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Louisiana Genealogy Queries

When you need information for your Louisiana genealogy queries, you can use several methods to track down the data you want. It can be challenging, but only if you don't know where to begin and what to look for during your search. If you have an idea of where to start and are committed to finding the data, you will be able to.

Most people use genealogy searches either to work on family history documentation, for their own family or to help someone else complete their family tree. By working both online and offline, you can find a wide variety of resources, tools and tidbits of information to complete your genealogy project.

Where Your Louisiana Genealogy Queries Should Begin

If this is the first time you are trying to compile data to complete a family tree, you should consider employing the service of a paid or volunteer organization to help. These groups have a good working knowledge of what it takes to track down documentation and information for family heritage. This can be a great way to save time and effort.

Otherwise, the first thing you will probably want to look for during your Louisiana genealogy queries is vital records. Vital records are documents such as Louisiana birth records, marriage records or death records. You may also want to use resources including adoption records or divorce decrees. In some instances, even obituary records or Louisiana cemetery records can also give you the data you need.

What You Might Find

For the oldest records, you should consider using the census or Louisiana birth records. The census dates all the way back to 1790, and birth certificates for this state, through one website, started the same year, as well. Louisiana death records start from the year 1804 for some parishes, but may be slightly more challenging to locate.

This state actually has an extensive collection of vital records, probably sue to its rich history. You can also find Louisiana marriage records that date back to 1870 and naturalization records that, like the census, start in 1790. Though you will probably have to pay at least a small fee, you can have great success this way.

Other Possible Resources

Aside from using Louisiana vital records for your Louisiana genealogy queries, you can find information in other ways. You may be surprised at how much data you can retrieve from places such as immigration and naturalization records, Louisiana military records or even cemetery records. Louisiana has kept up with extensive documentation for the state and its residents, and you can benefit from this.

If you have trouble finding information through libraries, courthouses or the Health Department, you can also try churches for older records as clergymen were at one time responsible for record keeping. The thing is, finding genealogy records in this state should not be too difficult because it kept such good records. Louisiana genealogy queries can be a much easier task to manage thanks to the state's history of tracking its residents and keeping this documentation in order.


Louisiana State Obituary Collection

Louisiana Offsite Obituary Search Engine

Contributed Genealogy Data - Louisiana

Contributed Obituaries - Louisiana

Louisiana Newspapers Online (With links to archives)

Louisiana Parish Maps (1895)

Louisiana Parishes

Louisiana Cities

Louisiana Obituary and Death Notice Archive

Louisiana Statewide Death Index, 1900-1949 - External Link

Louisiana Marriage Records, 1851-1900 - External Link

Louisiana Marriage Records, 1718-1925 - External Link

Ascension Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 1

Ascension Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 2

Ascension Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 3

Ascension Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 4

Ascension Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 5

Beauregard Parish - Myers-Colonial Funeral Home Obituaries

East Baton Rouge Parish - Obituary Index

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 1

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 2

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 3

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 4

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 5

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 6

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 7

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 8

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 9

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 10

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 11

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 12

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 13

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 14

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 15

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 16

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 17

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 18

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 19

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 20

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 21

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 22

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 23

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 24

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 25

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 26

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 27

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 28

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 29

Lincoln Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 30

Orleans Parish - Early Births Records

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - A

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - B1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - B2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - C1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - C2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - D1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - D2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - E

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - F1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - F2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - G1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - G2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - H1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - H2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - I

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - J

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - K

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - L1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - L2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - M1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - M2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - M3

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - N

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - O

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - P1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - P2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - Q

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - R1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - R2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - S1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - S2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - T1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - T2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - U

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - V

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - W1

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - W2

Orleans Parish - Early Deaths (Newspaper Extracts) - XYZ

St. Mary's Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 1

St. Mary's Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 2

Terrebonne Parish - Deaths from 1892-1940

Webster Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 1

Webster Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 2

Webster Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 3

Webster Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 4

Webster Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 5

Webster Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 6

Webster Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 7

West Baton Rouge Parish - Miscellaneous Obituaries - 1

West Baton Rouge Parish - Miscellaneous Marriages - 1



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