Linda Kay Brown

1956 - 2003  (47 years)

• Name	Linda Kay Brown
  Born	6 Jun 1956	Tawas City, Iosco, Michigan, United States   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Linda Kay Kubisch
  Residence	1987	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-187113
  Died	20 Dec 2003	Covington, St. Tammany, Louisiana, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I187113	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Family	Kubisch
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F22629	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  After living in Kitchener from 1987-92 Linda Brown-Kibisch moved to the United States where she received a master's degree in history from the University of Missouri-Columbia, worked as a reference specialist for the State Historical Society of Missouri, and wrote numerous historical and genealogical articles for both Canadian and American journals. Linda lived in Covington, a small town north of New Orleans, working as genealogy specialist for St. Tammany Parish Public Library. _____________________ The Medals of Saint Hélèna-Genealogy https://www.stehelene.org/php/accueil.php?lang=en Sent by Joan De Soto The information is not all in English. The documents are in French. Interest and aim of this website: To create a database that will be of interest both to genealogists and historians. This work is especially important as the archives held by the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour was destroyed in Paris in 1871. Only the copies of the documents held by each of the French Departmental Archives can be used if they themselves have not been destroyed. This database will allow us to reconstruct the vanished archives.. Display all the information that has been found in the Departmental Archives and outside France. What information can be found in these documents ? There are a lot of details on the army careers of our ancestors (countries visited, wounds received during the battles,..), on their physique (height, eyes colour,..), how they lived in 1857 (income, poverty,..) their health, their family situation, their feelings about the events in which they have participated.. Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection 410 Chartes St. New Orleans, LA 70130 504-598-7171 Manuscript Librarian, ex 504-598-7158 New Orleans (La.) Justices of the Peace Sent by Joan De Soto Sample Index to Marriage Records https://nutrias.org/~nopl/inv/jp/jpmarr.htm Louisiana Division staff members and volunteers have spent ten years putting together a card index to the marriage records of the New Orleans Justices of the Peace for the period 1846-1880. The index is almost complete and occupies three card catalogs. One of the last volunteers to work on the project used his personal computer to generate the cards. We were able to use his data to create what amounts to a "sample" of the full index. That "sample" is available through this web page.Each index entry displays the names of both spouses (each record is entered twice, one with groom's name in the first cell and again with bride's name in the first cell), date of record, and call number of the record volume in which the full record may be found. Within the record volumes entries are in chronological order. The page numbers shown in the index do not appear on the pages in the microfilmed volumes. "La Nouvelle Frontiere" Sent by Joan De Soto Theme of 2003 Society for the History of Discoveries Meeting Source: Fronteras, Spring 2003, Vol. 12, No. 1 2003 marks the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase. When the U.S. purchased this huge area from the French in 1803, it rapidly expanded the size of the young nation and helped precipitate migration westward. The 2003 Society for the History of Discoveries meeting in New Orleans (October 23 to 26) will feature the theme "La Nouvelle Frontiere: Exploration and Discovery of the Louisiana Purchase," but papers will also be presented on other subjects. For more information, visit the SHD website: https://www.sochistdisc.org Library will become Family History Center The Times-Picayune Thursday June 05, 2003 By Dennis Calkins, St. Tammany bureau Sent by David Lewis dclewis@jps.ne Personal Note: The Times-Picayune is the largest circulation daily newspaper in Louisiana. Genealogy fans in St. Tammany Parish will soon have the vast resources of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints at their fingertips. That's because the Covington branch of the parish library has been named an official Family History Center of the church, thanks to the work of Genealogy Society Vice President Robert Noles. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' database of genealogical records in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the most extensive source of such information in the United States. As an official Family History Center, the library will be able to access microfilm records of the church's vast database. Noles said that about two and a half years ago, he heard that the church was starting to let public libraries become Family History Centers. "Up until that time, such centers were only associated with local LDS churches," he said. "I talked to the director of the Family History Center in Baton Rouge and the one in Slidell, and they were not aware of the library project." The centers are run by volunteers and, generally, are open 10 to 15 hours a week, depending on how many volunteers are working there, Noles said. He said he called the church offices in Salt Lake City and got in touch with Jason Bowden, who knew about the project. "He said there was a pilot program involving 20 or 30 libraries," Noles said. Bowden also is responsible for issuing licenses for the church's FamilySearch software. The software is a database of genealogy indexes that history centers use to find names, dates and associated records. However, the software doesn't contain images of the original documents. Those are available on microfilm to Family History Centers only, by request, and on loan from the church's Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The microfilm records can't be accessed outside of the control of the Family History library. Bob Wilson, branch manager of the library's Electronic Resource Center in Covington, where Noles was conducting genealogy training classes, said he talked to Noles and was able to get a license to use the FamilySearch software. Subsequently, the St. Tammany library agreed to apply to the church for designation as a Family History Center and approval was given in May. Genealogy is an important part of the foundation of the Latter Day Saints church, which is why the church has accumulated an incredible amount of genealogical records in Salt Lake City for use by its members. "One of the benefits of approving public libraries as family history centers is that it would make genealogical data available to people much more than 10-15 hours a week," Noles said. "The church really wants to make it available. That's their driving force." Noles said there are more than 1,800 family history centers in the United States and probably more than 3,000 worldwide. "Robert Noles brought to us the idea that it was possible for libraries and their Web sites to become sites for the FamilySearch software," Wilson said. "Then it was a question of us moving forward and requesting to be considered as one of those sites. Just last month we got the go-ahead from the church." There is a Family History Center in the Slidell area, which is open about 12 hours a week, Wilson said. "By the Covington branch becoming one, we accomplish two things: First, we make the service available to the western side of the parish; and secondly, we offer expanded hours, up to possibly 60 hours a week." Wilson said an advantage of borrowing microfilm records is that many genealogists prefer to view the original documents because they get much more information and the chances of transcription errors are reduced. Wilson said that with approval in place, Linda Brown-Kubisch, the library's genealogy specialist, is proceeding with implementation of the project. "I've been asked to get everything in place so that we can operate as a family history center," Brown-Kubisch said. "I've been working with the church office in Salt Lake City regarding all the details of setting it up and things are moving forward. "The next stage is to receive a distribution center number, unique to each center. We'll also receive an information packet, including forms for library patrons to use in ordering microfilm. We're waiting for both of those right now and we expect to hear from the church soon. "Once people know that we are a family history center, I foresee an increased use in our genealogical services. We have two microfilm reader/printers available," Brown-Kubisch said. The Louisiana and Genealogy room is located at the Covington branch, containing all of the library's genealogy materials. Although approval is a big step, it will be some time before the operation is up and running. Further research must be done, procedures need to be set up, library staff has to be trained and the system will have to be thoroughly tested so it will work smoothly and efficiently for library patrons. "Once everything is in place, the library will have an open house, including demonstrations on how to search the family history catalog, how to complete the proper forms for ordering microfilm and things like that. The public should watch for announcements from the library on this," said Brown-Kubisch." For more information on the history center project, call Linda Brown-Kubisch at the St. Tammany parish library, 893-6280, Ext. 10.

  
  

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  [S358] Social Security Death Index.

  
  

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  Born - 6 Jun 1956 - Tawas City, Iosco, Michigan, United States Residence - 1987 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 20 Dec 2003 - Covington, St. Tammany, Louisiana, United States  = Link to Google Earth