Your Access to FREE Louisiana Genealogy
Below are links that you might find helpful. If you have any to add, please let me know.
USGenWeb Obituary Project - LA
USGenWeb Obituary Index - LA: contains obits from Acadia, Caddo, Calcasieu, E. BatonRouge, Iberia, Lafayette, Orleans, Rapides, Richland, St. Landry, St. Tammany, Vermilion, Vernon & Webster. Also a miscellaneous file of "Birth Place Not Identified"
Louisiana Historical Resources
Confederate Pension Application Database
University of Louisiana - Center for Louisiana Studies
LSU Libraries Special Collection - Manuscript Resources on the Civil War
Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society
Colonial Louisiana - Colonial History of Louisiana
Explore Southern History ~ Louisiana
Comprehensive Atlas & Geographical, Historical & Commercial Atlas
Louisiana; comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons Volume 1 Volume 2
1877 Lessons in the History of Louisiana from its earliest settlement to the close of the civil war, by John Dimitry https://archive.org/details/lessonsinhistory00dimi/page/n7
1891 Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, edited by William Henry Perrin. These are histories and histories and biographies for Acadia, Calcasieu, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes. (Click on the link, "Full View".
1893 A History of Louisiana by Grace King and John Ficklen, https://archive.org/details/historyoflouisia01king/page/n7
1894 An invitation to immigrants. Louisiana its products, soil and climate, as shown by northern and western men who now reside in this state, https://archive.org/details/invitationtoimmi00loui/page/n5
1897 Louisiana: a Sketch in Outline of Its Past and Present, by Henry Chambers, https://archive.org/details/louisianaasketc00chamgoog/page/n5
1905 Stories from Louisiana History, by Grace King, https://archive.org/details/storiesfromlouis00king/page/n6
Caddo - contact Sara Parsons
Catahoula - contact James Andrews
LaSalle - contact James Andrews
Orleans - contact Marsha Bryant
Rapides - Morgan Johnson
Sabine - Carla Clifton
St. James - contact Jim Cox or Margie Pearce
St. John the Baptist - contact Jim Cox or Margie Pearce
Tensas - contact Tim Stowell
Vernon - Carla Clifton
Our Louisiana Roots - contact Paul LeBlanc
Louisiana Archives ~ Bryant Walker, State File Manager
Cemeteries of TX, NM, LA & OK by Gloria B. Mayfield (deceased)
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Ancestral Quest- a Basics version is available free, as well as a Full version for $30
Roots Magic- a variety of programs are available, including RootsMagic, PersonalHistorian, FamilyAtlas, and Family Reunion Organizer, plus free trial offers are available
Legacy- their Standard Edition is available to download free, as well as a Deluxe version for $30
State Coordinator: Marsha Holley
