Digging into Pope Leo XIV's New Orleans Creole roots - CBS News
Pope Leo XIV is preparing to address the faithful in St. Peter's Square. Sunday's mass will be his first as head of the world's Roman Catholics. Katie Weis has more on his background in New Orleans. - Aired on 05/10/2025.
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However, my paternal grandmother's ancestors were Dutch and arrived in the mid 1600s and their descendants fought in the American Revolution. My grandmother's aunt commissioned a book back in the 1960s which traced the family all the way back, very convenient. 
That is thoroughly amazing, that they all came together and that they were all interested - especially since your family can trace their roots from so far back. I'd certainly be very interested, but even my first cousins don't know much, guess I am since I was particularly close to my paternal grandmother and I've even met my third cousins. My Irish side, who I know the best (my grandfather's family, which is weird since I never met him, he died at 48 when my Dad was only 12). But my grandmother kept up with them and I visited a lot of them with her. I went to a family picnic a few years back, know many of my Dad's cousins and one of them introduced me to a guy from my paternal grandmother's side. 
The only cousin I have who is interested is my first cousin on my mother's (Polish) side, but that's tough since my maternal grandmother arrived by herself when she was 15 so I only knew two of my mother's cousins. My mother only had one sister and that cousin and I are the only girls, so we have a relationship though I'm in New York and she's in Colorado. She's attempting genealogy and figured I'd know more, I only wish now that I'd asked more questions when I had the chance. All I know was that our grandmother was the eldest in her family and that she had a twin who died when they were 7. And though both of our mothers were fluent in Polish, they didn't pass that on. 
