Genealogy Resources
Louisiana Genealogy Resources
- Acadian-Cajun
Genealogy and History.
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Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy: 1719-1820 . This
website provides a searchable database for African-Americans
from the Louisiana area.
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Confederate Pension Applications Index Database. Louisiana
State Archives.
- Deiler, J. Hanno. The Settlement of the German Coast of
Louisiana: And Creoles of German Descent. Baltimore, MD:
Clearfield Co, 2004.
Author J. Hanno Deiler devotes the preliminary sections of this
work to the early German families and their settlements in
Louisiana, while nearly one-half of it lists, along with
genealogical notices, the "Names of German Habitants on Both
Banks of the Mississippi Above New Orleans," as based on the
official census of 1724, and a roster of "Additional German
Names...Not in the [1724] Census." Other sections are devoted to
names in other censuses, Germans from Maryland, and Creoles of
German Descent.
- DeVille, Winston, compiler. Mississippi Valley Melange: A
Collection of Notes and Documents for the Genealogy and History
of the Province of Louisiana and Territory of Orleans. 3
volumes. Ville Platte, Louisiana: s.n., 1996.
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Documenting Louisiana Sugar. Provides historians and
social scientists with an innovative tool for examining
plantation economy and agrarian society in the American South.
Utilizing exceptionally detailed annual crop returns and
additional census records, Documenting Louisiana Sugar makes
available two fully searchable databases that allow users to
examine in micro and macro detail the evolution of one of
America's definitive plantation crops, namely cane sugar. These
are available at the Download Center on this website.
- Jenks, Houston C. Enumeration of ex-Confederate Soldiers
and Widows of Deceased Soldiers of Louisiana, Made in 1911.
Index to 1911 Enumeration listed below.
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Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830; 1854-1934 –
Name index to birth, baptism, and christening records from the
state of Louisiana. FamilySearch.
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Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875; 1874-1954 – Name index to
statewide deaths. Coverage: missing years between 1875-1893; has
only a few entries for 1894-1904. One part of these death
records includes death records for only Jefferson Parish,
1850-1875 and 1905-1921. The statewide records for all parishes
cover 1911-1954. FamilySearch.
- LOUISiana
Digital Library. The LOUISiana Digital Library (LDL) is an
online library of over 84,000 digital materials about
Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is
to make unique historical treasures from Louisiana's archives,
libraries, museums, and other repositories in the state
electronically accessible to Louisiana residents and to
students, researchers, and the general public in other states
and countries. The LOUISiana Digital Library contains
photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories,
and more that document Louisiana's history and culture.
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Louisiana Marriages 1816-1906 - Name index to
marriage records from the state of Louisiana - 129,641 records
as of 27 April, 2010. FamilySearch.org.
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Louisiana, Orleans Parish Estate Files, 1804-1846 – Name
index and images of probate estate files. Each estate file
consists of multiple images. The event date is the probate date.
FamilySearch.
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Louisiana State Archives. Books on general histories, census
indexes, immigration schedules, church records, and family
histories are available in the library. Also found in the
research library is the state's archival vital records program.
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Louisiana Vital Records. Louisiana Secretary of State.
- Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Isle of Canes. Provo, Utah:
Ancestry Pub, 2004. An account of a multiracial family in
Louisiana that, over four generations and more than 150 years,
rose from the chains of slavery to rule the Isle of Canes.
- New
Orleans Public Library: City Archives & Special Collections.
- 1911 Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers and Widows of
Deceased Soldiers of Louisiana. Microfilm of originals at
the State Archives and Records Service, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985.
- 1920-1940 New Orleans Voter Registration Cards. New
Orleans Registrar of Voters. Originals are located at the New
Orleans Public Library. Filmed by the Library, 1983, 11 rolls.
Also available at the FHL as Voter Registration Cards,
1920-1940, Second Series, FHL film #1412334-1412343 and
1689670.
- Prechtel-Kluskens, Claire. "New Orleans Slave Manifests,
1807-60." NGS Magazine 34, 4 (October-December 2008):
41-45.
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State Land Office Online Documents. These documents include
U.S. and State historical land title information, including
information related to: Land Grants; all severance documents of
U.S. and State public lands - which lists the first private
owner; all U.S. Official Township Survey plats and field notes;
the U.S. and State Tract Books - which are an index of all the
other documents mentioned; Section 16 School Lands; State
Patents; and numerous related documents. These records make up
the source of title for every acre of land in Louisiana.