Tag: African-American History
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African-American Funeral Home Program Collection Part III: R – Z Names
Edit 6-14-2023: The entire database of names can now be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aEnKDEuE4oCF7XUKA8-wE04pXKH2-ZbwyZgfb6v10Tw/edit?usp=sharing Name Volume Rainey, Hattie Bell 5 Rainwater, R. J. 32 Ralph, Rosa 17 Ralph, Rosa West 3…
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African-American Funeral Home Program Collection Part II: M – Q Names
Edit 6-14-2023: The entire database of names can now be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aEnKDEuE4oCF7XUKA8-wE04pXKH2-ZbwyZgfb6v10Tw/edit?usp=sharing Name Volume Mack, Bennie Lee 9 Mack, Brenda Veleria Davis 37 Mack, Dorothy Korjan 42 Mack, Flora…
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African-American Funeral Home Program Collection Part I: A-L Names
Another treasure available to researchers at the Ouachita Parish Public Library are the fifty-five volumes of African-American Funeral Home programs. A colleague of mine noticed there were not enough research…
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Early Ouachita Parish Coroner’s Records 1862 – 1929: Part III P-Z Names
NOTE: The blog post was formatted in a hard to read way. You can also find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ze8lJbVfwfEib7CGH0j9kcpYi2WpXPcP3s-gd58p2D4/edit?usp=sharing October 5, 1894 ; Shot by J.C. Ransoms ; West Monroe,…
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Early Ouachita Parish Coroner’s Records 1862 – 1929: Part II L-O Names
NOTE: The blog post was formatted in a hard to read way. You can also find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ze8lJbVfwfEib7CGH0j9kcpYi2WpXPcP3s-gd58p2D4/edit?usp=sharing February 1, 1926 ; Shot by Silas Cooper ; C.P. Gray,…
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Early Ouachita Parish Coroner’s Records 1862 – 1929: Part I A-K Names
NOTE: The blog post was formatted in a hard to read way. You can also find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ze8lJbVfwfEib7CGH0j9kcpYi2WpXPcP3s-gd58p2D4/edit?usp=sharing A coroners’ record was compiled when the death was from uncertain…
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Miscellaneous Microfilm at the Ouachita Parish Public Library
If you paid close attention to yesterday’s newspaper post, I posted the index of our newspaper microfilm cabinets. I purposely left out the most interesting cabinet, cabinet A. That is…
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Genealogy/Biography Files of the Ouachita Parish Public Library Part III: P-Z Names
Pa- Pe–Biography David E. Pace “Pace and picante sauce” Ouachita Citizen, January 6, 1994 Hypolite Pargoud “French Aristocratic Emigre Region’s Colorful Pioneer” Monroe Morning World, October 20, 1929 John Peyton…
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The Biography and Genealogy Files of the Ouachita Parish Library Part II: L – O Names
L–Biography (La-Le) (W.M. Police Chief Larry)”LaBorde announces retirement from W.M.” News-Star, Wednesday, March 26, 2003 “Designing Duo” (Sondra & Jacquelyn LaCroix) News-Star, Friday, March 25, 2005 “‘Big Cat’ On The…
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The Biography and Genealogy Files of the Genealogy Department Part I: A-K Names
Another untapped resource we have in the Ouachita Parish Public Library’s Genealogy department are our family history and biography files. Over the next several days (since the list is HUGE!)…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 