Louisiana Genealogy – Free Louisiana Genealogy

Louisiana Genealogy. This state page of our website provides direct links to free major genealogy databases and historical titles and information found on Louisiana Genealogy, whether they exist on our site, or across the web.

Black Louisiana Genealogy

• Louisiana African American Records

Louisiana Cemeteries

• Louisiana Cemetery Records

Louisiana Census Records

• Louisiana Census Records
  • Louisiana 1910 Census Edition Map

Louisiana Genealogy

History of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
This special edition of the Daily World, largely written in 1955 by Ruth Robertson Fontenot, celebrates the 150th anniversary of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, detailing its history from the 1690s. Ruth Fontenot, a descendant of local pioneer families, extensively researched using parish records and private archives to provide a comprehensive view of the area’s early days, despite gaps due to historical record shortages. Supplemental contributions on specific areas like northern St. Landry Parish and Eunice were made by Sue Lyles Eakin and Mary Alice Fontenot, respectively. The publication is rich with historical photographs and includes personal insights into the region’s development, showcasing the significant local contributions of the families of St. Landry Parish.

United States Genealogy

• Louisiana Genealogy

USGenWeb Project

• The LAGenWeb Project

Acadia, Allen, 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, Colonial Louisiana

American History & Genealogy Project

• Louisiana AHGP

Lafayette Parish,

Louisiana History

The Creoles of Louisiana
The first white settlers of Louisiana were French, usually the second born sons of aristocrats who left France to seek adventure in the New World. They brought their traditional style of cooking from the continent, and being rich aristocrats, they also brought along their chefs as well! These Frenchmen came to be called Creoles, and made up the upper crust of New Orleans.

History of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
This special edition of the Daily World, largely written in 1955 by Ruth Robertson Fontenot, celebrates the 150th anniversary of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, detailing its history from the 1690s. Ruth Fontenot, a descendant of local pioneer families, extensively researched using parish records and private archives to provide a comprehensive view of the area’s early days, despite gaps due to historical record shortages. Supplemental contributions on specific areas like northern St. Landry Parish and Eunice were made by Sue Lyles Eakin and Mary Alice Fontenot, respectively. The publication is rich with historical photographs and includes personal insights into the region’s development, showcasing the significant local contributions of the families of St. Landry Parish.

Louisiana Military Records

• Louisiana Forts
  List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902.
• Revolutionary War Records
  • Revolutionary War Pension Records
  • 1840 Pensioners Database
• War of 1812
  • Louisiana War of 1812 Pension Lists
    Images of pension lists for years 1812-1815, recorded between 1873 – 1879. Some lists are arranged in alphabetical order by surname. Includes lists of veterans and lists of claimants.
• Civil War Records
  • Louisiana Civil War Battlefield Map
  • Civil War Pensions Index Cards
    Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
• World War I Records
  • World War 1 Draft Registration Records
• World War II Records
  • World War 2 Casualties – Army, Air Force
  • Louisiana Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
• Korean War Casualty List
• Vietnam War Casualty List

Louisiana Native American Records

• The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb
  This collection depicts the specific culture and history of the Choctaw tribe residing within Bayou Lacomb, Louisiana. Included are the geography, history, society, language, ethnology, and myths, legends and religion of the Choctaws who resided within the area of Bayou Lacomb. By the people of the tribe, or, more correctly, that portion of the tribe now under consideration, they themselves are called the Chata’ogla or the Chata’ people or family. According to them, the first word can not be translated as it is merely a proper name.
• Cooper Roll ~ Choctaw
  The Cooper Rolls are a Census Roll of Choctaw Families residing East of the Mississippi River and in the States of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama made by Douglas H. Cooper, US Agent for Choctaws, in conformity with Order of Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated May the 23rd, 1855.
• Louisiana Land Patents
  • Louisiana, Choctaw Land Patents
• McKennon Roll
  In 1896-1897 the Kern-Clifton Roll was created to fill in the omissions of the Wallace Roll. Proposed Legislation for the Full-blood and identified Choctaws of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama: Memorial Evidence and Brief published I believe in 1913.

• Current Federally Recognized Indian Tribes by State
• List of Federally Non-Recognized Tribes
• State Recognized Tribes

Louisiana Parish Records

• History of Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Louisiana Vital Records

• Louisiana Vital Records
  • Louisiana Birth Records
    You can search the Louisiana Birth Records Index Database and order certified copies of birth certificates for births that occurred in Louisiana more than 100 years from the end of the current calendar year. The only birth records that are currently available at the Archives prior to 1911 are from Orleans Parish. Birth records were not required statewide by law until 1918. Certified copies of birth certificates are delivered by mail for $5.
  • Orleans Parish Marriage Records
    You can search the Orleans Parish Marriage Records Index Database and order certified copies of marriage licenses for marriages that took place in Orleans Parish more than 50 years from the end of the current calendar year. Certified copies of marriage licenses are delivered by mail for $5.
  • Louisiana Death Records
    You can search the Louisiana Death Records Index Database and order certified copies of death certificates for deaths that occurred in Louisiana more than 50 years from the end of the current calendar year. Certified copies of death certificates are delivered by mail for $5.
  • Louisiana Death Records
    Name index to statewide deaths. Coverage: missing years between 1875-1893; has only a few entries for 1894-1904. One part of these death records includes death records for only Jefferson Parish, 1850-1875 and 1905-1921. The statewide records for all parishes cover 1911-1954. Microfilm copies of original records are available at the Family History Library and at Family History Centers.