Obituary Lookup Volunteers
Louisiana

Please follow these guidelines when making a lookup request:

If this is your first request, read Making a Request. To find the county for your lookup request, use the USA County Lookup. Before making a request, do a quick Web Search in case the obituary is available there. If you find a volunteer for your area, use the listing's Email link to send your request directly to him or her.  If you don't find a volunteer, send your request to the mailing list (see OBIT-LOOKUPS-L Mailing List for subscription information). After receiving a lookup, post or publish the obituary or an abstract to help other researchers. Please do not send the same request to more than one volunteer.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS - Please consider volunteering
for your area, even on a limited basis, because every lookup
helps someone.  Becoming a Volunteer has more information.

Parish	City or Town/Newspapers/Libraries, Etc.	Volunteer
Acadia	Branch, Crowley, Duson, Estherwood, Rayne	Mary R -
Beauregard	DeRidder	Theresa R -
East Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge Parish Library	WebPage
East Baton Rouge	The Baton Rouge Genealogical & Historical Society	WebPage
Jefferson		Tanya M -
Lafourche	Terrebonne Parish Library - Lafourche Comet 1868-Present, Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel 1865-1912	Nancy W -
Livingston	Livingston Parish Library	WebPage
Orleans	Times Picayune/Online Obits (Last 180 Days)	WebPage
Orleans	New Orleans Public Library - Genealogy Index	WebPage
Ouachita	Monroe - The Monroe News Star	Leona H -
Ouachita	West Monroe	Charles J -
Ouachita		James S -
Plaquemines	Plaquemines Parish Obits (1911-1999 with gaps)	WebPage
Rapides	Alexandria/The Town Talk (1999-P).  Click on Archives link at the bottom of the page for obituaries prior to today.	WebPage
Rapides	Rapides Parish Library	WebPage
Terrebonne	Terrebonne Parish Library - Houma Courier Newspaper	Nancy W -
Webster	Minden, Doyline, Springhill and Homer	Shirley -
*Statewide*		Dee C -

Louisiana Links

The LAGenWeb Project Louisiana AHGP LAGenExchange Vital Records Information for Louisiana The Louisiana State Archives Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society Rootsweb Mailing Lists for Louisiana State Library of Louisiana US Census Bureau Louisiana Parishes Map Louisiana Newspaper Links 50States.Com - Lousiana Newspapers Online Searchable Death Indexes Louisiana RootsWeb Message Boards For more obituary sites and related information, see Other Obituary Links and Genealogy Links.

To volunteer to do lookups in your area,
for questions about the mailing list,
for help with obit requests,
to report a broken link,
or for other comments or questions,
contact us.

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Last update 18 December 2007