Jari Honora, CG®, 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 at the Williams Research Center of the Historic New Orleans Collection. He also does historical and genealogical research professionally, including for the TV programs “Finding Your Roots,” “We’ll Meet Again,” and the Georgetown Memory Project. He is a trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists and a board member of the Louisiana Historical Society and Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans.