Comments by "Mousie Brown" (@mousiebrown1747) on "The Shocking history of Louisiana Redbones" video.
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I just found your site. I’m 73, born in New Orleans with Irish & French long back heritage from the “West Bank” of the Mississippi River at New Orleans. Sadly, no connection to you. But I strongly suspect from the uncommon English names (from Carolinas???) in the Redbone oral history plus the location adjacent to/within Acadian Louisiana (via the Carolinas I think???) that your heritage will be with the pirates of Louisiana and of the Caribbean and from the possibly southwestern mixed peoples of Hispanic conquistadors/Mexican indigenous/New Mexican Navajo. Those English sounding last names suggest Carolina settlers intermarrying with the first group of forcibly exiled French from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas.
The reason there’s such good cooking in southern Louisiana is the great richness of cultural heritage. We gotta thank Germans for sausage, to make our red beans and rice, for example. Where I grew up, north of New Orleans, is an Italian enclave and once it was the green grocers of New Orleans. But please let me know if you found any Durab or Carty folk but they’re over near Gretna, La. How exciting to be able to trace one’s history! I can trace on my father’s side in Alabama, but the less said, the better!!! Sending blessings and best wishes ( ‘cause I ain’t got no money! Also a family trait!). If you were trying to pick a heritage of honor, courage, just the right amount of petty larceny, and historical significance, I don’t think you could have picked a better lineage!
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