John A. Amelung stockholder and President Fireman's Charitable Association

Is the young widow, Amelie Mercier, who married Judge Canonge the former wife of John A Amelung?  Not likely considering the dates, however, John Amelung is noted to have passed from an article in The New York Times in September 1883 where he was recalled with a memorial book to be presented to his family in January 1884.  There is a birth record in New Orleans for Mary Fredricka Amelung on June 25, 1846 where John Alexander Amelung and Mary Milered are also listed as new parents.

In searching the CWSS for there is only one, Lewis F. Amelung of the 1st Louisiana Regiment Cavalry raised from Rapides Parish. There is also an LAYET and  Amelung working down the street from 90 Tchopitoulas on 111 Tchopitoulas as a merchant in 1842 where it locates a residence. Robin between Annunciation & Constance;  LAYET, PAUL EMILE;  Layet & Amelung, residence.  In 1811 there was an F. & H. Amelung negociants merchants at 21 Chartres, where that name is also listed as a bricklayer in the same directory in 1811. 

Old Families of Louisiana, By Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion

John A. Amelung, who owned a 72 shares in the telegraph, was noted in the 1842 New Orleans City Business Directory as a com. merchant with an address of 90 Tchoupitoulas and at the corner of Julia St. -- LAGENWEB USGENWEB archives.

And a hit on Amelung in this Google Book about the History of the New Orleans fire department where they participated in the funeral of General Andrew Jackson on 26 June 1845. A eulogy was given in both English and French at the time. John A. Amelung was the President of the Fireman's Charitable association 1845-1847. See also Cyprus Grove Cemetery. And the FAG for this cemetery. (There is a 2007 photograph on FAG that just cannot be posted here. (The cemetery looks to be quite damaged) You can read more about Cyprus Grove here, too.

I find a John A. Amelung in Green Wood cemetery Brooklyn New York with an Lewis Amelung buried there too, but the death date for John is wrong.  There is the Lewis Amelung Civil War transcript where he was paroled on May 12, 1865 from Gainesville, Ala.  I find another John A. Amelung with the proper year buried at St. John's Cemetery Yonkers, Westchester County, New York the only problem being his wife is different from June 1846 and is now Laura H. who lived until 1913.  They are all both buried togather with a son, Henry. In Louisiana too there was a  Henry Amelung who died in Orleans Parish 1840 at 29 yo. There is also this Rapides Parish LAGenWeb file where Amelung  mentioned as merchants in 1836, in an issue of The Planters Intelligencer, Vol IX, No 46 November 1836."

 It would be odd to me that a man who was President of the Fireman's Association did not use his organization's own cemetery, wouldn't it?  I thought it odd, too.


No BLM GLO record for Amelung surname in Louisiana.

Mercier 1850 DeSoto Parish

Fontenelle 1843 Plaquemines Parish, 1843 Iberville Parish, *1839 Point Coupee Parish. (Mother of Amelie)

(I didn't search for de Fontenelle at BLM GLO)

Gutta Percha and telegraphs during the 1850's Louisiana

Somehow or another I was led to the term, "gutta percha". What the heck is "gutta percha?"

Evidently, it is rubber!  I see now that gutta percha was used in many things including military uniforms of the Louisiana Zouave during the Civil War. Son of the South has an artists rendition of a few Louisiana Zouaves' in prison.


There are also duck calls, buttons, more button pics, watch chains, and military experiments during 1850's (see newspaper clip below) using gutta percha. An archaeology dig found a few pieces from former Civil War prisoners of Johnson's Island.

"Crafted hard rubber items include rings, buttons, and metal set into hard rubber as jewelry. One of the hard rubber artifacts we found recently bore “an” and “51″ marks on the rear. These indicated a marking by the “American” Rubber Company, and the requisite patent mark for Goodyear’s process (“1851″)."

I don't believe that I would be participating in such experimentation of electricity and insulative properties....Read on toward the bottom of this article in amazement. "Another experiment was successfully tried by passing electric current through the human body."  A certain Mr. O.J. Wolleston volunteered in this experiment. BRAVE INDEED!

To think that there were submarines during the Civil War is a bit amazing in and of itself, but to recognize that there was experimentation with a submarine telegraph in 1851!  That is shocking isn't it?


Well, that isn't the 1/2 of it. There is more concerning telegraph lines:

"
Whereas. The "People's Line of Telegraph." extending from Louisville, Kentucky, through the States of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, to New-Orleans, Louisiana, and including a branch line extending from Tuscumbia, Alabama, to Memphis, Tennessee, was completed and in operation from "Louisville to New-Orleans." in the month of January, 1849:
Therefore, be it Resolved, That in conformity with the provisions of the twenty-second section of the charter incorporating the "People's Telegraph Company," being an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, entitled "An Act to incorporate the New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph Company and the People's Telegraph Company," and approved March 1st, 1848, the following notice be given in a newspaper published in each of the following places, viz: Louisville, Ky. Tuscumbia, Ala., Baton Rouge and New Orleans, La, if any such newspaper there be, once a week, for four weeks, and three times daily:--"  -- Atlantic Cable

 Names of those who owned stock also from above link Atlantic Cable. (Louisiana extract only)

And by their proxy, Charles Doane:
John A. Amelung, of New Orleans, La., seventy-five shares, 24 votes.
Harmon Doane, of New Orleans, La., fifty shares, 22 votes.
Parmele & Brother, of New Orleans, La., fifty shares, 22 votes.
John O. Woodruff, of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
Price & Frost. of New Orleans, La., fifty shares, 22 votes.
John R. Shaw, of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
Joseph Landis & Co., of New Orleans, La., fifty shares, 22 votes.
Kennett & Dix. of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
Shropshire & Savage, of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
William Creevy, of New Orleans, La., thirty-five shares, 20 votes.
Shultz, Hadden & Leach, of New Orleans, La., fifteen shares, 15 votes
William B. Paiter, of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
James D. Dameron. of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
R. Yeatman & Co., of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
R. W. Adams & Johnson, of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
Mortimer Turner, of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes.
Richard Millikin, of New Orleans, La., twenty-five shares, 20 votes
Stephen Henderson, of Baton Rouge. La., ten shares, 10 votes.
Philip Hickey. of Baton Rouge, La., five shares, 5 votes.
W. F. Tiernan, of Baton Rouge, La., five shares, 5 votes.
J. M. Brunot, of Baton Rouge, La. five shares, 5 votes.
James McCalop, of Baton Rouge, La., twenty-five shares 20 votes.
John Perkins, of Gallatin. Miss., ten shares, 10 votes.
Lewis Perkins, of Gallatin, Miss., ten shares, 10 votes.
(Whole number of votes cast, 1148.)

See also November 10, 1849 Papers Past - another instance where a flood is described in 1849 not May of 1850 as above. The above title however, states that the telegraph lines were taken up!  Is it any  wonder that I cannot find an article in Google Newspapers concerning the NOTICE described from Atlantic Cable to be printed for four weeks?

September 14, 1852, The New York Times - The Telegraph

Hand molded sun dried brick

I started the day with an online tour of the Historic Kent Plantation House. I wonder who made the hand molded sun dried brick (1840-1860) and then retrieved an article decrying how brick was once made. Brick and clay record, Page 815, Volume 58 (Google eBook)Windsor and Kenfield [etc.] 1894-19, 1921 - Technology & Engineering

Slaves provided much of the skilled and manual labor in Louisiana's antebellum
cities. Demand for skilled labor was high, as were wages. Competition between whites
and blacks for high-paying skilled employment was also strong, although most labor
clashes in the antebellum period were over unskilled jobs. Skilled male slaves worked as carpenters, masons, bricklayers, painters, plasterers, tinners, coopers, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, cabinetmakers, shoemakers, millers, and bakers. Female slaves were also bakers, as well as seamstresses and cooks. Most market and street vendors were women,African- American and American Indian in particular. In much of Africa women conducted local and regional trade, a practice they continued in the Americas, including Louisiana....


...For much of the antebellum period slaves and free blacks supplied New Orleans's demand for unskilled manual labor. During her visit to the Crescent City in 1827,Englishwoman Frances Trollope commented on "the large portion of blacks seen in the streets, all labour being performed by them. . . . We were much pleased by the chant with which the Negro boatmen regulate and beguile their labour on the river." Black laborers were employed in the city's brickyards, foundries, distilleries, cotton presses, hospitals, schools, convents, and other enterprises.

-- A Medley of Cultures in Louisiana

Arpent French vs. Arpent Spanish

My genealogy friend at Acadian Ancestral Home has a genealogy term that you must know when researching land. What is a French Arpent of land? Read it here.

The definition from Google Books sourced below, indicates that nearly 100 perches equal an Arpent.  I wonder why there is a difference of +80 more perches between Lucie's arpent measurements and the definition supplied by Louisiana Writers' Project?

P 685 ARPENT - a former land measure, of 100 perches, which were 22 square feet.
Louisiana: A guide to the state By Federal Writer's Project, Louisiana Writers' Project.
Google Books.

"French arpent land divisions are long narrow parcels of land usually found along the navigable streams of southern Louisiana, and also found along major waterways in other areas. This system of land subdivision was begun by French settlers in the 1700s, according to typical French practice at the time and was continued by both the Spanish and by the American government after the acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase. A typical French arpent land division is 2 to 4 arpents wide along the river by 40 to 60 arpents deep, while the Spanish arpent land divisions tend to be 6 to 8 arpents wide by 40 arpents deep." -- The National Atlas . Gov

Facebook Wikipedia Arpent had another answer that didn't match.

This blog post gave a wonderful illustration on a map for a Spanish Land Grant in Louisiana that was being translated from French and vice versa to Spanish.You can see that the T in Apents is missing. This only happens in Missouri.

 
Well, that solved only a portion of what I was looking for.  There is a distinct difference in a French Arpent and a Spanish Arpent.  And I already know what a perch is anyway.....It's a fish! (maybe not)

"Following the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. government sent surveyors to Louisiana who measured existing land grants, and, calculating backward, settled on a value of 191.994 feet exactly for the arpent." -- arpent in Louisiana

So in Missouri and an Arkansas arpen is larger than a Louisiana arpent. Hmmm.  It is interesting that the Louisiana Writers' Project did not actually note the differences but did indicate that an arpent was 100 perches, which is significantly less than the French apent.


louisiana history
genealogy

Where is the German Coast in Louisiana?

And don't forget migrations to and from Louisiana from our neighbors in TEXAS.

Louisiana migrations

Have you visited the Migrations Project website? You may search by surname or by state and parish.
If you use the parish links below be sure to scroll down in order to view the correct data link as the entry page has quite a few pop ups.

Louisiana Migrations Link (There are a little over 500 entries in this user submitted database)

Acadia	Allen	Ascension
Assumption	Avoyelles	Beauregard
Bienville	Bossier	Caddo
Calcasieu	Caldwell	Cameron
Catahoula	Claiborne	Concordia
DeSoto	East Baton Rouge	East Carroll
East Feliciana	Evangeline	Franklin
Grant	Iberia	Iberville
Jackson	Jefferson	Jefferson Davis
Lafayette	LaFourche	LaSalle
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 State Coordinator-Rhonda Smith

Church records

This photo was posted to RootsWeb last week, by VTrahan, in the parish message boards. The poster believes that St. John the Baptist  burned down in 1908. Look at all of the people!  How wonderful to have an old photo of this church. Other photos of this church are posted in the LAGenWeb photo album, which states, "This church was built in 1822, and after it was destroyed by a fire in 1918 the present red brick church with the twin spires was built." Open the LAGenWeb link in a new window to compare photos.

"It must have been taken between 1904 (when she married and moved to Edgard) and 1918 when she moved back to Houma. "

Recently, there were two churches in Louisiana to have been destroyed by fire.  A post from the LALGS indicated that the records of the Immaculate Conception Church may have been saved. The church is the  oldest one in St. Landry Parish. The Diocese of Lafayette built it in 1836 however, it was established in 1756. The church records may have been saved from the fire by being stored in the rectory.

Here is link to an exterior shot of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church taken in 2006. And here is one of the interior. If you open the exterior shot in a new window you can compare the photos.

Newslink - Rising from the ashes

Sugar Kettle Setter 1875 Leeds Foundry 1825

The Library of Congress > Chronicling America (Newspaper Articles)

 

The Library of Congress > Chronicling America

  See also http://nutrias.org/~nopl/info/louinfo/admins/leeds.htm
"1824...corner of Delords and Constance".

New Orleans Architecture: The cemeteries
(Google eBook)
Front Cover
Samuel Wilson, Friends of the Cabildo, Mary Louise Christovich
3 Reviews
Pelican Publishing, 1997 - Architecture - 208 pages

Delinquent Tax Debtors East Baton Rouge 1881 surnames

The State of Louisiana vs. Delinquent Tax Debtors Parish of East Baton Rouge

Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, July 09, 1881, Tri-Weekly, Image 3

July 09, 1881, Tri-Weekly, Image 3

LR&N and New Orleans Great Northern Railroad

The Library of Congress > Chronicling America

CCC camps

Location of Louisiana Civilian Conservation Corps camps 1934-1942

http://www.la.nrcs.usda.gov/partnerships/ccc.html

H-Net Query 2009

An elderly gentleman in our Louisiana parish (county) says that at the
site of a former local CCC camp there are white irises because it was a
tradition to plant white irises at CCC camps. Have any of you heard of this as a
CCC tradition? An online search yielded an article about a camp in Missouri
where the director ordered the crew to plant irises, but it doesn't say
whether or not he did that because of CCC tradition. I appreciate any
help.

 Louisiana Forestry Association

The CCC had a multi-purpose: to provide meaningful employment to the scores of unemployed youth and to conserve the nation’s resources. Work camps were established and administered by the Army to carry out the CCC  mission.

In all, about 51,820 men served in the Louisiana Civilian Conservation Corps during its nine years of operation.

Louisiana Digital Library

B/W photo, February 15, 1937. WPA built refugee camps on roadway for victims of the 1937 flood. Former site of the Civilian Concentration Corps, CCC, camps in Harrisonburg, Louisiana.

B/W photo, February 15, 1937. Livestock being moved from lowlands under the supervison of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) authorities. Note the approach of water from the 1937 floods to the highway..

B/W photo, February 15, 1937. Close up of a white refugee camp built by the WPA for victims of the 1937 flood. Former site of the Civilian Concentration Corps, CCC, camps. Written on photo: "Note picturesque... 

B/W photo, February 15, 1937. WPA built refugee camps for white victims of the 1937 flood. Former site of the Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC, camps in Harrisonburg, Louisiana.

Text, May 31, 1939. Report of National Park Service on Chicot State Park. Memorandum by Wildlife Technician on the newly developed Chicot State Park. Created for the Regional Director, intended to describe..   

Library of Congress Digital Archives

U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps class learning first-hand about a gasoline motor, Arcadia, Louisiana

Boys editing monthly publication "The Lighthouse", Camp Sanders, Mt. Hermon, La.

 

 

In my mailbag

Added New Orleans African American Museum to Louisiana links.

Created new cemetery report from online flickr photo circa 2008 for graves found outside of kept area. Email sent to author to get details.  Cemetery is currently closed due to a Nov 2010 tornado.


By _photonerd Ashleigh A.

This photo was taken on January 6, 2008 using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.






 Sorry to hear about passing of Mississippi Winn in the newspaper. 
Shreveport woman believed to be oldest U.S. African-American dies at 113

 

 

Happy Birthday Ed!

Today is Ed's birthday.  I hope that he has a good one!

Louisiana Cemetery Preservation 2008-2010

Since 2008 over 40 reports concerning abandoned, neglected, endangered, or unknown cemeteries in Louisiana have been made from either the newspapers or online submissions at the website.  In some cases the dates of the report submission are incorrect (April 27th).  They will be corrected as time allows.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed in this effort!


Cemetery reports filed with Louisiana Cemetery Preservation through the online submission form. 

Submit an abandoned, neglected, endangered, or unknown cemetery in Louisiana here.

Submit a comment about these reports or an update on a previously filed report here.

1	Youngblood Cemetery - St. Helena Parish
2	Facebook Badge
3	Old City Cemetery - Ouachita Parish
4	St. Michaels Cemetery - St. Martin Parish
5	First Cemetery Cameron Parish
6	Old Reagan Cemetery - Franklin Parish 26 August 2010
7	Holt Cemetery Orleans Parish August 23, 2010
8	Silvery and Westover Plantation - West Baton Rouge Parish
9	Durden Cemetery - Bossier Parish
10	UNKNOWN - Bossier Parish
11	Caddo Parish, Shreveport, Historical Jewish Cemetery Desecrated
12	Shell Mound Cemetery - St Charles Parish
13	Holt Cemetery Orleans Parish
14	St. Michael Cemetery St. Martin Parish
15	Colonial Cemetery Tangipahoa Parish
16	St. Bernard Memorial Gardens St. Bernard Parish
17	Various Cemeteries Morehouse Parish
18	Carter Cemetery - Claiborne Parish
19	Unknown Private Cemetery Catahoula Parish
20	Lopez Family Cemetery Jefferson Davis Parish
21	Alphenia Plantation - Bowman Family Cemetery Tensas Parish
22	Lopez Cemetery - Jefferson Davis Parish
23	Mcgaha Cemetery - West Carroll Parish
24	Frederick Cemetery Vermilion Parish
25	Blythe Cemetery - Catahoula Parish
26	Joseph Jenkins Cemetery Iberia Parish
27	Old Gwinn Cemetery Dehlco Richaland Parish
28	Sweet Olive Cemetery Baton Rouge
29	Pleasant Hill Baptist Church - Sabine Parish
30	Nash Cemetery Ouachita Parish
31	Murphey Cemetery Acadia Parish
32	St. Lukes - Little Zion - Cleona Plantation - Lafourche Parish
33	Nine Cemeteries Endangered Washington Parish
34	Jewish cemetery - Natchitoches Parish
35	Holt Cemetery - Orleans Parish
36	Rose Hill - Iberia Parish - Formerly St. Martin Parish
37	St Bernard Memorial Gardens - Thefts - St. Bernard Parish
38	Garden of the Pines, Covington Cemetery, or Wilson Cemetery east and west St. Tammany Parish
39	Carter Cemetery Beauregard Parish
40	Twin Cities Memorial Gardens Ouachita Parish Monroe

Join the LAGenWeb Project - Parish adoptions

There are a number of adoptable parishes in Louisiana.  You may view parish projects at the LAGenWeb Project website.

http://www.lagenweb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=61

Here is a list of adoptable parishes from the LAGenWeb website.

West Baton Rouge
Vernon
St. Mary
St. Martin
Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Iberia
Grant
Catahoula
Caldwell
Beauregard
Avoyelles
Ascension

Smithsonian exibit St. Martinville July 2011

Taken  from the Acadian Memorial News page chere:

May 28 - July 9, 2011
The Smithsonian is coming to St. Martinville!
Share your photos & stories to create part of the exhibition
About the Exhibition and Programming:
The Acadian Memorial Foundation has been selected by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities as a host organization for the traveling Smithsonian Exhibition Journey Stories, scheduled for display at Maison Duchamp May 28-July 9, 2011.

The Smithsonian Museum on Main Street program describes Journey Stories as using “engaging images with audio and artifacts to tell the individual stories that illustrate the critical roles travel and movement have played in building our diverse American society.”

Our task: Create relevant event programming and develop a portion of the exhibition for display here in St. Martinville. We want to tell our journey stories, the stories of OUR community. Who are the people that settled and shaped this area? How and why did they come? What are the results of their settlement and contributions to the community?

Our Project: Create a slideshow video and book from your photos and text to display at the Journey Stories exhibition in St. Martinville. We want to tell your journey stories and your ancestors’ journey stories. Make an appointment with us between September 1 and November 30, 2010. We will scan your photos; your original photo goes home with you!

How to get your photo(s) and stories into the exhibit:
1) Download, read & use the intake form posted on this website:
2) Call the Acadian Memorial or Steve Comeaux photography to make an appointment or ask questions
3) Come in for an appointment with your photo(s) and stories, typed or written on the back of the form
Read more about Journey Stories on the LEH website, in the "Museum on Main Street" section at www.leh.org/html/museum.html

Stay updated on the St. Martinville Journey Stories project on this website and on www.stmartinville.org
Journey Stories has been made possible in St. Martinville by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Journey Stories is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.

Searching the VA Burial Locator

The Department of Veterans Affairs maintains electronic copies of applications for government headstones and markers that we processed from December 1996 to present.

All applications processed prior to December 1996 have been transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration for safekeeping. You may be able to obtain applications, burial information, service records, and/or pension records by writing to:

National Archives and Records Administration
Old Military and Civil Records
700 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20408-0001





http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1


They have added maps.

75 Louisiana books from LSU press & Louisiana genealogy books

Spring 2011 Catalog - LSU PRESS

75 great books about Louisiana from LSU Press

• Arceneaux, William - No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin Begnaud
• Bacot, H. Parrott, et al - Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist
• Bartlett, Napier - Military Record of Louisiana: Including Biographical and Historical Papers Relating to the Military Organizations of the State - Foreword by T. Harry Williams
• Beers, Henry Putney - French and Spanish Records of Louisiana: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources
• Bell, Caryn Cossé - Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718–1868
• Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr. - Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861–1865
• Berry, Trey, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements, eds. - The Forgotten Expedition, 1804–1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter
• Billings, Warren M., and Mark Fernandez, eds. - A Law unto Itself? Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History
• Brasseaux, Carl A. - Acadiana: Louisiana's Historic Cajun Country (Spring 2011)
• Brasseaux, Carl A. - The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803
• Brasseaux, Carl A. - French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A History and Directory
• Brasseaux, Carl A. and Keith P. Fontenot - Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
• Castellanos, Henry C. - New Orleans as It Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life - Introduction by Judith Kelleher Schafer
• Colten, Craig E. - An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature
• de Caro, Frank A., ed. - Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers’ Tales and Literary Journeys - Assistant Editor Rosan Augusta Jordan
• Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien - Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits - Translated by Dorothea Olga McCants and Foreword by Charles E. O'Neill
• Di Maio, Irene S., ed. - Gerstäcker's Louisiana: Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction - Translated by Irene S. Di Maio
• Din, Gilbert C. - The Canary Islanders of Louisiana
• Dobie, Ann Brewster, ed. - Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Contemporary Louisiana Poets
• Dobie, Ann Brewster, ed. - Something in Common: Contemporary Louisiana Stories - Introduction by Lewis P. Simpson
• Emanuel, Rachel L., and Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. - A More Noble Cause:A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana - A Personal Biography (Spring 2011)
• Follett, Richard - The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820–1860
• Frystak, Shannon - Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967
• Giraud, Marcel - A History of French Louisiana: The Reign of Louis XIV, 1698–1715 - Translated by Joseph C. Lambert
• Giraud, Marcel - A History of French Louisiana: Years of Transition, 1715–1717 - Translated by Brian Pearce
• Giraud, Marcel - A History of French Louisiana: The Company of the Indies, 1723–1731 - Translated by Brian Pearce
• Gleason, David King - Plantations Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area: The David Gleason collection
• Gould, Philip - Louisiana Faces: Images from a Renaissance - Text by Jason Berry
• Hair, William Ivy - Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 - Foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
• Hair, William Ivy - The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long
• Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo - Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
• Hargrave, W. Lee - LSU Law: The Lousisiana State University Law School from 1906 to 1977
• Heck, Robert, and Otis B. Wheeler - Religious Architecture in Louisiana
• Heitman, Danny - A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House
• Hohorst, Charlie , Jr. - Wings of Paradise: Birds of the Louisiana Wetlands
• Hollandsworth, James G., Jr. - An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
• Hollandsworth, James G., Jr. - Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War
• Horst, Jerald - Game Warden: On Patrol in Louisiana
• Hyde, Samuel C., Jr. - Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810–1899
• Jones, Terry L. - Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia
• Kein, Sybil, ed. - Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
• Klingler, Thomas - If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language of Ponte Coupee Parish, Louisiana
• Knapp, Bevil - St. Francisville: Louisiana’s Historic River Bluff Country - Introduction by Danny Heitman
• Kniffen, Fred B., Hiram F. Gregory, and George A. Stokes - The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present
• Kurtz, Michael L. and Morgan D. Peoples - Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics
• Liebling, A. J. - The Earl of Louisiana - Foreword by T. Harry Williams, Introduction by Jonathan Yardley
• Lockwood, C. C. - Discovering Louisiana
• Lockwood, C. C. and Rhea Gary - Marsh Mission: Capturing the Vanishing Wetlands
• Long, Alecia P. - The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865–1920
• Lowe, John, ed. - Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to Katrina
• Mills, Gary B. - The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color
• Neyland, Ray - A Field Guide to the Ferns and Lycophytes of Louisiana (Spring 2011)
• Nolan, Charles E. - Splendors of Faith:New Orleans Catholic Churches, 1727-1930 - Photographs by Frank J. Methe
• Parent, Wayne - Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics
• Poesch, Jessie, and Barbara Sorelle Bacot, eds. - Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940: The Historic American Buildings Survey
• Reed, Germaine M. - David French Boyd: Founder of Louisiana State University
• Rees, Mark A., ed. - Archaeology of Louisiana
• Roland, Gwen - Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp - Photographs by C. C. Lockwood
• Ruffin, Thomas F., Jo Jackson, and Mary Hebert Price - Under Stately Oaks: A Pictorial History of LSU - Foreword by Sean O'Keefe
• Russell, Josh - My Bright Midnight: A Novel
• Sacher, John M. - A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861
• Sanson, Jerry Purvis - Louisiana During World War II: Politics and Society, 1939–1945
• Sartain, Lee - Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915–1945
• Shugg, Roger W. - Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana:A Social History of White Farmers and Laborers During Slavery and After, 1840–1875
• Spielman, David G. - Katrinaville Chronicles: Images and Observations from a New Orleans Photographer
• Steinberg, Michael K. - Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana
• Sternberg, Hans J. - We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux's and Maison Blanche Department Stores - with James E. Shelledy
• Sternberg, Mary Ann - Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway
• Sternberg, Mary Ann - Winding through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac
• Stones, Margaret - Flora of Louisiana: Watercolor Drawings
• Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel - Introduction by Andrei Codrescu and Foreword by Walker Percy
• Vella, Christina - Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
• Vetter, Cyril E. - Fonville Winans' Louisiana: Politics, People, and Places - Foreword by James Carville. Afterword by C.C. Lockwood
• Vetter, Cyril E. - The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town - Illustrated by Philip Gould
• Wilcox, James - Modern Baptists: A Novel
• Wilds, John, Charles L. Dufour, and Walter G. Cowan - Louisiana, Yesterday and Today: A Historical Guide to the State
• Winters, John D. - The Civil War in Louisiana - Foreword by T. Harry Williams

 More Louisiana genealogy books from groups:


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NOGDCR/message/10985

55 must have books when researching Louisiana genealogy from NOGDCR:



1. Historic Jefferson Parish from Shore to Shore - Betsy Swanson

2. Old Families of Louisiana - Arthur &Kernion

3. The Trudeaus of Louisiana &related families - Dr. M. J. Trudeau

4. Africans in Colonial Louisiana - Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

5. Southwest Louisiana Records -- Rev. Hebert

6. The Road to Louisiana -- The Saint Domingue Refugees -- 1792-1809 -
Brasseaux and Conrad

7. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana --
Kniffen, Gregory and Stokes

8. Creole Families of New Orleans -- King

9. Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies, Hall

10. Moreau De St. Mary's American Journey 1793-1798 -
Roberts and Roberts

11. Blue Coat or Powdered Wig -- Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary
Saint Domingue -- King

12. The Louisiana Native Guards -- The Black Military Experience During
the Civil War -- Hollandsworth

13. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana -- Schafer

14. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places -- Kimberly Hangar

15. White by Definition -- Virginia Dominguez

16. Auzenne, Donato, Frilot, Lemelle, Meullion --
Conrad Auzenne revision forthcoming

17. Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country -- Brasseaux, Fontenot, Oubre

18. Creoles of Color of the Gulf South - James H. Dormon editor

19. The Free People of Color of New Orleans - Mary Gehman
http://www.margaretmedia.com/

20. Kaskaskia Under The French Regime by Natalia Maree Belting

21. Voodoo Queen by Martha Ward

22. Henriette Delille, Servant of Slaves; Witness To The Poor -
Cyprian Davis, O.S. B.

23. Degrees Of Freedom by Rebecca J. Scott

24. The Forgotten People by Gary B. Mills

25. Our People and Our History - Desdunes

26. The Louisiana Native Guards - Hollandsworth

27. New Orleans Architecture series - Toledano All volumes ?
Definitely Cemeteries III, The Creole Faubourgs IV &
Esplanade Ridge V

28. Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition
in Louisiana, 1718-1868 - Bell

29. Old Mobile Fort Louis La Louisiane 1702-1711 -- Jay Higginbotham

30. Slaves Without Masters - Ira Berlin

31. A Black Patriot and a White Priest - Stephen J. Ochs, PhD

32. A History of French Louisiana Vol 5, The Company of the Indies -- Giraud

33. Spaniards, Planters and Slaves -- Gilbert C Din

34. Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series, History of Louisiana IX "African
Experience"

35. Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series, History of Louisiana I "Louisiana

Experience"

36. Storyville, New Orleans....Al Rose

37. Memories of the Old Plantation Home &A Creole Family Album..Laura Locoul
Gore, Commentary by Norman Sand Marmillion

38. New Orleans...Bethany Ewald Bultman

39. Fabulous New Orleans...Lyle Saxon

40. Creole New Orleans-Race and Americanization...Edited by Arnold R. Hirsch
and Joseph Logsdon

41. Gumbo Ya-Ya-Folktales of Louisiana.Compiled by Lyle Saxon

42. The Picayune Creole Cookbook

43. Old Creole Days...George W. Cable

45. Decuir: Early Creole Family of Louisiana - Julie Eshelman-Lee
www.creolewest.com

46. Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans, The First Slave Society in the
Deep South - Thomas N. Ingersoll

47. A History: Women and New Orleans - Mary Gehman
http://www.margaretmedia.com/

48. From Porche to Labatut, Two Centuries on the Pointe Coupee Coast
Brian Costello

49. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans by Garvey & Widmer

50. Fortier''s History of Louisiana Vol.I French Domination 1512-1768
Alcee Fortier

51. Fortier''s History of Louisiana Vol.II Spanish Domination 1769-1803

52. New Orleans: Then and Now, Campanella & Campenella

53. History of Louisiana French Domination Vol. I Charles Gayarre

54. The Pirates Laffite-The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
William C. Davis

55. The History of Louisiana - Francois Xavier Martin



More books:



1. Historic Jefferson Parish from Shore to Shore - Betsy Swanson
2. Old Families of Louisiana - Arthur & Kernion
3. The Trudeaus of Louisiana & related families - Dr. M. J. Trudeau
4. Africans in Colonial Louisiana - Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
5. Southwest Louisiana Records -- Rev. Hebert
6. The Road to Louisiana -- The Saint Domingue Refugees --
1792-1809 --
Brasseauz and Conrad
7. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana -- Kniffen, Gregory and
Stokes\
8. Creole Families of New Orleans -- King
9. Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies, Hall
10. Moreau De St. Mary's American Journay 1793-1798 -- Roberts and Roberts
11. Blue Coat or Powdered Wig -- Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue -- King
12. The Louisiana Native Guards -- The Black Military Experience
During the Civil War -- Hollandsworth
13. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana -- Schafer
14. Slaves Without Masters -- Berlin
15. A Black Patriot and a White Priest -- Ochs
16. New People -- Williamson
17. The Forgotten People -- Mills
18. Creoles of Color in The Bayou Country -- Brasseaux, Fontenot, Oubre

Louisiana Books We Own

General

"THE FONTENOT FAMILY 1600-1903: A Genealogical Study of the Descendants of JEAN LOUIS FONTENOT dit COLIN and LOUISE ANGELIQUE HENRY." The Evangeline Genealogical and Historical Society, Wise Publications, Printers - Publishers, 809 East Napoleon St., Sulphur, LA 70063.
"SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA RECORDS - CD." HEBERT PUBLICATIONS - Father Donald J. Hebert's work. CHURCH AND CIVIL RECORDS FIRST PUBLISHED IN BOOK FROM IN VOLS 1-31 AND NOW ON A FULLY SEARCHABLE DATABASE FORMAT (of the following DIOCESES: PRESENT-DAY LAFAYETTE DIOCESE AND LAKE CHARLES DIOCESE, INCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING CIVIL PARISHES: ST. MARTIN, ST. LANDRY, ST. MARY, VERMILLION, ACADIA, LAFAYETTE, EVANGELINE, CAMERON, CALCASIEU, BEAUREGARD, JEFFERSON-DAVIS, ALLEN.
"World War II and Korean Veterans Speaking from the Heart, vols 1-4." Patsy K Barber, Bayou Boeuf Publishing, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 Description: Verbatim interivews of 500 veterans from every theater and every branch of service. Some are from states other than Louisiana.

Ascencion Parish

"An Attempt to Re-Assemble the Old Settlers in Family Groups." Sidney Marchand, Claitors Book Store, 1965. Early records on the settlers of Ascencion Parish, LA. Everything from marriages to real estate transactions. 

Assumption Parish

"DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS." DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. I own all 22 Volumes (from 1707-1748 IN ACADIA) and (1722-1900 IN LOUISIANA. These are sacramental records containing, births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials in the Diocese of Baton Rouge which includes, Ascension, Assumption, E. Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Pointe Coupee Parishes. 

Caldwell Parish

"Caldwell Parish in Slices: Biographies." H. Ted Woods; Claitor's Publishing Division, 1983. "continuing a Brief History of Caldwell Parish, La. 1838-1971". It contains information on many of the early settlers in Caldwell Parish. 

Lafourche Parish

"SOUTH LOUISIANA RECORDS." Rev. Donald J. Hebert. I own Vols 1-6 (1794 to 1880) and Vols 9-12 (1891 to 1903 + some mixed records from 1904-1920). LAFOURCHE AND TERREBONNE PARISHES, Louisiana Sacramental Records Plus some civil records, such as succession, renunciations, etc. 

Lincoln Parish

"Lincoln Parish, Louisiana Marriage Records 1873-1901." Willie Huffman Farley, J & W Enterprises, 1987. Lincoln Parish was created in 1873 and taken from Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson and Union Parishes. This index lists bride, groom, date of marriage, and book and page number of marriage license. Note: this is an INDEX for the years 1873-1901 only.

Natchitoches Parish

"Biographical Historical Memoirs-Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana." Donna Rachal Mills, Mills Historical Press, 1985. Contains many stories with information like who held public offices, etc.  "Catholic Natchitoches 1729-1803." Elizabeth Shown Mills; Polyanthos, Inc.; 1977. A transcription of Catholic church records of marriages and births in Natchitoches Parish, LA from 1729-1803.
"The Natchitoches Cemeteries." Lucille Keater Prud'homme and Fern B. Christensen; Polyanthos, Inc.; 1977. Cemetery listings transcribed.
"Natchitoches Church Marriages 1818-1850." Elizabeth Shown Mills; Mills Historical Press; 1985. Record of Catholic marriages in Natchitoches Parish, LA from 1818-1850.
"Red River Parish: Our Heritage." The Red River Parish Heritage Society, 1989. A book that greatly details family histories as well as history of local events of Red River Parish, LA, as well as Natchitoches Parish, LA (Red River Parish was Natchitoches Parish prior to 1873). Many individuals are contained within.

Orleans Parish

"Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records." New Orleans Archdiocese of New Orleans Description: I OWN VOLS 3 & 4, (1772 to 1790) and possibly receiving VOL 5 for Christmas Gift 2008. SACRAMENTAL RECORDS OF ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS includes the following Civil Parishes: ORLEANS, ST CHARLES (VERY LIMITED AS MOST WERE DESTROYED IN FIRE), ST JOHN THE BAPTIST.  "Index of New Orleans Confirmations 1789-1841." Rev. Donald J. HŽbert. Taken from St. Louis Catherdal Archives. This is just an index of the "First Book of Confirmations of this Parish of St. Louis of New Orleans, containing folios from the beginning up to the present" as transcribed by Alice Daly Forsyth.
L B Landry Sr High School yearbook, 1973 & 1974.

Rapides Parish

"Above the Falls and Historic Cotile." Patsy K Barber, Bayou Boeuf Publishing, 1995. Western Rapides Parish, Central Louisiana, 500 pages, photos, bibliography, illustrations. 1765 to 1945. Plantation and hill country (farming and timber).  "Three Pioneer Rapides Families: A Genealogy." Stafford, George Mason Graham. Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishing, 1946. Includes information on three pioneer families. The Robert family, the Tanner family and the Pearce family.

Red River Parish

"Red River Parish: Our Heritage." The Red River Parish Heritage Society, 1989. A book that greatly details family histories as well as history of local events of Red River Parish, LA, as well as Natchitoches Parish, LA (Red River Parish was Natchitoches Parish prior to 1873). Many individuals are contained within. 

Sabine Parish

"Many, LA: Reflections of Our Town." Shannon Clements, Sweet Dreams Publishing Co., 1999. An extensive look at the history of Many, Louisiana as well as Sabine Parish, Louisiana. 

St. Charles Parish

"Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records." New Orleans Archdiocese of New Orleans Description: I OWN VOLS 3 & 4, (1772 to 1790) and possibly receiving VOL 5 for Christmas Gift 2008. SACRAMENTAL RECORDS OF ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS includes the following Civil Parishes: ORLEANS, ST CHARLES (VERY LIMITED AS MOST WERE DESTROYED IN FIRE), ST JOHN THE BAPTIST.  "German Coast Families, European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana." Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. Part 1: Historical Background of the German Coast. Part 2: German Cost Families (Alphabetical Listing of families with documents of their European Origins, immigration and early Louisiana Settlement. Part 3: Appendices.

St. John the Baptist Parish

"Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records." New Orleans Archdiocese of New Orleans Description: I OWN VOLS 3 & 4, (1772 to 1790) and possibly receiving VOL 5 for Christmas Gift 2008. SACRAMENTAL RECORDS OF ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS includes the following Civil Parishes: ORLEANS, ST CHARLES (VERY LIMITED AS MOST WERE DESTROYED IN FIRE), ST JOHN THE BAPTIST.  "German Coast Families, European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana." Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. Part 1: Historical Background of the German Coast. Part 2: German Cost Families (Alphabetical Listing of families with documents of their European Origins, immigration and early Louisiana Settlement. Part 3: Appendices.

St. Tammany Parish

"Cemeteries of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (Vol. 1 & 2)." Doris Martin Holden (Self published) 1979 and 1980. Indexed by surname. 

Terrebonne Parish

"SOUTH LOUISIANA RECORDS." Rev. Donald J. Hebert. I own Vols 1-6 (1794 to 1880) and Vols 9-12 (1891 to 1903 + some mixed records from 1904-1920). LAFOURCHE AND TERREBONNE PARISHES, Louisiana Sacramental Records Plus some civil records, such as succession, renunciations, etc. 

West Carroll Parish

"Between the Rivers: A West Carroll Chronicle." Florence Stewart McKoin; Claitor's Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, LA; 1971; Copyrighted. Out of print local history of early 1900s in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana in narrative format. Author has made attempt to overview historical and pre-historical past of the area. Includes references to early parish land records (1810-1870) and early church and school records. Primary value: no other work to date contains this information. Includes information collected from area families with narratives. NO INDEX. Arranged by topic: Pre-history; Early records (1800-1900); Early schools; Family tales; Churches; etc. 

Winn Parish

"Briley's Memorial History & Cemetery Directory of Winn Parish, Louisiana." Richard Briley 111, reprinted 1998 by Richards Printing. A listing of most of the cemeteries in Winn Parish, Louisiana.  See also the Winn Parish GenWeb project's 

St. Landry Parish Courthouse

Saw this RootsWeb mailinglist post about a genealogy meeting at the St. Landry Parish courthouse.

Keith Fontenot, who serves as Archivist to Clerk of Court Charles Jagneaux in collecting, preserving, interpreting and sharing the many records in the St Landry Parish Court House will present a three hour workshop (from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM-(To be held, 8 Jan 2011) for members and guests of the Imperial St Landry Genealogical and Historical Society.

 

http://stlandry.org/archives.htm

The archives are located in room 34 in the basement of the Court House. It is the depository for a vast collection of primary historical documents. The office holdings include records pertaining not only to present day St. Landry, but also Acadia, Evangeline, Jefferson, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, and Cameron parishes prior to the mid 1800's.

Research by archival experts at the rate of $20 per hour. These experts are thoroughly familiar with the records and will save you time and money.

These records include:

Marriage Licenses, 1807 - Present Bonds, 1847 - Present Livestock Brands, 1855 - 1970 Civil District Suits, 1813 - Present Coroner Inquest, 1876 - 1965 Donations, 1826 - Present Immigration Papers, 1820 - 1920 Conveyances, 1805 - Present Miscellaneous Records, 1854 - 1964 Mortgages, 1927 - Present Notary Books, 1818 - 1850 Partnerships, 1848 - Present Probates, 1807 - Present Probate Court Suits, 1822 - 1846 Sheriff Deeds, 1810 - 1924 Voter Registration Book, 1895 - 1898 Opelousas Post Colonial Documents, 1764 - 1805 (Microfilm)

In addition, a collection of Genealogical Publications is available in our archives.

You may contact Keith Fontenot, St. Landry Parish Archivist at 337-942-5606 Ext. 126 or by e-mail

archivestlandry@yahoo.com