Category: Louisiana

New Orleans Genesis ...1971

By: Genealogy Research Society of New Orleans

Price: $125.00

Publisher: : 1971

Seller ID: mclag1971

Binding: Library Blue Cloth

Condition: NEW

Volume: 10--1971..Jan--#37; March...#38; June...#39; Sept...#40
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Bread and Respect: The Italians of Louisiana

By: A. V. Margavio, Jerome Salomone

Price: $99.00

Publisher: Pelican Publishing : 2002

Seller ID: la2210

ISBN: 978-1589800236

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: New

Using vignettes, family histories, and census as well as other historical records, this book examines how Italian culture shaped the lives of the immigrants to Louisiana and, in turn, how experiences in Louisiana modified the Old World values and culture the Italians brought with them.

Index.320 p. &
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Louisiana Marriage Contracts 1725-1758

By: Alice Forsyth & Ghislaine Pleasonton

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New Orleans, LA, Polyanthos, Inc. : 1980

Seller ID: mcla2100

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: new

Louisiana and Mississippi Valley historians and genealogists. The utility of Louisiana marriage contracts for historical research derives from a combination of three factors. First, the custom of Frenchmen, Secondly, again by custom but also to a considerable extent due to legal requirements for several centuries. Thirdly, the notarial form precedent routinely for the perpetuation of genealogical information on a scale probably not equaled by any other type of French public document 263 pages. @
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Records Of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers And Louisiana Confederate Commands Volume III - Book 2 O'B - Z

By: Andrew B. Booth

Price: $65.00

Publisher: : 1984

Seller ID: mclalw2000

ISBN-13: 9780871524034

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Like New

1195 pages. Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, starting with: O'Brian, G. W., ending in Zylks, Thomas G.
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Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, Three Volume Set

By: Andrew B. Booth

Price: $425.00

Publisher: Reprint Company : 1984

Seller ID: lacw2300

ISBN-13: 9780871524003

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Ex-library with usual markings.

The collection consists of Confederate service records of soldiers who served in organizations from Louisiana for the years 1861 to 1865.
For each military unit the service records are arranged alphabetically by the soldier's surname. The Military Unit field may also display the surname range (ie. A-G).
Includes an index to battles, campaigns, engagements, etc., fought within the limits of the state of Louisiana, 1861-1865 ...; v. 1, p. 18-20.

Vol. 1&2 in one volume, A-G, Vol. 3 Book 1, G-O'B, Vol. 3 Book 2, O'B-X.

Index. 1,000, 1,312, 1,195 p. &
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Horrible Massacre in Grant Parish, Louisiana

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Wentworth Press : 2016

Seller ID: la2303

ISBN: 978-1363306831

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Two Hundred men Killed: Details of the Occurrence: Meeting of Colored men in New Orleans: Address and Speeches.

26 p. &
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A History of St. Mary Parish

By: Bernard Broussard

Price: $75.00

Publisher: : 1977

Seller ID: mcla2017

Condition: Like New

196 pages, free shipping media mail. When the first Europeans visited Louisiana during the early 1700's they found 15,000 Indians living within the present boundaries of the state, but by the time of the settlement of the Louisiana colony a century and a half later, the total had a declined to an estimated 12,000 to 13,000.
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Final Destinations A Travel Guide for Remarkable Cemeteries

By: Bryan Woolley, Larry Bleiberg, Leon Unruh, Jean Simmons, Tom Simmons, Kathryn Straach, Bob Bersano

Price: $21.00

Publisher: : 2000

Seller ID: mc2021

ISBN-13: 9781574410853

Condition: New

210 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. Cemeteries hold fascination for history buffs and family genealogists, and this book is a valuable guide for both. It provided information about the more well-known gravesites, such as Sam Houston's at Huntsville's Oakwood Cemetery, but also the less well-known locations.
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Natchitoches Neighbors in the Neutral Strip

By: Carolyn Ericson

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: mctxn2000

ISBN-13: 9780911317398

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Included in this volume were land claims printed January 7, 1836 as Document 49, House of Representatives, 24th Congress, 1st Session, dated January 7, 1836. They were printed also by Volume IV "American State Papers". 162 pages, indexed.

Names include: Boudin, Chamard, Ignono, McGuffin, Poissot, Winfree
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Federal Land Grants in the Territory of Orleans The Delta Parishes

By: Charles R. Maduell, Jr.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: : 1975

Seller ID: mcla2008

Condition: New

406 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. Federal Land Grants in the Territory of Orleans The Delta Parishes. Adapted from American State Papers, Public Lands, Volume II, and arranged by counties as they existed in 1812
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The Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana, From 1699 Through 1732

By: Charles R. Maduell, Jr.

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: mcla2007

ISBN-13: 9780806304908

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Used Library, Fair

This is a compilation of the twenty-eight earliest census records of Louisiana. Such records have proved time and again to be the foundation and touchstone of modern genealogy. These particular census records cover, at one period or another, Fort Maurepas, Biloxi, Mobile, Natchez, New Orleans, and other locations. The records are both civilian and military, mainly the former, and they extend from 1699 through 1732. Besides census records, the reader will find lists of 1,704 marriageable girls, a 1726 list of persons requesting negroes, landowner lists, and a list of persons massacred at Fort R...
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Historical Atlas of Louisiana

By: Charles Robert Goins, John Michael Caldwell

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Press : 1995

Seller ID: la2204

ISBN-13: 9780806126821

Binding: Soft cover

Dr. Caldwell has provided us with excellent information in this book as it gives an accurate history of Louisiana's unique culture, geography and people.

Index. 99 p. &
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The Acadian Miracle

By: Dudley J. LeBlanc

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Evangeline Publishing Co. : 1966

Seller ID: la2202

Binding: Hard cover

Author Dudley LeBlanc was a long time President of the Association of Louisiana Acadians, organizing pilgrimages to the Canadian homeland in 1930, 1936, and 1963. Each of these journeys included a stop at the White House to meet the President. This is a classic account of the the story of the Acadian people and its persecution at the hands of the British and contains valuable information for both the historian and the genealogist.

Index. 419 p. &
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Bayou St. John in colonial Louisiana, 1699-1803

By: Edna B. Freiberg

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edna B. Freiberg : 1980

Seller ID: la2300

Binding: Hard cover

Traces the early history of Bayou St. John which developed into an important transportation route and drainage facility for New Orleans and surrounding areas.

Folded map in pocket on back flyleaf.

Index. 436 p. &
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New Orleans and the Texas Revolution

By: Edward L. Miller

Price: $29.95

Seller ID: mctx1553

ISBN-13: 9781585443581

Binding: Library

Condition: Very Good

In the fall of 1835, Creole mercantile houses that backed the Mexican Federalists in their opposition to Santa Anna essentially lost the fight for Texas to the Americans of the Faubourg St. Marie. As a result, New Orleans capital, some $250,000 in loans, and New Orleans men and arms—two companies known as the New Orleans Greys—went to support the upstart Texians in their battle against Santa Anna.Author Edward L. Miller has delved into previously unused or overlooked papers housed in New Orleans to reconstruct a chain of events that set the Crescent City in many ways at the center of the Texia...
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The Notarial Acts of Estevan De Quinones
1785-1786

By: Elizabeth Becker Gianelloni

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: mcla2003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This work continues the effort to add dimension to the image of those individuals who were our colonial ancestors, through glimpses of high oments in their lives afforded by the pen of Estevan de Quinones, Spanish notary of New Orleans.From far and near they had come to the Province of Louisiana.France, Spain, Germany, England, Ireland, and Italy are named as the country of their birth, and the islands of Corsica, Mallorca, the Canaries, Cuba, Martinique, Miquelon, and Santo Domingo. Acadians brought from France by the Spanish Expeditions of 1785 formed a large accession to the population. Oth...
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