From the Richland Parish Mailing List on RootsWeb:

The USGenWeb Census Project is pleased to announce
the completion of the following census transcription:

1920 Richland Parish, ED 109
http://www.usgwcensus.org/cenfiles/la/richland/1920/ed109/
Abstracted by Shawn Martin
Second Transcriber Maggie Stewart
[For more information on Richland Parish, Louisiana
Please visit the LAGenWeb page at
http://www.usgenweb.org/la]

Sincerely,
Christine Graham
Webmaster, USGenWeb Census Project
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Have you visited the new map for Mississippi counties lately? It is just awesome.  I love maps.. and I’ve updated my links to my neighbors!

In my mailbag today was a post from the DeSoto RootsWeb mailinglist gateway that piqued my interest.  I have never heard of a “cave” in Louisiana.  This was quite interesting.  Someone has indicated that during the Battle of Mansfield there were people hiding in the Dollette Hills.  You may read the original post here.

Title: Terrebonne Genealogical Society Meeting

Date: Saturday September 26, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the last Saturday.
Location: Terrebonne Parish Library
Street: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~laterreb/tgs/
Notes: The Society meets on the last Saturday of each month at 1 P.M. at the Terrebonne Parish Library – Main Branch, 151 Civic Center Blvd..
The Terrebonne Genealogical Society (TGS) was formed in 1972 as a part of Terrebonne Parish’s sesquicentennial celebration. It was formally organized in 1981, when a constitution was drawn up and the Society incorporated. Since then, the Society has been responsible for numerous publications and has donated thousands of dollars of books and equipment to the Terrebonne Parish Library.

Terrebonne Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 20295, Houma, LA 70360-0295

From my mailbag:

This was a repost from months previous:
Winn Genealogical and Historical Association
I wanted to extend a invitation to anyone in all of the surrounding
Parishes to join the Winn Genealogical and Historical Association that is located in Winnfield, LA.

As part of your membership you receive a copy of our award winning
journal,the Legacies & Legends of Winn Parish, Louisiana, published in
April, August and December.

We’d love to publish public records, old newspaper transcriptions, cemetery censuses, or family histories from our border parishes not already covered by another genealogical society’s publication. You may email them to our editor, Peggy Beaubouef, at pcbjr@bellsouth.net

Our main purpose is to research, record, publish, and preserve genealogical and historical information about the people, places, and events in the history of Winn and neighboring parishes. We also seek to promote and further an understanding of genealogical research, emphasizing sound genealogical proof standards as well as proper documentation and source citation.

We are in the process of transcribing a cemetery at the moment, with plans to do more in the future.

Our meetings are held on the second floor of the Winn Parish Health Unit Building, located at 301 W. Main, back stair entrance across from the Winn Parish Library. We meet at 10:30 A.M. on the second Saturday of January, March, May, July, September and November.

If anyone would like more information you can contact us by snail mail or email.

Our email address is winngha@yahoo.com

With our mailing address being:

Winn Genealogical & Historical Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 1357
Winnfield, LA 71482-1357

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Delores Prince McFarland
WGHA-Secretary

Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans
Monday September 21, 2009
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Location: Whitney Bank Metairie Branch meeting room, 1441 Metarie Road.

Notes:
The speaker will be Irene Wainwright. Irene is well-known to those of us who research at the NO Public Library. She is one of the most knowledgeable and friendly librarians in the Louisiana Division/Special Collections. Her topic will be “Completion of the Obituary Index online Project.”

Northeast Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society
“…Two garage sales to benefit the Northeast Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society will be Saturday and Oct. 3 at 318 Timberwood Drive in Belle Meade subdivision off Joe White Road in Monroe.

Any items for donation can be dropped off at the location by Sept. 16. For more information, call 343-3372….”

Here are a list of surnames found in the latest edition of the Southwest Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society Library’s Genealogy News. I just loved this newsletter:

Some of the surnames of Lebanese-Syrian pioneers who settled in southwest Louisiana include:
Abdallah
Abraham
Abrusley
Antoon
Ashy
Barkate
Boustany
DeBakey
Farris
Gani
George
Ieyoub
Isaac
Jacobs
John
Joseph
Karam
Khoury
Mahfouz
Misse
Monsour
Mowad
Nagem
Rahbany

Also in this newsletter was this interesting tidbit of history:

“…The contributions of the Lebanese-Syrian families and their descendants are innumerable. Everyone is aware of Dr. Michael DeBakey’s many accomplishments. Before completing medical school he invented a pump that was crucial to the development of the iron lung and later to the development of the heart pump. He was also instrumental in creating the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H.) and the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center System and Research program…”

The Louisiana Surnames – Louisiana Researchers list is quickly filling up page 4.

From my mailbag is one of the most easily read websites I’ve visited. This article concerns the genealogy of a family who fought in Louisiana during the Civil War. The overall general construction of this page, was so easily read and enjoyed I must recommend it. This website is located in Broken Bow, Nebraska. “If graves could talk, the history we could learn”, by By ELLEN MORTENSEN, August 26, 2009.

“…Joseph returned to his regiment and was promoted to Lieutenant. During the Red River campaign in Louisiana, he fought at Fort deRussy and at Pleasant Hill, where almost two years to the day of the battle of Shiloh, he was killed in action. His body was never recovered, and is believed to be buried in an unmarked grave….” Joseph A. Shanklin

Just in case you missed it, the APG reported back in August that the Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index has been updated and is online.

The Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index Now Online

The Historic New Orleans Collection and the New Orleans Public Library
are proud to announce that the entire Louisiana Biography and Obituary
Index, a compilation of approximately 600,000 citations dating back to
1804, is now available as an online database. The electronic index is
the culmination of an eight-year endeavor undertaken by The
Collection and NOPL at the behest of the late Suzanne Levy Ormand,
former chair of the library board, and Mary Lou Christovich, chairman
of the board of directors of the Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation.
The Obit Index originated in the 1930s as a project of the Works
Progress Administration’s Historical Records Survey. After the WPA
ceased operation, the City Archives Department assumed responsibility
for maintenance of the index. In 1946 the department was transferred
by ordinance to the New Orleans Public Library. The index inherited by
NOPL was far from comprehensive. It focused almost exclusively on
prominent citizens and rarely included feature stories or other
biographical references. When NOPL accepted stewardship of the Obit
Index, it embarked on a mission to broaden and improve the resource.
The Collection joined in the effort by supplying the staff, computers,
and technological expertise needed to facilitate the digitization of
this invaluable resource. Now researchers can easily search the
thousands of entries, each comprising the name of a deceased
individual along with publication information—title, date, page
number, and column number—for death notices published in New Orleans
newspapers, which are available on microfilm at both The Collection
and NOPL. The electronic database also includes biographical sketches
and narrative obituaries in many cases. To be sure, the index remains
a work in progress. Occasional gaps exist where data from a specific
run of a newspaper was never entered. Yet the index remains remarkably
comprehensive. It is safe to say that no other resource provides more
convenient access to information about the residents of New Orleans
over the last two centuries—from the famous to the infamous to the
anonymous.

To access the Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index, and to view a
list of the newspapers and other publications referenced, visit .

This archived photo reveals “…Copies of the genealogical records of 2600 members of the Louisiana State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution were presented in December to Thomas Jaques, director of the State Library of Louisiana…”

Today’s timeline covered information from the American Revolution, the Civil War, the early 1900’s, and a photo from 1975. That’s a heckuva lotta history.

I also enjoyed reading about the Guidry family reunion and of course, I loved reading, “Man Smashes Through Brickwall in Louisiana!”, by Craig Manson