Louisiana
Genealogy Links
Rapides Parish, LA GenWeb:
Webmaster, Morgan Edward Johnson is a Jeansonne/Johnson!! Plus, it's a great web
site.
Avoyelles Parish,
LA GenWeb: Webmaster John Barron has some Acadian GEDCOMS on line already, covering
lots of families that intermarried with the Jeansonnes, and a few Jeansonnes. Also,
it's one of the best sites anywhere for lookups!!
St.
Landry Parish, LA GenWeb: Lots of good data here, and some long-lost cousins
doing queries!
Evangeline
Parish, LAGenWeb (Evangeline was originally part of St. Landry)
Lafayette
Parish, LA GenWeb (many early Opelousas Post families ended up here.)
Point
Coupee Parish, LAGenWeb (Early Avoyelles Creole families mostly came from Point
Coupee)
State Library of Louisiana
-- genealogy resources and how-to page.
USL Library's Bibliography
of Genealogical Materials -- lots of good history and genealogy sources catalogued
here.
City of Eunice, Louisiana Homepage (add
your town here! e-mail us!)
Cajun
Clickers (Baton Rouge On-Line Genealogy Club)
Acadian
Genealogy Links
Yvon Cyr's Acadian Genealogy
Homepage -- lots of good links, plus Yvon is the founder of the non-profit Acadian
genealogy CD project.
Linda
Jones' Acadian Genealogy page on Compuserve. Lots of good links, and some of
the best Acadian history background papers we've seen on the Web.
Links
to more Links from two of best: Cyndi's
List (scroll to the Acadian section)
and J
Fuller / Chris Gaunt (tells you how to subscribe to the LA-CAJUN-ROOTS e-mail
list, among other good things.
Dennis Hebert's excellent Acadian
/ Cajun Genealogy page -- lots of information, sources, history links, etc.
MORE TO COME -- Watch This Space
General Louisiana Links
Mike Perry's Louisiana Home Page -- lots of
cultural, historic, tourism and sporting info here. This is where we got our neat
background wallpaper, only I changed the color.
Lots more to come in this
category!!
Acadian and Cajun Links
Acadian and Cajun Artists:
The Blue Dog website (noted Cajun artist
George Rodrigue)
Acadian and Cajun Food:
Cajun Brew, Neil Dronet's excellent
Cajun cookery site. This is where the crawfish graphic came from, and will shortly
feature my grandparents' Roy and Peg Johnson's recipe for roast turkey with dirty
rice dressing....
Renee
Kelleher's Cajun cookery site -- good background info here, plus another source
of the "Cajun Yes, Blackened No" logo.... ("Ok, so I burned the dinner.
Try thinking of it as Cajun Blackened Macaroni and Cheese....")
Acadian and Cajun Music:
Music pages from
Char's "Taste of Louisiana" page. Char is the co-founder/manager of the
Cajun Ring (web ring for Cajun sites -- join us!) This page has lots of links to
Real Audio files from Cajun bands, some of the old classics plus some current artists.
La
Louisianne Records -- one of the pioneers, based in Lafayette.
Bayou
Beat -- excellent, comprehensive website out of Opelousas
KVPI
radio -- based in scenic downtown Ville Platte
Les
Habitants Nova Scotia-based traditional Acadian band playing music of the 16th-18th
centuries. There's more to "Acadian music" than an accordion, fiddle and
triangle. Check out this site to hear the music of our forefathers...
...
AND A GENERAL SOUTHERN CULTURE LINK:
Just for fun, check out the Moon
Pie official website.
History Links:
Short history of Louisiana
from Char's "Taste of Louisiana" site.
Acadian
History Page from Dennis Hebert's genealogy resources site.
History of
the Acadian settlement
in Louisiana and the founding "Cajuns', also from Dennis Hebert's website.
Acadian
History page from Linda Jones's website
Center
for Louisiana Studies, at the University of Southwest Louisiana. This is an excellent
program. The Assistant Director is Carl A. Brasseaux, author of several Acadian/Cajun
history books and fellow descendant of Como Brasseaux and Isabelle Thibodeaux.
USL
Library's Louisiana
Room -- lots of good stuff here.
Johnson / Jeansonne Genealogy Websites:
Johnson Family Page -- A
general webpage for any and all Johnsons, any spelling. Includes a query section,
lots of resources.
Johnson
Mailing List Web Page -- Homepage of the Johnson e-mail genealogy list -- covering
any and all Johnsons, not just our line.
THE ACADIAN
JOHNSON ASSOCIATION -- our sister website
Websites of Jeansonne / Johnson Researchers???
Send us details and we'll link to your website!!
(Genealogy websites
AND personal websites)
Stay tuned for more!!
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