User talk:Songbirdnola

February 2018
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Leah Chase
I respect your edit here ~ and your summary may as well be true, but unless you add a source to your edits I am afraid that a senior editor may challenge what you have edited ~ the summary's are used to kind of explain to other editors of where and what the edit was about ~ the reader does not see the summary, this is one of the reasons we use reliable sources ~ once again thanks for your edit ~ Mitchellhobbs (talk) 18:36, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with...my edit for Leah Chase regarding the fact that she was born in New Orleans, NOT Madisonville LA as frequently misquoted. In her biography, the story of her mother traveling by ferry to N.O. is on p. 15 & 16 but I don't know how to cite references.

I work for WLAE-TV, New Orleans Public Television. We did a documentary on Leah Chase in 2017: Leah Chase: The Queen of Creole Cuisine (it just went nationwide this spring) and we have RAW VIDEO FOOTAGE of Leah correcting a cameraman in an interview when he assumed she was born in Madisonville. She told him that her grandmother was a midwife and that she delivered her and all of her siblings that were born (before the grandmothers' death) in her grandparents' house on Allen Street in New Orleans.

I would like to cite Leah's biography, Listen I Say Like This pages 15-16 to show that she indeed was delivered by her midwife grandmother at the grandmother's house in N.O.

Her maternal grandmother, (Adonicia Morris Raymond) is listed in the 1926 N.O. City Directory as a midwife, and it gives her EXACT address of 2105 Allen Street. That is also verifiable in previous and successive directory years as well as censuses from her lifetime. I would like to cite the directory listing (the directory is available on Ancestry.com and other genealogy sites.)

Here is a link to pages 15-16 which are visible online from her bio: https://www.amazon.com/Leah-Chase-Listen-Like-This/dp/1589800486/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/131-4956851-7431431?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1589800486&pd_rd_r=65f8597c-92d3-11e9-9017-116189d25a5e&pd_rd_w=0ac8C&pd_rd_wg=kyWqb&pf_rd_p=588939de-d3f8-42f1-a3d8-d556eae5797d&pf_rd_r=6W8E9QFZSXM6XCP8VEJ9&psc=1&refRID=6W8E9QFZSXM6XCP8VEJ9

Helen Sigur Songbirdnola (talk) 21:12, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Songbird ~ I had to undo your edit in Leahs article ~ with this summary (I read the source it does not state the address or that Leah was born in new Orleans ~) I went to amazon it does talk about the midwife it does not state anything about where Leah was born and we can't use an address out of the directory ~ this link might help you understand how and when we can use sources ~ Citing sources if you need any more help just edit this talk page ~ I am watching it so I will respond here as soon as I can ~ Mitchellhobbs (talk) 23:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Songbird~ I read more of the article on Leah Chase ~ In this source here it states that Leah was born in New Orleans and that her grandmother is/was a midwife ~ if you go to Leah's early life here you will see that this section reaffirms your statement on the birth place and the grandmother ~ hope I helped you along a little more Mitchellhobbs (talk) 18:56, 20 June 2019 (UTC)