Established 1784 · Online since 2004
Delaroderie
One surname, six generations, and a paper trail that runs from France to south Louisiana to wherever the family has scattered to since. This is where it gets collected — the records, the photographs, the accounts people wrote in their own words, and the news as it happens.
Five men, one name
Rodolph Audibert Delaroderie, carried father to son for four generations, each one going by a nickname instead. Only Rodolph Gabriel, born 1822, stands before them.
What’s here
Four ways into the record
Lineage
The namesake male bloodline as far back as it has been traced — Alphonse in 1784 down to the men born in the 1970s.
Open the chartProfiles
Six accounts of six lives. Most were written by the person themselves, which is the whole reason they are worth keeping.
Read the profilesPhotographs
Nine family photographs running from about 1898 to 2004, each with what is known about who is in it.
View the platesTimeline
Family events and site milestones on one thread, newest first, going back to the founding of the domain.
Follow the threadWhy this exists
The intent, unchanged since 2004
On 23 March 2004, Rad Delaroderie registered delaroderie.com to give the family one address — a place where topics, contributions, reference material, and anything else tied to the Delaroderie name could sit together and be reachable by family, friends, and anyone else who came looking.
That has not changed. What has changed is that the people who wrote these pages are mostly gone now, which turns a family website into something closer to an archive. Bucky, Becky, Leslie, and Mike each have words on this site that are theirs. Keeping those readable is most of the job.
The site will always be unfinished. If you have a photograph, a date, a correction, or a story, send it along — that is how everything already here arrived.
Recently
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6 Dec 2021
Leslie Delaroderie
Died in hospice after years of declining health, three days short of her 68th birthday. Her page.
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12 Aug 2016
Becky Delaroderie
Died at home after many years of cardiac and respiratory trouble. Her page.
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10 Sep 2015
Rad moves to Florida
From west central Georgia to central Florida. Details on his page.