The research on this database was began in 1960, with live verbal interviews written on legal pads, remember this was before computers, and the only books available at that time were the two original volumes published in 1965 by Bona Arsenault. Today we have tons of research material, fast Computers and the internet. The bulk of the material on this database are families of southwest Louisiana and their ancestors.
Some families reach into south Louisiana.
Since I published the Dartez Database, I have received numerous replies with corrections, and questions about gedcoms. Gedcoms cannot be created from this Site. I can no longer furnish gedcoms. I have initiated a set of rules below that I hope everybody can work with. The information contained on these pages is graciously shared by the author Whitney Dartez who makes no claim to its validity.