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Louisiana State Archives - Historical Resources

Louisiana Online Vital Records Index
Online index to Louisiana birth records 1819-1916, death records from 1911-1971, and Orleans Parish marriage records from 1870-1966.

Louisiana Clerks Remote Access Authority

Louisiana Clerks Remote Access Authority
This website offers free access to Conveyance and Marriage indexes of various Louisiana Parishes. Check the map for participating parishes and the date ranges of each index.

LSU Special Collections - Digital Collections

LSU Special Collections - Digital Collections
Digital collections from LSU's Hill Memorial Library including early Louisiana family letters, photographs, maps, and other content.

David Rumsey Map Collection

David Rumsey Map Collection

Louisiana Newspapers: Louisiana Digital Library

Louisiana Newspapers Collection: Louisiana Digital Library

Louisiana Historical Newspapers spanning various years. Organized by parish, then by newspaper collection within the parish. Some collections have numerous editions, some have only a few. Many may be in French.

Archdiocese of New Orleans - Slave and Free People of Color Baptismal Records

https://nolacatholic.org/archives-and-records
Indexes and scans of original baptismal records of slaves and free people of color from the archives of St. Louis Cathedral. The records cover 1777-1812 and the original documents were written in Spanish by Spanish priests.

Freedom on the move

Freedom on the Move
Created to control the movement of enslaved people, runaway ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives--their personality, appearance, and life story. Taken collectively, these ads constitute a detailed, concise, and rare source of information about the experiences of enslaved people..

Family Search

www.familysearch.org
Subscription-free genealogical records, including special European and U.S. State collections.

Annie Laurie Moody Library: Louisiana DAR

Find-A-Grave

www.findagrave.com
Online cemetery indexes maintained by volunteer members. Photos of grave markers are included in many entries, and some volunteers include basic genealogical information about the interred.

Access Genealogy

www.accessgenealogy.com
Free online genealogical records for all 50 States. Notable additions include extensive Native American records and helpful genealogical forms available for download.

Rootsweb - An Ancestry.com Community

www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
A free online genealogy community that hosts indexes to millions of original source documents and historic records. Log on and see if someone's talking about your name!

The US Genweb Project

www.usgenweb.org
An online community of U.S. genealogists who share local research to help your own! Family trees, cemetery records, wills and successions, and other records are available free of charge.

Library of Congress - Chronicling America

Library of Congress - Chronicling America
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.

U.S. Telephone Directory Collection

U.S. Telephone Directory Collection

Missouri Secretary of State: 1766 Census - Spanish Louisiana Territory

A census of the Louisiana Territory (civilians and militiamen) taken in 1766 enumerates:

Names of Heads of Household
Men of Arms
Women
Teenage Boys
Teenage Girls
Male Children
Female Children
Slaves
Assigned Lands
Horses and Mules
Large Livestock
Lesser Livestock
Muskets