Ascension Parish, Louisiana:
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Projects

• Ascension Parish      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Ascension Parish, Louisiana      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties

• Assumption Parish, LA  to the south
• East Baton Rouge Parish, LA  to the north
• Iberville Parish, LA  to the west
• Livingston Parish, LA  to the northeast
• Saint James Parish, LA  to the south
• Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA  to the east

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Ascension Parish Biographies      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Ascension Parish Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Ascension Parish Families      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Ascension Parish GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)
• Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)

Cemeteries

• Ascension Cemeteries      (Source: Louisiana Cemeteries)
• Ascension Parish  Louisiana Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Ascension Parish Cemeteries      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Ascension Parish Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Ascension Parish Cemetery Page      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Billion Graves for Ascension Parish, Louisiana      (Source: Billion Graves)
• Listing of Ascension Parish Cemeteries  Louisiana Cemetery Board
• Louisiana Gravestones  Ascension Parish
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (28)

Court and Legal Records

• Ascension Parish Court Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Ascension Parish Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Ascension Parish Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information (14)

Estate Records

• Louisiana Will and Probate Records, 1756-1984  includes Ascension Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Ethnic

• Donaldsonville, Louisiana      (Source: Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life)
• Louisiana, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872  includes Donaldsonville, St James and Waterloo     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0071, includes Columbia and Donaldsonville     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0072, includes Donaldsonville     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0073, includes Donaldsonville     (Source: Internet Archive)

History

• Ascension Parish      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Ascension Parish 
• Ascension Parish Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Ascension Parish History 
• Ascension Parish Town and City Histories      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Ascension Parish, Louisiana      (Source: LandmarkHunter.com)
• National Register of Historic Places      (Source: National Register of Historic Places)

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • Donaldsonville, Louisiana      (Source: Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life)

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Ascension Parish Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Ascension Parish Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Donaldsonville, LA Steamer 'Yalabusha' Disaster, Feb 1848      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides

• Ascension County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)
• Ascension Parish      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Ascension parish, Louisiana Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy, Inc.)
• Cyndi's List of Louisiana locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)

Land Records (10)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (10)

Lookups

• Ascension Parish Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• LAASCENS Ascension Parish genealogy

  • LAASCENS Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Ascension Parish Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Ascension Parish Post Offices 
• Ascension Parish Post Offices  1846     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Ascension Parish Postal Covers      ($)
• Ascension Parish Rivers      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Ascension Parish Sanborn Maps      (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Individual County Chronologies  Ascension Parish     (Source: The Newberry Library)
• Map of the Parishes of Iberville most of West Baton Rouge and Including Parts of the Parishes of St. Martins, Ascension, and Pointe Coupee Louisiana  1883

Military Records and Histories

• Ascension Parish Military Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Donaldsonville, LA  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Ascension Parish, Louisiana     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Ascension Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)
  • Civil War Draft Registrations Records  1863-1865     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War I

  • Louisiana World War I Service Records, 1917-1920  includes Accension Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)
  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Ascension County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Miscellaneous Data

• Ascension Parish Business Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Ascension Parish Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records (14)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (10)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Ascension      (Source: Detroit Publishing Company)
• Ascension Parish  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Ascension Parish Courthouse 
• Ascension Parish Photographs  Jan 1935-June 1944     (Source: Photogrammar)
• Ascension Parish, Donaldsonville  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Ascension Parish, Sorrento  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Donaldsonville  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Historical Postcards of Ascension Parish      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

School Records and Histories

• Ascension Parish School Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Donaldsonville School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Gonzales School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Societies

• Canary Islanders Heritage Society of Louisiana 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (95)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: FamilySearch)

Transportation and Industry

• Ascension Parish  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Building histories of Ascension Parish      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Patents  Ascension Parish, Louisiana     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records (10)

Wiki

• Ascension Parish, Louisiana Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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