Tracing your Louisiana ancestors can be challenging. Get off to a great start with a brief introduction to her varied legal history, important migration events and blended ethnic influences. Review repositories, unique record collections and vital records access requirement along with strategies for successful research.
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For the German Coast there is a reginal genealogy society dedicated to that group. They publish a journal called Les Voyaguers. This is their web-site: https://gachgs.com/ They also have a Facebook page. You can search for it under German Acadian Coast Historical and Genealogical Society.
LA became a state in 1812. The American Italian Cultural Center in New Orleans has a web-site: https://americanitalianculturalcenter.com/museum/ There are also a number of books about this group. The Sicilians settled mostly in NO, but also on the North Shore of Lake Pontchatrain and the River Parishes upriver from New Orleans.
One particular category of records that was not mentioned, but are very helpful, are the indexes to Catholic Church records that you can find in just about any library in LA. Even if you don’t believe your family was Catholic, you should check out these resources. Before LA became a state they were colonies of Catholic countries – France and Spain. Especially if you have deep roots in LA, chances are you will find some of them in these books. They include: Fr. Donald Hebert’s SWLA Records, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Diocese of New Orleans Catholic Church Records and Elizabeth Shown Mills has a series of books of Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post. I can not emphasize how important these books are for researchers in LA.
Appreciated the insight and suggested resources.
Brilliant webinar with lots of leads to check out.
Excellent presentation
Excellent presentation! I don’t have any Louisiana ancestors that I know of, but I always come away from these webinars with new clues for searching elsewhere. This time it was searching for my Swedish ancestor in Chicago, Iowa and California in answer to the person who was searching for her ancestor In early Louisiana. It didn’t occur to me to Google it. Thank you.
Excellent presentation; logical and to the point.
Good job with a difficult research area. Thank you
Good session.
Great webinar Thanks
Informative but I would like more intermediate level tips.
Loved it!
Nice presentation and useful handout.
Relate some good information and hints
Rorey was very interesting and tried to cover a broad area of research in a short time. Rorey did an excellent job as I have been researching Louisiana for 50 years and still learned things from tonight
Roreys presentations are always outstanding!
She did an excellent job. Highly recommend!
Super interesting with Louisiana research.
Enjoyed the talk.
Thanks for all the good information!
Very complete and interesting. I would love her to do a Mississippi one as well.
Very informative!
Very informative. Picked up some great tips to help with researching my Louisiana and Mississippi African American ancestors.
While I do not have any New Orleans ancestors, I gained new insights into possible ways to find some missing ancestors in other areas. Great presentation!