Winston De Ville is an internationally recognized authority on colonial Mississippi Valley/provincial Louisiana genealogy and history.
According to noted scholar P.
William Filby, "By far, Winston De Ville is the earliest of Louisiana's prolific genealogical writers.
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I can think of few genealogical authors with so many works to their names .
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as important to the historian as to the genealogist.
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[His] quality productivity in so few years is remarkable."