The 2023 Oktoberfest is scheduled, for Saturday, October 21, 2023.
LOCATION:
St. James Parish Reception Hall (West Bank Hall)
2455 Highway 18 (River Road)
Vacherie, LA 70090
PROGRAM:
9:00 a.m. – DOORS OPEN & REGISTRATION
9:30 a.m. – WELCOME – Jay Schexnaydre GACHGS President
10:00 a.m. – SESSION 1 – Albert J. Robichaux Jr.
“Researching Your Canary Island Ancestors”
11:00 a.m. – SESSION 2 – Jari C. Honora, CG®
“Enslaved, Free People of Color, Sugar Planters, and a Mayflower Yankee: Documentary Research + DNA Reveal the History of a Convent (La.) Family”
11:45 a.m. – LUNCH – Maitland “Spuddy” Faucheux
Beef & Pork Jambalaya, Sauerkraut, German-style Potato Salad, Petit Pois, Dinner Roll, Pecan Pie, Tea, Water, Coffee
1:00 p.m. – SESSION 3 – Spencer L. Chauvin
“LeBlanc-Chauvin House: Oldest Acadian Home in St. James Parish?”
1:45 p.m. – CLOSING REMARKS – Jay Schexnaydre GACHGS President
PRICE:
$35.00 per person
Checks should be made payable to GACHGS
Mail checks to:
GACHGS Oktoberfest
P. O. Box 122
Vacherie, LA 70090-0122
DEADLINE FOR PAYMENT – October 14, 2023 !!!
SILENT AUCTION BOOKS
The following books were donated from the Susan Waguespack Laurent collection by her husband Duane. Also some times were donated by member, Emory C. Webre
| Titles | Author(s) |
| Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec: des origines a 1730 (includes Corrections) | René Jetté |
| Germain Doucet: Sieur de La Verdure | Michele Doucette |
| Miller’s Manual: A Research Guide to the Major French-Canadian Genealogical Resources What They are and How to Use Them | Douglas J. Miller |
| Calendar of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, Civil Records, Vol. 1 1803-1819 | Judy Riffel |
| Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent | J. Hanno Dieler |
| France’s Forgotten Legion: CD-ROM Publication: Service Records of French Military & Administrative Personnel Stationed in the Miss. Valley and Gulf Coast Region, 1699-1769 | Carl A. Brasseaux |
| The Men and Women in World War II from De Soto-Natchitoches and Sabine Parishes | Rickey Robertson |
| [SET of 25] Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol. 1-23 | Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge |
| [SET of 19] Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records, Vol. 1-19 | Archdiocese of New Orleans |
| Southwest Louisiana Records, Vol. 1, 1756-1810 (revised) | Rev. Donald J. Hebert |
| Southwest Louisiana Records, Vol. 2C, 1826-1830, Special Supplement 1831-1878, complete revision | Rev. Donald J. Hebert |
| Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 4, Pisiguit, Cobequid, Chipoudy et Petitcodiac, Cap-de-Sable et Pobomcoup, Riviere Saint-Jean & Restigouche | Bona Arsenault |
| Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 5, Plaisance, Ile Royale incluant Louisbourg, Ile Saint-Jean | Bona Arsenault |
| Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 6, Ile Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Bordeaux, Bell-Ile-en-Mer, Louisiane | Bona Arsenault |
| Corrections & Additions to Arsenault’s Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens | Janet B. Jehn |
| Amedee Family Reunion, The Twenty-Sixth of May in the Year Two Thousand Two | Amedee Family Reunion |
| Angelina Troxclair Brothers Descendants Family Reunion, Oct. 27, 1996 | Mariela Troxclair Twiggs |
| Généalogie mode d’emploi | Jean-Louis Beaucarnot |
| Histoire de la famille Comment realiser sa Généalogie: Origine des patronymes | Cabedita (Collection Archives vivantes) |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands: Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. John the Baptist Parish with Genealogy and Index, 1753-1803 | Glenn R. Conrad |
| The German Coast: Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parishes, 1804-1812 | Glenn R. Conrad |
| Louisiana Soldiers in the War of 1812 | Marion John Bennett Pierson |
| First Settlers of the Louisiana Territory, Vol. I, Orleans Territory Grants from American State Papers, Class VIII, Public Lands | Ericson Books |
| First Settlers of the Louisiana Territory, Vol. II, Orleans Territory Grants from American State Papers, Class VIII, Public Lands | Ericson Books |
| French and Swiss Protestants (reprint of document originally around 1695-96) | Clearfield Company |
| Ancestral Research in Paris: A Guide to using the variable sources in Family History Research | Patrick Pontet |
| Ancestral Research in France: A Simple Guide to Tracing your Family History through French Records | Patrick Pontet |
| Patronymes Acadiens (Acadian Family Names) | Societe du Monument Lefebvre |
| Patronyms créoles de Louisiane du Sud (Creole Surnames in South Louisiana), Vol 1 | B. Christophe Landry-Hoegan |
| Our French-Canadian Ancestors Volume 1 | Thomas J. Laforest |
| French and Spanish Records of Louisiana: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources | Henry Putney Beers |
| Natchitoches: Translated Abstracts of Register Number Five of the Catholic Church Parish of St. Francois des Natchitoches in Louisiana:1800-1826 | Elizabeth Shown Mills |
| Natchitoches Colonials: A Source Book: Censuses, Military Rolls & Tax Lists, 1722-1803 | Elizabeth Shown Mills & Ellie Lennon |
| Scattered to the Wind: Dispersal and Wanderings of the Acadians, 1755-1809 | Carl A. Brasseaux |
| Natchitoches: Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana: 1729-1803 | Elizabeth Shown Mills |
| France: The Motherland of Avoyelles: The Ancestral Villages of the French Creoles and French Immigrant Families of Avoyelles Parish | Randy DeCuir |
| Family Maps of the Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Deluxe Edition) | Gregory A. Boyd |
| Your Scottish Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans (paperback) | Sherry Irvine |
| Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americans (hardback) | Christina K. Schaefer |
| Natchitoches Church Marriages 1818-1850, Vol. VI, Cane River Creole Series | Elizabeth Shown Mills |
| DeSoto Parish Louisiana: Marriage Book a 1843-1860, Loose Papers 1837-1860 | Frances T. Ingmire |
| The Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 Through 1732 | Charles R. Maduell, Jr. |
| German Coast Families, European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana | Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. |
| St. Charles, Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. Charles Parish, 1770-1803 | Glenn R. Conrad |
| Père, the Little Frenchmen: Life & Legacy of Monsignor Eyraud | Darlene Labranche |
| [SET of 13] South Louisiana Records: Lafourche-Terrebonne, Vol. 1-13 | Rev. Donald J. Hebert |
| The Le Blanc Legacy: “Remembrances of the Past”, 1626-1999 | Lynette Le Blanc Kleinpeter |
| In Search of Your German Roots | Angus Baxter |
| Genealogical Research in Nova Scotia | Terrence M. Punch |
| A Tregre Reunion | Ethel “Toonie” Tregre LeCompte Daigle |
| The Simon and Related Families | Ernest Simon |
| French and French-Canadian Family Research | Summit Publications |
| Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 2, Port-Royale | Bona Arsenault |
| Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 3, Beaubassin, Grand-Pre | Bona Arsenault |
| Red River Parish: Our Heritage | The Red River Parish Heritage Society |
| Be It Known and Remembered: Bible Records, Vol. V | Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Soc. |
| Acadian Exiles in the Colonies | Janet Jehn |
| de Generes and Allied Families | Roland Anthony Gravois |
| Acadian-Cajun Atlas | Timothy Hebert |
| Natchitoches Baptisms 1817-1840 | Judy Riffel |
| Natchitoches Baptisms 1841-1849 | Judy Riffel |
| German-American Names | George F. Jones |
| Acadian Awakenings | William D. Gerrior |
| Histoire de l’Assomption 1967 | La Commion Des Fetes Du 250e |
| [SET] The First Families of Louisiana, Vol. I & II | Glenn R. Conrad |
| Vacherie, St. James Parish, Louisiana: History and Genealogy | Elton J. Oubre |
| Descendants of Antoine Bordelon | Tony L. Vets |
| The Lafourche Country: The People and the Land | Philip D. Uzee |
| The Fortier Family and Allied Families | Estelle M. Fortier Cochran |
| The Robert Family of South Louisiana, 1772-2009 | Norman A. Robert |
| La Famille Gravois, les Trois Cents Années Passées | Roland Anthony Gravois |
| Dictionnaire etymologique des Noms de Famille | Marie-Therese Morlet |
| The First Families of Louisiana: An Index | Donna Randal Mills |
| The Ory Story: Alsace-Lorraine to America 1650-2003 | Margie R. Pearce |
| Ma Généalogie: Guide des recherches en France | Marie-Odile Mergnac |
| Louisiana 1850 Census Index | Ronald V. Jackson & Gary R. Teeples |
| Louisiana 1860 Census Index | Ronald Vern Jackson |
| Natchitoches Abstracts Register V (1800-1826) | Elizabeth Shown Mills |
| Acadian-Cajun Genealogy Step by Step | Timothy Hebert |
| The Canary Islanders of Louisiana | Gilbert C. Din |
| Index to the Louisiana Historical Quarterly | Boyd Cruise |
| French-Canadian Sources: A Guide for Genealogists | Patricia Keeney Geyh, et. Al. |
| Ancestry of Certain Breaux Families of Louisiana | Clarence Breaux |
| Bonaventure, A Tale of Louisiana | George W. Cable |
| The German Coast During the Colonial Era 1722-1803 | Helmut Blume |
| History Heritage of Saints on the River | Claudia Montz Cambre |
| German “Pest Ships” 1720-1721 | Alice D. Forsyth & Earlene Zeringue |
| Metairie Cemetery: A Historical Memoire | Henri A. Gandolfo |
| Beautiful Crescent | Joan Garvey |
| A History of French Louisiana: Vol. 5 | Marcel Giraud |
| Dictionnaire Français-Anglais | Collins Hanchette |
| People of the Bayou | Christopher Hallowell |
| The Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon | Chance Harvey |
| Civil War in Louisiana: A Chronology | LA Civil War Centennial |
| Old Creole Days | George W. Cable |
| Gateway to Yesterday | Claudia Montz Cambre |
| The Natchitoches Cemeteries | Lucile Purdhomme & Fern Christenson |
| The Book of Le Blanc | Nora Lee Clouatre Pollard |
| Petit Larousse Dictionary | Larousse |
| Decelle-Duclos Family | Lineages |
| Waterford: Agriculture to Industry | Louisiana Power & Light |
| St. John the Baptist Census 1850 | Michael Maurin |
| Germans of Louisiana | Ellen C. Merrill |
| The Book of Landry | Nora Lee Clouatre Pollard |
| Acadie, Then and Now | Warren Perrin |
| Louisiana Soldiers in the War of 1812 | Marion Pierson |
| Perique Tobacco | L. Aristée Poché |
| A Narrative History of Breaux Bridge | Grover Rees |
| Acadia 2 Vols (Reprint) | Edouard Richard |
| Colonial Settlers Along Bayou Lafourche | Albert J. Robichaux Jr. |
| Cajun by Any Other Name | Marie Rundquist |
| Tales of the Mississippi | Ray Samuel |
| Gumbo Ya-Ya | Lyle Saxon |
| Old Louisiana | Lyle Saxon |
| Louisiana: A History | Joe Gray Taylor |
| Land of Lafitte the Pirate | Ray M. Thompson |
| Chronology: State of Louisiana | Robert I. Vexler |
| Louisiana Census Records Vol. 1-3 | Robert Bruce Ardoin |
| Decipher Germanic Records | Edna Bentz |
| French, Cajun, Creole, Houma | Carl Brasseaux |
| Founding of New Acadia | Carl Brasseaux |
| Dictionary German-English | Langenscheidts |
| George Washington Cable | Philip Butcher |