Vitter-Weaver Genealogy
Histories
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| 1 |  | "Take 'Er Down!": The Story of Commander Gilmore Commander Gilmore was a bona fide hero of World War II. His fateful words as he made the ultimate sacrifice are uttered still today by every submarine commander in the U. S. Navy. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Jul 2020 |
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| 2 | | A. L. & Audrey Vitter: Role Models Extraordinaires Jeff Vitter's parents A. L. Jr. & Audrey (née St. Raymond) Vitter (grandparent names Père and Mimi) led accomplished lives of extraordinary service and caring for others — a legacy for generations to follow (including many Domers and a killer cookbook!). |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Aug 2020 |
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| 3 | | Aaron Burr: Not Throwin' Away My Shot Which character in the play Hamilton are you related to? Sharon (née Weaver) Vitter has a connection in her family to Aaron Burr — the conflicted antihero who shot Alexander Hamilton. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Jul 2020 |
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| 4 | | Academic Genealogy Jeff Vitter has another kind of family tree: the academic generations created by a teacher who teaches a student how to learn, who in turn becomes a teacher and passes on that knowledge to another student, etc. The cycle continues, as it has since the days of Socrates, his student Plato, and Plato's student Aristotle. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: 2005 |
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| 5 | | Albert Artigues Jr. & All That Jazz For the middle part of the 20th century, Albert Artigues Jr. and his cornet were mainstays in the New Orleans jazz scene at night, while he worked at the family business during the days. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Sep 2020 |
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| 6 | | Alcée Fortier and the Creole Culture of New Orleans One of New Orleans's outstanding educators (and well-known names) was a Baldwin family relative and a leading advocate for the many languages and cultures that formed the city's renowned melting pot. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Sep 2020 |
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| 7 | | Artigues Family Notes and Open Questions A. L. Vitter Jr. had Artigues connections on both sides of his family: his mother (Marie) Berthe (née Artigues) Vitter was the daughter of immigrant Ferréol Jean Marie Artigues, and his 1st cousin 2x removed Marie Louise Cathalongne (daughter of 1843 Clerval immigrant Marie Louise Vitter) married immigrant Jean Ferréol "John" Artigues. … |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: 2005 |
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| 8 | | Avant et après le « Aha! moment » Before Jeff Vitter's Aha! moment described above, Jeff and his dad did not know much at all about where the Vitter line came from. Much correspondence behind the scenes — both electronic as well as old-fashioned hardcopy letters — led up to and beyond the big discovery. This history gives an inside look at the correspondences that genealogists… |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: 2020 |
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| 9 | | Baldwin Wood: The Inventor Who Keeps New Orleans Dry Much of New Orleans lies under sea level, and flooding is always a major concern. One of the greatest infrastructure feats in New Orleans history is the elaborate system of pumps and canals that move water from the city up to the surrounding lakes. This history spotlights the inventor and administrator who 108 years ago pioneered pumping… |
Owner of original: Jeffrey & Sharon Vitter Date: 2021 |
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| 10 | | Exploring Clerval in 2022 Jeff Vitter had been wanting to visit Clerval in the Doubs department of France near northern Switzerland ever since his Aha! Moment 23 years ago described above. He and Sharon Vitter finally got the chance 22 years later during a Fall 2022 trip to France full of wonderful family history visits, photos, and videos. |
Owner of original: Jeff and Sharon Vitter Date: 2023 |
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| 11 | | Exploring Mimi's Ancestors near the Pyrénées of Southwest France Unlike Jeff's dad's side, where we knew very little of his lineage, Jeff's mom had a fair amount of knowledge about her ancestors, who came from around Uzan (pronounced "u-ZHANG" in the local patois) and Anères in extreme southwest France near the Pyrénées mountains. She and her mom, grandmother, aunt, and siblings visited southwest France when… |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: 2022 |
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| 12 | | George Nicolay: The German-Born Secretary Who Made Abraham Lincoln Great Sharon (née Weaver) Vitter's 4th great uncle George Nicolay played what is essentially today's crucial role of chief of staff to the President of the United States — and that president was Abraham Lincoln. Nicolay later became U. S. consul to France, Marshal of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Lincoln biographer. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Sep 2020 |
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| 13 | | How the Vitters Got to Clerval 19 years after Jeff Vitter's Aha! moment, Jean-Pierre Vitter resolves the mystery of where in Europe the Vitter family came from originally and how they got to France in the late 1700s. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Jul 2020 |
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| 14 | | Martin Samuel Weaver: Kansas Homesteader Sharon (née Weaver) Vitter's paternal great grandfather Martin Weaver, from a family of 18 children, forged the way from Holmes County, Ohio to Miami County, Kansas and established today's Weaver Homestead in suburban Kansas City. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Aug 2020 |
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| 15 | | Mennonite Beginnings The history traces Sharon (née Weaver) Vitter's 10th great grandparents of 16th century Switzerland and their Anabaptist/Mennonite/Amish descendants who emigrated to America in the 1700s, as did many others, to escape religious persecution. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Aug 2020 |
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| 16 | | Our Loyal Guardians Rex & Queenie Rex and Queenie — half-ton cast-iron Newfoundland dogs — have stood guard over Vitter-Artigues homes in New Orleans for about 110 years and have a fascinating (and still mysterious) genealogy of their own. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Aug 2020 |
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| 17 | | Photos from Mimi's Homecoming Weekend, June 2006 We couldn't bury Audrey "Mimi" (née St. Raymond) Vitter in New Orleans at the time of her death because of the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. When her body was brought back home for reburial eight months later, it was a time for several family events and to celebrate her life. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: 2006 |
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| 18 | | Relativity Research The underlying theme of our website is research on relativity — our relatives pulsate outward in our time-space continuum in a series of gravitational waves spanning many generations and relationships! This page gives an overview of several family histories, beginning with Jeff Vitter's Aha! moment, which ultimately led to creation of this… |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Jun 2020 |
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| 19 | | The Aha! Moment That Led to This Website When Jeff Vitter was growing up in New Orleans, his parents A. L. Vitter Jr. and Audrey (née St. Raymond) Vitter would always tell the family about their trips to France as young children to meet relatives, but they didn't know many particulars beyond their grandparents, especially on my dad's paternal side. Jeff's Aha! moment came when he… |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Jun 2020 |
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| 20 | | The Hochstetler Attack: Life on the Frontier One of the most well-known anecdotes in Amish and Mennonite history is the story of pacifist Jacob Hochstetler and the tragedy his family underwent at the Northkill Settlement in Berks County, Pennsylvania. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Sep 2020 |
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| 21 | | The Ups and Downs of Mini-Me Pick someone with one of a dozen popular Amish surnames, and Sharon (née Weaver) Vitter is probably related to that person, sometimes in many ways. Such is the case with 2-foot, 8-inch-tall actor and stuntman Verne Troyer, most well known for his portrayal of "Mini-Me" in the Austin Powers movies. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Sep 2020 |
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| 22 | | The Weaver Way: Zürich → Pennsylvania → Ohio This history traces the path of Sharon (née Weaver) Vitter's 4th great grandfather, Swiss immigrant Jacob Weaver Sr., who ventured from the canton of Zürich to Pennsylvania via Rotterdam on the ship Sally in 1767. His sons continued onward in the early 1800s to Ohio. Open questions remain about his ancestors in the old country. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Aug 2020 |
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| 23 | | Three Vitters of the French Resistance World War II saw France divided and conquered by Hitler's Third Reich, and Louis, Roger, and Pierre Vitter went underground to fight as part of the Resistance. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Oct 2020 |
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| 24 | | Uriah & Ann Hayden: Colonial Shipbuilder and Entrepreneur Building a strong and vital navy helped win independence and launch the U. S. A., and Connecticut colonial shipbuilder Uriah Hayden and his wife Ann (née Starkey) Hayden played key roles, right in their own backyard. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Aug 2020 |
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| 25 | | Vitter Holiday Cards Through the Years 'Tis the Season to be jolly! Welcome to a tradition starting in 1945 spanning several generations of annual Christmas greeting cards, augmented from time to time with cards for other occasions. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: 2005 |
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| 26 | | What Might Have Altered the Start of World War II French foreign minister (Jean) Louis Barthou, the "grand old man of European diplomacy," played an important role in Europe in garnering opposition to the rising Adolph Hitler … until he got shot. |
Owner of original: Jeffrey and Sharon Vitter Date: Sep 2020 |
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