Louisiana Genealogy

Louisiana genealogy sites with surnames, look ups, marriage records, census sites, biographies, death records, military, and libraries to help with your Louisiana genealogy research in your search for your ancestors.    Search our Marriage Records Database for Louisiana marriage records  
  

State Resources Sites

• A Guide to Louisiana Genealogy  Look ups, societies, publications available from societies and individuals, lost female ancestors queries, and related links for genealogy research in Louisiana.
    
• Search Louisiana State Databases at Ancestry.com
    
• Archives and Manuscript Repositories in Louisiana just input Louisiana into the search box to find the Louisiana Archives.
    

Cemeteries 

• Clairborne Parish, Adkins Cemetery records are available on Rootsweb. 

Death Records & Obits

• New Orleans Death Index 1837-1857 & 1870 is from the Daily Picayune
    

Databases and Indexes

• Louisiana Land Records Database is available on Rootsweb.
    

Libraries & Museums

• Genealogical Materials in the New Orleans Public Library's Louisiana Division and City Archives
    
• Genealogy Sources in the Louisiana Division/City Archives  These links will take you to genealogical information or sources unique to New Orleans Public Library's Louisiana Division/City Archives.
    
• Historic New Orleans Collection  learn about current exhibitions and public programs, publications, a complex of historic buildings, research collections, guided tours
    
• New Orleans' most prominent heritage attraction is the Louisiana State Museum, a complex of national landmarks housing thousands of artifacts and works of art reflecting Louisiana's legacy of historic events and cultural diversity.
    
• Visit the Louisiana State Library site to learn about their genealogy holdings and resources.
    

Marriages

• Index to Marriage Notices in the Daily Picayune, 1837-1857
    
• Louisiana Marriages  Posted by our visitors.
    
• Louisiana Wedding Bells
    

Military

• The Opelousas Militia in the 1770's - 1780's  includes rosters of the units.

People

• The 7 Ships Passenger Lists  In 1785, Spain paid for 7 ships to transport Acadians to settle in Louisiana. For Spain, it meant settlers to buffer the zone between Spanish land and the British land. For the Acadians, it meant a chance to join their fellow Acadians and to regain some of what they lost during the Exile.
    
• Louisiana Surname Queries Be sure to add your surnames!
    
• Acadian Genealogy
    
• Louisiana Genealogy Data  to help find online data.
    
• Contessa Entellina, Palermo, Sicily  Pedigree charts of descendants and ancestors from this town in Sicily, once home to many New Orleanian Italian-Americans
    
• Louisiana Biographies
    
• Old News from Louisiana - old newspaper articles
    
• Tulane University Medical Dept., 1912
    

Other Louisiana Genealogy Resources

Maps

• Historical Maps of Louisiana

• Louisiana Maps from the University of Texas Library

Queries

• Free Genealogy Queries 

Charts and Resources

•  Free Charts, Forms, and More

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