The Buhler Family

Selected extracts pertaining to the Algiers Fire Companies from History of the Fire Department of New Orleans . . . down to 1895, edited by Thomas O'Connor, 1895.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Algiers, Louisiana. Select a year below to view a clickable index to the maps.

1885 1896 1909

A history and description of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps can be found at the University of California Berkeley Library.

Google Map view Altkrautheim - Krautheim area.

Google Map view New Orleans, Louisiana area.

Genealogy Reference Library

Baxter, Angus. In search of your German roots: a complete guide to tracing your ancestors in the Germanic areas of Europe. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1994.

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo, A genealogist's guide to discovering your immigrant & ethnic ancestors : how to find and record your unique heritage. Cincinnato, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2000.

Cerny, Johni., Eakle, Arlene H. Ancestry's guide to research: case studies in American genealogy. Salt Lake City, Utah : Ancestry Inc., 1985.

Chamberlin, David C. The conceptual approach to genealogy. Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998.

Colletta, John Philip. They came in ships: a guide to finding your immigrant ancestor's arrival record. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1993.

Crowe, Elizabeth Powell. Genealogy online. New York: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Green, Betsy J. Discovering the history of your house and your neighborhood. Santa Monica, CA : Santa Monica Press, 2002.

Greenwood, Val D. The researcher's guide to American genealogy. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2000.

Family History Library. Germany Research Outline. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family History Library, 1994. Also online at Family Search <http://www.familysearch.org/

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Hook, J. N., Family names: how our surnames came to America. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1982.

Jacobus, Donald Lines. Genealogy as Pastime and Profession. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968.

Mills, Elizabeth S. Evidence!: citation & analysis for the family historian. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1997.

Mills, Elizabeth S. Professional genealogy: a manual for researchers, writers, editors, lecturers, and librarians. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2001.

Phillimore, W. P. W. How to Write the History of a Family. Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1887. Republished by Gale Research Company, Book Tower, Detroit, 1972.

The University of Chicago Press. The Chicago Manual of Style : The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Source Materials Library

Census Records

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census,1830. Micropublication M19, roll 45. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Lafourche Parish. U.S. census,1840. Micropublication M704, roll 129. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census,1850, population schedule. Micropublication M432, roll 236. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Terrebonne Parish. U.S. census,1850, population schedule. Micropublication M432, roll 241. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census,1860, population schedule. Micropublication M653, roll 419. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. St. Mary Parish. U.S. census,1860, population schedule. Micropublication M653, roll 425. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census,1870, population schedule. Micropublication M593, roll 519. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census,1870, population schedule. Micropublication M593, roll 523. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census,1870, population schedule. Micropublication M593, roll 525. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census,1880, population schedule. Micropublication T9, roll 459. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census,1880, population schedule. Micropublication T9, roll 464. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1900, population schedule. Micropublication T623, roll 570. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1900, population schedule. Micropublication T623, roll 575. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1900, population schedule. Micropublication T623, roll 576. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1910, population schedule. Micropublication T624, roll 519. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1910, population schedule. Micropublication T624, roll 525. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1920, population schedule. Micropublication T625, roll 618. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1920, population schedule. Micropublication T625, roll 619. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1920, population schedule. Micropublication T625, roll 625. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1930, population schedule. Micropublication T626, roll 810. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1930, population schedule. Micropublication T626, roll 812. Washington: National Archives.

Louisiana. Orleans Parish. U.S. census, 1930, population schedule. Micropublication T626, roll 813. Washington: National Archives.

Church Records

Archdiocese of New Orleans. Sacramental Records. Volume 18, 1828-1829.

Covell, J. L. Archivist, Church of the Holy Name of Mary, 500 Eliza Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Index of Buhler entries from the Holy Name of Mary Sacramental Registers Card Index] June 2002. Compiled at the request of George L. Buhler Jr. The card index was searched for all Buhler surname entries of baptisms, marriages, and deaths.

Hebert, Rev. Donald J. South Louisiana Records - Church and Civil records of Lafourche - Terrebonne Parishes. 12 volumes. Cecilia, La.: 1978-1985.

[Kirchenbuch der Gemeinde in Altkrautheim] Ehe - Register vom 1 Januar 1808 bis. Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film No.: 878223.

Kirchenbuch der Gemeinde in Altkrautheim Nro. I. Tauf Register, augefangen ben x. Jannar 1808. Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film No.: 878223.

[Kirchenbuch Laibach]. Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film No.: 898033.

Tom II Liber Baptizatorum, defunctorum & in matrimonium conjunctorum parochia catholica Crauthemii at vicorum huic annexorum a 1746 usque ad 1817 inclusive collectionem nec non Confirmatorum indicem continens. Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film No.: 1047431.

City Directories (arranged chronologically)

New Orleans in 1805. A Directory and A Census, Together With Resolutions Authorizing Same Now Printed For The First Time From The Original Manuscript. Facsimile with an Introduction by Charles L. Thompson. New Orleans: The Pelican Gallery, Inc. 1936.

Lafon, B. Calendrier de commerce de la Nouvelle-Orleans pour l'année 1807. Nouvelle Orleans [La.]: Chez Jean Renard, imprimeur de la Ville, 1806.

A Business Directory for 1807. (printed in Le Diamant, No. 14 1887 in French)

Lafon, B. Annuaire louisianais; pour l'anne'e [sic] 1809. Comprenant Le Calandrier pour 1809. Une Table des variations de l'aiguille. Un moyen simple de tracer une Meridiene, & de prendre hauteur sans instrument. Une Table de longitudes & latitudes. Les Observations metèorologiques de 1808. Les Maladies dominates, Le Nom de toutes les personnes employees dans le Terri toire, les Finances, les Milices, les Corporations, Societes et Compagnies. Le Gouvernement de la Floride. La Liste des Nègotians Marchands &c. Nouvelle Orleans: L'auteur, 1808.

Whitney, Thomas H. Whitney's New Orleans directory and Louisiana & Mississippi almanac for the year 1811. [also titled] Repertoire général des adresses de la Nlle.-Orleans et calendrier de la Louisiane et du Mississippi pour l'année 1811. New Orleans [La.]: Printed for the author, 1810.

Paxton, John Adams. The New-Orleans directory and register;: containing the names, professions, & residences, of all the heads of families, and persons in business, of the city and suburbs; notes on New-Orleans; with other useful information. New-Orleans: Benj. Levy & Co., 1822.

Paxton, John Adems. The New-Orleans directory and register;: containing the names, professions, & residences, of all the heads of families, and persons in business, of the city and suburbs; notes on New-Orleans; with other useful information. New-Orleans: Benj. Levy & Co., 1823.

Paxton, John Adems. Supplement to the New-Orleans directory of the last year. New-Orleans: s.n., 1824.

Michel, Edward Augusta and Stephen E. Percy. The New-Orleans annual advertiser for 1832 annexed to the city directory; avis divers publiés annuellement pour l'année 1832. New Orleans: Stephen E. Percy & Co., 1832.

Michel, Edward Augusta. Registre commercial et annuel de la Nouvelle-Orleans pour 1834 contenant les noms, prénoms et lieux de résidence des principaux habitans. Nouvelle-Orleans: Gaux et Sollée, 1833.

Gibson, John, Robert W. Fishbourne, William Greene, and Clark. Gibson's guide and directory of the state of Louisiana, and the cities of New Orleans & Lafayette,: embracing, the officers of the United States for Louisiana, and an historical notice od the state, its boundaries, products, and government, its officers, executive, legislative, judicial, and ministerial; the terms of courts in each parish, different divisions of the state, as parochial senatorial, congressional, judicial electoral and military. Improvements, and institutions, as rail roads, canals, colleges, public schools, its revenue and expenditure, salaries, and terms of officers, etc. : An historical notice of the city of New Orleans, from its foundations with a reference map; government division, officers, alleys, public squares. Buildings, wharves and projected improvements, revenues and expenditures, salaries, and terms of officers, corporations, etc. etc. etc; : the names and residences, and places of business of its citizens, : and generally every thing useful, and interesting. : the whole embellished with upwards of fifty beautifully finished lithographic views of the principal public buildings. New Orleans [La.]: John Gibson, 1838.

Michel, Edward Augusta, L. C. Bacon, J. R. Vienne, J. P. Walden, and J. L. Sollée. New-Orleans directory, for 1841. New Orleans: J.L. Sollee, 1840.

Pitts & Clarke, ed., comp. New Orleans Directory for 1842, Comprising the Names, Residences, and Occupations of the merchants . . . and Citizens of New Orleans, Lafayete, Algiers and Gretna. Together with Historical Notices of the State of Louisiana, the City of New Orleans; a Record of the Victims of the Epidemic of 1841, and the Details of the General Business of the City of New Orleans. New Orleans: Pitts & Clarke, 1842.

Michel & Co. New-Orleans annual and commercial directory for 1843, containing the names and residences of all the inhabitants of the city and suburbs of New-Orleans. New Orleans: J.L. Sollée, 1842.

Michel, Edward Augusta. New Orleans annual and commercial register for 1846 containing all the names, residences and professions of all the heads of families and persons in business of the city and suburbs, Algiers and Lafayette, etc. New Orleans: E.A. Michel & Co., 1846.

Cohen, H. and F., ed., comp. Cohen's New Orleans and Southern Directory. Jefferson City, Gretna, Algiers, and McDonogh; Lafayette, Baton Rouge. New Orleans: Daily Delta Printers, 1849.

Cohen, H. and F., ed., comp. Cohen's New Orleans and Southern Directory. Jefferson City, Gretna, Algiers, and McDonogh; Lafayette, Baton Rouge. New Orleans: Daily Delta Printers, 1850.

Cohen, H. and F., ed., comp. Cohen's New Orleans and Southern Directory. Jefferson City, Gretna, Algiers, and McDonogh; Lafayette, Baton Rouge. New Orleans: Daily Delta Printers, 1851.

Cohen, H. and F., ed., comp. Cohen's New Orleans and Southern Directory. Jefferson City, Gretna, Algiers, and McDonogh; Lafayette, Baton Rouge. New Orleans: Daily Delta Printers, 1852.

Cohen, H. and F., ed., comp. Cohen's New Orleans and Southern Directory. Jefferson City, Gretna, Algiers, and McDonogh; Lafayette, Baton Rouge. New Orleans: Daily Delta Printers, 1853.

Cohen, H. and F., ed., comp. Cohen's New Orleans and Southern Directory. Jefferson City, Gretna, Algiers, and McDonogh; Lafayette, Baton Rouge. New Orleans: Daily Delta Printers, 1854.

Cohen, H. and F., ed., comp. Cohen's New Orleans and Southern Directory. Jefferson City, Gretna, Algiers, and McDonogh; Lafayette, Baton Rouge. New Orleans: Daily Delta Printers, 1855.

Cohen, H. and F., ed., comp. Cohen's New Orleans and Southern Directory. Jefferson City, Gretna, Algiers, and McDonogh; Lafayette, Baton Rouge. New Orleans: Daily Delta Printers, 1856.

Mygott & Company's Directory. Comp. W. H. Raney. New Orleans: L. Pesson & B. Simm, 1857.

Gardner, Charles, and Edward Clifton Wharton. Gardner & Wharton's New Orleans directory for the year 1858 embracing the city record, a general directory of the citizens, and a business and firm directory. New Orleans: E.C. Wharton, 1857.

Crescent city business directory for 1858-59 with fine engravings of the most conspicuous public buildings, as well as a map of the city and a general compilation of the year's commercial business. New Orleans: Office of the Price-current, 1859.

Gardner, Charles, and Gerard D. Stith. Gardner's New Orleans directory for the year 1859 embracing the city record, a general directory of the citizens, and a business and firm directory. New Orleans: Bulletin Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1858.

Gardner, Charles. Gardner's commercial and business registry of New Orleans. New Orleans: Isaac T. Hinton, 1860.

Hellier's New Orleans business directory for 1860 and '61 with commercial directory of businessmen of New York City. New York: Hellier & Co., 1860.

Gardner, Charles. Gardner's New Orleans directory for 1861: including Jefferson City, Gretna, Carrollton, Algiers, and McDonoghville : with a new map of the city, a street and levee guide, business directory, an appendix of much useful information, and a planters directory containing the names of the cotton and sugar planters of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas : a summary of the commercial history of New Orleans, continued. New Orleans: C. Gardner, 1861.

Gardner, Charles. Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1866.

Gardner, Charles. Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1867.

Gardner, Charles. Gardner's Directory for Algiers and McDonoughville for 1867-'68.

Algiers Business Directory for 1867-'68.

Gardner, Charles. Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1868.

Gardner, Charles. Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1869.

Edwards, Richard. Edwards' Annual Directory of the to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, etc., of New Orleans and its Suburbs. New Orleans: Southern, 1870.

EEdwards, Richard. Edwards' Annual Directory of the to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, etc., of New Orleans and its Suburbs. New Orleans: Southern, 1872.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1874.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1875.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1876.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1877.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1878.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1879.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1880.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1881.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1882.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1883.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1884.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1885.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1886.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1887.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1888.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1889.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1890.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1891.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1892.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1893.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1894.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1895.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1896.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards,1897.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1898.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1899.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1900.

Soards, L., comp. Soards New Orleans City Directory. New Orleans: Soards, 1901.

Fire Department

New Orleans, Louisiana. Firemen's Charitable Association Widows and Orphans Roll book. Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film No.: 961713.

New Orleans, Louisiana. Firemen's Charitable Association Roll book, 1820’s-1890's. Filmed by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film No.: 961712.

New Orleans, Louisiana. A history of the proceedings in the city of New Orleans, on the occasion of the funeral ceremonies in honor of James Abram Garfield, late president of the United States, which took place on Monday, September 26th, 1881. New Orleans: A.W. Hyatt, printer, 1881. Online at: <http://books.google.com/books?id=5ScdAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq

=editions:05WFTisoNsX6LUhnpfB>

O'Connor, Thomas, editor. History of the Fire Department of New Orleans from the earliest days to the present time; including the original volunteer department, the Firemen's Charitable Association, and the paid department down to 1895. New Orleans, 1895.

Historical Perspective

Bailey, John. The lost German slave girl : the extraordinary true story of Sally Miller and her fight for freedom in old New Orleans. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.

Clark, Jr. Robert T. "The German Liberals in New Orleans 1840-1860." Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Volume 20 Number 1 (1937).

Clark, Jr. Robert T. "The New Orleans German Colony in the Civil War." Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Volume 20 Number 4 (1937).

Clark, Jr. Robert T. "Reconstruction and the New Orleans German Colony." Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Volume 23 Number 2 (1940).

Corsan, W. C. Two months in the Confederate States: an Englishman's travels through the South.Trask Benjamin H., editor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

Deiler, John Hanno. Geschichte der deutschen gesellschaft von New Orleans : Mit einer einleitung: die europaische einwanderung nach den vereinigten staaten von 1820 bis 1896, New Orleans als einwandererhafen und die europaische einwanderung uber New Orleans / Bestschrift zam goldenen jubilaum der gesellschaft. New Orleans : Im selbstverlage, 1897.

Everett, Donald E. "The New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853." Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Volume 33 Number 4.

Faust, Albert Bernhard. The German Element in the United States. 2 volumes. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909.

Guillet, Edwin C. The Great Migration, the Atlantic crossing by sailing ship since 1770, Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1937.

Laguaites, Jeanette K. "The German Element in New Orleans, 1820-1860." Master's thesis, Tulane University, 1940.

Merrill, Ellen C. Germans of Louisiana. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005.

Miller, Edwin Haviland. Salem is my dwelling place: a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991.

Nau, John Frederick. The German people of New Orleans, 1850-1900. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958.

Sagarra, Eda. A Social History of Germany, 1648-1914. New York : Holmes & Meirers Publishers, 1977.

Schulze, Hagen. Germany : a new history. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

Seymour, William H. The Story of Algiers, 1718-1896, now fifth district of New Orleans, the past and present. Algiers: Algiers Democrat Pub. Co., Ltd., 1896.

Sheehan, James J. German history, 1770-1866. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Solsten, Eric, editor. Germany : A country study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1996.

Walter, Jakob. The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. Edited and with an introduction by Marc Raeff. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

Wendell, George Blunt. Reminiscences of New Orleans, and Journey up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Letter written in New Orleans, dated 7 June 1847. Library of Congress, American Memory Collection, Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890. On-line <http://memory.loc.gov/> Downloaded 12 Feb 2005.

Immigration Records

Arndt, Karl J. R., editor. "A Bavarian's Journey to New Orleans and Nacogdoches in 1853 - 1854." Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Volume 23 Number 2 (1940).

Brick Store Museum. Old Ship Portraits of Kennebunk. Kennebunk, Me: Brick store museum, 1943.

Bryant, Seth E., and Seth E. Bryant. A List of Vessels Built from 1800 to 1878: [with a Supplement from 1874 to 1884]. Kennebunk, Me: Brick Store Museum, 1950.

Chambers, William, and Robert Chambers. "German Emmigration." Chambers's Edinburgh journal. No. 129, New Series. London: W. S. Orr and Co., 1846.

Guth, Hermann. Amish Mennonites in Germany: Their Congregations, the Estates Where They Lived, Their Families. Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 1995.

Passenger lists of vessels arriving at New Orleans, La. 1820 - 1902. Micropublication M259 roll 20. Washington: National Archives.

Thompson, Margaret J. Captain Nathaniel Lord Thompson of Kennebunk Maine and the Ships he built. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co., 1937.

Newspapers

Daily Picayune. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1874, 1904-1912.

Item. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1904.

States. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1912-1949.

States Item. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1962.

Tagliche Deutsche Zeitung, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1874.

Times Democrat. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1904.

Times Picayune. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1922-1972, 2008.

Tax Records

Fox, Cynthia G. "Income Tax Records of the Civil War Years." Prologue. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, Winter 1986.

U.S. Louisiana. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, monthly lists, 1866. National Archives Micropublication M769, roll ___. Washington: National Archives.

Vital Records

Orleans Parish Birth Records. Micropublication. Baton Rouge: Louisiana.State Archives.

Orleans Parish Death Records. Micropublication. Baton Rouge: Louisiana.State Archives.

Orleans Parish Marriage Records. Micropublication. Baton Rouge: Louisiana.State Archives.

Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Coroner's Office, Record of inquests and views, volume 24. December 20, 1872 - November 27, 1874. Microfilm roll 903975. New Orleans Public Library.

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