Louisiana Creole Research Association
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LA Creole is a New Orleans based non-profit family research organization dedicated to the study of the history and culture of the Creoles of Color of Louisiana through ancestral research, education, and celebration.

 

Creoles of Color in Louisiana

There is evidence that both French and Spanish Colonial Louisiana identified all its people (white, black, and mixed), both free and enslaved, who were born in the new world of old world stock as Creole. That included the offspring of Europeans (predominantly French and Spanish), Africans, and a mixture of both that could also include Native American. Therefore, the descendants of all these people can claim Creole Heritage. LA Creole identifies the gens de couleur, or people of color, as the mixed-race descendants of those early colonial inhabitants of Louisiana who became a unique ethnic group. Read more ...

 

Genealogy and history are our mission

The Louisiana Creole Research Association, Inc., known as LA Creole, was founded on August 21, 2004 as a New Orleans-based, non-profit genealogy and family research organization. Read more ...

 

News and Events

 

The LOUISIANA CREOLE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION’S FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE held on Saturday November 15 with a Jazz Brunch on Sunday November 16, 2008 was truly a success. Stay tuned for more info about the conference along with pictures.

 

 

Members get it all

LA Creole Membership offers a wide variety of resources and ideas to help enhance your genealogy research and documents. LA Creole Member login will have access to pertinent site information. Read more ...