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

Cemeteries

• Lafayette Cemeteries      (Source: Louisiana Cemeteries)
• Lafayette Parish  Louisiana Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Lafayette Parish Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• 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
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (28)

Church Records

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

Court and Legal Records

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

Ethnic

• 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

• Lafayette Parish      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Lafayette Parish      (Source: Encyclopedia Louisiana)
• Lafayette Parish Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Lafayette Parish History      (Source: USGenWeb Louisiana Archives)
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Churches and Other Religious Institutions

  • Acadiana District  The Historical Register for every United Methodist Church in the Louisiana Annual Conference

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • City of Carencro History 

• Library

  • Lafayette Public Library Timeline 

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

  • Hurricane in Sept-Oct 1860      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Lafayette County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Lafayette, LA Explosion Of Steamer FALLS CITY, Apr 1858      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Lafayette, LA Helicopter Crash In Gulf Of Mexico, Dec 1977      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Lafayette, Lafourche, La Salle, Lincoln and Livingston Parish Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Lafayette, Louisiana Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • Vermillion Bayou Battle Summary  1863     (Source: American Battlefield Protection Program)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Land Records (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (10)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Lafayette County, LA Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• Lafayette Parish Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• LALAFAYE-L Lafayette Parish genealogy

  • LALAFAYE-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • LALAFAYE-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • LALAFAYE-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• La Fayette Parish Post Offices  1846     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Lafayette Parish      (Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas)
• Lafayette Parish Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Lafayette Parish Post Offices 
• Lafayette Parish Postal Covers      ($)
• Lafayette Parish Topo Maps and Aerial Photos      (Source: Trails.com)
• Tiger Map Server Browser 

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: Family History Library)
  • Southern Claims Commission  Lafayette Parish - Barred and Disallowed Claims     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
  • Vermillion Bayou Battle Summary  1863     (Source: American Battlefield Protection Program)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Lafayette County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Lafayette Parish, Louisiana  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Lafayette Consolidated Government Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Lafayette Parish Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Louisiana National Register of Historic Places  Lafayette Parish
• Migrations through Lafayette Parish      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Lafayette County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Historical Lafayette Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• The Lafayette Advertiser  Transcriptions of the "Personals" section
• The Lafayette gazette, Lafayette, La.  1893-1903
• Lafayette Historical Newspapers      (Source: Newspapers.com)     ($)
• Lafayette Parish      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (12)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (10)

School Records and Histories

• Lafayette School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Southwestern Louisiana Institute - Lacadien Yearbook (Lafayette, LA)  Class of 1935     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Southwestern Louisiana Institute - Lacadien Yearbook (Lafayette, LA)  Class of 1945     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Southwestern Louisiana Institute - Lacadien Yearbook (Lafayette, LA)  Class of 1951     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1832 Document of John D. James  about sale to Mrs. Sarah A. H. Allen of Feilding Blackwell, a slave     (Source: Tennessee: A Documentary History)
• 1850 Slave Schedules  Lafayette Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Lafayette Parish      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Lafayette Parish     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• Galvez Chapter  Lafayette     (Source: Wayback Machine)
• General Louis Hebert Camp 2032, Lafayette      (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Lafayette Genealogical Society  Attakapas area
• Scott Historical and Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (196)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)

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 Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Lafayette Parish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Lafayette Parish     (Source: Family History Library)

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