FINDING YOUR NEW ORLEANS ROOTS
A HANDY REFERENCE GUIDE



KEY:

JPL = Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, Special Collections
FHC = Family History Center, Church of the Latter Day Saints
HNOC = Historic New Orleans Collection, Williams Research Division
NOPL = New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division
TOINF = Touro Infirmary Archives
TU = Tulane University Special Collections

A. Births
1. Orleans Parish Birth Index (1790-1899) -- JPL, NOPL
(partially on line at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans/birth_index.htm)
2. Circumcision Records (1829-1887) (Hebrew) -- JPL
3. Congregation Chevra Thilim Bris records (1915-1926)-- TU
B. Marriages
1. Hunting for Bears - Orleans Parish (1830-1900) -- JPL, NOPL
2. Orleans Parish Marriage Index (1831-1969) -- JPL, NOPL
partially on-line at: http://www.rootsweb.com/-usgenweb/la/orleans/marriage_index.htm
3. State Marriage Index (1970-1993) -- JPL
4. Justice of the Peace Marriage Index (1846-1880) -- NOPL
5. New Orleans Newspaper Marriage Index -- NOPL
6. NO Dept of Health Marriage Register -- NOPL
7. NO Dept of Health Marriage Licenses -- NOPL
8. Gates of Prayer Marriages (1870-1911) -- JPL
9. Touro Synagogue Marriage Archives (1839-1870) [many of the 1850's records are missing) -- TU
10. Divorce and annulment records, District Court Docket 5 index (1880-1924)-- NOPL
11. FTM CD-ROM Louisiana Marriages -- JPL
12. Contact synagogues or churches
13. Congregational Church Marriage Index (1836-1847) -- NOPL
C. Deaths
1. Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index (1837-1972) -- NOPL
2. Times-Picayune Obituary Index (31 Dec 1971- present)
(completed through July 1976 as of March 2001] -- JPL
3. Touro Infirmary Death Records (1855-1891)-- NOPL, TOINF
4. Microfilmed Headstone inscriptions (some up thru 1935) -- JPL, NOPL, FHC
5. Orleans Parish Death Indices (1804-1949) -- JPL, NOPL
Partiallly on-line at: http://www.rootsweb.com/-usgenweb/la/orleans/death-index.htm
6. State Death Indices (1900-1949) -- JPL
7. New Orleans Dept. of Health Death Certificates -- NOPL
8. Jewish burials in New Orleans 1828-1848
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/certif/jewish.txt
9. Yellow fever deaths 1841, 1853, & 1878
http://www.rootsweb.com/-usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths.htm
10. Tememe Derech Deaths and Interments (1858-1883) -- JPL
11. Dispersed of Judah Interment (1846-1891) and Death (1846-1849),records -- TU
12. Gates of Prayer Interment Records -- HNOC, FHC
13. Hebrew Rest Cemetery
(Congregation Temple Sinai, Touro Synagogue, and Dispersed of Judah Congregation) Indices and Interments (1830s-1982) -- HNOC, FHC
14. Charity Hospital Death Records (1835-1904)-- NOPL
15. Carol Monahan 504-456-2801 e-mail: cmonahan26@cox.net
16. Contact cemeteries
17. Contact funeral homes
18. Walk cemeteries
D. Immigration
1. Passenger Ship Indexes -- JPL, NOPL
2. Passenger Ship Lists -- JPL, NOPL
3. FTM CD-ROM #358 Passenger and Immigration Lists, New Orleans 1820-1850 -- JPL
D. Naturalization
1. National Archives Index -- JPL, NOPL
2. Eastern District US Court Index -- NOPL
3. Index of Foreign Born Registered Voters -- JPL, NOPL
4. New Orleans Voting Registration Records (indexes available for 1987-1908, 1913-1916, 1941-1948)-- NOPL
E. Probate and Successions
1. Will books (1805-1928) -- NOPL
2. Pre-1913: Court records -- NOPL
3. Post-1913: Clerk of Civil District Court's Office, 4th floor, 421 Loyola Av, (592-9100), M-F 8 AM-6 PM
F. Other useful records
1. Louisiana census 1810-1920 -- JPL, NOPL
2. Louisiana News Index (1804-1963, not comprehensively) -- NOPL
3. Times Picayune Topical Index (1922-1944) -- JPL
4. Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, (1718-1821) -- JPL
5. Notarial Archives
6. Jewish Children's Home Collection -- TU
7. Confederate Soldiers Index and Service Records -- JPL
8. New Orleans City Directories (1805-present) -- JPL, NOPL
9. Real Estate records 5th floor City Hall 1300 Perdido St. (565-6017)
10. Contact synagogues or churches
11. Times Picayune Index (1972-present) -- JPL
12. Tax records -- NOPL
13. Touro Infirmary Archives
14. Journal articles: New Orleans Genesis, Louisiana Historical Review, Louisiana Historical Quarterly -- JPL
15. FTM CD-ROM #255 Land Records -- JPL
16. Jefferson Parish Records --
Births & Marriages: 3rd Floor, Green Building, Courthouse, 200 Derbigny, Gretna Divorce and Succession records: lst floor, Annex Bldg., Courthouse, 200 Derbigny, Gretna Old court records, such as naturalizations, if you have a citation: 364-2894
17. Archives, Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1100 Chartres Street, (529-2651) Fall, Winter, Spring - 9 AM to 5 PM, Summer - 8 AM to 4 PM M-F. Genealogical requests by mail only, research by appointment only.
Compiled by Ellen Barnett Cleary
March 2001