The Edward Coffey Project

The following item appeared in The News Star , a daily newspaper published in Northeast Louisiana, on Monday, Mar. 24, 2008. It was written...

Acadiana Diary: Bandit may have been most powerful Civil War leader Jim Bradshaw During the Civil ...

Mary E. Coffee was the sister of my great-grandfather, James M. Coffee and the wife of Finis E. Ames. She was born c1848 in Tennessee and d...

Homer Ernest Coffey was a son of Adolphus and Susan H. Miller Coffey. He was born in Oct., 1863 in Illinois and died May 21, 1941 in Los An...

As might be imagined, it is quite difficult for someone in Louisiana to determine official vs local names of the various Coffey cemeteries i...

I'm sorry for not having posted a new blog in a couple of weeks. Last week my wife and I were in south Louisiana having the motorhome se...

Arthur, born Nov. 25, 1876 in Rockcastle Co., KY, was the first child and son of Lee and Isabelle Hiatt [ var .] Coffey. Lee was a son of Th...

I'm off to the Coffey Cousins' Convention in Dubuque, IA. My wife and I are leaving a few days early and will spend sometime in Spr...

Happy Thanksgiving to all! I will be away for the Thanksgiving holiday, enjoying grand children in south Louisiana, and later in the Houston...

The bad news: The 1940 United States census will not be released until April 1, 2012. The good news: If you have completed your 1930 census ...

Smith Coffee Daniel, Jr. [sometimes spelled Daniell] was, as his name implies, the son of Smith Coffee Daniel, Sr., and wife Priscilla Skinn...

We have just returned from another week or so on the road. My wife and I camped for three days down near Breaux Bridge, LA with friends from...

The following are names and data from my miscellaneous file: Mary Coffey, no date, married John Kline, p34, St. Theresa of Avila Marriage Bo...

Loy Grady COFFEE [Loy Grady Coffee was my father's younger brother, and the last son of Albert Lilburn and Ora Elizabeth Braley Coffee. ...

"Nearly a century after his death, Dave Conway is teasing Bossier Parish [Louisiana] historian Clif Cardin. Conway rests beneath a wood...

Andrew Jackson Coffee, Captain of Company I, First Regiment, O. N. G., is a native son of the Golden State, born in Oakland, January 13, 186...

The City of San Francisco has finally contributed something to the genealogy world. Pamela Storm Wolfskill and Ron Filion have created San F...

Obituary : The Alexandria Daily Town Talk , April 8, 2004: Lawrence B. Coffey, 71, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania died Wednesday, April 7, 2...

R ecently, I received an e-mail from someone demanding that they be removed from my database, and from a genealogy website that I own (n...

E-mail just arrived from Russell P. Baker, CA, Archival Manager of the Arkansas History Commission and State Archives in Little Rock: ITS OF...