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George Connor's helpful article in the Ancestry.com Library.Louisiana & Lower Mississippi River Valley Special Collections at the LSU Library
Louisiana Genealogy & History Books - General Interest and Multi-Parish:
A History and Bibliography of Spanish-Language Newspapers and Magazines in Louisiana 1808-1949Index to the Louisiana Historical Quarterly
A Guide to Church Records in Louisiana
Creoles of New Orleans: People of Color = Gens de Couleur
Masonry In Louisiana: A Sesquicentennial History - 1812-1962Plantation Homes of the Lafourche Country
If They Could Talk: Acadiana's Buildings and Their Biographies
Colonial Settlers Along Bayou Lafourche: Louisiana Census Records, 1770-1798
Northwestern Louisiana: A History of the Watershed of the Red River, 1714-1937
Who's Who in Louisiana and Mississippi, 1918
Louisiana 1840 Census IndexLouisiana 1860 Agricultural Census (Volume 1)
Louisiana's Antebellum Architecture
Acadian Descendants
French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer On Francophone Louisiana
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An Atlas of Louisiana Surnames of French and Spanish OriginCajun Sketches, From the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana
Natchitoches Neighbors in the Neutral Strip: Land Claims Between the Rio Hondo & the Sabine
The Settlement of the German Coast In Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent
The Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 Through 1732
Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway
New Orleans: Elegance an Decadence
"The lush, seductive, Old World elegance of New Orleans is gloriously revealed in this photographic tribute to the "Venice of North America." Richard Sexton's photographs capture balcony-lined streets, French-style parks, Caribbean-inspired gardens, and ornate public buildings, and take us inside some of the city's most intriguing private homes. This new edition marks the tenth anniversary with a new cover and binding, and a fully revised after word. "Rarely," wrote The New Orleans Times-Picayune, "has the city been loved both so wisely and so well." A tribute to a lifestyle of insouciance and exuberance, touched by both spirituality and worldliness, New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence illuminates both the public face and the private soul of a perennially fascinating city. More than 200 full-color photographs and an insightful text capture the stories and characters of yore."Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana's River Road
"In an evocative sequel to the acclaimed New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, author and photographer Richard Sexton returns with an in-depth visual journey through the hidden mansions-some inhabited, many now long abandoned-of Louisiana's River Road. Bordering the Mississippi, these antebellum landmarks were once the epitome of gracious living in the Deep South. Over the past century, these grand dwellings have slowly succumbed to time, humidity, and the reclamation of the land: first by nature, then by real-estate developers who built subdivisions, oil refineries, and strip malls where curtains of Spanish moss once swayed from the live oaks. This collection-featuring over 200 haunting color photographs with extensive captions explaining the architectural significance and history of each structure-is a beautiful elegy for a rapidly disappearing landscape and its ghosts."Working with History: The Historical Records Survey in Louisiana and the Nation, 1936-1942
Acadian Reminiscences: The True Story of Evangeline
Negro Ironworkers of Louisiana: 1718-1900The Reposed
"The most obvious distinction of many south Louisiana cemeteries is that hardly anyone is buried in them. In the delta, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, the land is flat, wet, and often below sea level, so coffins are placed in elevated tombs, vaults, and mausoleums. Truly cities of the dead, these cemeteries contain buildings of stone or brick, marble statues, wrought-iron fences, narrow passages, and hidden enclaves. And, like any city, they are densely packed with bodies. In sixty-two stunning photographs, William K. Greiner captures the visual landscape of these ghostly neighborhoods. A colorful respite from the gray conventions of graveyard photography, his images leap off the page with brilliant hues. His pictures are not just about graves, but also about the lives and values of the people who inhabit and visit them. Most of his portraits are of humble and inconspicuous burial grounds. ... Not a soul appears in these images, but they are haunted none the less, by the skeletons of flowers, by chipped statuettes, by faded pictures, and by overgrown grass; by the tangible evidence of the passing visits of those who have come to bury or remember their clear departed; by passing clouds, and by the passage of time. In his striking memorials to these memorials, Greiner honors the colorful cast of characters, both alive and dead, whose telling traces he has found left behind."Bayou St. John in Colonial Louisiana 1699-1803
Founding of New Acadia: the Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803
Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area
Canary Islanders of LouisianaPlantation Country Along the Mississippi River in Louisiana & Mississippi
Claims to Land Between the Rio Hondo and Sabine Rivers in Louisiana-1824
First Settlers of Louisiana Territory
Acadiana Unlimited; a Tour of Southwest Louisiana
The Story of the West Florida Rebellion
History of Regional Growth of Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes, Louisiana
A History and Bibliography of Spanish-Language Newspapers and Magazines in Louisiana 1808-1949Plantation Life: On the Mississippi
Romance of the History of Louisiana
(1848)Some Late Words About Louisiana
(1891)Search Alibris for a back issue of the Louisiana Historical Quarterly
My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era
After-Noon Story, a Century of the New Orleans States-Item
Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape
The Freedmen's Bureau in Louisiana
Search Alibris for a back issue of Louisiana Genealogical Register.
Old Families of Louisiana
"Spanning thousands of individuals, all of whose origins in Louisiana pre-date the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Old Families of Louisiana should be the starting point for tracing your Bayou ancestry, particularly if it is connected to one or more of the following seventy-five allied families: Almonester-Pontalba, Alpuente, Alston-Pirrie, Arnoult-Sauve-Waggaman, Augustin, Barrot, Breazeale, Bringier, Butler, Canonge, Cerras, Chalmette, Chauvin de la Freniere-de Lery-deBeaulieu, Claiborne, Coulon de Jumonville de Villiers, Cruzat, D'Arensbourg, d'Estrehan, de Duche-Donnaud, de la Lande de Ferriere, de la Ronde, de la Vergne-Villere-Bermudez, de Villars, Derbigny-de Lassus, Dimitry, Doriocourt, Doussan-Fossier, du Tillet-Montreuil, Dubreuil de Verges, Ducatel, Fagot de la Garciniere, Favrot, Forstall, Fortier, Garic, Gayose de Lemos, Grima, Hereford, Huchet de Kernion, Johnson, Juchereau de Saint Denys, Kenner, La Villebeuvre-Peters-Toledano, Labarre, Labranche, Landry, Le Blanc-Allain-Tounoir-Jarreau, Le Breton, Le Pelletier de la Villiers, Macarty, Minor, Morant-St. Avid-Pinchot, Morphy, Olivier de Vezin, Percy, Petit de Livilliers de Coulanges, Plauche-Dart-Kernan-Wall-Winans-Dubose, Perez, Phillippe de Marigny, Perret, Rivard, Rouquette, Soniat du Fossat, Stirling, Theard, Trepagnier, Trudeau, Watts, Wilkinson, and Wiltz "
(This book is also available in the CD,Early Louisiana Settlers, 1600s-1800s )
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
Louisiana: Sketches of Historical Homes and Sights
Early Settlers of Louisiana Taken from Land Claims in the Eastern District of the Orleans Territory
Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole PortraitsVigilante Committees of the Attakapas: An Eyewitness Account of Banditry and Backlash in Southwestern Louisiana
The Large Slaveholders of Louisiana: 1860
Lafayette and Vermilion ParishesThe Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860
Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
French and Spanish Records of Louisiana: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript SourcesEarly Louisiana and Arkansas Oil: A Photographic History, 1901-1946
Buying Louisiana: An Eyewitness's Account of the Louisiana Purchase
Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family TreesCrucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana 1862-1877
Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
Louisiana Colonials: Soldiers and Vagabonds
"For this companion volume to Gulf Coast Colonials, Mr. De Ville has transcribed seven ships' passenger lists for vessels that embarked from ports in France for French Louisiana in the years 1719 and 1720. The subtitle of the work refers to the fact that the settlement of Louisiana, including the ranks of the army itself, was augmented by the importation of criminals, smugglers, debtors, and vagabonds. Thus, while any number of Louisiana soldiers and vagabonds eventually took brides and became farmers, lifting themselves into the ranks of respectable and propertied, their beginnings were invariably much humbler."The compiler has transcribed the names on each list in precisely the same order as they appear in the original, adding an index of personal names for the researcher's ease of use. Typically, the lists are careful to differentiate between members of the crew and soldiers on the one hand and the various prisoners, deserters, smugglers, and vagabonds on the other. Regardless of the passenger's status, he is typically identified by name, age, height, color of hair, occupation, and city of origin. All told, this work provides the names of more than 500 18th-century immigrants to Louisiana, whose origins in France are further clarified by the index to places at the end of the book."
A Socio Economic Survey of the Marshdwellers of Four Southeastern Louisiana Parishes
Sketch of the Great Tornado of Mississippi and Louisiana
(1911)
Recollections of Henry Watkins ALLEN
Judah P. BENJAMIN Monument, Dedicated June 2, 1968, Erected By Plaquemines Parish Commission Council
Look Away! Dixie Land Remembered: Growing Up in the Rural South 1902-1920
by Marion BLACKMAN; Catahoula ParishThe Acadian BREAUX of Louisiana and the English LOCKEs of New Hampshire
Lorenzo: The History of the CASSO Family in Louisiana
Sold!To Avoyelles with the COUVILLONs: A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the COUVILLONs and Allied Families of Avoyelles Parish, LouisianaBernardo De GALVEZ in Louisiana 1776-1783 (Louisiana Parish Histories Series)
De La BARRE, Life of a French Creole Family in Louisiana
Descendants of Richard GRANT of Louisiana
The Civil War Reminiscences of Major Silas T. GRISAMORE, C. S. A.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Michael HAHN (a Representative From Louisiana)
(1886)
Weeks HALL: Master of the Shadows
The Book of LANDRYLeBLANC Family Favorites
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The Journal of Julia LeGRAND, New Orleans 1862-1863Time's Tapestry: Four Generations of a New Orleans Family
MARKSThe MARTIN Family of Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish, 1636-1986
Power in the Blood: Land, Money, and a Southern Family
MAY Sarah MORGAN: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern WomanLeander PEREZ: Boss of the Delta
"Perez's rule of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana from the 1920s to the 1960s was among the most absolute and durable in American political history. Perez ruled Plaquemines as his own separate kingdom while vehemently opposing what he viewed as federal tyranny."Judge: the Life and Times of Leander PEREZ
PLATOU Family (Genealogy)
The Civil War Diary of Clara SOLOMON: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862
STROHMEIERS of New Orleans. a Genealogical Memoir of Three STROHMEIER Immigrants From Hanover, GermanySold!
Fourth Child, Second Daughter: The Memories of Dorothy Whittington Coco and Biographical Accounts of Her AncestorsJohn TALLEY and Anna MAGEE Family
Sold!Selected Final Pension Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864: New Orleans, LouisianaZachary TAYLOR: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old SouthwestLouisiana Legacy: A History of the State National Guard
Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units
The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment Of Mounted RiflesThis Infernal War- The Confederate Letters of Sgt. Edwin H. FAY
Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers: A History of the 6th Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865
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Boone's Louisiana Battery: A History & RosterPortraits of Conflict: a Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War
The Men and Women in World War II from De Soto, Natchitoches and Sabine Parishes
Brothers in Gray: The Civil War Letters of the PIERSON Family
Louisiana at the Battle of New Orleans
Louisiana Soldiers in the War of 1812
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Louisiana 1890 Veterans Census IndexNegro Troops of Antebellum Louisiana; a History of the Battalion of Free Men of Color
Among the Cotton Thieves
Limited edition reprint of the 1867 original book about the Port Hudson Campaign.The Civil War Reminiscences of Major Silas T. GRISAMORE, C. S. A.
War Along the Bayous: The 1864 Red River Campaign in Louisiana
Touched by War: Battles Fought in the Lafourche District
Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana
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Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia
Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 with an Atlas
Louisiana Troops 1720-1770
"This basic reference work on the French in the Mississippi Valley lists over 2,000 names with brief service records. Compiled and translated from official sources housed at the Library of Congress, it lists first the enlisted men and then the officers who served France in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and in the Illinois Country during the 18th century. The two lists typically give the individual's date of discharge, death, or desertion and, in the case of officers, his rank and place of service. On occasion we are also treated to other personal details such as names of family members, date returned to France, rate of pay, etc. (Also available on the CD, Early Louisiana Settlers...)"
Original 1910 Pamphlet: Twenty-five years growth of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. This pamphlet, which should be read by every home-seeker, shows what may be done in the way of agricultural development even on lands that were considered poor and unfit for cultivationSecrets of a New Orleans Chef: Recipes from Tom Cowman's Cookbook
Unique, Original 1878 Handwritten Manuscript Bayou Chicot Louisiana Store Ledger
From the seller: "Fair. English Language. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 300+ pages of names in this Bayou Chicot, Louisiana ledger book from what is obviously a busy dry goods store. Wonderful calligraphy throughout details every purchase from Dec. 1878 through April 1879."New Orleans and Her Jazz Funeral Marching Bands
Rejoice When You Die - The New Orleans Jazz Funerals
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Original: A Photograph Album of Mounted Topographical Albumen Photographs (New Orleans, Mobile, Florida)From the seller: "Description: [New Orleans, etc: circa 1878]. Oblong folio. (10 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches). 27 albumen photographs (12 full-page ranging in size from 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 to 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (the majority are of the larger size; and 14 half-page ranging in size from 5 x 8 to 7 x 9 inches, mounted recto only of 20 leaves, each with penciled titles, one with photographer's credit in the negative: 'J. S. McClure'. (Some fading to margins). Recent half-green morocco to style, incorporating 19th century boards, spine simply gilt in six compartments. A wonderful photographic album depicting the American South. The album can be dated from one photograph of the copy of the catafalque of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, indicating a date of circa 1878. The places visited include New Orleans (6 large scale images), the Natchez steamboat (1 large image), Mobile, Alabama (6 large images), Pensacola (5 small images), the Escambia River, Florida (2 small images)."
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One-of-a-Kind Document! Manuscript Document: Louisiana Power of AttorneyFrom the seller: "(Baton Rouge, LA: np, 19 November 1835). Folded 4to (on writing paper). 3 pp. Legal document conveying power of attorney from a Mrs. Jane MONTGOMERY to a Mr. Michael WATSON. Beautifully scripted, signed by attorneys and judge involved. Worn at folds, tear at bottom of last page, otherwise very good."Original 1890 Souvenir of New Orleans: 69 Photo Views
From the seller: "Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. photographs (looks more like line drawings) , folding out accordion-style, decorative embossed green leatherette covered boards, light splitting along inside spine, thru decorative liner paper, not cover, light edge wear, bump and chipping to upper top corner, short split along one interior fold, small tear to top of two pages, one photo has 2 small chips . Illustrations show Canal Street; U. S. Mint; Steamboat Landing; Negro Quarters, Plantation Scene; Hoeing Cotton; The Old French Market; several churches & hotels; La Belle Creole Cigar Factory; Maginnis Cotton Factory; Southern Brewing Co.'s Brewery; Side Vaults, Girod Cemetery; several monuments, opera houses, and stately homes. In a time of street cars and horse and carriages."Original Vintage The Picayune's Guide to New Orleans [Tourist's Guide Book to the City of New Orleans Published by the Picayune.] New Orleans, Louisiana Guidebook
Years of publication vary; most date from the turn of the 20th century.LeBLANC Family Favorites
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