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Welcome to Ascension Parish


This page was last updated on Friday, 12-Oct-2012 17:57:55 MDT


Coordinator Needed

If you would like to adopt this parish, contact Edward Hayden, LAGenWeb Project State Coordinator.

We need volunteers willing to assist in providing resources for this website. If you have biographies, wills, or obituaries of early residents of Ascension Parish, please consider sharing them at this site. If you can transcribe census or cemetery information, we'd greatly appreciate it!

 
Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society Society Cemeteries in Ascension Parish, LA
Ascension Parish History Lookup Volunteers
Family Trees: French Louisiana Map 1699-1763
Old Queries: 1997-1998; 2003 Surnames
Ascension Parish Message Board Ascension Parish Mailing List
  Resources
 

 

Go to.....Louisiana Resources.....Cemeteries.....Census.....Court.....Ethnic.....History.....Land.....

.....Mail List and Message Boards.....Ship Passenger Lists.....Military.....Patents.....

.....Vitals..(Births, Marriages, Deaths).....

.....USGenWeb & World Project Links.....USGenWeb Special Projects.....

Go to.....Other Resources: Books, Copyright Questions and Answers, Ethnic Links, Libraries

 

 
 
Louisiana Resources
List of U. S. Resources for Louisiana at RootsWeb
Cyndie's List: Louisiana Resources
LOUISiana Digital Library
New Orleans Public Library: Louisiana Division City Archives and Special Collections
New Orleans Public Library: Genealogical Links
Greater New Orleans Archivists
L.S.U. Special Collections
L.S.U. Special Collections: Newspapers
Louisiana Masonic Family
Young-Sanders Center Foundation
Info Louisiana
Louisiana Page Locale
Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum

Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society

P. O. Box 82060
Baton Rouge, LA 70884-2060
Louisiana Genealogical &Historical Society

   
 
Cemeteries
Louisiana Cemetery Board
Cemetery, Epitaphs, Gravestone Information
USGenWeb Tombstone Project
USGenWeb Tombstone Project ~ Louisiana
Cemeteries of TX by Gloria Mayfield (Includes: some Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
Cemeteries of TX by Gloria Mayfield ~ Louisiana
Find-a-Grave
Find-a-Grave: Browse by a County Search Form (Choose a state at this link)
Find-a-Grave ~ Louisiana
Grave Matters
Interment.net
Interment.net ~ Louisiana
Tea for Two Gravesites by Allen Wheatley
States: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MI, MN, MS, MO, NC, NE, ND, NJ, NM, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WV

Countries: Canada, England, Luxembourg, Hong Kong

   
 
Census
The USGenWeb Census Project
~The USGenWeb Census Project - Louisiana
USGenWeb Census Project
~USGenWeb Census Project ~ Louisiana
~ 1860 Slave Census
   
 
Court
Orleans Parish Estate Files, 1804-1846
 
   
 
Ethnic
Louisiana Regional Folklife Program
---Projects
~Acadians/Cajuns
History of the Acadians
Acadians
Acadian-Cajun Genealogy
LSU - Genetics and Louisiana Families
~African-Americans
African-American Griots
African-American Griots ~ Louisiana
African-American Heritage Trail - Louisiana
African-American Oral Traditions - Louisiana
African-American History - Louisiana
Louisiana Archives Index Of African American Genealogy
African American Resource Center
~Germans
History of the German Coast - St. Charles Parish
Germans in Southeast Louisiana
~Irish
Irish-Italian Parade
Irish in New Orleans
~Italians
Irish-Italian Parade
Italian Americans
Italian Traditions in Independent, Louisiana
~Native Americans
Tribes in Louisiana
---Map showing approximate location of tribes
Atakapa, including the Taensa and Opelousas
Caddo
Chitimacha
Choctaw
---Choctaw Indian [dot] com
---Chief Pergson's Home Page
---Jena Band of Choctaw Indians
---Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Houma
Natchez
Tunica
 
 
History
Colonial Louisiana History and Genealogy
Colonial Louisana History
Colonial French
Foundation for Historical Louisiana
Louisiana Ancestors
   
 
Military
~General
Military files at the USGenWeb Archives Project - Louisiana
NARA online Veterans and Military Documents
Women who gave their lives
~American Revolution
NARA: ARC Gallery, American Revolution
~War of 1812
Second War with England (History)
War of 1812 Website
Link to other War of 1812 Places
War of 1812 Debate
War is Declared
War of 1812 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
War of 1812, Battles - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louisiana War of 1812 Pension Lists (images)
~Civil War
Online Civil War Indexes, Records and Rosters
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Cornell University)
ARC Gallery, Civil War NARA
National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
Louisiana Monument at Vicksburg National Military Park (photo by bjcb)
Vicksburg National Military Park
---Louisiana Military Operations
---Casualties [pdf]
---Parole Records
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors (CWSS) or CWSS at http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss [Note: on 17 Feb 2011 neither link would work]
Civil War Cemeteries
Confederate Pension Applications [www[dot]sos.louisiana.gov]
~World War I
WWI timeline
NARA: ARC Gallery, WWI
~World War II

WWII Dead & Missing (USArmy & Army Air Force) NARA

WWII Dead & Missing (USArmy & Army Air Force) - NARA, Louisiana
WW II for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel NARA
WW II for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel - NARA, Louisiana
~Korea
Korean War: US Military Fatal Casulties NARA (these are pdf files)
Korean War: US Military Fatal Casulties - NARA, Louisiana (pdf)
~Vietnam
Vietnam Women's Memorial
Vietnam Virtual Wall
Vietnam Virtual Wall ~ Louisiana
Vietnam Casualties by State NARA (these are pdf files)
Vietnam Casualties - NARA, Louisiana (pdf)
~The Gulf Wars
Chronology of the Gulf Wars
Operation Enduring Freedom Links
icasualties.org - death toll numbers listed
Deaths by name in Afghanistan and Iraq
CNN - Afghanistan and Iraq Casualties
Afghanistan - Attack on America @ Global Security
~Desert Storm: Iraq
CNN - Heroes of the war, Iraq
U. S. Casualties in Iraq @ Global Security
Southwest Asia @ Global Security - Timeline and order of battle
Desert Storm @ Global Security
   
 
Patents
Google Patents - Louisiana
   
 
Ship Passenger Lists
Louisiana Index to Ship Passenger Lists [www[dot]sos.louisiana.gov]
Information on Records of Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New Orleans
Ellis Island Foundation
Immigration Records
Immigrant Ship's Transcribers Guild
The Ship List
Firstmom's Genealogy Resources
The Genealogy Spot
Transcribed Ships Manifests. Departing from Germany
   
 
Vital Records
Louisiana Vital Records [www[dot]sos.louisiana.gov]
FamilySearch.org
~Births
Louisiana Births and Christenings: 1811-1839; 1854-1934
~~Marriages
Louisiana Marriages: 1816-1906
~Deaths
Louisiana Deaths: 1894-1954
Social Security Death Index
   
 
Mail Lists by state..........Message Boards by state
Louisiana Mail List -
Message Boards - Louisiana
   
 
   
 
African-American Griot Lineage Project
Church Records Marriage Records
Court Records Obit Project
Digital Map Collection Pension Project
Genealogical Events Special Collections
Kidz Project Tombstone Project
   
 

This parish is available for adoption. Please contact the state coordinator if you are willing to volunteer.

Edward J. Hayden Jr., State Coordinator
Jo Branch, Co-State Coordinator
Annette Womack, Assist.State Coordinator

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