Attention Vidrine Family! MARIE ROUESNA, the Matriarch of the Vidrine Family has a documented history that changed the course of her tribe. A Woman to be CELEBRATED, HONORED & ACKNOWLEDGED through solid Full Sequence Mitochondrial DNA results! We have found another participant to help us solidify the C4c1 (Native American)

Fr. L.J. (Louis Jean Antoine) Savy was born on July 26, 1876, a native of the town of Montbazon in central France. He was ordained a Priest in 1902 for the Diocese of Sens, France. Three years later, he arrived in the Archdiocese of New Orleans in 1905 and served

The design centers around three themes: 1 – The mask represents this crazy year of 2020 deeply affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic, which has thrown most things off, including our original date and place of the Reunion. 2 – The mask also serves as the crest for the coat of

COVID-19 has altered nearly everything in 2020. Unlike many events that have been cancelled, we’ve decided to go forward with the Vidrine Reunion for those who want to attend. However, COVID-19 has altered the date and the place it will be held. We’ve decided to change the date of the

Though a little romanticized, this is an image of an Officer of the French Marines painted in France in 1754 – the same year that Jean Baptiste Lapaise de Védrines was serving as an Officer of the French Marines at the Fort de Chartres in Illinois. This title “Officer of

Thanks to all for a tremendous Vidrine Family Reunion celebrating the 275th Anniversary of Elisabeth de Moncharvaux’s birth. We thought last year was the most well attended one so far, but this year there were even more people who came! The Ville Platte Civic Center was filled with Vidrine descendants