Introduction to the Bayou State: Louisiana for Beginners
Rorey Cathcart
Content
Welcome
1m 4s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 14s
Introduction
8m 6s
Migration
7m 36s
Courts
5m 27s
Vital Records Access
5m 37s
Common Records
10m 26s
Subgroup Research
5m 47s
Research Strategies
5m 15s
Announcements / prizes
8m 19s
Questions / answers
16m 46s
About this webinar
Tracing your Louisiana ancestors can be challenging. Get off to a great start with a brief introduction to her varied legal history, important migration events and blended ethnic influences. Review repositories, unique record collections and vital records access requirement along with strategies for successful research.
\nAbout the speaker
Rorey Cathcart is a professional genealogist and owner of The Who Hunter LLC based in Charleston, South Carolina. She has spoken locally and nationally on topics of interest to genealogists and societ...
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Comments (4)
For the German Coast there is a reginal genealogy society dedicated to that group. They publish a journal called Les Voyaguers. This is their web-site: https://gachgs.com/ They also have a Facebook page. You can search for it under German Acadian Coast Historical and Genealogical Society.
LA became a state in 1812. The American Italian Cultural Center in New Orleans has a web-site: https://americanitalianculturalcenter.com/museum/ There are also a number of books about this group. The Sicilians settled mostly in NO, but also on the North Shore of Lake Pontchatrain and the River Parishes upriver from New Orleans.
One particular category of records that was not mentioned, but are very helpful, are the indexes to Catholic Church records that you can find in just about any library in LA. Even if you don't believe your family was Catholic, you should check out these resources. Before LA became a state they were colonies of Catholic countries - France and Spain. Especially if you have deep roots in LA, chances are you will find some of them in these books. They include: Fr. Donald Hebert's SWLA Records, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Diocese of New Orleans Catholic Church Records and Elizabeth Shown Mills has a series of books of Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post. I can not emphasize how important these books are for researchers in LA.
Appreciated the insight and suggested resources. \n\nBrilliant webinar with lots of leads to check out.\n\nExcellent presentation\n\nExcellent presentation! I don't have any Louisiana ancestors that I know of, but I always come away from these webinars with new clues for searching elsewhere. This time it was searching for my Swedish ancestor in Chicago, Iowa and California in answer to the person who was searching for her ancestor In early Louisiana. It didn't occur to me to Google it. Thank you.\n\nExcellent presentation; logical and to the point.\n\nGood job with a difficult research area. Thank you\n\nGood session. \n\nGreat webinar Thanks\n\nInformative but I would like more intermediate level tips.\n\nLoved it!\n\nNice presentation and useful handout. \n\nRelate some good information and hints\n\nRorey was very interesting and tried to cover a broad area of research in a short time. Rorey did an excellent job as I have been researching Louisiana for 50 years and still learned things from tonight \n\nRoreys presentations are always outstanding!\n\nShe did an excellent job. Highly recommend! \n\nSuper interesting with Louisiana research.\n\nEnjoyed the talk.\n\nThanks for all the good information!\n\nVery complete and interesting. I would love her to do a Mississippi one as well.\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative. Picked up some great tips to help with researching my Louisiana and Mississippi African American ancestors.\n\nWhile I do not have any New Orleans ancestors, I gained new insights into possible ways to find some missing ancestors in other areas. Great presentation!