Dear Barry & La Rhonda:
I mistakenly sent the email meant for La Rhonda Poydras, to Barry Poydras.....but no big deal.....we are actually all (at least genetically) related ---like it or not---as I have tried to explain via the emails I've sent to you individually. Yes, the intellectual soldier and otherwise multifaceted Frenchman, Julien de Lallande Poydras---was the common ancester to us all. So, whether you are a "white" Poydras (i.e. the children of the married Julien) or the "mixed" multi-colored children of his slave mistresses from Santo Domingo (San Domingo --in French) you are all equally his descendents....(again---like it
or not).....with your American roots being in Louisiana's Pointe Coupee Parish where several things are names after him and in New Orleans where the name is very well known. All of this is a matter of historical record if you care to research is for yourself. Julien was quite a public figure in his day so the records are all available. It's all rather like the Thomas Jefferson story in many ways....with the slave mistress and all-----intriguing for his historical merit.....
Someone, anyone or you ----let me hear from you.