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Colonial Louisiana Genealogy Query Board
Your event date must be between c1682 and the statehood of your state.

AFRICAN

• Gens de Couleur


• The Code Noir - The Black Codes of Louisiana from 1724


• Slave Manifests from New Orleans

A partial list of slave manifests from New Orleans dating from 1808

ARCHAEOLOGY

ALABAMA

• Old Mobile Archaeology Home Page

LOUISIANA

Louisiana Division of Archeology
Great education resources! Illustrated booklets ONLINE

TEXAS

• La Salle's ship "La Belle" Found!
• Second ship found!

It is believed to the Aimable, the storeship of La Salle's fleet.
• National Geographic Article

ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES

• Archival Research Repositories in New Orleans
• Center for Louisiana Studies - USL

Many reels of film abstracted, including some from French Archives, Spanish Archives; Kaskaskia and Upper Mississippi Records from Illinois State Archives
• Louisiana State Library

Online interlibrary loan and searching for your Louisiana ancestors
• LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM HISTORICAL CENTER

P.O. BOX 2448
751 Chartres St.
New Orleans, LA 70176-2448
Phone: 504-568-8214
Fax: 504-568-2678
Kathryn Page, Curator of Maps and Manuscripts
appointment preferred
Holdings include records of the French Superior Council (1704-1769) and Spanish judicial records (1769-1803). Also, social, political, economic, medical conditions of Louisiana, 18th-century to the present.
• Mississippi State Historical Text Archive Online
• Missouri State Archives

French and Spanish Land Grants 1790-1803
• National Archives of Canada

They offer a free publication "Tracing your Ancestors in Canada" available online.
• National Archives (US) Genealogy Page
• New Orleans Catholic Archdiocese Archives
• NEW ORLEANS NOTARIAL ARCHIVES

Room B-4, Civil District Courts Building
421 Loyola Ave.
New Orleans LA 70112
Open 9:00-4:00 M-F
Phone: 504-868-8577
Fax: 504-568-8599
Housed here are notarial records from 1731 to date and many colorful maps, blueprints, topographical elevations, and design drawings.
• New Orleans Public Library
• St. Louis Public Library

Lots of books on Ft. Chartres, Colonial Louisiana, etc. See "Research Tips" below if you are planning a visit.
• Tulane University Special Collections Home Page
• University of Missouri - Merlin Catalog Search

BOOKS

• Center for Louisiana Studies - USL Publications
• Frontier Press Bookstore

Lots of books on the Colonial period for sale
• Genealogy Books - Louisiana Page
• Provincial Press

Numerous publications on Colonial Louisiana and the Gulf Coast
• Quintin Publications

Canadian Resources: Jette, Drouin, Tanguy; books, microfiche, CDs; new and used items

CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES

COLONIAL RECORDS

• Archives Nationales de France, including correspondence from Louisiana to the secretaire d'etat de la Marine
• Archivo General de Indies
• Santo Domingo Papers (1757-1810)which contain information on immigration, native Americans and more.
• The Cuban Papers (1762-1824) including census records, and records of the Acadians

• Louisiana Colonial Records.

(In French, arranged by date, L180) 33 reels
• Records and Deliberations of the Cabildo, 1769-1803.

(Transcripts in English, L89) 4 reels
• Territorial Papers, Orleans, 1764-1813.

(L166) 13 reels

CREOLE

• Louisiana Creole Heritage Center
• St. Augustin Historical Society

 

EXPLORERS

De Soto

• De Soto

Great Site! Tons of info and maps of De Soto's travels including his stops in what was to be Colonial Louisiana

La Salle

• Map of La Salle's Journey

FLAGS

Flags of Louisiana

The flags shown, from the Fleu-de-Lis of France up to the Louisiana state flag, were the flags flown over a vast area of land from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.

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GENEALOGY

First Families of the Colony of Louisiana

• First Families
• d'Iberville's 1697 List of Engagees
• Roll of Recruits at Biloxi 1699-1700
• The Pelican Girls
• The Marriages of the Pelican Girls
• The Saucier Family

Links to Other First Families Pages

• David, Menard, Detroismaison, Marchand Families
  
• Ladner and Ladnier

Randall Ladnier's page of descendants of Louis Christian Ladner and Marie Barbe Brunel (may be temporarily unavailable)
• Trepagniers in Louisiana

Luc Trepagnier's page of descendants of Claude Trepagnier and Genvieve Burel

GenConnect

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GENFORUM

GENEALOGY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

• List at the Louisiana State Library Site


• Louisiana Historical Association

GENEALOGY RESEARCH HELP

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Links

Genealogy Gateway

GENEALOGY RESEARCH TIPS

• St. Louis, Missouri Library and Reference Material: A Brief Description of the Major Collections

HISTORY

• The History Channel

Do a keyword search...lots of info available
• Classroom Activities for Kids

Templates to make scrapbooks of study about cities and neighborhoods you live in or study about heroines or buildings. Also templates and guildelines for doing an Oral History Project.
• The History Channel Travel
• New Orleans - see Jackson Square history
• Library of Congress
• Library of Congress American Memory Pages
• Library of Congress Learning Pages
• Louisiana Colonial History Online

"A Medley of Cultures" is a compilation of essays in PDF format from the Louisiana State Museum. The introduction covers the founding of the Colony of Louisiana and the Colonial Period.
• The National Historical Society
• 1764 St. Louis, MO

LISTS

• Colonial America. A genealogy discussion list.

To subscribe to the list, send a message to: majordomo@northwest.com
and put: subscribe Colonial-America
in the body of the message (not the subject line).
• Colonial Louisiana

Subscribe
• Rootsweb Mailing Lists

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

The Avalon Project - Online Documents and Addresses

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1873 Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 7th Congress, 2nd Session

• January 1803
• October 24, 1803

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MAPS

Colonial Louisiana

• 1718 De Lisle Map Of Louisiana

New Orleans

• New Orleans 1728

Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Territory

• Tulane University Collection
  Includes old maps of the Louisiana Territory

General

• Ancestry.com  
  Excellent site! Online maps on Frech exploration, French Louisiana, Mississippi Country 1679-1687 (La Salle's Exploration and forts), Mississippi River 1673, Mississippi 1600-1750, Native Americans of the Frontier, New Orleans area 1764, Spread of Colonization 1600-1700 (French colonies and forts), Territorial Acquisitions 1783-1853 (shows Louisiana Purchase), West Florida after Treaty of Paris 1763, West Florida 1796-1821, West Florida Border 1763-1787, and more ...
• University of Georgia
  Colonial Maps ONLINE
  
  

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MILITARY

• French Forts
  
• Opelousas Militia 1770, 1776, 1785
• Pointe Coupee Militia, 1777

Spanish Colonial Militia of St. Louis, MO
• Roster of San Luis de Ilinueses, Company One, December 22, 1780
• Roster of San Luis de Ilinueses, Company Two, December 22, 1780

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MUSEUMS, PARKS, HISTORICAL SITES AND MONUMENTS

Alabama

• Fort Toulouse - Jackson State Historic Site

The Alabama History Group Site
• Ft. Toulouse - Jackson Park

The Wetumpka, AL site

Illinois

• Ft. Chartres

rebuilt by Francois Saucier c1752+
• Kaskaskia - Pierre Menard House

Pierre Menard married (2) Angelique Saucier, grand-daughter of Francois Saucier who rebuilt Ft. Chartres.
See the Saucier Family History

Louisiana

• Chalmette National Historical Park - War of 1812 Battlefield
• Fort St. Jean Baptiste built at Nachitoches

Michigan

• Father Jacques Marquette National Memorial and Museum

Mississippi

• Old Spanish Fort, Pascagoula

Oklahoma

• La Salle Monument
  1687 Rune Stone Monument In Poteau, OK
  

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NEWSGROUPS

Newsgroups have moved to their own page. Click Here. 

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PEOPLE

• Biography.com

Brief biographies...when doing a keyword search on French names, leave off the d' and La or Le prefix.

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PERIODICALS AND E-ZINES

• The Online Genealogy Journal

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RE-ENACTMENTS, LIVING HISTORY

French

• Ft. Chartres

Nice photo of Ft. Chartres and plenty of activities!
• Ft. Toulouse

This group has a F & I encampment each spring and Frontier Days are Nov. 2-7, 1999. Re-enactors portray the time period c1717-1763.
• Milice de Sainte Famille

Milice de Sainte Famille (Holy Family Militia) is an interpretive unit for the historic sites in the French Colonial District in Southern Illinois

French and Indian War

Spanish

• The Galvez Contingent

War of 1812

• Alabama History Group

Alabama Frontier Days, Nov 3-7, 1999

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SHIP PASSENGER LISTS

• National Archives Immigration/Passengers

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SURNAME HELPER

Surname Helper Search

All names from queries entered on the GenConnect Board for Colonial Louisiana can be searched through Surname Helper.

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TIMELINE

The TIMELINE has moved to its own page. Click Here.

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TRI-CENTENNIALS

• Biloxi Tri-Centennial 1699-1999
• Cahokia Tri-Centennial

Lots of great info!
• Franco Fete '99

State of Louisiana Official Franco Fete '99 site
• Jackson Co., MS Tri-Centennial Page
• Louisiana Tri-Centennial

Louisiana Travel's Site in French and English
• Pensacola Tri-Centennial 1698-1998

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USGenWeb SITES

• The USGenWeb Project
• USGenWeb Archives
• USGenWeb Kidz - Genealogy for kids

• Louisiana GenWeb

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