• Parishes
  • Acadia
  • Allen
  • Ascension
  • Assumption
  • Avoyelles
  • Beauregard

  • Bienville

  • Bossier
  • Caddo
  • Calcasieu
  • Caldwell
  • Cameron
  • Carroll
    1832-1877
  • Catahoula
  • Concordia
  • De Soto
  • East Baton Rouge
  • East Carroll
  • East Feliciana
  • Evangeline
  • Felician
    (1810-1824)
  • Franklin
  • Grant
  • Iberia
  • Iberville
  • Jackson
  • Jefferson
  • Jefferson Davis
  • La Salle
  • Lafayette
  • Lafourche

  • Lincoln

  • Livingston
  • Madison
  • Morehouse
  • Natchitoches
  • Orleans
  • Ouachita
  • Plaquemines
  • Pointe Coupee
  • Rapides
  • Red River
  • Richland
  • Sabine
  • St Bernard
  • St Charles
  • St Helena
  • St James
  • St John the Baptist
  • St Landry
  • St Martin
  • St Mary
  • St Tammany
  • Tangipahoa
  • Tensas
  • Terrebonne
  • Union
  • Vermilion
  • Vernon
  • Washington
  • Webster
  • West Baton Rouge
  • West Carroll
  • West Feliciana
  • Winn

Louisiana Genealogy Databases

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Parish resource links for this state are coming soon! In the meantime, below are some excellent Louisiana Genealogy Sites to help you get started on your research.

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General Genealogy Sites

Louisiana Genforum (12,400 + postings) by Genforum
Louisiana USGenweb Archives by USGenweb
Louisiana Rootsweb by Rootsweb.com

Census Records on line

Louisiana Census on line by Censusfinder.com
Louisiana Census Records by Census-online.com
Louisiana Census by US Census Project
Louisiana Census Records by Distant Cousin.com
Louisiana African-American Census Records by USGenweb

Vital Records

1846-1880 New Orleans Marriages by Justices of the Peace by New Orleans Library

Louisiana Death Indexes by wee-monster.com
Social Security Death Index by Rootsweb
Louisiana Death Indexes by Deathindexes.com

Cemeteries and Cemetery Stone Transcriptions

Louisiana Tombstone Project by US Tombstone Project
Louisiana Cemetery Stones by Interment Net
Louisiana Cemetery Directory by Cemetery Junction
Louisiana Cemeteries Index (Acadia, Allen, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, Jefferson Davis, Lincoln, Madison, Ouachita, Pointe Coupee, Rapides) by Kengelha

Newspapers and Obituaries

1837-1857 & 1870 New Orleans "Daily Picayune" by New Orleans Library

1837-1857 New Orleans Marriage Announcements "Daily Picayune" by New Orleans Library

Newspaper Holdings at New Orleans Division Public Library (1787-1974) by New Orleans Library

Louisiana Obituary Index by Obitlinkspage.com

Misc African-American Obituaries by USGenweb

Current Louisiana Newspapers by 50states.com

Military Records

Revolutionary War Louisiana Rosters by USGenweb

War of 1812 Louisiana Rosters by USGenweb

Civil War Louisiana Confederate Rosters by USGenweb
Civil War Louisiana Confederate Soldiers Surname Index by USGenweb
Civil War Louisiana Confederate Pension Records by USGenweb
Louisiana Confederate POWs died at Alton Prison, IL by USGenweb
Louisiana Confederate Soldiers died at Annapolis, Maryland by USGenweb
Louisiana Confederate Soldiers died at Camp Butler, IL USGenweb
Louisiana Confederate Soldiers died at Fort McHenry, MD USGenweb
Louisiana Confederate Soldiers died at RI or NY Prisons USGenweb
Louisiana Confederate Soldiers died at Point Lookout, MD by USGenweb
Louisiana Veterans buried at Rock Island, IL by USGenweb
Louisiana Soldiers Killed in Action Battles of Manassas, VA by USGenweb

1911 Confederate Pensioners of Winn Parish, LA by USGenweb

Louisiana Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients by USGenweb

LA Native Guards (Colored Troops) by USGenweb

1898-1899 LA 9th United States Volunteer Infantry Colored Troops by USGenweb
Louisiana Rosters Spanish-American War by USGenweb

WWI Louisiana Draft Registrations Cards by USGenweb

WWII Casualties/Medal of Honor Recipients/Misc Soldiers of LA by USGenweb
WWII Louisiana Casualties Army & Airforce by Access Genealogy

Korean and Vietnam Casualities (+ MIA, Obits, Medal recipients, Desert Storm Obits & West Carroll Parish War Memorial) by USGenweb

1875 Riot Grant Parish - Vets KIA Clairborne Parish - Indian War Honors - Mexican Campaign Honors (+ misc obits, vet memorial) by USGenweb

Miscellaneous Data

Microfilm #'s for Passenger Arrivals Port of New Orleans by New Orleans Library

Free Look-Ups Early Louisiana Settlers (1600s-1800s) by Ancestral Findings.com

Local History

Louisiana Photograph Collection by New Orleans Library

1866-1874 Murders in Natchitoches Parish, LA by USGenweb
1873 Republicans Killed in Grant Parish by USGenweb

Cultural Information

1880 Native American Census by USGenweb
LA Native American Tribes by Access Genealogy

Index to Orleans Parish Slave Emancipation Petitions by New Orleans Library
LA Af-American Census Records by USGenweb
African-Am Church Records by USGenweb
Louisiana African-American Bio's by USGenweb
Louisiana African-American Cemeteries by USGenweb
Louisiana African-American Marriages by USGenweb
Slavery Ads of Louisiana by USGenweb
Louisiana Slave Records by Rootsweb

LA Native Guards (Colored Troops) Civil War by USGenweb
1898-1899 Spanish-American War 9th United States Volunteer Infantry (Colored Troops) by USGenweb

African-American School Records (West Livingston, Winfield and Winn Parish) by USGenweb

Historical and Genealogical Societies and Libraries

Louisiana State Archives
3851 Essen Lane
PO Box 94125
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9125
(225) 922-2012

Louisiana Vital Records Registry
PO Box 60630
New Orleans, LA 70160
(504) 568-5152

Louisiana Divison New Orleans Public Library
219 Loyola Ave
New Orleans, LA 70112-2004
(504) 596-2610

Louisiana Directory of Genealogy Societies by Obitlinkspage.com

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