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Assumption Parish
GenForum Board
Assumption
Parish Ancestry Board
Assumption
Parish Ancestry Mailing List
Louisiana GenForum Board
Louisiana
Ancestry Boards
Acadian-Cajun Research
Cyndi's List of Acadian,
Cajun and Creole Research
Acadian Genealogy Homepage
The Canada
GenWeb Acadian Project
Acadian
History and Genealogy
Excellent Research Links
Making of America,
(MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history
from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly
strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently
contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th
century imprints.
Looking for a location in Assumption Parish? If so try the USGS
GNIS database. Contains information on cemeteries, creeks, post offices
and much more!
The Political Graveyard Assumption
Parish page contains several valuable links pertaining to Assumption
Parish as well as links to biographies of politicians who were either born
in, or were residents of Assumption Parish.
Learn About Assumption Parish
Be sure to visit the Assumption
Area Chamber of Commerce where you can learn more about Assumption
Parish.
The University of Louisiana Lafayette Center for Cultural and Eco-tourism
site has detailed information about Assumption
Parish.
Return to gracious living at Madewood
Plantation House on Bayou Lafourche in Assumption Parish.
The National Park Service Explore the History and Culture of Southeastern
Louisiana site has detailed information about the Assumption
Parish jail and courthouse as well as Christ
Episcopal Church and Cemetery
Assumption Parish Families
Below are links to various websites featuring Assumption Parish families
and genealogy:
Ancestors
of Felix and Anna Dugas
Tim
Hebert's Genealogy
Carla
Miller's Simoneaux Genealogy
Walker-Vaughn
Genealogy
A Note from the Coordinator
Regrettably I am not a resident of Assumption Parish, therefore I can not
assist you with your Assumption Parish, Louisiana research. Visitors are invited to submit material about Assumption Parish's rich history
and heritage, so that others may benefit from the information. Such items
as biographies, deeds, wills, old photographs and such are welcome. Please
contact me, the project coordinator, if you wish to submit material relating
to Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Best wishes with your Assumption Parish
research! |
African Ancestored Genealogy Links
AfriGeneas
African American
Cemeteries Online
Cyndi's List: African-American
African-American
Genealogy on the Web
About.com: African-American
Genealogy
Sankofa's African Slave
Genealogy
The Freedmen's Bureau Online
Library of Congress:
African American Perspectives
Genforum: African American
Forum
American Civil War Research Links
The United States Civil War Center
Confederate
Regimental History Links
Union Regimental
History Links
American Civil War Portal
Excellent Research Links
The Terrebonne
Genealogical Society (TGS) serves the parishes of Terrebonne, Lafourche,
and Assumption parishes. Their genealogical quarterly, Terrebonne Life
Lines (TLL), has been published since 1984 and includes many articles on
Assumption Parish.
The 1880
US Federal Census located at the LDS Family Search site is an
excellent resource! Be sure to look for your Assumption Parish ancestors
in this massive database of the entire US 1880 Federal Census.
The National Register of Historic Places Assumption
Parish Inventory page contains interesting information about historic
sites in Assumption Parish.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family History Library
Catalog Assumption
Parish listings gives detailed information on what is available pertaining
to Assumption Parish.
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
System is an excellent resource from the US National Park Service.
This system includes a computerized database containing basic facts about
servicemen who served during the Civil War. The database currently contains
approximately 2.7 million soldier names from over 30 states and territories.
Documenting the American South
is an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides access to
digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American
history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at
every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference,
studying, teaching, and research.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy
Sites on the Internet: US - Louisiana, contains an abundance of excellent
links to various internet sites dealing with Louisiana genealogy and history.
The
Online Books Page History: United States (Regional), and the Americas
Section, contains links to scores of valuable 19th century and earlier
regional histories, biographies and other works.
|
ienvenue
à la Assumption Parish LAGenWeb Project! Welcome to the Assumption Parish LAGenWeb Project! This website is affiliated with the USGenWeb Project. Assumption Parish was created
by an act of the legislature of Orleans territory, as the 8th parish of
the territory in 1807. Under French and Spanish rule, present day Assumption
Parish formed a part of the Lafourche Settlement. This area was originally
settled during the middle of the 1700s along Bayou Lafourche, between the
present towns of Napoleonville and Donaldsonville by the French and Spanish.
From 1755 to 1765, the population was increased by the immigration of the
exiled Acadians who entered the area clearing the land and building comfortable
homes. Many of their descendants are numerous in Assumption Parish today.
During 1785, Assumption had a population of 646. By an act of the legislature
of Orleans territory in 1807, Assumption was created as the 8th parish
of the Orleans territory. Napoleonville, situated on Bayou Lafourche, at
about the center of the parish, is the parish seat. Assumption Parish is
bordered on the north by Iberville
and Ascension
Parishes, on the east by St.
James and Lafourche
Parishes, on the south by Terrebonne
and St. Mary Parishes,
and on the west by
St. Martin
and Iberia parishes. Take time to discover the history and heritage of this beautiful unique Louisiana parish. Visitors are also invited to make the Assumption Parish LAGenWeb project more valuable to researchers by submitting research material to the site.
