Articles

• New Natchez
  John Dillahunt and Elizabeth Martin were at Natchez between 1806 and 1810. What the town was, who was there before them, and what the district's records hold.
  Delahorne line · updated 2026-09-23
• The Silence at Bayou Rouge
  Why no church record names Elizabeth Martin's parents: for most of the years her children were born, Avoyelles had no working church.
  Delahorne line · updated 2026-09-20
• The Merryman cousins
  Two of Nancy Jane Blanchard's ancestors were Merrymans who married each other as first cousins, so one man sits in her tree twice.
  Blanchard line · updated 2026-09-20
• William Bennett Phipps
  William Bennett Phipps: baptised at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1827, a Confederate private captured in 1865, died in Chicago in 1898.
  Curtis line · updated 2026-09-23
• The Cottrell Wall
  Marie Virginia Cottrelle had no recorded parents for years. The records that finally named them, and the wrong turns on the way.
  Delahorne line · updated 2026-09-20