Resources

There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.

• Wikipedia
• Louisana Secretary of State
  • Vital Records
  • Louisiana Historical Resources
• Webster Parish Clerk of Court
• State Library
• Louisiana Digital Library
• University of Louisiana - Center for Louisiana Studies
• LSU Libraries Special Collection - Manuscript Resources on the Civil War
• Webster Parish Library
• FamilySearch
• FindAGrave
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• National Register of Historic Places - info and photos for registered places in Webster Parish
• USGS GNIS - Geographic Names Information System
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Books
  • 1877 Lessons in the History of Louisiana, from its earliest settlement to the close of the civil war, by John Dimitry
  • 1894 An invitation to immigrants. Louisiana: its products, soil and climate, as shown by northern and western men who now reside in this state
  • 1909 Louisiana; comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons -  Volume 1    Volume 2 
• Dorcheat Historical Association Museum
• Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society
• Louisiana Genealogy & History Network - Webster Parish
• Louisiana Gravestones - Webster Parish
• Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association
• Nickersons of Webster Parish, La on Facebook
• MapsofUS - Interactive map of Parish Formation History
• My Genealogy Hound - 1911 Rand McNally map
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
• Cyndi's List - Louisiana

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