You almost have to know where people are buried, cause on both sides of the family, the graves were used over and over. So the inscription on the headstones don't tell the whole story. The worst ones are the ones that have iron crosses and there is no way to decipher what was stamped on them.
I have a lot of miscellaneous information. Click on any one of the links below to see them.Some of these will look funny if you actually download them to your computer. If anyone wants a copy in regular word processing format, let me know and I can email them a copy. Also, there is a form on the Borel page to use to e-mail me for more information.
Below is a copy of the succession of George Guillaume Bergeron. An inventory of all his possessions at his death.
G.Bergeron Estate - 1763
Another succession. Lucien Bergeron, Jr. and his wife Marie Madeleine Olivier, dated February 15, 1871 from the St. Landry Parish Courthouse. They were the grandparents of Kelly Bergeron.
Property of Lucien Bergeron, Jr. and Marie Madeleine Olivier
They must have had trouble giving directions. There were so many old place names, and some of them were duplicates. Here is a list I compiled from old maps and documents of some of the old names and the present locations, as far as I could figure out. Click below for a list.
place names
