Aerial View of Lake Providence

Welcome to East Carroll Parish

Hello and welcome to East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. I am Ann Allen Geoghegan, your  County Coordinator, and I hope I am able to help you in your family history research. This site, like all GenWeb sites, is dedicated to the availability of public records for public viewing. Genealogy is a lot of fun, but it should not cost a lot of money for public records. If you are being charged to view this site, please contact me.

If you have records or sources of information about East Carroll Parish and its pioneers, I  would love to have you share your information with us. If you are willing to look up information for other people, please let me know so I can put the people in touch with you. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, you can email me, and we will see if we can get together.

You may also use the automatic Submission forms for submitting to the LAGenWeb Archives. They are located here or here.

East Carroll Parish

An Act was approved on March 14, 1832 for the creation of the Parish of Carroll, out of the northern part of the original Concordia Parish created in 1809 and the eastern part of Ouachita Parish. Carroll Parish was named in honor of Charles Carroll in 1832, a philanthropist, statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Lake Providence was the first seat of government. Carroll Parish was divided into two parishes in 1877. The division solved a feud over the site of the seat of government. Oak Grove was named the parish seat of West Carroll Parish. Bayou Macon formed the boundary between the two parishes. Lake Providence became the parish seat of East Carroll Parish.

East Carroll Neighbors:

• North: Chicot County, AR
• East: Issaquena County, MS
• Southeast: Warren County, MS
• South: Madison Parish
• Southwest: Richland Parish
• Northwest: West Carroll Parish

About the Louisiana GenWeb Project

In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index. At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. The Louisiana GenWeb Project is an extension of the KY GenWeb Project.

If you have any questions or would like to Volunteer in any capacity, please contact:

Parish Coordinator - Ann Allen Geoghegan

State Coordinator - Edward Hayden

Assistant State Coordinator - Annette Womack

Browse East Carroll Parish Files at The LAGenWeb Archives

East Carroll Parish Table of Contents

• Biography of Charles Carroll

• Cemetery Locations

• Census Data

• Churches

• Census Records

• East Carroll Connections

• 1850 Letter from F.B. Minyard to William Blake in Georgia 

• Lookup Volunteers

• Populated Places

• Post Offices

• Poverty Point

• Old Queries page 1

• Old Queries page 2

• Schools

• Surnames

Offsite Links

• Lake Providence, LA

• Another great Lake Providence Site

• Queries - Offsite

• Louisiana Land Records - Interactive Search - Offsite

• Louisiana Vital Records Search - Offsite

• Louisiana Confederate Pension Index - Offsite

• Mid South Delta Initiative - East Carroll

• Political Graveyard East Carroll Parish

• East Carroll Parish Archives - Offsite

• Vicksburg Genealogical Society - Offsite

Other Records

• Slave Sales

• Naturalization Petitions

• Naturalizations Book A Part 1

• Naturalizations Book A Part 2

• Naturalization Records Book B

Here is some links to the USGenWeb Project and the Special Projects

• LAGenWeb Project

• U.S. Gen Web Project

• The USGenWeb Project Archives

• USGenWeb African American Griots Project

• USGenWeb Kidz Project

• USGW Digital Map Library

• USGenWeb Census Project

• Another USGenWeb Census Project

• The USGW Tombstone Project

• Louisiana's Family Group Sheet Project

• Louisiana's African-American Project

• Louisiana Penny Postcard Project

• Search the LAEASTCA archives

• Browse the LAEASTCA archives

Return to Index

County Coordinator: Ann Geoghegan
State Coordinator: Edward J. Hayden Jr.
Assistant State Coordinator: Annette Womack

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