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• 'St. Landry- Up From Slavery Family' (Louisiana-Southwest)

  Over 100 Southwest Louisiana African American Families; such as (and including variations of names): Arceneaux, Bailey, Belizaire, Berry, Bonhomme, Bonom, Buron, Burohorn, Briscoe, Chapman, Gathe, Goodman, Goodwin, Guidry, Lavine, Lavergne, Lott, Mosley, Parker, Peter, Rice, Rosser, McClain, McClelland, Senegal, Slaughter, Williams and many many more.

• Acadian Memorial - honors Acadians, forebears of Cajun culture

  St. Martinville, Louisiana. The Acadian Memorial Archive has made scholarly research by Dr. Carl Brasseaux regarding Acadian exiles in Louisiana available on-line.

  • Ensemble Encore: The Acadian Memorial Archive

    Online research by Dr. Carl Brasseaux regarding Acadian exiles in Louisiana.

    • Acadian Memorial - Genealogy

      • Cajun Roots

        Tracing your family's roots.

      • Family Names

        Search the Wall of Names.

      • Glossary

      • Guide to Sources

        A beginners guide to the literature on Louisiana's Acadians/Cajuns.

      • Land Grants

      • Maps

• Access Genealogy - The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb

  From December 1908 until April 1909, the writer was in lower Louisiana. During this period frequent visits were made to the few Choctaw still living near Bayou Lacomb in the same parish. The notes obtained as a result of those visits are now presented on this website.

• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 - Louisiana

  From the Library of Congress.

• Assimilation? Or Marginalization and Discrimination? - Romani Settlers of the Colonial Gulf (Christophe Clan)

  Article by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG.

• AtlasFamily.Org - Preserving the History of 9 Generations of World Changers

  The online community for the Atlas Family of Lake Providence, East Carroll, Louisiana and Cameroon, Africa. This website holds information about the Atlas family, as well as resources for researching the East Carroll Parish and Northeastern Louisiana areas.

• Avoyelleans: French Creoles

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• Dictionary of Louisiana Biography

  The Dictionary of Louisiana Biography is a three-volume set of books (volume I & II were published in 1988 and a supplement was published in 1998), which was a collaboration between the Louisiana Historical Association and the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It is the most comprehensive biographical undertaking every assembled for the state of Louisiana. It is included here in its original form.

• Free People of Color in Louisiana

• Free People of Color in Louisiana | Louisiana Digital Library ^FREE

  Digitized collections include entire collections of papers from families or individuals that were free people of color. Many of these extend, chronologically, beyond the end of slavery. Being a free person of color ceased to have legal meaning after emancipation and the passage of the 13th Amendment, but having been a member of that class continued to have cultural, racial, social, economic, and political implications for those who had been free people of color in the antebellum period, and for generations of their descendants.

• GEDCOM Index - Louisiana

  Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.

• Guide to African American Genealogical Research in New Orleans

  From the African American Resource Center, New Orleans Public Library.

• Hainaut-Louisiana

  The earliest immigrants of Hainaut (now Belgium) to Louisiana in 1720.
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• History & Genealogy of Acadians on the Acadian Coast and Bayou Lafourche Basin of Louisiana

  History and genealogy of the parishes along the Bayou Lafourche Basin & the Acadian Coast including Assumption, Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Lafourche, St. James, St. Martin.
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• Louisiana African American Archives

  Resources for African Americans researchers with an interest Louisiana.

• Louisiana Creole Heritage Center @ Northwestern State University

• Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society -- First Families of Louisiana Program

  Open to anyone (including Society non-members) who can prove descent from a resident of Louisiana (within the PRESENT-DAY boundaries) before 20 December 1803, the date the American flag was raised in New Orleans. This is meant to be an *educational* program and applications will be carefully evaluated.

• Louisiana Orphan Train Museum

  Dedicated to the preservation of the historical event of the arrival of the Orphan Train riders from New York Foundling Hospital to Louisiana between the years 1873 and 1929.

• Online County and Town Histories - Louisiana

  This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

• Our Family Tree - Louisiana Genealogy

  Collection of family trees and resources for the state of Louisiana: Magee, Burks, Sharp, Tidwell, Taylor, Roberts, Stokes, Feazel, Mayo, Pope