WGHA Library - le Baton Rouge

WGHA Library

WGHA Library - le Baton Rouge

 

Books

  1. Louisiana, Baton Rouge: le Baton Rouge
    Published quarterly by the Baton Rouge Genealogical and Historical Society, P. O. Box 80565, Southeast Station, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70898-0565
  2. Vol. XX, No. II, Summer 2000.
    CONTENTS: Society News; Audit Committee Report; Le Melanges; Computer Connections; Travel in 1843, A Letter to a Daughter; Using and Understanding Federal Census Records; Louisiana Successions; 1865 Tax Assessment List; Female Orphan Association of Baton Rouge; Queries.
  3. Vol. XX, No. III, Fall 2000.
    CONTENTS: le M,langes; Less Frequently Used Resources at the Bluebonnet Library's Genealogy Department; Steam Boat Arrivals at Baton Rouge; 1882 Local News; Monthly Returns from the Baton Rouge Post 1821; Monthly Returns from the Baton Rouge Post 1822; 1865 Tax Assessment List.
  4. Vol. XX, No. IV, Winter 2000.
    CONTENTS: le M,langes; Electronic Connections; Guide to Records in the National Archives, Southwest Region; Reunion and Reaction: Book Review; BRGHS Membership List; BRGHS Surname Index.
  5. Vol. XXI, No. 1, Spring 2001.
    CONTENTS: Officers and Board of Director; President's Message; Message from the Editor; What Can You Believe?; East Baton Rouge Cemetery Project; Despatches of the Spanish Governors of Louisiana; The Religion of the Natives of Virginia, Thomas Hariot, 1560-1621; James Martimer Loudon; In Memoriam; The Lost Hill Bible; Mrs. Pierre Delatte, nee Emma Montero; Original Records; It's Tough Being So Rich; Some Litigation from the Spanish West Florida Records; The Majesty of Natchez, A Book Review.
  6. Vol. XXI, No. 2, Summer 2001.
    CONTENTS: Announcements of Interest; John Parkman Collins, Son of a Louisiana Planter; My Experiences as a "Newbie" in Genealogy; East Baton Rouge Parish Cemetery Project; A Salute to Thoughtful Family Members; A Great Migration, The Story of the Norwoods and Related Families from Darlington District, South Carolina; A Book Review: Bayou Manchac and Its People by Leroy Willie; A Message from the Editor; A Book Review: The Diary of Laura Lacoul of Laura Plantation; A Guide to the Microfilm Collection of Early State Records West Florida; Roster of Membership.
  7. Vol. XXI, No. 3, Fall 2001.
    CONTENTS: In Memory; The Struggle to Vote in Early Louisiana; The Houston-LeBranche Duel; Who Are We? Where Does Our Money Go?; Importation of Slaves (Communicated to the Senate, January 23, 1804); James Turner of West Feliciana Parish; Accolades and Announcements; My Genealogy Journey; Index to Archives of Spanish West Florida; It May Be Time to Take Another Look; Nominating Committee Appointed; The Continuing Tribulations of Richard the Beginner; Supplemental Membership List; Statement of Dues for Year 2002; Guess Who, Queries.
  8. Vol. XXI, No. 4, Winter 2001.
    CONTENTS: Louisiana in the Good Old Summer Time; A Message from President Elect Paul Roy; Church Histories: St. Francis Church, Pointe Coupee-Half Moon Bluff Baptist Church, Bogue Chitto River, Franklinton, Washington Parish-St. John's Episcopal Church, Thibodaux, Louisiana-St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Innis, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana-Plains Presbyterian Church, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; The Stone-Athens House, The LSU Rural Life Museum; In Memorium, Dr. Paul Powers Entrikin, Sr.; Salute to Thoughtful Family Member, Sallie Patin; Baines Family Bible; From One Generation to the Next, Bluebonnet Library Genealogy Room; The John Bennett Dawson Family; The Succession of Marie Zelina Trosclair & Community; Richard the Beginner; The Rules of Life According to Bill Gates; Supplemental Membership List.
  9. Vol. XXII, No. 1, Spring 2002.
    CONTENTS: The Search for Susan Burnell: A Lesson in the Complexities of Oral Tradition; Excerpt from England in 1685: The County Gentleman; Proposals for Changes to the Articles of Incorporation and the By-Laws; Roselawn Memorial Park; Stoker Barn; Cemetery Books Available, Bluebonnet Library; In Memoriam; Descendant's List Englehardt Schaubhut; The Advocate, July 7, 1891 A Mad Cyclone Sweeps Over the City at 6:30 A. M.; Morganza, Louisiana, Photo About 1897 (School Children); Getting to Know You; Group Email Addresses; That's Telling Them; Supplemental Membership List.
  10. Vol. XXII, No. 2, Summer 2002.
    CONTENTS: Translation of "Giles Caillouet, Gunsmith, A Pioneer of Boneventure"; Zachary Historic Village Hands on History and Genealogy; Book Reveiw A Look at Louisiana's First Century 1804-1903, by Leroy Willie; History of St. Joseph Co-Cathedral, Houma-Thibodeaux; Report from the Cemetery Committee of One; The Penny-Newport-Nettles Cemetery; Oldest Succession File in the Clerk of Court's Office, East Baton Rouge Parish; British Era in Pensacola, Florida, West Florida Royal Forresters-1780; Second Oldest Succession File in the Clerk's of Court's Office, East Baton Rouge, Parish; Getting to Know You; Membership Directory Update; People Helping People.
  11. Vol. XXII, No. 3, Fall 2002.
    CONTENTS: Statement of Policy; Notes from the Editor; Coming Attractions; In Memory, Billie Lipscomb; Cemetery's Tale: The Killing of the O'Neal Brothers; O'Neal Cemetery; Descendants List Peter O'Neal and Martha Susanna Capers; East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court, Genealogy Assist Program; Getting Ready for the Big Celebration: 30th April 1803: The United States Purchases the "Colony or Province of Louisiana"; Who Are We, Really? Does Anybody Know?; A Short History of the Haynes, Harbour, and Johnson Families of Louisiana and Mississippi; Welcome New Members; Voting on the Amended Articles and Proposed By-Laws.
  12. Vol. XXII, No. 4, Winter 2002.
    CONTENTS: Statement of Policy; Election of Officers, Amended Articles and Adoption of By-Laws; In Memory; Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference; The Protestant Orphans Home; The Tucker Cemetery-Showing the Relationships of Family Members Buried There; The Louisiana Purchase-The Land and the People; To Continue...; Following up on Jim Welsh's Article: When Should We Celebrate Our Anniversary?; The Dating Game According to the US GenWeb; Getting to Know You-Descendants of Jean Baptiste Altazan & Descendants of Adolph Treuil; Whose in Charge Here? Is Your Email Getting the Best of You?; Welcome New Members.
  13. Vol. XXIII, No. 1, Spring 2003.
    CONTENTS: Statement of Policy; Officers and Board of Directors; Committees Chairs; In Memory; The Hart Family of Baton Rouge; Effects of Louisiana Purchase: Laws and the Judicial System; So Near-So Little Known, Louisiana's Airborne Memorial; Burials at St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church; A Legacy of Love; Roster of Email Addresses; Financial Report.
  14. Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Summer 2003.
    CONTENTS: Announcement; Just a Short Note; Calendar; In Memory; 20th Annual Commemorative Ceremony, The Battle of Baton Rouge; An Irish Odyssey, The Legacy of Timothy Hugh Corcoran; Recognition of Land Claims Within the State of Louisiana; Searching the Census.
  15. Vol. XXIII, No. 3, Fall 2003.
    CONTENTS: Announcements: Election of Officers for 2004; In Memory; Genealogical Research Seminar, New Orleans; My Search for the Ancestors of Jean Baptiste de Porte; A Brief History of St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery; Books of Interest at Bluebonnet; Juneau International Family Reunion Holds 12th Reunion in New Orleans; The Hills That Rolled; Corrections to Membership Directory; People Helping People.

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