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Louisiana Genealogy Databases
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Louisiana Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Louisiana vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Louisiana vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Louisiana ancestors using Louisiana census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Louisiana Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Louisiana) Event: Birth Cost of copy: Long form: $15.00, Short form: $9.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since July 1914. Birth records for city of New Orleans are available from 1892. Death records are available since 1942. Older birth, death, and marriage records are available through the Louisiana State Archives, P.O. Box 94125, Baton Rouge, LA 70804. Check or money order should be made payable to Vital Records. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (504) 568-5152. Event: Death Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since July 1914. Birth records for city of New Orleans are available from 1892. Death records are available since 1942. Older birth, death, and marriage records are available through the Louisiana State Archives, P.O. Box 94125, Baton Rouge, LA 70804. Check or money order should be made payable to Vital Records. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (504) 568-5152. Event: Marriage, Orleans Parish Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: Certified copies are issued by Clerk of Court in parish where license was issued. Event: Marriage, Other Parishes Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Certified copies are issued by Clerk of Court in parish where license was issued. Event: Divorce (parish) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Clerk of Court in parish where divorce was granted. |
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