Although normally not viewed as such, telephone books, especially the older ones, can contain much valuable genealogical and historical data. Many researchers have located information, otherwise unobtainable, through the use of phonebooks. In the absence of Census and City Directory information, phonebooks and certain court records offer about the only additional data about who lived where when. The first known Tallulah phonebook was published in 1903 and had only 54 entries.

Ideally it would be great to have Tallulah phonebook data for each five year period since 1900, especially those years not covered by a census. The 1976 Tallulah phonebook was the first in an effort to hopefully create such a Madison Parish Phonebook Database. So if anyone has any old phonebooks to loan I will see that they get scanned, added and returned. Please contact me at dicksevier@comcast.net. Many thanks to Josephine Phillips Hodge for the 1956, 1967 & 1969 phonebooks and to Kizzy Bynum of the Madison Parish Library for the 1971 and 1980 phonebooks.

The phonebooks are presented in two formats. The name list shows names just as they appear in the phonebook. In addition the list has been sorted by address. This address list functions just like a City Directory and, among other things, shows who is living next to whom on what street. In an effort to make these lists more personal, most of the federal, state and local offices and a few business concerns have been omitted. Although phone numbers are also listed, they have not been edited. Their inclusion is secondary in importance to the names and addresses. RPS September 2008.

 

Tallulah Phonebooks

 

*Does not include most city, parish, state and federal government listings

Madison Parish GenWeb Site

 

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