Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana:
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Projects

• St. Mary Parish      (Source: USGenWeb)
• St. Mary Parish, Louisiana      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties

• Assumption Parish, LA  to the east
• Iberia Parish, LA  to the northwest
• Saint Martin Parish, LA  to the northeast
• Terrebonne Parish, LA  to the southeast

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

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

Cemeteries

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

Census Records and Indexes (27)

Court and Legal Records

• Flat files of the Gonsoulin-Belle Isle heirship matter and family tree of heirs in suit 29, 145 of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  St. Mary's Parish Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• Minute book of District Court, 1811-1891  Viewing restrictions may apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• St. Mary Parish Court Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• St. Mary Parish Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  St Mary Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Attakapas County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• Bayside Plantation      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• Old Johnson Plantation      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• St. Mary Parish      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• St. Mary 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  St. Mary Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)

Estate Records

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

Ethnic

• Louisiana, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872  includes Brashear City and Franklin     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Morgan City, 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 0074, includes Franklin     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0075, includes Franklin     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0076, includes Franklin     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0077, includes Franklin     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872  Reel 0078, includes Franklin     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Sovereign Nation of the Chitimacha 
• St. Mary Parish African American Genealogy and Reseach Group      (Source: Yahoo! Groups)

History (27)

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

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• St. Mary Parish Conveyances and Indexes  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• St. Mary Parish Land Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  St Mary Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Assumption, St Mary Parishes     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  St Martin, St Mary Parishes     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  St Mary, Terrebonne Parishes     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Iberia, St Mary Parishes     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (10)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)
• St. Mary Parish African American Genealogy and Reseach Group      (Source: Yahoo! Groups)

• LASTMARY Saint Mary Parish genealogy

  • LASTMARY Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Individual County Chronologies  St. Mary Parish     (Source: The Newberry Library)
• Saint Mary Parish Post Offices 
• Saint Mary Parish Postal Covers      ($)
• Saint Mary Parish Sanborn Maps      (Source: The Library of Congress)
• St. Mary Parish Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• St. Mary's Parish Post Offices  1846     (Source: Internet Archive)

Military Records and Histories

• Brashear City, LA  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Franklin, LA  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Saint Mary's Parish, Louisiana     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  St Mary Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)
  • Civil War Draft Registrations Records  1863-1865     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
  • Southern Claims Commission  Saint Mary Parish - Approved Claims, 1871-1880     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
  • Southern Claims Commission  St. Mary Parish - Barred and Disallowed Claims     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)

• World War I

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

Miscellaneous Data

• St. Mary Parish Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records (14)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (12)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (10)

School Records and Histories

• Franklin School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Morgan City School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. School Catalogs, 1765-1935  includes Gilbert Academy and Agricultural College, Winsted     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (162)

Tax Lists

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

Transportation and Industry

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

Vital Records

• Southwest Louisiana, U.S., Deaths Index  1861-1905     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• St. Mary Parish Birth Records      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• St. Mary Parish Vital Records      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• St. Mary Parish Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  St Mary Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  St. Mary Parish     (Source: FamilySearch)

Wiki

• St. Mary Parish, Louisiana Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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