Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Jefferson Parish, LA  to the west
• Orleans Parish, LA  to the north
• Saint Bernard Parish, LA  to the northeast

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

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

Cemeteries (10)

Census Records and Indexes (28)

Church Records

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

Court and Legal Records

• Judicial record of the 2nd judicial district court, 1867-1879  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Minute book of the 24th judicial district court, 1880-1888  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Minute book of the Parish Court, 1814-1824, 1869-1876  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Plaquemines Parish Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)
• Record of successions, 1814-1876; index to suits and successions, 1868-1924  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Plaquemines Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Hygiene Plantation      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• Plaquemines Parish      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana  1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans     (Source: Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Plaquemines Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)

Estate Records

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

Ethnic

• Louisiana, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872  includes De Cross Station and Jesuits Bend     (Source: FamilySearch)
• 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)

History

• National Register of Historic Places      (Source: National Register of Historic Places)
• Plaquemines Parish      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Plaquemines Parish Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Plaquemines Parish History 
• Plaquemines Parish History  "Le Pays des Fluers Oranges"     (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Plaquemines Parish History      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana      (Source: LandmarkHunter.com)
• Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana 

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

  • Balize, LA Area Steamer TANGIPAHO Fire, Mar 1838      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Great Mississippi River Flood, 1927      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Gulf Coast, LA, MS, AL, FL Hurricane BETSY, Sep 1965      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Mississippi River, LA, AR, MS Flooding, May 1927      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Plaquemines Parish Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Plaquemines Parish Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Plaquemines Parish, LA Fierce Tornado Destruction, May 1873      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Plaquemire Parish, LA Boiler Explosion, Nov 1886      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Various Towns, MS, AR, TN Flooding, Apr 1927      (Source: GenDisasters)

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)
• Plaquemines County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)
• Plaquemines Parish      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Plaquemines parish, Louisiana Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy, Inc.)

Land Records

• Conveyance Index starting in 1856  Louisiana Clerks' Portal, available to the general public, you will need to set up an account, but there is no charge
• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• Plaquemines Parish Conveyances and Indexes  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Plaquemines Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Library Directory for Plaquemines County, Louisiana      (Source: libraries.org - A directory of libraries throughout the world)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Plaquemines Parish, Lousiana     (Source: Find My Past)
• Plaquemines Parish Collections      (Source: Louisiana Digital Library)
• Plaquemines Parish Data Collections      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• LAPLAQUE Plaquemines Parish genealogy

  • LAPLAQUE Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• The coasts of West Florida, Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana  1828     (Source: David Rumsey Map Collection)
• Individual County Chronologies  Plaquemines Parish     (Source: The Newberry Library)
• Plaquemines Parish Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Plaquemines Parish Post Offices 
• Plaquemines Parish Postal Covers      ($)

Military Records and Histories

• Fort Jackson, Louisiana      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Jackson, Fort, LA  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Petite Coquille, LA  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• St Philip, Fort, LA  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Plaquemines 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 Plaquemines Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)
  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Plaquemines County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Miscellaneous Data

• Plaquemines Parish Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Plaquemines Parish Voters      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Plaquemines County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Historical Pointe A La Hache Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• Louisiana Digital Newspapers & Magazines  Plaquemines Parish
• Lower coast gazette, Pointe-a-la-Hache, La.  1909-1914     (Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers)
• Plaquemines Parish      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Pointe a la Hache Historical Newspapers      (Source: Newspapers.com)     ($)
• Search Pointe a la Hache Historical Newspapers      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Search St. Sophie Historical Newspapers      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Belle Chasse Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Belle Chasse, Louisiana Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• The Plaquemines Gazette 
• Plaquemines Parish Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (14)

School Records and Histories

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

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (67)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Plaquemines Parish      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana     (Source: Google Patents)
• Plaquemines Parish  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Plaquemines Parish Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Wedell-Williams Landing Field / Alvin Callender Municipal Airport / Alvin Callender Naval Outlying Landing Field  Belle Chasse, Louisiana     (Source: Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields)

Vital Records

• Marriage Index starting in 1896  Louisiana Clerks' Portal, available to the general public, you will need to set up an account, but there is no charge
• Plaquemines Parish Birth Records      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Plaquemines Parish Deaths  1990     (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Plaquemines Parish Marriage Records      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Plaquemines Parish Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• Plaquemines Parish Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Plaquemines Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Plaquemines Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)

Wiki

• Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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