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Beary and Swartenbroek Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00226
Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers relating to the Beary and Swartenbroek families of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The collection covers three linear feet and spans 1845 to 2003. Materials include correspondence, a diary, receipts, maps, financial and legal documents, genealogical research materials, schedules of religious services, descriptions of gymnastics routines, sheet music, photographs, and other printed matter. Topics represented in this collection include family news and business...
Dates: 1845-2010, undated

Center for Traditional Louisiana Boatbuilding Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00075
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises oral histories collected by the Center for Traditional Louisiana Boatbuilding. All interviews relate to topics of boats and the history of southern Louisiana, particularly Lafourche and Terrebonne Parish.

Dates: 1979-1985

Coignet and Gaudet Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00227
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials relating to the Coignet and Gaudet (Gaude) families, primarily the descendants of Guillaume Alfred Coignet and his two wives, sisters Charlotte and Stephanie Gaudet. The bulk of the collection consists of original correspondence (with translations) and printed sheet music. In addition, there are report cards, school assignments, poems, cards, notes, obituaries and death notices, genealogical research materials, certificates, newspaper clippings,...
Dates: 1838-2010

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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Southern States -- Religious life and customs. 3
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 3
Thibodaux (La.) 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
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New Orleans (La.) 2
Plantations -- Louisiana 2
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana. 2
Yellow fever. 2
Alexandria (La.) 1
Alligator hunting 1
Assumption Parish (La.) 1
Assumption Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Bayou Terrebonne (La.) 1
Boatbuilding -- Louisiana. 1
Brussels (Belgium) 1
Camp Beauregard (La.) 1
Carpentry 1
Contracts for deeds -- Louisiana. 1
Cooking -- Louisiana 1
Dentistry 1
Duck shooting 1
Ducks 1
Economic history. 1
Education -- Louisiana 1
Elections -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Fisheries -- Louisiana -- History 1
Fishing -- Louisiana 1
Fishing boats -- Louisiana 1
French language -- Louisiana 1
Game calling (Hunting) 1
Healers -- Louisiana 1
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
Labor unions -- Fishers -- Louisiana. 1
Labor unions -- Louisiana 1
Lace and lace making 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
Lafourche, Bayou (La.) 1
Louisiana -- Economic conditions. 1
Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1
Louisiana -- History. 1
Marriage records -- Louisiana 1
Medicine -- Louisiana 1
Military training camps -- United States. 1
Mobile (Ala.) 1
Napoleonville (La.) 1
Offshore oil Industry 1
Plantation overseers. 1
Segregation -- Louisiana 1
Shipyards -- Louisiana -- Lockport 1
Shrimpers' Strike, Lafourche Parish (La.), 1938. 1
Slavery -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Spanish-American War, 1898. 1
Spiritual healing 1
Strikes and lockouts -- Shrimp industry -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Waterways -- Louisiana 1
Woodwork 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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Names
Beary, Andrew Thomas, 1890-1953 1
Beary, Edward Joseph 1
Beary, John Van Hal, 1883-1933 1
Beary, Laura Felicia Swartenbroek 1
Beary, Thomas, 1853-1914 1