Thank you, M. Forbes. :-)

My grandmother, and great grandparents families are all from Batchelor, New Roads, in Pointe Coupee. Gauthier, Honore.

My grandma is from New Roads 😱

😂

Some are, but they tend to be different.

Books&Toners Oh wow. What is his surname?

qddevine Collins

qddevine Collins.. but his people are from Florida..I didn't even know creoles were from anywhere but Louisiana.

@@shunee12 You should check your family history so you can know for sure. You might find a few names that aren't exclusive to Louisiana Creoles? 😊

qddevine I did, apparently my grampas are Pensacola Creoles. I links up with one of his cousins and she said to call her for more . She seems real sweet🙂

Chavis, interesting.

@@kreyolLA84 Like in, BooZoo Chavis , King of Zydeco - a cousin to my grandmother. :)

Guillory came to Louisiana (within our current Louisiana borders) in colonial times from another part of the Louisiana colony that was French Mobile (today Mobile, Alabama). When the British invaded Mobile, all of the French descended people came to south Louisiana. Guillory arrived in Mobile from France before that.

I hope you come back to tell me more! Tried finding you on Facebook with no luck. I have a tree now.

Most people don’t realize Cajuns are white Louisiana Creoles. Most of those surnames you have there are of Acadian origin.

Carriere is a surname that came to Louisiana from Québec during Louisiana’s colonial period. The French Creoles of Louisiana (the original French speaking whites of Louisiana of ancestry from France and Québec) were the first to acquire the surname from Québécois immigrants. It was also passed to the Acadian Creoles (known today as Cajuns), to the Creoles of Color (mixed race people of Euro/Afro descent) as well as black Creoles (unmixed Louisiana blacks).

Raymond Petit My great great grandmother was a Petit, we may be related

Keith Francis I've traced my great grandfather very likely to Tangipahoa village. What about your great great?

Raymond Petit, it would have to be my great great grandmother and she was from Natchitoches. There were rumors that her family moved from South Louisiana to North Louisiana and they came from Haiti.

Keith Francis what I do know is that my family which currently resides in New Orleans, was not from there originally. They have been hard to trace and information from my cousins hasn't been forthcoming.

Raymond Petit Do you have a family tree up?

French U is pronounced kind of like a long E with pursed lips, like you're whistling. English is more like "oo". A lot of French Creole speakers, from any given country, end up interpreting that French U as "ee".

The LaCour's are relatives of mine.

Rose LaCour was my great great grandmother from Pointe Coupee, she married King Carson.

Ms1southerngirl Yep my grandma's a Darbonne and she's related to LaCour, Roy ,Morin, Dupre and I found Brevel not sure if that's Creole or not. Her relatives linked to Natchitochis Cane River.

English pronunciation, yes. Thank you.

Cool. I'd never heard that name before.

This video does not cover French pronunciation.

"Clearly" Lol.

Maybe it'll help to think of Mexicans or Cubans, who have Spanish names but are culturally Mexican and Cuban. Does it make more sense? These are all names commonly found in but not exclusive to the LA Creole community. Besides, if you can't say a name's Creole, you can't say it's Cajun either.

Dehydrated Water Creole is not equivalent to islander. These names aren’t exclusive to Creole or Cajun culture. You’re essentially saying, ‘My name is Peter Smith like you. I’m American, so you must be too.’

@Dehydrated Water seriously, what does it matter?! My ancestors came from Haiti and are Creole. There are people descended from Acadians with the same surname, Petit! So what!!!

@Dehydrated Water Sir you're highly mistaken! Cajun are CREOLES! They separated themselves from our Creole culture in the 60s and 70s! Pas un bon jounné