Orleans Parish Genealogy
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Orleans Parish Countywide Sources
1790-1940 U.S. Census Archives
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census World Vital Records
A General index of the marriage records of St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans) 1720-1730 Family History Library
Alligator Point quadrangle, Louisiana, Orleans Parish Family History Library
Autopsy records, 1904-1924 Family History Library
Baptismal record of Pierre Julien, a free negro, 29 June, 1820 (Catholic Church. St. Louis Parish (New Orleans, Louisiana)) Family History Library
Bethlehem Luthern Orphan Home
BillionGraves Cemetery Records Index Family Search
Case papers, 1846-1880 Family History Library
Case papers, 1880-1929 Family History Library
Certificates of Death 1904
Charity Hospital Cemetery records, 1847 Family History Library
Church records, 1896-1928 (Orleans Parish (Louisiana). First City Court) Family History Library
Civil registration of Orleans Parish, births, marriages and deaths, 1790-1833 Family History Library
Conveyance records, 1827-1887; index, 1827-1900 Family History Library
Conveyances relating to Orleans Parish transcribed from Jefferson Parish conveyance records, 1828-1874; indexes, 1825-1874 Family History Library
Court cases, 1851-1854 Family History Library
Court minutes 1808-1846 [Orleans County, Louisiana] Family History Library
Court minutes 1847-1880 Family History Library
Court minutes 1848-1880, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Family History Library
Court proceedings and notarial records of Carlos Ximenes, Rafael Perdomo, F. Broutin and N. Broutin, 1784-1806 Family History Library
Death certificates, 1854-1869 Family History Library
Death records and obituaries, 1923-1991 Family History Library
Declaration of intention naturalization record, 1845-1899 Family History Library
Deed books of the Probate Court, 1823-1844; Parish Court, 1835-1849; and District Courts, 1840-1901 Family History Library
Description and record of insane persons, 1900-1918 Family History Library
Divorce and annulments, docket no. 5, v. 1-32, 1880-1924 Family History Library
Dockets, 1846-1861; index to dockets, 1846-1880 Family History Library
Early settlers on the Delta : families of St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Orleans parishes, Louisiana Family History Library
Emancipation of negro slaves, February 17, 1827-October 4, 1834 Family History Library
Executive nominations of Alexandre Mouton, Governor of Louisiana, 1843-1 846 Family History Library
Extracts of conveyances of Orleans Parish transcribed from Jefferson Parish conveyances books, and conveyance records, 1825-1854; index, 1826-1854 Family History Library
Federal Land Patents Bureau of Land Management
Find A Grave Gravestone, Tombstone, and Memorial Photo Collection World Vital Records
Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1815-1869 Family Search
Freedom papers (emancipation dockets, 1827-1915) Family History Library
General index of all successions (wills) opened in the Parish of Orleans, 1805-1880 Family History Library
General index of all successions opened in the parish of Orleans from the year 1846 to the month of August, 1880 Family History Library
Index to Registrations of Foreign Born Persons, 1880-1916 New Orleans Public Library
Index to death certificates issued, 1927-1929 Family History Library
Index to dockets, 1846-1880 Family History Library
Index to registration of foreign born persons, 1880-1896, 1913-1916 Family History Library
Index to successions opened in the parish of Orleans, 1805-1880 Family History Library
Index to wills and successions 1807-1846 Family History Library
Indexes of official acts of notaries, 1771-1946 Family History Library
Inventory of the Parish Archives of Louisiana. : Preliminary Inventory of Notarial Records In Orleans Parish
Inventory of the parish archives of Louisiana, no. 36, Orleans Parish (New Orleans) Family History Library
John McDonogh High School 1965 Senior Alumni
Judicial records, 1880-1921, Divisions A-G Family History Library
Justice of Peace marriage index cards (Orleans Parish, Louisiana), 1846-1880 Family History Library
List of persons adjudged to be insane by the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans, and ordered to be conveyed by the Civil Sheriff of the parish of Orleans to the State Insane Asylum, at Jackson, Louisiana, 1882-1919 Family History Library
Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830; 1854-1934 Family Search
Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875; 1894-1954 Family Search
Louisiana Marriage Records, 1851-1900
Louisiana Marriages to 1850
Louisiana Marriages, 1718-1925
Louisiana Marriages, 1816-1906 Family Search
Louisiana Statewide Death Index, 1900-1949
Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1894-1956 Family Search
Louisiana, Orleans Court Records, 1822-1880 Family Search
Louisiana, Orleans Parish Estate Files, 1804-1846 Family Search
Louisiana, Orleans Parish Second District Judicial Court Case Files, 1846-1880 Family Search
Louisiana, Orleans Parish Vital Records, 1910, 1960 Family Search
Louisiana, Orleans Parish Will Books, 1805-1920 Family Search
Louisiana, Orleans Parish, Second District Court records, 1846-1880 Family History Library
Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957 Family Search
Masonic Lodge Cemetery record, 1868-1944 Family History Library
Minute books, 1819-1846 Family History Library
Minutes of the court 1838-1847 Family History Library
Minutes of the court 1847-1880 Family History Library
Minutes of the court 1850-1880 Family History Library
Minutes of the court 1853-1880 Family History Library
Minutes of the court 1868-1872 Family History Library
Naturalization records, 1821-1906 Family History Library
Notarial records, 1731-1880 Family History Library
Notarial records, 1783-1790 Family History Library
Notarial records, 1836-1851 Family History Library
Notarial records, 1850-1862 Family History Library
Notarial records, 1852-1867 Family History Library
Notarial records, 1888-1897 Family History Library
Obituaries scrap album from New Orleans, Louisiana Family History Library
Odd Fellow's Rest Cemetery records, 1849-1880 Family History Library
Old inventories of estates, 1805-1877 Family History Library
Orders for burials in the Locust Grove Cemetery, 1866-1868 Family History Library
Orleans Parish (La.) Coroner's Office, Reports of deaths, 1862-1863 New Orleans Public Library
Orleans Parish Louisiana marriage ledgers, 1870-1950, with indexes, 1831 (only 1 marriage), 1844-1845, 1847, 1849-1950; delayed recordings of marriage certificates, 1873-1969; index of unrecorded marriages, males & females, 1870 Family History Library
Orleans Parish, Louisiana death records & certificates, 1819-1954; index to deaths records,1804-1954 Family History Library
Orleans Parish, Louisiana marriage license records, 1807-1815 Family History Library
Orleans Parish, Louisiana marriage licenses and certificates, 1834-1888 Family History Library
Orleans Parish, Louisiana marriage licenses/certificates, 1870-1942 Family History Library
Orleans Parish, Louisiana marriage records Family History Library
Orleans Parish, Louisiana records of inquests and views, 1844-1916 Family History Library
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, 1830-1900, computer indexed marriage records Family History Library
Orleans Parish, Register of patients transported to the State Insane Asylum, 1882-1917 New Orleans Public Library
Orleans Parish, conveyance records transcribed from Jefferson Parish conveyance records, 1829-1871; index, 1909-1871 Family History Library
Orleans Royal Arch Chapter 1856 Historical Sketch Genealogy Today
Orleans parish, Louisiana, succession and probate records register, 1805-1848 Family History Library
Parish Court cases, 1813-1851 Family History Library
Probate cases, 1823-1845 Family History Library
Protestant Cemetery records, 1847 Family History Library
Record book, insane examinations; history of indigent insanes, 1909-1915 Family History Library
Record of cases of insanity, 1884-1894 Family History Library
Record of poisoning, rape, etc., 1881-1895 Family History Library
Record of wills, 1807-1901 Family History Library
Registrar of voters, registration cards, Nance-Oncale, 1941-1948 Family History Library
Reports of missing persons, 1906-1925 Family History Library
Requests for release of bodies to funeral homes, 1910-1924 Family History Library
Rigolets quadrangle, Louisiana Family History Library
Second District Court (Orleans Parish), Marriage Certificates, 1879-1880 New Orleans Public Library
St. Paul's Lutheran Church records (Orleans Parish, Louisiana), 1844-1947 Family History Library
Succession Index of the 1st-5th District Courts, 1838-1880 Family History Library
Succession and probate records, 1805-1849 Family History Library
Succession records, 1846-1880; index, 1846-1880 Family History Library
The executive acts and appointments of Isaac Johnson, Governor of Louisiana, 1846-1849 Family History Library
The executive acts and nominations of E.D. White and A.B. Roman, Governors of Louisiana : for the years of 1837-1842 Family History Library
The names of all naturalized, registered persons Family History Library
The territory of Orleans, 1803-1812 : genealogical reference lists from Clarence Edwin Carter's Territorial papers of the United States relating to the present state of Louisiana Family History Library
Transferred records from 1st-8th District Courts to the Civil District Court, 1805-1880 Family History Library
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 Family Search
Voter registration records, 1891-1952 Family History Library
More Orleans Parish records are available on the statewide page