The February 2012 meeting of our Imperial St Landry Genealogical & Historical Society will be held at the lovely and recently completed Orphan Train Museum, located in the Vieux Village
at the eastern entrance of Opelousas, and across Hwy 190 (which becomes east Landry Street at that point) from Myrtle Grove Cemetery, the City's Public Cemetery.
Mrs. Flo Inhern has invited our Society and its members and guests to visit this wonderful Museum and learn the circumstances of how, when and why the orphans came to Opelousas and the
surrounding rural areas. We will learn the names of those who came here and the families who took them in and the different relationships that developed with the families, Not all were adopted.
The meeting begins at 10:00 AM on Saturday, February 11 in the Museum.
After the presentation of information, attendees will be allowed to ask questions of the staff, and view all the many collected materials from various orphans.
There is plenty of parking in the area of this Museum - between the Vieux Village and the large red brick colonnaded outdoor Market and Donut Shop building, or a shell covered area behind the
west side of the Museum off Academy Street, or across Vine Street to the south in the very large concrete parking lot.
Visitors coming to Opelousas via Interstate 49 should take Exit 19 and proceed west. The Vieux Village is to the left just past the first traffic signal light.
Please remember, Saturday, Feb 11 at 10:00AM at the Orphan Train Museum.
The next meeting of the Imperial St. Landry Genealogical & Historical Society will be this Saturday, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:00 am at
Campus South of OGHS, located off Exit 15 of I-49.
Mrs. Carroll Martin of Lafayette will be the program presenter. She and her now deceased husband both traveled to Europe several times to
research and document their ancestors. As a consequence they have compiled a lot of information on many of their families and have published at least eight of these genealogies. She continues
to research and publish and is working on the history of additional families now which she plans to release in the near future.
She hopes to have her grandson accompany her. He is the new head of the Center for Louisiana Studies at UL Lafayette, and we hope to get
him to address our society soon.
Many of their families were south St Landry Parish residents such as Marks, Robin and Stelly, etc from the Prairie Basse and Prairie des
Femmes areas near Leonville and Arnaudville.
We cordially invite interested members and guests to attend. There will be an opportunity at the end of her program for attendees to ask
questions.
Imperial St. Landry Genealogical &
Historical Society
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