To
save space, I have used abbreviations for many of the references in the notes,
and I have listed limited publication information in the notes for frequently
used references. That information and
more that I hope will enable you to discover the sources I used is contained
here. Unless otherwise indicated, it
should be assumed that all of these references were found in the State Historical
Society Library of Wisconsin, in Madison.
The Library has an excellent set of Louisiana reference books and
journals.
The
Acadians in France: Milton P. Rieder, The Acadians in France, 1762-1776: rolls of the
Acadians living in France distributed by towns for the years 1762 to 1776,
1967.
Acadian
Marriages in France: Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., Acadian Marriages in France: Department
of Ille-et-Vilaine,
1759-1776, 1976.
Attakapas Post: the Census of
1771: Winston DeVille, Attakapas Post: the Census of 1771, 1986.
Autin Family: Traise W. Hebert, Autin Family, Canada to Louisiana, 1720 to 1985,
Genealogy Books, 1985.
The
Bonin and Related Families: Jestnair J. Bonin, The
Bonin and Related Families, Hebert Publications, 1987.
Bourgeois
Lines: Kenneth B. Toups, Bourgeois
Lines, A.B. Westerman, 1985.
BREAUX
Family Ancestry: Clarence T. Breaux, The
Ancestry of Certain BREAUX, BROUSSARD, LOUVIERE, BARRAS, BONIN, PROVOST and
GUILBEAU Families of Louisiana, Acadie, Quebec and
France, 1991.
BREAUX
Genealogy: Clarence T. Breaux, A BREAU GENEALOGY:
Descendants of the Pioneer Acadian, VINCENT BRAULT (1629-1686) in the Male Line
through the Seventh Generation, 1999.
The Brignac Family: Janice
Deitch Young, The Brignac
Family and Their Relatives in Louisiana, 1978.
Broussard: Michael Conover, Broussard: Descendants of
Francois and Nicolas, 1995.
Cabanocey: Lillian C. Bourgeois, Cabanocey:
The History, Customs and Folklore of St. James Parish, 1957.
Census
Tables: Charles R. Maduell
Jr., The Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 through
1732, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1972.
Colonial
Louisiana Marriage Contracts:
Winston DeVille, Colonial Louisiana Marriage
Contracts: v.3, Post of Pointe Coupée, 1736-1803;
v.4, Post of Avoyelles, 1796-1800, 1962.
Compendium
of American Genealogy: Frederick A. Virkus, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American
Genealogy: First Families of America. A Genealogical
Encyclopedia of the United States, F. A. Virkus & Co.
DBRCCR: Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church
Records, a many-volume set of transcriptions of the records from St. James,
Ascension, Assumption, St. Michael’s, and other churches in the Baton Rouge
Diocese.
DGFA: Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire
Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes, (2 Vols.) Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999. I sometimes also refer to this as simply
“White”.
DGFC: Cyprien Tanguay, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'a nos jours,
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967. I
sometimes also refer to this as simply “Tanguay”.
DGFQ: Rene Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique
des Familles du Quebec, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1983. I sometimes also refer to this as simply “Jette”.
Early
Marriages of Pointe Coupee: Veneta de Graffenried Morrison, Index
Early Marriages of Point Coupee, 1771-1843, 1971.
Falgoust: Barbara L. Allen, Falgoust:
a History and Genealogy of the Falgoust and Falgout families of France and Louisiana, 1555-1988,
1988.
First
Families: Glenn R. Conrad, The
First Families of Louisiana, Claitor's Pub. Division, 1970, 2 volumes plus index.
GCC: Winston DeVille, Gulf
Coast Colonials: A Compendium of French Families in Early Eighteenth Century
Louisiana, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968.
GCF: Albert Robichaux, German
Coast Families, Hebert Publications, 1997.
A book I found so useful at the Library that I purchased a copy for myself.
The German Coast: Glenn R. Conrad, The German Coast,
Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. Charles and St. John the Baptist
Parishes, 1804-1812, 1981.
HGA: Bona Arsenault, Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, in 6 volumes. I sometimes also refer to this as simply
“Arsenault”.
LGR: Louisiana Genealogical
Register,
periodical.
LHQ: Louisiana Historical
Quarterly,
periodical.
Livingston Parish
Headstone Inscriptions: Livingston Parish, Louisiana, Headstone
Inscriptions: "Gone but not forgotten.", Edward
Livingston Historical Association, 1980.
Louisiana Census and
Militia Lists: Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., Louisiana census and militia lists,
1770-1789, 1973.
Louisiana Marriage
Contracts: Alice Daly
Forsyth and Ghislaine Pleasonton,
Louisiana Marriage Contracts: A Compilation of Abstracts from Records of the
Superior Council of Louisiana During the French
Regime, 1725-1758, Polyanthos, 1980.
Louisiana Marriage
Contracts – Vol. II: Alice Daly Forsyth, Louisiana Marriage Contracts - Volume II:
Abstracts from Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana, 1728-1769,
1989.
Love’s Legacy: Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine,
Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages Recorded in French, Transcribed, with
Annotated Abstracts in English, 1985.
Marriage
Contracts of the Attakapas Post: Winston de Ville with Jane Guillory Bulliard, Marriage Contracts of the Attakapas
Post, 1760-1803; Colonial Louisiana Marriage Contracts, Volume 5, 1966.
Marriage
Dispensations: Shirley Chiasson Bourquard, Marriage Dispensations in the Diocese of
Louisiana and the Floridas: 1786-1803, Polyanthos, 1980.
NOG: New Orleans Genesis, periodical.
Opelousas
Post: Winston DeVille, Opelousas
Post: the Census of 1771, 1986.
Orleans
Parish Civil Records: Albert J. Robichaux, Civil registration of Orleans Parish: births,
marriages and deaths, 1790-1833, Hebert Publications, 2000.
RAQA: Répertoire
des actes de baptême,
mariage, sépulture et des recensements du Québec ancien, Presses de l'Université
de Montréal, 1980-, collected records from Quebec, both sacramental and civil.
Savoies of LA: Harry J. Savoy, Savoy/Savoie/Savois families of Louisiana, Acadia Pub., 1989.
SLR: Rev. Donald Hebert, South Louisiana
Records: Church and Civil Records of Lafourche-Terrebonne Parishes.
Some
late eighteenth-century Louisianians: Jacqueline K. Voorhies,
Some late eighteenth-century Louisianians; census
records, 1758-1796, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973.
St. Charles Civil
Records: Glenn R. Conrad, Saint Charles, Abstracts
of the Civil Records of St. Charles Parish 1770-1803, 1974.
St.
Gabriel Settlers: Winston DeVille, St.
Gabriel Settlers: the 1777 Census of Iberville District in the Province of
Louisiana, 1987.
St.
Helena Genealogical Abstracts:
Ernest Russ Williams, Jr., Genealogical and historical abstracts of
legal records of Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana, 1804-1870: successions (probates
and wills), 1804-1854 ; tax assessment rolls, 1823,
1824, 1826 ; marriages, 1811-1870, Williams Genealogical and Historical
Pub., 1995.
St.
James Colonial Records: Eileen Larre' Behrman, St. James Parish, Louisiana, colonial
records, 1782-1787, The Clan MacBean Press, 1980.
St. John Civil
Records: Glenn R. Conrad, Saint Jean Baptiste des Allemands, Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. John the
Baptist Parish with Genealogy and Index 1753-1803, 1972, Third Printing
1985.
St.
John the Baptist Baptism Books, St. John the Baptist Funeral Books,
St. John the Baptist Marriage Books: I ordered copies of some records from the
Archivist at the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
Usually I reserved this for transactions I found already indexed
(usually in NOG). This is not
inexpensive - $12 per record – but can be important when the records you want
have been indexed but not abstracted, as is true for many of the 19th
century St. John the Baptist records.
St.
Mary Parish Court Records: Mary
Elizabeth Sanders, Selected annotated abstracts of
St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, Court Records, 1811-1837, 1978.
SWLR: Rev. Donald Hebert, Southwest Louisiana
Records.
Vacherie: Elton Oubre, Vacherie. St. James Parish, Louisiana: History and
Genealogy.
Les Voyageurs: A publication of the
German-Acadian Coast Historical & Genealogical Society. The Library receives this, but I have the
newer issues since I became a member of the Society in 1999.
CENSUS DATA:
There is of course a wealth of data to be gotten
from the censuses. There are
limitations, but if one is careful, the censuses can help to fill in the gaps
in the church data (and vice versa). In general, I tried to work
with the microfilm census data. Many of
these censuses have been transcribed, and it can be very useful to read someone
else’s interpretation of the data, but one has only to read some of the
transcriptions to note that there are significant gaps and uncertainties. Again, I am indebted to the Historical
Society Library for their inventory of censuses on microfilm. Louisiana census indexes after 1870 I needed
to order. For censuses of the parishes
from 1766-1800, I did rely on published transcriptions in various sources.
CITY DIRECTORY DATA:
For some of the BLUM family ancestry, I needed to
consult the city directories for New Orleans.
These directories are also of limited use, but if the data are there,
they can be quite helpful. Many of the
BLUM ancestors lived in New Orleans in the second half of the nineteenth
century. The City Directories are
available at the Library in either microfilm or microfiche.