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.
News and EventsLA Creole Finalizes 2012 Trip to FranceJuly 21- 29, 2012
Join us as we venture off to Paris and then onto Bordeaux for 9 exciting days filled with food, wine tasting, fun, more wine tasting, research, discovery and yes, more wine tasting. Please follow the link and Sign Up for more info about the trip. 7th ANNUALLA CREOLE CONFERENCE
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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.
Genealogy and history are our missionThe 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 ...
Updated Calendar for 2011 |
LA Creole receives National AwardLouisiana Creole Reasearch Association was presented the Award of Merit from The National Genealogy Society. The society held its annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah this past spring. Lolita Cherrie, our president, and Ingrid Stanley both attended the conference to receive the award. |
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LA Creole is planning a summer 2012 trip to France taking in Paris and one or
two other cities for research and relaxation. 
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.
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 ...
