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This website has thousands of French names of which I am sure most Creoles have these names. So if you want to copy them as an example of how many Creoles have these names you would'nt be too far off.

Type New Orleans Probate Records in your browser and you can get thousands of Creole successions and names that are familiar to you. I am very certain that New Orleans is the cradle of all of the beginning French names of La.


http://www.nutrias.org/~nopl/inv/probates/iast.htm
Orleans Parish Probate Court. Index of All Successions

Dear Mr Da Costa

I just happen upon your web site and I was shocked when I read your statement..., saying that there are " No more Creoles "and that Creoles are all "White Europeans" ....Statements like these only serve to cause confusion and Harbor ignorence, maby, You , being from Africa, has kept you from really knowing the true History of the Creole People in America and especially in the State of Louisiana....The Plantation you mentioned "The Laura Plantation" A Creole Plantation was owned by Mixed Race Creoles ...Laura, Herself was a Creole of Color with Strong family roots from Haiti, You see There were free Creoles who themselves , owned slaves. "Creole"...does not denote Race but rather a Culture...My Grandparents have existed in America for Centuries and continue to have offsprings, who we call Creoles...I'm not dead and neither are Millions of living Creoles spread throughout these United States.........
Your statemenrs are neither correct nor possess any validity.... whatsoever...They only serve to further alienate us from the Ametican Society...Please, do your homework, before you decide, to eliminate us, from the face of this Planet......Our Culture faces Political, Racial and Cultural Genocide and we do not not need any outside help, to hurry the process, ...........Please take the time to visit a" Real " Creole Website , with comments and conversations from living Creoles......Frenchcreoles.com ......................

Augustine Comeaux at Augustineplans@aol.com

Frenchcreoles.com,

The article is question speaks to the fact that at that particular plantation
no Creoles were now present. I did not mean to generalize that all Creoles
were dead and gone.

I have many Creole friends all over the world. It would be stupid of me to
believe for one single momment that all Creoles were dead and gone.

Creoles have and continue to contribute to the culture of many countries all
over the world. I know this as a world traveler. Your deparaging comments do
not do justice to that one single article about a couple of plantations.

AD and others have mentioned Virginia's Walter Plecker once or
twice. But he was not alone in his bizarre crusade to preserve two
> pure "races" untainted by cross-contamination. Louisiana once had a
> Director of the Bureau of Vital Statistics who was equally zealous
> in sniffing out "passing." Here is a copy of an article that
> appeared on page
> A-7 of the August 16, 1993 New Orleans _Times-Picayune_
>

> MANY FEARED NAOMI DRAKE AND POWERFUL RACIAL WHIM
by James O'Byrne, staff writer

>
> In a society in which few white people could imagine anything worse
> than being called black, Naomi Drake wielded the weapon of racism
> with the ardor of an armed knight defending her king.
>
> During 16 years as the head of the Bureau of Vital Statistics for
> New Orleans, Drake made it clear that there was nothing worse in
> the world than to allow a person to live as white who did not
> deserve to do so. She lorded over the birth and death records of
> generations of New Orleanians, and unilaterally changed the race of
> thousands of them from white to black --almost never the other way
> around.
>
> When she was finally fired in 1965, Drake was feared and reviled -
> by parents who could not get birth certificates to put their
> children in public schools, by lawyers who could not do research or
> complete wills, by adoption agencies and funeral homes.
>
> But the source of her power and reputation says more about racism
> in New Orleans than it did about her peculiar habits of mind. She
> was able to wield such power because of racism's sway. No matter
> what they looked like, who they were or how they had lived, white
> people knew that to be touched by any hint of blackness was to be
> tainted, stigmatized by the sting of their own racial prejudices.
> That is what made people fear Naomi Drake.
>
> The Civil Service Commission agreed to delete the names of any
> witnesses from its final decision upholding Drake's firing. That
> was to save the witnesses the embarrassment of having been
> suspected as being black, however inaccurately.
>
> If Drake thought there was the slightest hint that someone who
> lived as a white person might have any African ancestry, she would
> not issue a birth or death certificate.
>
> At the time of her firing for her refusal to issue certificates,
> the backlog of birth certificates had mounted to 4,700. Almost
> 1,200 death certificates had been held up.
>
> And if she could prove African ancestry, however distant, she would
> change a person's race in the official records of the City of New
> Orleans, usually without notifying the person affected or any of
> the person's family members.
>
> According to testimony at her hearing, she once reportedly said,
> "All the people in White Castle are half-breeds." She would ferret
> out signs of African ancestry in children of unmarried mothers,
> call them in to her office and inform them that their children were
> "adulterous bastards," testimony showed.
>
> Drake, who died in 1987, ordered her employees to pull every
> certificate in the office designated by race with the letter "c" -
> which usually meant mixed race, or 'colored,' but also sometimes
> meant Chinese or something else - and change the race on such
> documents to Negro.
>
> She kept a list of "flagged names," that she believed were suspect,
> and should be checked for signs of African ancestry. Any request
> for a certificate of a person with a flagged name had to be held up
> for further research. The list included such names as Adams,
> Charles, Landry and Olsen.
>
> She explained how she could tell when someone's birth certificate
> was wrong at her dismissal hearing before the Civil Service
> Commission: "Very often we are acquainted with the name," Drake
> testified. "We know them to be the names of Negro families."
>
> She had her workers scour the obituaries of people who had died,
> looking for any clues that a dead person identified as white had
> black relatives or survivors, such as services at a traditionally
> black funeral home, relatives with traditionally black names or
> burial at traditionally black cemeteries.
>
> Her research was instrumental in a decision by the Orleans Parish
> district attorney's office in 1956 to obtain an indictment against
> a Plaquemines Parish woman on charges of filing a false document.
> The woman's crime: She considered herself white and had recorded
> that on the birth certificate for her child.
>
> The woman was eventually acquitted, but only after being asked a
> series of questions designed to attach to her any blackness at all,
> including whether her doctor treated her as a black person or a
> white person, and where her husband's sister's children attended
> school.
>
> When Drake was fired, few people were happier to see her go than
> Peter Huhner, father of five. Huhner had tried to get birth
> certificates for his children. But Drake suspected Huhner's wife
> had African ancestry, and so refused to release the certificates.
> After months of battling Drake unsuccessfully, Huhner finally put
> his children in parochial school.
>
> But what Huhner was most concerned about, according to his letter
> to city officials after Drake's dismissal, was not the burden of
> private school tuition or the denial of a public education, but
> that his family had been besmirched.
>
> "We find it difficult to understand how my wife's parents were
> registered as being white as were their parents," Huhner wrote.
> "And after being brought up that way, after all these years,
> someone that does not even know the family at all has reason to
> believe differently and would cause this much embarrassment."
>
> When Bureau of Vital Statistics Director Naomi Drake decided
> someone had African ancestry, she would simply cross out "White,"
> in this case on a death certificate, and write in "Negro," often
> without telling the families of her decision.
>
> Copyright, 1993, The Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation. All
> Rights
> Reserved. Used by NewsBank with Permission.
> Record Number: 9308190280
>
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