First Families of Louisiana: Examples of Citations

Louisiana Genealogical
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First Families of Louisiana
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Examples of Citations from
Commonly Used Louisiana Sources




"Militia -- Verret's Company -- Cabahannocer, Census of the Acadian Coast -- 1769, Census of Acadian Coast -- 1777," IN: Lillian C. Bourgeois, Cabanocey: The History, Customs and Folklore of St. James Parish (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co, 1957), Appendix, pp. 161, 177, & 185.

Marriage of Prosper Casimir Bellevue Barin and Helene Modeste Guinault, Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Vol. 3, 1772-1783 (New Orleans: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1989), pp. 19 & 153 (citing SLC, M4, 90).

Baptism of Thomas Head (slave of Dr. Head), Rev. Donald J. Hébert, South Louisiana Records: Church and Civil Records of Lafourche -- Terrebonne Parishes, Vol. 3 (1851-1860) (Cecilia, Louisiana: Donald J. Hébert, 1979), p. 261 (citing Raceland Ch.: v. 1, #714).

"General census of the inhabitants of the district of the Parish of Ascension of Lafourches des Chetimaches. . . , 1777," IN: Albert Robichaux, Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798, Vol. II (Harvey, Louisiana: Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., 1974), p. 9 (citing Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 190).

Baptism of Hans Michel Jacob, reproduced in Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., German Coast Families: European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana (Rayne, Louisiana: Hébert Publications, 1997), p. 218 (citing Schillersdorf (Bas-Rhin, France) Lutheran baptismal register, FHL Microfilm No. 0760930, p. 47).

Last Will and Testament of Pierre Aubry, abstracted in Glenn R. Conrad, St. Charles: Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. Charles Parish, 1700-1803 (Lafayette, Louisiana: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1974), p. 258 (citing St. Charles Original Acts, No. 1289, 24 July 1795).

Removal of Elisha Crew to Texas, 1874, IN: "Mount Zion Methodist Church Register, Winn Parish, La.," abstracted by Gaytha Thompson, U.S. GenWeb Archives, Grant Parish, Louisiana <sites.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/winn/church.htm>, posted October 1997.

Additional examples will be included here as they appear in applications submitted to the Program.



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