New Orleans' "Kid Doe" - ever heard of him? If you were around the Big Easy in the early 1900's he was quite the "c...

Francois Gabriel Aime - ca. 1822 (1797-1867) Said to have been the richest man in in the South during the first half of the nineteenth...

William Joseph Imbert was the husband of Odille L. Fortier (1887-1956), my first cousin, 3x removed. Doubtlessly, no one in our family has...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day and our Irish ancestry, I wanted to highlight a former leader of the kingdom of Tyrconnell - Hugh O'D...

John Howard "Jack" Nelson , my first cousin-once removed, was born in Talladega, Alabama, on October 11, 1929.  Jack was the oldes...

Martin Horst (1830-1878) Martin Horst , my 3rd great-Grandfather, was born in the town of Ober-Ohmen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, on ...

 Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal  The Holy Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice is an award of the Roman Catholic Church. The English trans...

 Bishop Paul Edward Waldschmidt (1920-1994)  Paul Edward Waldschmidt was born on January 7, 1920 in Vanderburgh, Indiana, the only ...

My plan for each Friday's post is to recognize and tell the story of those individuals within our extended families, who are on the two ...