Research Resources

I hope you find these resources helpful in your search for your ancestors. The links are on the left. If you have any resources that you consider helpful, please let me know.

Books & Reference Material

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Pointe Coupee Marriages
Index to 1850
FTM CD 227

Pointe Coupe Parish History
by Le Comite' des Archives
de la Louisiana

Diocese of Baton Rouge
Catholic Church Records
by Diocese of Baton Rouge
Volumes 1 - 18: 1707 - 1891

Albert deCuire
Arrives in Louisiana
by Randy DeCuir
and Rev. Lon Lybaert

First Settlers of Pointe Coupee
by Winston DeVille,
Polyanthos

Census of Pointe Coupee
Louisiana, 1745
by Bill Barron,
Polyanthos

A History of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
by Brian J. Castello
9551 False River Drive
New Roads, La. 70760
($40 total)*I do not know how old this pricing is.

Other Resources of Interest

Southwest Louisiana Records
(many volumes, some revised)
by Rev. Donald Hebert

Colonial Louisiana Marriage
Contracts: Post of Pointe Coupee
by Winston DeVille

The First Families of Louisiana
(multiple volumes)
by Glenn R. Conrad

Southwest Louisiana Records
(many volumes, some revised)
by Rev. Donald Hebert

Historical Sketches of Pointe Coupee
by Idolie Olinde David

The Pointe Coupee Cut-Off
in Historical Writings
by Holgard O'Reilly Sternberg
Louisiana Historical Quarterly,
v28 #1 Year: 1945

Slaves and Masters of Pointe Coupee,
Louisiana: a calendar of civil records,
1762-1823
by Winston De Ville

A Gentleman of Pointe Coupee
by Henry Plauc Dart
Louisiana Historical Quarterly,
v5 #4 Year: 1922

Le Deux
by Lavern Pike Thomas