By: Grace King, Pub. 1924, Reprinted 2025, 465 pages, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-916-2. The old Creole families of New Orleans date from the foundation of the city, and even before that - from the settlement of Mobile, Dauphin Island and Biloxi, their good names figuring in the lists of military, naval and civil officers who followed Iberville to the discovery of the Mississippi and remained with Bienville to hold on to the French possession of it. This book is comprised of Genealogies of the 39 oldest families of New Orleans