US Black Heritage Project Louisiana Team

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Louisiana, United States
Surnames/tags: black heritage Louisiana Louisiana Families

US Black Heritage Project Teams

The USBH Louisiana Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of Louisiana. Thi team is collaborating with Project:Louisiana_Families.

Contents 1 Mission 2 Goals 3 Tasks 3.1 2023 Projects 3.2 2024 Projects 3.3 1880 Census Project 3.4 Pending 3.4.1 Cemeteries 3.4.2 Churches 3.4.3 Data Doctors 3.4.4 Notables 3.4.5 Slave Narratives 3.4.6 Slave Owners 3.4.7 Slave Profiles 3.4.8 Plantations 3.5 Completed 4 Resources Available 5 WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project

Mission

The mission of the USBH Louisiana Team is to develop profiles of those of African descent who lived in Louisiana and their ancestors. We encourage everyone on WikiTree to find and connect with their cousins in Louisiana, and by reviewing the profiles learn a little about Louisiana history.

Team Leader: Denise Jarrett

Team members:

• Loretta Buckner
• Michelle Detwiler
• Jacqueline Girouard
• David Hamilton
• Gina Jarvi
• Christy Melick
• Joyce (Bjorkgren) Rivette
• Stephanie Ward
• Emma MacBeath

Goals

This team is part of the US Black Heritage Project. Our goals are the following with specific emphasis on the 64 parishes in Louisiana:

• To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting African-American Genealogies.
• To create the largest online public database of connected African-American families.
• To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting African-American families to the Global Family Tree.
• To process all types of documents from Louisiana regarding free and enslaved ancestors with the goal of creating their profiles and connecting them to their descendants.
• To provide and maintain a logical and organized structure to help individuals identify their ancestors and celebrate their history.
• To improve all profiles of ancestors with Black heritage in Louisiana, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.US Black Heritage: Connectors Page

Tasks

In additional to the mission, goals and guidelines of the parent project this team will insure:

• All newly created or updated U.S. enslaved ancestor and slave owner profiles should have. Project members will review these profiles for proper set up and then add the next appropriate categories to assist in completing the Heritage Exchange work flow.
• Locate and document all African-American cemeteries in Louisiana, including developing profiles on WikiTree for the interred listed on FindAGrave, add cemetery category for each profile and create free space pages for the cemeteries on an as-needed basis.
• Locating and documenting all plantations in Louisiana that utilized slave labor with at least 40 slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for enslavers and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.
• Locating and developing profiles for Freedmen in Louisiana.
• Make profiles for the Louisiana Tuskegee Airman who don't yet have profiles on WikiTree.
• Begin One Place Studies for African-American towns and communities in Louisiana.
• All unsourced African-American Louisiana profiles must be identified with Category: Louisiana, Unsourced Profiles (or add Unsourced|Louisiana template with {{ }} on either side)
• All earliest known heads of families identified with Category: Louisiana First Families (see category page for qualifications)
• All Louisiana profiles categorized by location (see Category: Louisiana for a list of parish categories and city/town subcategories)
• Other categories added as appropriate, including Cemeteries, Civil War units (Confederate or Union), and Veteran stickers.
• All duplicates merged into lowest number with final LNAB (can ask Arborists Project for help)
• Biographies cleaned up and written in narrative style, using the WikiTree Style Guide (can work with Profile Improvement Project for help)
• Profiles attached to the main WikiTree family tree (can ask the Connectors Project for help)

2023 Projects

For 2023, the team will focus on Caddo Parish, Louisiana. (See below).

Specific areas of focus:

• Make profiles for all slave owners
• Identify the enslaved and make profiles for them
• Make free space pages for all plantations in Caddo Parish
• Document all African-American cemeteries in Caddo Parish

2024 Projects

US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, Louisiana starting with Cameron Parish

African-American Cemeteries

African-American Churches

1880 Census Project

Spreadsheets are being created for each parish in Louisiana.

• US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, Louisiana

Pending

Create profiles for these Notables:

(Please add them to the Proposed Notables tab of the Notables spreadsheet)

• Avery Caesar Alexander (1910-1999)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Meyer_Augustine_Jr.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Bechet
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Bolden
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Booker
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Celestin
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Samuel_Clark
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Cochran
• https://theneworleanstribune.com/2017/11/20/leading-the-way-walter-louis-cohen/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Davis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dent_(writer)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Drexler
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Gates
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YoungBoy_Never_Broke_Again (Kentrell Gaulden)
• https://www.carnaval.com/cityguides/neworleans/rip_roy_glapion.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Guy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oretha_Castle_Haley
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosie_Badazz
• https://www.murrayhendersonfuneralhome.com/history (Murray Henderson)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Jackson (bassist and record exec)
• https://nolaccsrc.org/jeff/ (Morris Jeff)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_K-Doe
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomy_Lafon
• https://blackthen.com/lord-beaconsfield-landry-physician-civil-leader-and-extraordinaire-vocal-soloist/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Wakefield-Paillet (the first African-American woman to graduate from medical school and to practice medicine in Louisiana)
• https://alfredlawless95.wixsite.com/20thyear/about-alfred-lawless
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Malone
• https://www.creolegen.org/2012/09/15/attorney-rene-calvin-metoyer-1858-1937/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Pierce
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_(singer)
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137162409/mack-justin-spears
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Mae_Taylor
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannie_Fresh
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdman_(rapper)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_C._Williams
• https://www.gertrudegeddeswillis.com/history (Gertrude Geddes Willis)

Cemeteries

See the progress details of Louisiana cemeteries: Louisiana cemeteries progress [1]

This is a list of African-American cemeteries in Louisiana already categorized: Category:Caddo_Parish,_Louisiana,_African-American_Cemeteries

Churches

This is a list of African-American Churches that need categories and/or Free Space Profiles. [[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage_African-American_Churches ]]

Data Doctors

Review this report find data errors that need to be corrected for Louisiana: Space:DBE_Errors_By_USA_Div_7#Louisiana

2023 Stats: Suggestion report for Louisiana. There were 51,785 suggestions for 278,069 profiles on 31 Dec 2023.

Notables

• List of African-American Louisiana Notables
• wikipedia of Louisiana Notables
• Clementine (Reuben) Hunter (abt.1887-1988)

Slave Narratives

Get the slave narrative category for the parish where the interviewee lived when they gave the interview. Attach the appropriate Heritage Exchange categories for enslaved persons.

• Louisiana Freedmen Narratives
• Slave Narratives of Louisianians living in Texas [2]

Slave Owners

• 1850 Slave Owners, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
• 1860 Slave Owners, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
• 1850 Slave Owners, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
• 1850 Slave Owners, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
• 1850 Slave Owners, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

• 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Slave Profiles

The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Caddo Parish, Louisiana (NARA microfilm series M653, Roll 427) reportedly includes a total of 7,338 slaves.

• Wiki+ List of Louisiana Slaves Generated on 7 Dec 2022 - (currently 640 profiles for subcat1="Louisiana, Slaves")

Plantations

• Index of US Plantations
• Louisiana Plantations

Needs Profiles

• Magnolia Plantation Owner: Jean Baptiste Lecomte II (Needs 107 profiles)

To Do St. James Parish - Adjacent and related family plantations:

• La Petite Versaille (Gabriel Valcour Aime) - "Louis the 14th of Louisiana"
• St. Joseph Plantation (Josephine Aime and hub Alexis Ferry II) - architect Henry Hobson Richardson was born here
• Felicity Plantation (Felicity Aime and hub Septime Fortier)
• Oak Alley Plantation (Josephine's uncle, Jacques Télesphore Roman)

Resources for the enslaved: https://www.oakalleyplantation.org/slavery-database

Completed

• Whitney Plantation, Louisiana

Resources Available

• African-American Genealogy Resources
• African-American Resources for Louisiana
• Genealogy and Facts of Caddo Parish
• 1860 Census of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
• 1st BATTALION OF FREE MEN OF COLOR
• Slave Narratives of Louisianans living in Texas
• African-American history of Louisiana
• African American People in Louisiana politics
• Wikipedia: African-Americans in Louisiana
• Wikipedia:|Black Indians in the United States
• 14 Historic Plantations in Louisiana [3]
• Louisiana Slave Database [4]
• Bank Disclosures of Mortgages on Enslaved Individuals
• 1887 Thibodaux Massacre and this The Cemetery
• the Rost Home Colony
• and Kenner Cemeteries covered over

WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project

• US Black Heritage Project
• US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal