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
  • Confederate Pension Application Database
• Jackson 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
• Jackson Parish Library
• FamilySearch
• FindAGrave
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• USGenWeb Archives Project - Jackson Parish obituaries
• USGenWeb Archives Obituaries Project – Louisiana
• ObitCity
• National Register of Historic Places - info and photos for registered places in Jackson Parish
• Historical Marker Database
• 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 
  • 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form -  Volume 1    Volume 2    Volume 3 
  • 1925 A History of Louisiana; Wilderness-Colony-Province-Territory-State-People, by Henry E. Chambers, Volume 1  Volume 2  Volume 3
• Jackson Parish Museum & Fine Arts Association - website, on facebook
• Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society
• MapsofUS - Interactive map of Parish Formation History
• My Genealogy Hound - 1911 Rand McNally map
• GenealogyTrails
• LAFamilyHistory mailing list / query board at groups.io
• Past Queries -  1996   1997   1998
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
• Cyndi's List - Louisiana

Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the websites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project.

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