Belgian Walloons of Leopold, Indiana Presentation

I thought I'd share with you a little presentation I put together for an intro course in Cultural Geography I took at a community college last year. You saw a portion of the project previously in the Google map links I posted to this blog.

The presentation is entitled Belgian Walloons of Leopold, Indiana: Their Villages of Origin. It is a very simple PowerPoint presentation converted to HTML. I added scant notes to the presentation this week since you will not have the benefit of a live narrator. The presentation should serve to put the Google maps into context.

http://www.peter-family.net/Presentation/BelgianWalloons.html

Google Map of Leopold Immigrants

I constructed two simple Google maps that might be of interest to some of you.

The first map plots the villages of origin of heads of households who emigrated from the Semois River valley region in the Province of Luxembourg, Belgium to Leopold, Indiana. The household data comes from:

Ducat, Jean. (1992) De Semois en Indiana. Biesme-Mettet, Belgium:Luxembourg Belge Amérique.

Clicking on a marker will reveal names of heads of households and spouse(s), if any. There are also a few photos scattered around.

I plan to eventually compare Ducat's information to other sources. I'm betting some of you will spot discrepancies or know the villages of origin that Ducat did not.

The second map is of Leopold, Indiana. Clicking on a marker will reveal photos.

Siblings of André PIERRE

Thanks to the research of Marjorie GOBIN, our cousin in Jamoigne, Belgium, I am now very excited to report the names of three of André PIERRE's siblings! (According to one source, André was the youngest of nine.)

Jean-Joseph b: 30 April 1792
Marie Jeanne b: 3 April 1800
and
Jacques b: 1806

We have photos of the birth records for Jean-Joseph & Marie Jeanne. Jacques' name appears as a witness to the wedding of André PIERRE and Marie Elizabeth GRAVET.

Two of Marie Elizabeth GRAVET's brothers appear as witnesses also: Pierre GRAVET & Arnould GRAVET, plus a brother-in-law whose name I cannot clearly read.

Photos of these documents -- there will be more as time allows -- are uploaded to a new area of the records section of peter-family.net.
http://www.peter-family.net/records/ArchivesArlon/index.html