Hacienda Circle: New online today! Baptismal registers for St. Louis Cathedral New Orleans for Free People of Color and slaves 1777-1801

01 February 2011

New online today! Baptismal registers for St. Louis Cathedral New Orleans for Free People of Color and slaves 1777-1801

http://www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/sfpc.php

The registers are divided into 5 year groups.  Two links are provided for each year group, 
    • the first link being to an index of sorts (either chronological or alpha-chronological by the first letter of the name), 
    • the second link being the actual images of the registers.  

The registers for whites were maintained separately by the church and are NOT included on the website.  But whites are frequently mentioned in the entries either as being owners of various slaves, or as godparents to the infants being baptized.

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Note to Gilberts

All the ancestors posted on this blog belong to us all. Hacienda Circle lives. It is a place of our present with Jack & Roxanne there now, and it is a window into our past.

We are true American mutts -- a mixture from England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and Germany.

Our DNA will, no doubt, reveal more counties of origin. I'll be adding information about this as I gather and understand it. but we already have two 37 marker matches (one with a Frank M. Cresap -- no surprise there!).

1. Thank you, Jack, for doing our Gilbert DNA.

2. Thank you, Karen (Cresap) Bach, for having your late father, Andrew Bruce Cresap, Jr., do our Cresap DNA.

3. Thank you, Maurice Walton, for doing our Walton DNA (via Granwilla's maternal grandfather, James Walton's line).

4. I did our mitochondrial DNA back through Mom, Pi, and our direct female line back. This line is also included in a family finder project at https://www.familytreedna.com/. This works by comparing our autosomal DNA to that of other people who have taken the test through FamilyTree. Our relationship with a match is calculated based on sharing linked segments of DNA. Although any two people from the same population may have some of their DNA in common, as a matching segment of DNA becomes longer and we share more segments, it becomes more likely that the sharing is due to a recent common ancestor than a chance match. Thus far we have five people who we are probably 4th cousins with, but we haven't figured out the exact connection.

Happy ancestoring!