Jari Christopher Honora

The monthly series, Explorations in Genealogy is offered on the second Saturday of each month in 2025 with the next session taking place on Saturday, September 13, 2025 from 10:30 – Noon.

This month, meet Certified Genealogist® Jari C. Honora, the historian who discovered the first American Pope’s connection to New Orleans. Please join Honora as he discusses the Louisiana Creole heritage of Pope Leo XIV.

Jari Honora is a New Orleans native and proud Louisiana Creole with roots dating back more than two centuries along Bayou Lafourche and the German-Acadian Coast. He is a graduate of St. Augustine High School and Tulane University. He works as Family Historian in the Williams Research Center of the Historic New Orleans Collection. He previously worked for Le Musée de f.p.c. and taught in local charter schools. He also does historical and genealogical research professionally with projects such as the Georgetown Memory Project and TV programs including “Finding Your Roots” and “We’ll Meet Again.” He has presented at numerous historical and genealogical conferences including the International Black Genealogy Summit; American Educational Research Association; Southern Historical Society; Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS); and the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. As one of four contributors to the CreoleGen blog, he regularly shares research findings on Louisiana Creole people and institutions.

Explorations in Genealogy is hosted by the West Baton Rouge Genealogical Society and is sponsored by the West Baton Rouge Museum. This program is FREE, open to the public, and no registration is required. The West Baton Rouge Museum is located at 845 North Jefferson Avenue in Port Allen. For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/TheWBRM or www.WestBatonRougeMuseum.org

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