Genealogy Services

Visitors searching their roots or interested in studying the history of a particular town or locality in Louisiana will find the Library's Genealogy Department to be of valuable assistance. Located at our Main Branch, the Genealogy Department is considered one of the best of its kind in Southwest Louisiana. The collection is continuously being added to. Many genealogy databases are available through CD-ROMs.

General Reference

Guides for genealogical research; emigrant and passenger arrival lists; military pension indexes; Mayflower families; DAR indexes; heraldry; compendia of colonial lineages.

Histories

Parish and town histories of Terrebonne Parish and Louisiana

Family Histories and Genealogies

Over 500 volumes of individual families, by surname, including many early Terrebonne Parish families.

Periodicals and Newsletters

National, state and local historical and genealogical societies.

Electronic Data Sources (CD ROM)

- Census indexes - 1851 British Census
- Family History Resource Files
- Australian Vital Records Index
- Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy
- Family Tree Maker
- Family History Resource File
- Vital Records Index of North America

Useful Genealogical Web Sites

www.familysearch.org - Family Search

At his site you can search for your ancestors in the record collections; get step-by-step research guidance on searching for your ancestors; view maps, forms, guides, and other research helps; find other web sites containing family history information.

www.genealogy.org - National Genealogical Society

RootsWeb exists to allow individuals the ability to interact with other people who share the same interests.

www.ancestry.com

Ancestry.com is a resource for family history online. The site offers thousands of fully searchable databases containing information on hundreds of millions of individuals. New databases are being added to the site each business day. By the end of 2000, the company expects to have over 1 billion records searchable on the site.

www.myfamilyinc.com

MyFamily.com is a password-protected community on the Internet for families. The site enables family members to communicate and share experiences with each other through free secure Web sites. Families can post family news, create family photo albums, hold live voice and text chats and maintain a calendar of family events. MyFamily.com also offers free online family history software that enables multiple family members to collaboratively update their family trees.