Research Library

There are many valuable resource publications that are out-of-print or available only at a few genealogy libraries. The  books and CDs listed below are in my  personal library

These resources enable me to prepare genealogy reports and surname and special reports

Some of the books are for sale - see Books page

20-year index [1982 – 2001] of Terrebonne Life Lines [TLL] - TGS
1860 Census Ascension Parish, Louisiana - Westerman, Audrey
1860 Census Assumption Parish Louisiana - Westerman, Audrey
1870 U.S. Census Lafourche Parish, LA - TGS
1880 Census - LDS
1880 U.S. Census – Lafourche - TGS
1896 in Petit Paris Turning the Century in Southwest La - Capuder, Lawrence Sr
1900 U.S. Census Lafourche Parish, LA - TGS
A Guide to the Papers of Pierre Clement Lausat - Kukla, Jon
Acadian Census Records, 1671-1752 – Trahan, Charles C. [Translator]
Acadian Church Records, 1679-1757 - Deville, Winston
Acadian to Cajun - Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 - Brasseaux, Carl A.
Acadian-Cajun Genealogy Step by Step - Hebert, Tim
Acadian Descendants, Volume I -     Jehn, Janet
Acadian Descendants, Volume II -    Jehn, Janet
Acadian Descendants, Volume III -   Jehn, Janet
Acadian Descendants, Volume IV -  Jehn, Janet
Acadian Descendants, Volume V -   Jehn, Janet
Acadian Descendants, Volume VI -  Jehn, Janet
Acadian Descendants, Volume VII - Jehn, Janet
Acadian Descendants, Volume VIII -Jehn, Janet
Acadian Descendants, Volume IX -  Jehn, Janet
Acadian Exiles in the Colonies - Jehn, Janet
Acadian Exiles in the Golden Coast of Louisiana - Marchand, Sidney A., Sr.
Acadian Exiles in Chatellerault - Robichaux, Albert J
Acadian Exiles in Nantes - Robichaux, Albert J
Acadian Exiles in St. Malo - 3-vol. Set - Robichaux, Jr., Albert J
Acadian Miracle - LeBlanc, Dudley J
Acadian Odyssey – Winzerling, Oscar William
Acadian Reminiscences - Voorhies, Felix
Acadians in Exile - Hebert, Donald J.
Acadians in Maryland - Wood, Gregory A.
Acadian Redemption: From Beausoliel Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation - Perrin, Warren A.
African Americans in the 1870 Census
Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the  Eighteenth
    Century - Hall, Gwendolyn M.
Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway - Sternberg, Mary Ann
All This is Louisiana - Keyes, Frances Parkinson
An Account of Upper Louisiana - Finiels, Nicolas de ; Edited by Carl J. Ekberg [trans] and William E. Foley
An Attempt to Re-assemble Old Families in Family Groups – Marchand, Sidney A. Sr. - Genealogy, land records, etc. of 702 Early Settlers of the Acadian Coasts
Annotated Abstracts of the Successions of St. Mary Parish, La - Sanders, Mary Elizabeth
Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1945, Vol. II, Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794, Pt. 1 The Revolutionary Period, 1765-1781 - Kinnaird, Lawrence - Editor
Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1945, Vol. III, Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794, Pt. II Post War Decade, 1782 - 1791 - Kinnaird, Lawrence - Editor
Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1945, Vol. IV, Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794, Pt. III Post War Decade, 1792 - 1794- Kinnaird, Lawrence - Editor
Archdiocese of New Orleans [ADNO] Sacramental Records - v.1 - v.14 [1718-1821]
Assumption Parish LA Original Cahier Records, Books 1 thru 5, 1786-1813 - Toups, Kenneth B
Assumption Pioneer Newspaper Deaths-Weddings-Births - TGS
Atlas of Louisiana Surnames of French and Spanish Origins - West, Robert C.
Attakapas Country: A History of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana – Griffen, Harry Lewis
The Battle of New Orleans - Remini, Robert V.
Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey, Joan B. and Widmer, Mary Lou
Belle Isle en Mer Registers & La Rochette Papers [Volume II of The Acadians in
    France] – Rieder, Milton P. Jr. and Rieder, Norma Gaudet
Cabanocey - Bourgeois, Lillian C.
Cajun Music - Ancelet, Barry Jean
Cajun Sketches: From the Prairies of Southwest La - Post, Lauren C.
Calendar of Louisiana Colonial Documents, Volume III St. Charles Parish, Part One: The D'Arensbourg Records, 1734-1769  - Gianelloni, Elizabeth Becker
Cemeteries of Central Lafourche Parish, LA - Westerman, Audrey
A Century of Acadian Culture, The Development of a Cajun Community: Erath (1899-1999) - Dronet, General Curney J.
Church History and Cemetery Listing for Napoleonville, La - TGS
City of the Dead - Florence, Robert
Civil Registration of Orleans Parish, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1790-1833 - Robichaux, Jr., Albert J
Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804: A Social & Cultural History - Arnold, Morris S.
Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche - Robichaux, Albert J
Comet Microfilm Index for 1889-1911 - TGS
Comet Microfilm Index for 1912-1925 - TGS
Comet Microfilm Index for 1926-1937 - TGS
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country - Brasseaux, Carl
Denis-Nicolas Foucault and the New Orleans Rebellion of 1768 - Brasseaux, Carl
Descendants of Nicolas Provost - Brown, Kennell Philip, M.D.
Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes [DGFA] - White, Stephen A.
Dictionnary of Louisiana Biography - Conrad, Glenn R.
Diocese of Baton Rouge [DOBR] Sacramental Records, v.1.a - v.22
Diocese of Mobile Catholic Ch. Sacramental Records 1704-1739 - Diocese of Mobile
Early La Settlers, 1600s – 1800s
East Coast of Acadia 1708 - Deville, Winston
Exile Without An End – Milling, Chapman J. [Acadian Exiles in South Carolina]
First Families of La, v.1 - Conrad, Glenn R.
First Families of Louisiana - An Index Mills, Donna Rachal
First Land Owners and 1810 Annotated Census Lafourche - Westerman, Audrey
First Things in Acadia: "The Birthplace of a Continent"  - Quinpool, John
Fort Maurepas - Higginbotham, Jay
Fort Toulouse: The French Outpost at the Alabamas on the Coosa - Thomas, Daniel H.
France's Forgotten Legion: Service Records of French Military and Administrative Personnel Stationed in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast Region, 1699-1769 - Brasseaux, Carl A.
Francisco Bouligny: A Bourbon Soldier in Spanish La. - Din, Gilbert C.
French & British Land Grants on the Post Vincennes [Indiana] District 1750-1784 - American State Papers
From Nantes to Louisiana - Braud, Marc-Gerard
General Society of Colonial Wars 1986 Yearbook
Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent - The Spanish-Frenchman of New Orleans - Coleman, James Julian, Jr
Generations…Past to Present, Volume I - TGS
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland -  Faragher, John Mack
Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens [6 Vol. Set] - Arsenault, Bona
History of Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church & Cemetery Inscriptions - TGS
History of the Bouligny Family and Allied Families - Martin, Fontaine
History of the Cajuns, From Ancient France to Nova Scotia to Louisiana to Colonial Texas, including the Participation of Louisiana and Texas in the American Revolution - Loya, Alex [See Books page for a description of the book and ordering information]
History of Grand Pre - Herbin, John Frederic
History of Louisiana - Martin, Francois-Xavier
Huguenot Settlers in North America
Huguenot Society in the City of New Orleans, Twelfth Anniversary Historical Roster 1985
Indians of Louisiana - Kniffen, Fred B.
In Search of Evangeline: Birth and Evolution of the Evangeline Myth - Brasseaux, Carl A.
Kaskaskia Under the French Regime – Belting, Natalia Maree
Lafayette: Where Yesterday Meets Tomorrow - Brasseaux, Carl A.
Lafourche Parish Louisiana 1850 Census - Westerman, Audrey
Land Records of the Attakapas District - Conrad, Glenn R.
Last Island -
Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814 - Benson, Guy Meriwether
Louisiana, a History - Wall, Bennett H. [Editor]
Louisiana Census & Military Lists - Robichaux, Jr., Albert J
Louisiana Families in SE Texas - Hebert, Donald J.
Louisiana Folk Masters: Varise Conner [cd] - Conner, Varise
Louisiana Land Titles - Poret, Ory G.
Louisiana Soldiers in the American Revolution - Deville, Winston
Louisiana Soldiers in the Civil War - Plaisance, Elton Charles
Louisiana Soldiers in the Civil War: 26th & 30th Regiments La. Volunteers - Plaisance, Elton Charles
Louisiana Troops 1720-1770 - Deville, Winston
Marriage Contracts Attakapas Post - Deville, Winston
Marriage Dispensations
Marriage Index: La, 1718-1925 [Note: For a Free Search, see La Marriages Page]
Maryland Marriages & Genealogies: 1634-1820
Military Records of Louisiana - Bartlett, Napier
Mississippi Valley Pioneers – Toups, Neil J.
Mississippi Valley Melange - Deville, Winston
Mrs. Seton, foundress of the American Sisters of Charity - Dirvin, Joseph I.
Natchez An Illustrated History - Sansing, David G.; Callon, Sim C.; Smith, Carolyn Vance
Natchez before 1830 - Polk, Noel
Natchez on the Mississippi - Kane, Harnett T.
Natchitoches: Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana: 1729-1803 – Mills, Elizabeth Shown
Natchitoches Translated Abstracts of Register Number Five of the Catholic Church Parish of St. Francis des Natchitoches in Louisiana: 1800 - 1826 by Elizabeth Shown Mills
Natchitoches Church Marriages 1818-1850 by Elizabeth Shown Mills
Natchitoches Baptisms, 1817-1840: Abstracts from Register 6 of St. Francis Catholic Church, Natchitoches, Louisiana - abstracted and translated by Riffel, Judy
Natchitoches Baptisms, 1841-1849: Abstracts from Register 9 of St. Francis Catholic Church, Natchitoches, Louisiana - abstracted and translated by Riffel, Judy
New Iberia - Conrad, Glenn R.
New Orleans: 1718-1812: An Economic History - Clark, John G.
Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas - Chipman, Donald E. & Joseph, Harriet Denise
Our Acadiana - Bradshaw, Jim
Old Mobile: Fort Louis De La Louisiane, 1702-1711 - Higginbotham, Jay
Plantation Homes of Louisiana - Dore, Susan Cole [Editor] [A Pelican Guide Book]
Quest for the Promise Land: Official Correspondence Relating to the First Acadian Migration to
    Louisiana, 1764-1769 – Brasseaux, Carl A. [Editor]
Records of the Attakapas Dist. La. St. Mary Parish: 1808-1860 - Sanders, Mary Elizabeth
Records of the Attakapas District, La 1739-1811 - Sanders, Mary Elizabeth
Road to La., The Saint Domingue Refugees - Brasseaux, Carl A.
Saint-Jean Baptiste des Allemands - Conrad, Glenn R.
"Scattered to the Wind" Dispersal and Wanderings of the Acadians, 1755-1809 - Brasseaux, Carl A.
Scottish Clans & Their Tartans - Johnson and Bacon
Selected & Annotated Abstracts of Marriage Book 1 - Sanders, Mary Elizabeth
Selected Annotated Abstracts of St. Mary Parish, La, Court Records - Sanders, Mary Elizabeth
Shadows on the Teche - Kahle, Patricia L.
Social Security Death Index: 1937-1997 [2 CDs]
Some Late 18th Century Louisianians - Voorhies, Jacqueline K.
South Louisiana Records, v.1-12 - Hebert, Donald J.
South La Additions and Corrections - TGS
South La Vital Family Records, v. 5, 1918-1920 - TGS
South La Vital Family Records: 1906-09, 1918-20, 1924-35 - TGS
Southwest La. Records [SWLR], v.1-41 - Hebert, Donald J.
Southwest La Biographical and Historical, pub. 1891 - Perrin, William Henry
Spain's La Patriots in its 1779-1783 War with Eng during the Am. Rev - Hough, Granville W.
Spanish Texas Pilgrimage - Habig, Martin A. [Has info on Los Adaes located 14 miles west of
    Natchitoches, La. near Robeline La which was the capitol of Spanish Colonial Texas]
St Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Thibodaux, La - TGS
St. Charles Parish: Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. Charles Parish, 1770-1803 -  Conrad,
    Glenn R.
St. Philomena Catholic Church Cemetery, Assumption Parish, Labadieville - TGS
Story of Old Ste. Genevieve - Franzwa, Gregory M.
The Acadians - Moody, Barry
The Battle for North America - Parkman, Francis [edited by John Tebbel]
The Bayous of Louisiana - Kane, Harnett T.
The Cabildo Records of New Orleans, 1769-1785 - Ruff, Verda Jenkins
The Cajuns from Acadia to Louisiana - Rushton, William Faulkner
The Cajuns: Essays on Their History and Culture - Conrad, Glenn R.
The Canadian Frontier 1534-1760 Revised Edition - Eccles, W.J.
The Canary Islands Migration to Louisiana 1778-1783 - Villeré, Sidney Louis
The Canary Islanders of Louisiana - Din, Gilbert C.
The Civil War Tax in Louisiana 1865 - Price, John Milton
The Colonial History of Vincennes [Indiana] Under the French, British and American Governments - Law, Judge
The Foreign French: v.1 1820-1839 - Brasseaux, Carl A.
The Foreign French: v.II 1840-1848 - Brasseaux, Carl A.
The Foreign French: v.III, 1849-1852 - Brasseaux, Carl A.
The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color - Mills, Gary B.
The Founding of New Acadia - Brasseaux, Carl A.
The French Quarter - Aubury, Herbert
The German Coast: Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. Charles and St. John the
    Baptist Parishes, 1804-1812 - Conrad, Glenn R.
The Governors of Louisiana - Reeves, Miriam G
The Guillory Manuscripts - Deville, Winston
The History of Louisiana - Martin, Francois-Xavier
The Hurricane of 1893 at Cheniere - Plaisance, Elton Charles
The Journals of Francis Parkman - Parkman, Francis
The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687 - Foster, William C. [Ed/Intro]; Warren, Johanna S. [Translator]
The Louisiana Purchase - Richard, Carl J.
The Natchez Trace: A Pictorial History - Crutchfield, James A.
The People Called Cajuns - Dormon, James H.
The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and The Creoles of German Descent –
    Deiler, J. Hanno
The Slave States - Olmsted, Frederick Law
The Spanish Borderlands Frontier 1513-1821 - Bannon, John Francois
The Spanish Borderlands - Bolton, Herbert E.
The Spanish Empire in America - Haring, C. H.
The Spanish Frontier in North America  - Weber, David J.
The Spanish in New Orleans & Louisiana - Montero de Pedro, Jose
The Story of the Acadians - Boudreaux, Amy
The Story of Canada - Creighton, Donald
Souvenir Edition World War II [A supplement published near the end of WWII in The Jeanerette Enterprise with photos and brief bios]
The Texas Connection with the American Revolution - Thornhoff, Robert H.
The Wall of Names - Bulliard, Jane G.
The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War - Anderson, Fred
They Tasted Bayou Water - Bergerie, Maurine
Terrebonne Life Lines [TLL] v. 18 & 19 – TGS
Vacherie – Oubre, Elton J.
Voodoo Past & Present - Bodin, Ron
We are Acadians [Nous Sommes Acadiens] - Tassin, Myron
Weekly Sentenial Microfilm 1865-1912 - TGS
West Baton Rouge Families - WBR Genealogical Society
West Baton Rouge Parish Marriage Records 1807-1915 - WBR Genealogical Society
White Gold - Conrad, Glenn R. [History of the Louisiana Sugar Industry 1795-1995]

About the Host

Visit Louisiana

Visit The Acadian Memorial & The Acadian Museum

The Cajuns is on

Home