United States Resources: Louisiana

    Louisiana quilt square based on Maggie Malone's 1,001 Patchwork Designs

    ROOTS-L Databases and Files

  • Louisiana Surnames in the RootsWeb Surname List

    Surname to search for:
  • Louisiana Books We Own
  • genealog.lc-la: Books in the on-line Library of Congress catalog with the subject "Louisiana--genealogy."
  • genealog.shiparl: People arriving at New Orleans on 23 April 1849 aboard the Arlington. Around 170 names
  • genealog.avo1830:1830 Census, Avoyelles Parish
  • genealog.avo1860:1860 Census, Avoyelles Parish (partial)

    Other Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Resources on the Net

    Other Louisiana Genealogy and History Pages

  • Linkpendium Louisiana Parish Links
  • Louisiana Resources at Rootsweb:
    • State level
    • Parish level
  • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - U.S. - Louisiana
  • The Louisiana GenWeb Project
  • American Local History Network
  • Encyclopedia Louisiana
  • Lousiana Genealogy-Related Links from the Mayrand Family Association

    General Resources

  • Louisiana Mailing Lists
  • USGenWeb Archives: Louisiana
  • LDS Research Outline for Louisiana
  • Louisiana Family History Centers
  • From Ancestry.com
    • 1810 U. S. Census
    • 1820 U. S. Census
    • 1830 U. S. Census
    • 1840 U. S. Census
    • 1850 U. S. Census
    • 1860 U. S. Census
    • 1870 U. S. Census
    • 1880 U. S. Census
    • 1900 U. S. Census
    • 1910 U. S. Census
    • 1920 U. S. Census
    • 1930 U. S. Census
  • The USGenWeb Census Project: Louisiana
    • Completed Transcriptions
  • Louisiana Home Page: WPA Life Histories
  • Colonial Money of Louisiana
  • Louisiana Newspaper Project
  • Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations From the Revolution Through the Civil War
    • Selections from the Southern Historical Collection
      • Louisiana
  • Census Online: Louisiana
  • NEIC: Earthquake History of Louisiana
  • Louisiana Tornadoes, 1950-1995
  • Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
  • Ghost Towns of Louisiana
  • Louisiana Civilian Conservation Corps camps
  • Louisiana Bibliography - United States and Worldwide Postal History

    Archives, Libraries and Special Collections

  • State Library of Louisiana
  • The Louisiana State Archives
  • Louisiana State Museum
  • The Amistad Research Center an independent archives, library, & museum dedicated to preserving African-American & ethnic history and culture.
  • Calcasieu Parish Public Library Southwest Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Library
  • Special Collections at Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University
  • The Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection
  • Frazar Memorial Library McNeese State University
    • Genealogy Resources
  • Archival Research Repositories in New Orleans
  • The Archives of the Diocese of Shreveport
  • Jefferson Caffery Louisiana Room at UL Lafayette, with guides to manuscripts and special collections, and a genealogy bibliography.
  • The Louisiana Collection at Tulane University
  • T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

    Cemeteries

  • Tombstone Transcription Project
  • Cemetery Records Online
  • The Louisiana Political Graveyard
  • Find A Grave
  • Twin Cities Memorial Gardens

    Ethnic and Religious

  • Acolapissa History
  • Bayougoula History
  • Chitamacha History
  • Delaware History
  • Houma History
  • Illinois History
  • Kaskasia Tribal Descendants

    Local History and Information

  • Addis: A Railroad Town A Brief History
  • A History of New Orleans
  • City of Rayne: History
  • History of the Diocese of Shreveport
  • The History of Slidell
  • From Brian Mavrogeorge
    • Some New Orleans Marriage Records
    • indx8592.zip: Index to Damon Veache's Louisiana Ancestors genealogy column, 61K zipped, over 300K unzipped. Listed are the names from the queries and the date the column was published.
    • obitnola.zip: 8400 bytes zipped, 40K unzipped, an index to New Orleans area obituaries, from 1892 and various years in the 1910s.

    Maps and Gazetteers

  • USGS/GNIS Database of Louisiana locations
  • Louisiana from Color Landform Atlas of the United States
  • Louisiana Profiles: Interactive county maps
  • So Much More Than Just a Map: Perspectives on Louisiana and the New World
  • Louisiana State Museum's Map Database
  • Pam Rietsch's 1895 U.S. Atlas

    Military

  • Coastal Fortification on the Gulf of Mexico
  • Civil War Sites in Louisiana
  • Louisiana Civil War Map of Battles
  • Civil War Louisiana Photo Album
    Message Boards
    • Civil War, Louisiana RootsWeb
    • Louisiana in the Civil War history-sites.com
  • Union Regimental Index: Louisiana
  • Civil War Units
    • First Louisiana Brigade
    • First Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, CSA
    • Company 'B', 1st Louisiana Special Battalion
    • First Battalion Louisiana Zouaves National Website
    • Roster of the 3rd Louisiana Cavalry, CSA
    • 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry during the American Civil War
    • 8th Louisiana - Company B Bienville Rifles
    • The 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment A Brief History and Roster
    • 28th Louisiana Infantry (Gray's)
  • U.S. Military Personnel who died in the Korean War
  • Vietnam Conflict Casualty List

    Photographs

  • Detroit Publishing Company Photographs from Louisiana
  • Civil War Louisiana Photo Album

    Societies, Historical and Genealogical

  • Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society
  • Foundation for Historical Louisiana

      Ethnic and Religious

    • The German-Acadian Coast Historical & Genealogical Society
    • Louisiana Conference United Methodist Historical Society

      Lineage

    • Louisiana Society - Children of the American Revolution
    • Sons of Confederate Veterans - Louisiana Division
      • Captain Leonidas N. Polk Camp #681 - Bastrop
      • Brig. Gen. Francis T. Nicholls Camp #1362 - Denham Springs
      • Maj. Jesse M. Cooper Camp #1390 - DeRidder
      • Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner Camp #1421 - Lafayette
      • South Beauregard Memorial Camp #264 - Longville
      • Capt. Thomas O. Benton Camp #1444 - Monroe
      • Col. Charles D. Dreux Camp #110 - New Orleans
      • Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard Camp #130 - New Orleans
      • St. Landry Parish Camp - Oppelousous
      • Sgt. James W. Nicholson Camp #1478 - Ruston
      • Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor Camp #1308 - Shreveport
      • Col. Leon Dawson Marks Camp #1596 - Shreveport
      • Ambassador John Slidell Camp #1727 - Slidell
      • Letlow Brothers Camp #1773 - Start
      • Camp Moore Camp #1223 - Tangipahoa
      • Brig. Gen. Randall Lee Gibson Camp #470 - Thibodaux
      • Maj. Thomas McGuire Camp #1714 - West Monroe
      • Lt. Col. William Walker Camp - Winnfield
    • United Daughters of the Confederacy - Louisiana Division
      • Thomas Overton Moore Chapter No. 640 - Alexandria
      • Colonel John Milton Sandidge Chapter No. 2353 - Bastrop
      • Sarah Morgan Dawson Chapter No. 2357 - Baton Rouge
      • Thomas Jefferson Butler Chapter No. 2314 - Covington
      • New River Rangers Chapter No. 2514 - Gonzales
      • Fort Beauregard Chapter No. 2368 - Jonesville
      • Alfred Mouton Chapter No. 1515 - Lafayette
      • Robert E. Lee Chapter No. 305 - Lake Charles
      • General Polk Chapter No. 2252 - Leesville
      • Kate Beard Chapter No. 397 - Mansfield
      • Minden Chapter No. 2403
      • Natchitoches Chapter No. 2401
      • Abram J. Ryan Chapter No. 2165 - New Orleans
      • Bishop Leonidas Polk Chapter No. 2415 - New Orleans
      • Jefferson Davis Chapter No. 2191 - New Orleans
      • New Orleans Chapter No. 72
      • Raphael Semmes Chapter No. 2218 - New Orleans
      • Belle Boyd Chapter No. 2620 - Oakdale
      • Thomas Jefferson Butler Chapter No. 2314 - Ponchatoula-Hammond
      • Shreveport Chapter No. 237
      • Camp Moore Chapter No. 562 - Tangipahoa
    • Missouri Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (includes Louisiana)

      Railroad

    • Kansas City Southern Historical Society

      Special Interest

    • Cajun Clickers Genealogy SIG

      Regional

    • The Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association
    • Central Louisiana Genealogical Society

      Local

    • Pointe de l'Eglise Historical and Genealogical Society Acadia Parish Genealogy
    • Baton Rouge Genealogical & Historical Society
    • The Natchitoches Genealogical & Historical Association
    • Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans
    • The Sabine Parish Genealogical Association
    • Terrebonne Genealogical Society
    • West Bank Genealogy Society
    • Winn Parish Genealogical & Historical Association

    Vital Records

  • Louisiana Vital Records from VitalChek
  • Louisiana Vital Records Information from Elizabeth T. Orsay

    Commercial

  • Ancestor Publishers
  • The Donning Company Publishers
  • Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
  • Genealogy-Books.com
  • The Gregath Publishing Company
  • SK Publications Louisiana Census CDs
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