Scope and Contents:
This collection contains genealogical material collected by Michael R. Rogers of Jeanerette, La., for his compilation, From the Illinois County [sic] to the Bayou Teche Country with the Provosts and Quebedeaus (2002), a copy of which is cataloged: Q.929.2 P929r.
There are five folders in the collection:
1. Michael R. Rogers, comp., "From the Illinois Country to the Bayou Teche Country with the Provosts and Quebedeaus," [vii], 51, [5], dated 1987, 2000, 2002 (photocopy).
2. Kennell Philip Brown, A Record of the Descendants of Nicholas Provost (K. P. Brown: Jeanerette, La., 1957), 56 pages (photocopy).
3. "A Brief Chart of the Provot Family in the Illinois Country and Their Relationship to Other Families," 7 pages, n.d. (computer printout).
4. Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine, "Attakapas Area Families (Non-Acadians)," Louisiana Genealogical Register, 21:1 (Mar. 1974), 57-63 (photocopy).
5. Correspondence between Michael R. Rogers and University of Illinois Library curators, 1988-2006.