It started in the 1980s, when Donna Pierite and her family started taking trips to Baton Rouge and New Orleans to photocopy old dictionaries stored away in university archives.
Začalo to v 80. letech 20. století, kdy Donna Pierite se svou rodinou začala jezdit do Baton Rouge  a New Orleansu, kde si kopírovali staré slovníky  uložené v univerzitních archivech.