This genealogy begins with the arrival of the Antoine Leche and his wife Catherine von Hausen in Louisiana in 1759. It lists the family through ten generations to the modern day including nearly 4,000 family descendants. The project began with current family members building a family tree online. When my father, the author of this work, met the family at a Leche reunion in the late 1990s, he agreed to take the work already begun and research it into what you have here today. He worked on the research for a decade. He began editing in earnest after he retired in 2010, but passed away in 2011 with the first four generations complete. The rest of the work is complete if unedited, but provides complete information on most of the thousands of descendants listed. As it fell to me upon his death to publish the work, I present it as a complete family list without additional editing. It is a remarkable piece of research, combining my father’s passion for genealogy and family history.

And another impressive family history…

With pictures, original manuscripts and stories, author Mark Edwin Hollier compiles over 30 years of research into this complete history of the Dufilho families of southern Louisiana.

This comprehensive work will appeal to the casual reader and the serious genealogist alike and was written to share this information with family members in a format that is easily accessible to everyone.

We are excited to share with our patrons the generous donations of seed packets we have already received for 2025! Come and see the new varieties available and sign out 2 packets per day with your library card. We’d like to give a huge thank you to the following amazing seed companies across the country that are making our Seed Library possible! Thank you to Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Burpee, Eden Brothers, Giving Ground Seeds, High Mowing Organic Seeds, Sow Right Seeds, Sow True Seed, Territorial Seeds and Victory Seed Company.

Based on current weather advisories in Evangeline parish, the main library and all branches will remain closed on Thursday, 1/23/25. Please visit this site or our Facebook page for updates.

Due to current weather conditions and with dire projected improvement for the roadways, the Evangeline Parish libraries will stay closed tomorrow, Wednesday, 1/22/25. We will post again tomorrow afternoon to let the public know what we will be able to do on Thursday.