisiana. So please tell your friends to get
their own copy and help the cause. We are a non-profit organization.
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