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Sunday, September 26. 1982
The Times-Picayune
Section 2, Page 7,
Louisiana Ancestors
An Anglo-Saxons? guide
By Damon veach
The United States is a nation of immigrants, of whom a large proportion share English, Welsh, Scottish, or Irish ancestry. Tracing these ancestors is a project the entire family can enjoy at home or when on vacation in the British Isles.
?In Search of Your British & Irish Roots" is a clear, concise guide to ancestral research in the British Isles. Angus Baxter, who also authored ?In Search of Your Roots,? offers a solid introduction and a valuable companion to a rewarding search.
He begins with step-by-step instructions on how to draw up a family tree, working with information readily available locally or through letters of inquiry to newspapers and relatives abroad. The search continues by correspondence with family history societies, archives, and other organizations listed here, before concluding with a possible, but not essential trip to the source.
The information Baxter offers has never been collected in one volume, such as the sections on the changed English county boundaries, the availability of adoption records, the valuable indexes collected by the Mormon Church, the scanty Jewish records, the parish and civil registers of England and Wales, the location of wills and military records, the various counties of Wales and Scotland, the division of records between Eire and Northern Ireland, and the family history society that specializes in families originating in the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.
Finally, the author demonstrates how the threads of fact can be woven into a rich and detailed family history, the ultimate aim of every searcher determined to find the family roots.
Published by William Morrow & Company, this research book sells for $15 and can be ordered throu||hjirwmajor^bookstore^^^^_^^^^^^^^
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J.C. ROLAND JR., 2420 Mississippi Ave., Metairie, La. 70003 is researching (Capt.) William Tyler Boardman, who died November 26, 1894 and is buried in Bay St. Louis, Miss. He was born in Leominster, Mass., on June 13, 1834, a son of (Capt.) A.P. Boardman. He married Josephine Rita Leonhard (1868-1939), a daughter of Louis Leonhard (1841-1901) of New Orleans.
Boardman owned and operated several riverboats in the New Orleans and Red River trade areas. (See ?Dixie,? Oct. 9, 1960, Pictures Out of the Past.)
A.P. Boardman was born near Boston, Mass. and died on Aug. 7, 1866 in New Orleans. He resided in the city for approximately 35 years and at one time lived 158 Clio Street at one time.
Any information on the Boardman family would be appreciated.
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GAYLE T. HARRIS, 3205 Sharon Chapel Road, Alexandria, Va. 22310 needs information on the death in New Orleans, 1838-1842, of the actress Frances Sheppard Cowell, wife of comedian, Joe Cowell.
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DOTTIE MEADORS, 2335 Fawnwood Lane, Spring, Texas 77373 is looking for Bordelon family members in Louisiana who may have done research on this surname in Europe.
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SUZANNE M. BOENSEL, 5210 Vista Miguel Dr., La Canada, Calif. 91011 is researching Andrew Hymel (Andre Himel) and his father, David, of St. John the Baptist Parish. Andrew was born in 1764 and died in 1832. There is an Andre Himel listed in the 1810 census, but no proof has been found to identify this as the same ancestor.
Bertrand Danjean married Suzanne Odaie Carlin, and he is thought to have been a sugar planter in St. Charles Parish. His son, Oscar, was also a planter and had a plantation, called Mary (St. Charles Parish) or Rich Bend (St. James Parish). Other plantations of interest are Glendale, Gold Mine, California. Trinity and Hymelia.
Allied lines are Miller, Provost, Lange, Quebe-deau, Bourgeois, Barre. Troxler, Bossier and Sauva-gin(?).
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CARRIELOU STEWART, Box 289-Spring Valley, Mayer, Arizona 86333 is searching for the family Bible belonging to Carrie Lou Girault Hartzog Beeder, believed to be in Louisiana, and possibly in the New Orleans area. It contains genealogical information needed by this researcher.
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FRANCES HICKS, Box 59, Utopia, Texas 78884 needs information on the parents of William Mabry (Maberry) and his wife, Mary Wafer, who were married in 1811 in Amite County, Miss. They were in Ouachita Parish, La. by 1816. After William died in September of 1835, Mary married John Huey.
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BOBBYE SUE WHITE, 74 Eleventh St., Chilli-cothe, Missouri 64601 is searching for information on David Coe. who married Ellen Eskew. A daughter, Angie, was born in January of 1874. No other information is available.


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