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Paternal Great-Grandparents--Alsace Lorraine, Germany (spelled wrong I think)
Maternal Great-Great-Grandparents---New Orleans by way of Cuba by way of France
I also have a little bit of Irish, hence the auburn hair, green eyes, and freckles and little bit of British.
My mom's mother's family settled in St.Louis, MO and lived there and then my grandmother met my grandfather and they moved to New Orleans, LA because my grandfather's family was from there and he was in med school at Tulane.
My dad's mother's family was from Decherd, TN, near Sewanee, TN. They actually gave some land to Sewanee (The University of the South). They ended up in New Orleans because my grandmother's father was a journalist and he got a job in New Orleans as a reporter for a paper, I think the Times Picayune.
My dad's father's family was from New Iberia, LA and they lived on a Sugar Cane plantation and we still have the sugar cane fields to this day. The house is gone but we have the land. They ended up in New Orleans, as well, because of Tulane where my great-great uncle, Richard Koch, helped to start the School of Architecture there.
Then there's myself who is now in Oxford, MS where I'm making this my home for a while until I find a man and get married. Oh and on my mom's side of the family I'm related, way way back, to the naturalist and artist John J. Audubon. It is through his wife that I'm related to her. She was a Bakewell and so that is how we are tied together. My mom's uncle wrote a genelogy book that is over 100 pages about this side of my family. It is pretty interesting, he went all over getting documents and pictures.
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