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Lafourche Parish Courthouse Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-00188
Scope and Contents
This collection spans 135 linear feet and dates from 1773 to 1983. The bulk of the materials date from approximately 1820 to 1941. The collection comprises vital, court, land, tax, and immigration records of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. This includes records of birth, death, marriage, divorce, civil and criminal court cases, wills and estates, orphans and adoption, insolvency, lunacy, voters and elections, licenses, militias, oaths, schools, judgements and appeals, indenture, slave sales,...
Dates:
1773-1983; Majority of material found in 1820-1941
South Louisiana Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-00076
Scope and Contents
This is an artificial collection created by Ellender Memorial Library from oral histories donated over a period of decades. It comprises oral histories (on audiotape and videotape) and related materials collected from residents of South Louisiana between approximately 1972 and 1998. Interviewees discuss topics relating to local history and culture, including foodways, traditional crafts, race, religion, illness and medicine, education, labor, and industry.
Dates:
1972-1998 and undated
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- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
- Lace and lace making 1
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- Napoleonville (La.) 1
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- Southern States -- Religious life and customs. 1
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- Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 1
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- World War, 1914-1918 1
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1 ∧ less
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- Bollinger, Donald G. (Donald George), 1915-2000. 1
- Francis T. Nicholls Junior College 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) 1
- Melancon, Joseph Levy, 1906- 1
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