Janet’s Book Nook

One of my favorite types of books from Louisiana Authors are ones that discuss Cajun customs and traditions. My husband was born and raised in Lafourche Parish and his family has been in that Parish and Terrebonne Parish since the very beginning. The majority of his family still lives there and my children have spent [...]

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I thought I would pass along the issue I experienced today as a by-product of being on the outer bands of Hurricane Ike. We have always been either very far from or right in the middle of the eye of a hurricane. This was our first experience on the outskirts. I awoke this morning to find [...]

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I told you guys a few weeks ago about how I have been working on tracing my family tree. One of the problems I have found is that you can’t access public records on the Internet very easily. I have found that my greatest task has been trying to match up families through Marriage Records since [...]

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The very last thing my husband and I did before Gustav interrupted our lives was to attend a New Orleans Saint’s Pre-season game. We both love the games and we were discussing how we would love to be able to get season tickets for the whole family. Unfortunately there are 5 of us and it [...]

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One of my major concerns about staying home through Gustav is that my grandparents were here with me. The are in their 80’s and I was concerned about how their health would hold up through the storm and the stress. The issue is that they probably wouldn’t fair very well on a long car trip [...]

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