great research and beautifully put together. good story too. I, myself, am a DONATO descendent. My ancestors were Jean Baptiste GUILLORY, freed mulatto son of Marguerita GUILLORY, negresse of Mobile, Alabama(born c1734 possibly in Africa) and Gregoire GUILLORY, her owner and Catherine Victoire DONATO, quadroon libre daughter of Donato BELLO of Italy and Marie Jeanne Tailleferr, a mulatresse libre of New Orleans. Their daughter, Marie Louise GUILLORY married Francois BIROTTE iii, a New Orleans native who migrated to the Prairie regions of Opelousas in the 1820s