Lafayette Parish, Louisiana:
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Projects

• Lafayette Consolidated Government, Louisiana      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Lafayette Parish      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Lafayette Parish GenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Lafayette Parish LAGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Acadia Parish, LA  to the northwest
• Iberia Parish, LA  to the southeast
• Saint Landry Parish, LA  to the north
• Saint Martin Parish, LA  to the east
• Vermilion Parish, LA  to the south

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

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

Cemeteries

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

Census Records and Indexes (25)

Church Records

• Lafayette Parish Church Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)

Court and Legal Records

• District and Parish Court minutes, 1823-1887  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Lafayette Parish Court Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Lafayette Parish Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  La Fayette Parish Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Directories

• Lafayette City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Lafayette Parish, Louisiana City, Parish and Rural Directories      (Source: Online Historical Directories)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Lafayette Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Lafayette Parish      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Lafayette Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)

Estate Records

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

Ethnic

• Lafayette, Louisiana      (Source: Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0045, Labor Contracts (Agreements with Freedmen) Iberville, Jefferson, Lafayette 1864-68     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0046, Labor Contracts (Agreements with Freedmen) Lafayette, La Fourche, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Orleans, Ouachita, Plaquemines, Pt. Coupee 1866-68     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0104, includes Trinity and Vermillionville     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0105, includes Vermillionville and Vernon     (Source: Internet Archive)

History (17)

Introduction and Guides

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

Land Records (13)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (13)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• LALAFAYE Lafayette Parish genealogy

  • LALAFAYE Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Individual County Chronologies  Lafayette Parish     (Source: The Newberry Library)
• La Fayette Parish Post Offices  1846     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Lafayette Parish Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Lafayette Parish Post Offices 
• Lafayette Parish Postal Covers      ($)
• Lafayette Parish Sanborn Maps      (Source: The Library of Congress)

Military Records and Histories

• Lafayette Parish Military Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  La Fayette Parish, Louisiana     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Lafayette Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)
  • Southern Claims Commission  Lafayette Parish - Barred and Disallowed Claims     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)

• World War I

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Lafayette Parish Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records (11)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (15)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (11)

School Records and Histories

• Lafayette School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Societies

• Lafayette Genealogical Society 
• Lafayette Genealogical Society      (Source: Facebook)
• Scott Historical and Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (187)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

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

Vital Records

• Lafayette Parish birth records      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Lafayette Parish Marriage Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Lafayette Parish Marriage Records      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Lafayette Parish Marriages      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Lafayette Parish Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Marriage Index starting in 1944  Louisiana Clerks' Portal, available to the general public, you will need to set up an account, but there is no charge
• Southwest Louisiana, U.S., Deaths Index  1861-1905     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Lafayette Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Lafayette Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)

Wiki

• Lafayette Parish, Louisiana Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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