Louisiana Families - Resources

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Resources

See also information and links at Category:Louisiana Genealogy Resources.

Louisiana

In addition to the usual sources these are for Louisiana

• parish map (clickable to the USGenWeb parish page)
• Louisiana Vital Records Index. Louisiana Secretary of State. Has birth, marriage and death records for Louisiana.
• Dictionary of Louisiana Biography at The Louisiana Historical Association.
• First Families of Louisiana, certificate program, Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society
• Louisiana History: Old and New Place Names at thecajuns.com. genealogy, history and culture.
• Louisiana State Archives Confederate Pension Applications Index Database
• African_American_Resources a Free Space listing with many resources not just for Louisiana.
• Terrebone Parish Library System - Genealogy Dept
• Louisiana Historical and Cultural Vistas This site has links to both free and paid material. It all seems to be by Christophe Landry, an expert in Louisiana genealogy.

New Orleans

• Archdiocese of New Orleans, indexes to Sacramental Records - digital PDFs of volumes 1 - 11 (covering 1718 - 1815) are accessible from this page. Later publications through volume 19 (covering through 1831) may be purchased, or are available at many libraries with good genealogical collections.
• Archdiocese of New Orleans, Sacramental Records - digital PDFs of original baptism, marriage, and burial registers may be accessed from this page. Records cover 1731-1818 but with lots of gaps. The above indexes can be used to help locate most of the register entries.
• Finding Aids for the Records of New Orleans Municipal Government This is an almost overwhelming list. For research in New Orleans a brief review is required.

Washington Parish

• Mile Branch Settlement at Washington Parish Fair - program - Lots of detailed information about these families of Washington Parish.
• Book: Legal Records of Washington Parish, 1819-1897 (Volume 1), 98 images. Papers from the Personal Files of Hardy Richardson, Lawyer, State Senator, and Colonel in CSA, 1822-1822. Compiled by: E. Russ Williams, Jr. Bogalusa, Louisiana, 1962. - This book has legal papers of various families throughout the area, including records pertaining to successions, lawsuits, and various correspondence.
• Book: Legal Records of Washington Parish, 1819-1897 (Volume 2), 126 images. Abstracts of conveyance book W-1 Tangipahoa Parish 1819-1869 and Duplicates of Washington Parish deeds 1819-1840. Abstracted and compiled by: E. Russ Williams, Jr. Bogalusa, Louisiana, 1965. - This book covers records of the eastern-most portion of current-day Tangipahoa Parish that was originally part of Washington Parish.

Calcasieu Parish

• Southwest Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Library - The Maude Reid Scrapbook is a great resource for St. Charles history. See the Maude Reid Scrapbook index, 1,833 images.

Books

• Granville W. and and N. C. Gough. Spain's Louisiana Patriots in its 1779-1783 War with England During the American Revolution - Part 6
• "Louisiana, Biographical and Historical Memoirs" (Chicago, The Goodspeed publishing company, 1892)