I'm not sure what my mom's side was ... well, other than the wax smuggler. I'm not sure if you were around my LJ when I was poking at the genealogy on my dad's side, but they were pretty much either plantation owners or farmers in Louisiana until the turn of the last century, when my branch of the family moved to Texas. Both my great-grandfather's family and my great-grandmother's family moved to Beaumont, Texas round about 1900, where my ggfather and ggmother met and discovered they'd both grown up in the same town. XD I'm wondering if a hurricane took out the area of Louisiana theyw ere in about that time - they were right in one of the areas reasonably near the coast devastated by Katrina, and it's in the records of the area that other hurricanes have done damage there. I'll have to inquire into that and see if that could be possible, or if people left the area for other reasons at that time.
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I'm not sure what my mom's side was ... well, other than the wax smuggler. I'm not sure if you were around my LJ when I was poking at the genealogy on my dad's side, but they were pretty much either plantation owners or farmers in Louisiana until the turn of the last century, when my branch of the family moved to Texas. Both my great-grandfather's family and my great-grandmother's family moved to Beaumont, Texas round about 1900, where my ggfather and ggmother met and discovered they'd both grown up in the same town. XD I'm wondering if a hurricane took out the area of Louisiana theyw ere in about that time - they were right in one of the areas reasonably near the coast devastated by Katrina, and it's in the records of the area that other hurricanes have done damage there. I'll have to inquire into that and see if that could be possible, or if people left the area for other reasons at that time.