Re: Ardoins in Southwest Louisiana
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Re: Ardoins in Southwest Louisiana
3/06/02
Dear Ginger,
Do you have birth dates for your grandparents, and your father? Do you know where they were born? You get better results from a query, if you give dates and locations, if known. There are many people with the same names, and there are many places to look.
If a family member cannot supply birth dates, go to the Social Security Death Index at ancestry.com
Enter the surname Deshotel for each family member and their given name. A married woman uses her husband's surname on the SSDI.
If your grandparents were still alive when Medicare was implemented, during the Johnson Administration in the early 1960s, they would have been assigned a SS# so they could collect Medicare benefits, even if they did not pay into the SS fund. My mother did not pay into the fund. She collected benefits as my father's spouse. Her name is listed on the SSDI.
Once you know your grandparents' birthdates, you should be able to find them in Rev. Donald J. Hebert's "Southwest Louisiana Records". I am assuming they were born in Louisiana, since you say they are buried in the Ardoin cemetery.
If you do not have access to Fr. Hebert's SWLR, you can still find your grandparents' parents on one of the Louisiana Censuses on microfilm in a library near you. Ask your librarian for help.
Jim Conway (deceased), former editor of "La Voix des Prairies" and his wife, Leona Guillory Conway, abstracted the Ardoin Cemetery, and that was list was published in "La Voix des Prairie". If you look at the Index for "La Voix..." at http://www.rootsweb.com/~laeghs/issues.htmlhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~laeghs/issues.html
you will see listed the Ardoin Cemetery, published in Vol. 20, No. 79, October 1999; Ardoin Cemetery, cont. was published in Vol. 21, No. 80, January 2000. You should find these near the end of the Index. Instructions for ordering past issues are included.
Avec mes meilleurs sentiments
(with my very best wishes)
Rosie Morein Wells
Birmingham, AL
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Fabien Ardoin m. Lucadie Landreneau 22 Dec 1903 Opel. Ct. Hse. Mar. #30250
EDSEL WELLS 10/31/04