• New Orleans Obituary Indexing Projects
  

  On this page you will find links to or information about local obituary indexing projects outside the New Orleans Public Library.

• Acadian-Cajun Genealogy
  

  Provides information on the history and genealogy of the Acadian and Cajun people.

• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820
  

  Online, searchable access to the information compiled by Professor Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and previously made available in her "Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699 1860."

• Augusta Elmwood's St. Domingue Page

  A long-time St. Domingue researchers shares the information she has collected "about the history and genealogy of the French colony of Saint-Domingue." Includes a link to the homepage of the St. Domingue Interest Group.

• Baton Rouge Obituaries

  "These files contain indexes for obituaries from the Baton Rouge Louisiana newspapers from 1952-1959 and 1980-1991."

• Chalmette National Cemetery burial records
  

  Chalmette National Cemetery -- Headstones (from Jean Lafitte National Park & Preserve)

  Chalmette National Cemetery Burial Records (from the St. Bernard Parish USGenWeb Project page)

• Cajuns, Creoles, Pirates & Planters

  Damon Veach's Louisiana Ancestors column online.

• Colonial Louisiana History and Genealogy
  

  A wide-ranging collection of links to information on Colonial Louisiana

• Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane

  The website for the non-profit support group for the Louisiana State Archives includes a wealth of materials of interest to Louisiana genealogists, including a searchable index to Le Raconteur, the organization's quarterly journal.

• Confederate Pension Applications Index Database

  From the Louisiana State Archives. An index to applications for pensions that were granted to Louisiana Confederate veterans and widows beginning in 1898

• Contessa Entellina, Palermo, Sicily
  

  Pedigree charts of descendants and ancestors from this town in Sicily, once home to many New Orleanian Italian-Americans

• County Formation and Census Maps for Louisiana
• Creole Heritage Education Research Society (C.H.E.R.S)

  "C.H.E.R.S. was formed in 2002 by a group of online researchers to create an interest in the genealogies and family ties of the Creole people with a special emphasis on the rich history of the Gens De Couleur of Louisiana."

• Creolegen.com

  A web page dedicated to genealogical and historical research as it relates to the Creole people of Louisiana. The site provides a link to the CreoleGen Online email group.

• Epidemic Summer
  

  From the Orleans Parish Genweb volunteers, a transcription of this 1853 source, which lists "interments in all cemeteries of New Orleans, from the first of May to the first of November, 1853, together with names and ages of deceased, places of nativity, causes of deaths, dates of interment and name of cemetery in which interred." Many of those included died during the great Yellow Fever epidemic of 1853. Also here are lists of victims of the 841 and 1878 epidemics in New Orleans.

• Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans
  

  The home page of New Orleans' oldest genealogical society, the publishers of the New Orleans Genesis.

• Les Gens de Couleur Libres

  The site provides information on the history of the Louisiana free people of color, photographs, contact information for genealogists working in this field and more.

• German-Acadian Coast Historical and Genealogical Society

  Website of organization devoted to genealogical research in St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist Parishes.

• The German Churches of New Orleans: An Inventory of Records

  "This inventory is an attempt to help researchers learn what records still exist and where to find them."

• Greenwood & Cypress Grove Cemeteries
  

  History of the cemeteries and other information. Burial records are searchable from 1910-present.

• Historic New Orleans Cemetery Lafayette #1
  

  Inventory and cross-index (by family name, etc.) to plaques and tombs. By Fred Hatfield.

• Jefferson Genealogical Society Website
  

  Includes general information about JGS, membership eligibility and benefits, and a list of special interest groups available to members.

• Louisiana Creole Research Association

  "LA Creole" is a "New Orleans-based, non-profit genealogy and family research organization . . . which assists Creoles, traditionally the descendants of the gens de couleur libres (free people of color) in the New Orleans area and rural parishes of Louisiana in researching their ancestry as well as any others interested in learning more about the Creoles and their unique culture."

• Louisiana Czechs

  Information on Czech heritage and history in Louisiana

• Louisiana Clerks of Court
  

  From the Louisiana State Library's home page, this site gives the names, addresses and phone numbers of the clerks of court in each Louisiana parish.

• Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society
  

  From the organization that publishes The Louisiana Genealogical Register. Membership information and activities, a list of professional researchers for hire, selected articles from back issues of The Register.

• Louisiana State Archives, Research Library

  One of the finest genealogical resources in the state.

  • Louisiana Vital Records

    Search for New Orleans marriage certificates and Louisiana death certificates, through the Louisiana State Archives' databases.

• Louisiana USGenWeb Pages

  Louisiana pages from the USGenWeb Project, "a loosely organized group of volunteers working to create a center for genealogical research for every Country in the United States."

  See especially the Louisiana Archives section of the site.

• New Orleans Genealogy
  

  "The purpose of this site is to promote the study of the genealogy of New Orleans for hobbyists." Full of useful links -- and beautifully designed.

• New Orleans Obituary Indexing Projects
  

  On this page you will find links to or information about local obituary indexing projects outside the New Orleans Public Library.

• Notre Dame Archives Calendar

  Summaries of individual documents in the University of Notre Dame archives, arranged chronologically, including numerous documents relating to early New Orleans residents.

• Online Louisiana Death Records & Indexes

  This page serves as a clearinghouse for a variety of indexes to death records found online (including some here at NOPL).

• Orleans Parish USGenWeb Page

  Home of the indefatigable NOVA Volunteers, who have added a treasure-trove of genealogical information relating to New Orleans and Algiers to this page.

• Passengers Arriving at the Port of New Orleans, January 1 thru July 7, 1851

  From the Louisiana State Archives, this list fills in part of the existing 1851-1852 gap in indexing of the New Orleans Passenger arrivals.

• Resources for Finding Passenger Arrival Records at the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana

  This is a listing of sources online and off for finding passenger arrival records at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is divided into two categories: "Before 1820" and "1820-1952."

• Roots-L Louisiana Page
  

  Includes an excellent list of Louisiana resources online plus searchable databases which give you the e-mail addresses of others searching for surnames or researching certain geographical locations. The Roots-L Home Page includes a similar list for each U.S. state, information on how to subscribe to the Roots-L mailing list, several valuable indexes and additional links.

• La Societe de Cajuns

  Homepage of this organization "dedicated to the preservation of the culture of Lower Lafourche Parish."

• St. Tammany Parish Obituaries

  Online index to St. Tammany obits (1999-2001) from the St. Tammany Parish Library.

• Vital Records Registry, Louisiana

  For information on Louisiana birth records (less than 100 years old), death records (less than 50 years old), and Orleans Parish marriage records (less than 50 years old).

• Abstracts for Census records
  

  Printable forms to use when copying information from the federal census records, 1790-1920, from Family Tree Maker Online, the web site of one of the popular manufacturers of genealogy software.

• African American Cemeteries Online
  

  A volunteer project to transcribe tombstone markers in African American cemeteries country-wide. Includes cemeteries from Louisiana.

• Afrigeneas
  

  A "mailing list focused on genealogical research and resources in general and on African ancestry in particular. This page serves as a focal point for information about African-ancestored families and for pointers to genealogical sources worldwide."

• Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society

  AAHGS is dedicated to the encouragement of scholarly studies in both academic, local, and family history of all ethnic groups with particular focus on African Americans.

• Board for Certification of Genealogists
  

  The Board's mission is "To foster public confidence in genealogy as a respected branch of history by promoting an attainable, uniform standard of competence and ethics among genealogical practitioners, and by publicly recognizing persons who meet that standard." The site includes a list of certified genealogists and offers good, useful articles. For those who are serious about genealogy.

• Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records Automation web site
  

  This site provides "live database access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. Image access is provided to more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908." The site is still being added to.

• Cemetery Records Online

  Over a million records from more than 2000 cemeteries world-wide -- and growing

• Census Online

  "The web's largest directory of links to online census transcriptions! This directory includes links to federal censuses and indexes, state and territorial censuses, tax lists, voter lists, military pensioner lists, etc."

• Census Research for Genealogists

  This site provides comprehensive information about each of the federal censuses.

• Census Schedules and Black Genealogical Research: One Family's Experience
  

  "The focus of this article is two-fold: to show how Black Americans were recorded in census records from slave schedules to 1920 and to encourage the beginning minority family historian to consider the use of census schedules."

• Censuslinks
  

  Links to online census data worldwide

• Christine's Genealogy Website
  

  Dozens of useful links for African-American genealogy.

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
  

  An in-progress database containing basic information about Union and Confederate servicemen who served during the Civil War.

• Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive

  Dead Fred presents a "searchable database containing thousands of identified and mystery photos for genealogy enthusiasts looking for long-lost family."

• Directory of Genealogy Libraries in the U.S.

  State-by-state listing of genealogy libraries countrywide.

• Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals
  

  Search for your immigrant ancestors, if they arrived at Ellis Island.

• Encyclopedia of Genealogy
  

  "The Encyclopedia of Genealogy serves as a compendium of genealogical tools and techniques. It provides reference information about everything in genealogy except people. Look to the Encyclopedia of Genealogy to provide explanations of how to look up your family tree, explanations of terms found in genealogy research, including obsolete medical and legal terms. It will describe locations where records may be found. It also will describe how to research Italian, German, Polish, French-Canadian, Jewish, Black, Indian and other ancestors. In short, the Encyclopedia of Genealogy will serve as your standard genealogy reference manual."

• Everton's Genealogical Helper
  

  Online version of the world's largest genealogical magazine

• Family History Centers
  

  Worldwide listing of the location of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) Family History Centers.

• FamilyRecords.gov.uk
  

  "This site, provided by the FamilyRecords.gov.uk consortium, aims to help you find the government records and other sources you need for your family history research."

• FamilySearch
  

  Online access to the LDS Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index. And more.

• Federal Agency Websites with Information Useful in Genealogical Research

  From the National Archives and Records Administration

• Federation of East European Family History Societies

  "THE Pioneer Web Portal for Central and East European Genealogy"

• Finding US Naturalization Records: A Genealogy Guide

  "How to" and links to records available in each state.

• French-Canadian Surnames
  Variations in spelling and Anglicanization of French-Canadian surnames, from the American-French Genealogical Society.
• Genealogy in the News

  News stories about genealogy gathered from national newspapers, magazines, and internet sites.

• Genealogy Software Springboard
  

  "This site was created in 1996 in order to help our fellow rooters & genealogists review genealogy programs. Since then, thousands of online genealogists have visited our site and gained information and knowledge to help them determine which genealogy program is the best to serve their needs."

• genealogy.net
  

  German genealogy site.

• Generating American Soundex Codes
  

  Find the Soundex code for your name.

• GEN-NEWBIE-L Home Page
  

  The home page for a mailing list designed for genealogists just beginning their research, complete with genealogy lessons.

• GENUKI: United Kingdom & Ireland Genealogy
  

  The British Isles' version of the U.S. GenWeb Project

• Heraldica
  

  "A site devoted to heraldry (the study of coats of arms) in all forms and in all places"

• Heritage Quest Catalogs
  

  If your library doesn't have microfilm you need, you may be able to obtain it from Heritage Quest.

• High School Alumni
  

  Add your own information to the database and find your old classmates, relatives, and long-lost friends. Could be especially useful for finding married names of women known only by their maiden names.

• Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild
• Interment.net (Cemetery Inscription Library)
  

  "Browse 2,857,349 cemetery records across 5,435 cemeteries from around the world."

• International Surname Navigator

  A "simple, free and independant search utility for (sur)names, based on preset and customized input-forms, specially focused on important free searchable online databases, tailormade for research in different countries"

• Irish Genealogical Society, Intl.
  

  Featuring advice, history and loads of links to Irish genealogy sites.

• Italian Genealogy Page
  

  Useful links for those researching Italian ancestry.

• JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy
• Mother of All Cousins Calculators
• National Genealogical Society
  

  Useful tips and links from one of the largest genealogical societies in the world.

• National Gravesite Locator
  

  Most of the 120 Department of Veterans Affairs' national cemeteries may be searched for burial locations through this site.

• Obtaining EDs for the 1930 Census in One Step (Large Cities)
  

  An easy way to determine the enumeration district for a street in New Orleans or in other large cities.

• The Olive Tree Genealogy
  

  dedicated to providing FREE genealogical data online

• One-Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy
  

  This site, by Stephen P. Morse, "offers many search capabilities not found in the usual offerings from Ancestry.com, RootsWeb, the Ellis Island online database, or the Social Security Death Indexes. The "One-Step Portal" does not have its own databases. Instead, it performs better and more efficient searches of other databases than what the original database providers provide."

• Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA

  A guide to researching online death indexes nationwide

• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
  

  Lists volunteers who will do genealogical legwork for others at cost. The site is seeking volunteers who can spare one day a month to help other researchers.

• The Social Security Death Index
  

  The Rootsweb version of SSDI, which can also be reached through Ancestry.com

• U.S. Surname Distribution
  

  Enter a name and select a census year (1850, 1880, 1920, or 1990) and get a map showing the states where the name is most common.

• Vital Records Information--United States
  

  Iinformation about where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States

Comprehensive Genealogy Links:

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
• Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
• Rand Genealogy Club
• RootsWeb
• Yahoo's list of genealogy links

See also:

Louisiana Division
NOPL's genealogy collection
is housed here.

City Archives/Special Collections
Additional material of genealogical
and historical interest
can be found here.

Genealogical Materials in the New Orleans Public Library's Louisiana Division and City Archives
The prize-winning guide to our collections.

African-American Resource Center
The AARC also houses
genealogical material.

Updated 2/1/2010