Resources
For further study or research about the Vidrine Family, these are suggested resources:
Jacqueline O. Vidrine, Vidrine – Vedrines: Our Vidrine Family in France 1600-1750, Lafayette, LA: Acadiana Press, 1981
Jacqueline O. Vidrine, Love’s Legacy: The Mobile Marriages, 1724-1786, Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1985
Vidrine and Vidrine, Governor Vaudreuil’s Voyage to Louisiana, San Clemente, CA, 2014
Archives Nationales Coloniales, France
Archives Departmentales de Agen, France
Barsac Infos Newsletter, July, August, September 2008
Loudoun Collection, Vaudreuil Papers, Huntington University, San Marino CA
Carl Ekberg, French Roots in the Illinois Country, University of Illinois, 2000
Margaret Kimball Brown and Lawrie Cena Dean, The Village of Chartres in Colonial Illinois, 1720-1765, New Orelans: Polyanthos, 1977
Natalia Maree Belting, Kaskaskia Under the French Regime, Southern IL University Press, 2003
David MacDonald, Lives of Fort de Chartres: Commandants, Soldiers, and Civilians in French Illinois, 1720–1770, Southern IL University Press, 2016
Spanish Colonial Land Grant Papers, New Orleans Historical Museum
Opelousas Post Census of 1777
Sacramental Records, St. Joseph Church, Prairie du Rocher, IL
Sacramental Records, St. Francis Church, New Roads, LA
Sacramental Records, St Landry Church, Opelousas, LA
Rev. Fr. Jason Vidrine, Abbé Michel Bernard Barrière: Apostle of Southwest Louisiana’s Bayous and Prairies
Rev. Fr. Jason Vidrine, Certain Surprises in Research about Vidrine Family History