Lincoln Parish Reference Lookups

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    Lincoln Parish Lookups

    To request a lookup from any of the references, click on the address of the owner and ask them politely. As you can see, volunteers are needed.

    ReferenceAuthorOwner/Email
    12th Louisiana Infantry. A database of (Civil War) service highlights for over 1,735 men who served in this regiment including 2 companies from Lincoln/Jackson Parish. .. R. Hugh Simmons
    1920 copy of Booth's Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands .. R. Hugh Simmons
    "Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units 1861-1865" [identifies individual companies with the Parish of origin] Dr. Art Begeron R. Hugh Simmons
    1860 Lincoln Parish Census* Auto. Arch. ..
    1880 Lincoln Parish Census Marcia Duncan Richardson ..
    Louisiana Marriage Index CD 1718-1925
    (Lincoln Parish 1826-1901)
    Family
    Tree Maker
    Carol Mosher

    * Actually Lincoln Parish was formed in 1873 from many adjacent Parishes
    so this information would really be coming from a Parish other than Lincoln.

    If you have any Lincoln Parish information and would like to volunteer as a contact (lookup) person for that information, please e-mail me (David A Lewis) so that I may include you in this project. The reference material can be anything like books about Lincoln Parish or family papers, parish documents, church records, or any other documents that may be of genealogical interest.


    Lincoln Parish Sites

    Library of Lincoln Parish
    509 W. Alabama, Ruston, LA
    (318) 251-5030

    Mon 9:00a.m.-8:00p.m.
    Tue-Sat 9:00a.m.-6:00p.m.
    Closed on Sun
    The library has an excellent genealogy room with local interest books, census reports and pictures old and new.


    Lincoln Parish Clerk
    P.O. Box 924, Ruston, LA 71273-0924
    (318) 251-5130
    (318) 255-6004-fax

    8:30am - 4:30pm
    The parish has Marriage and Propate records going back to 1873. If you need copies they will charge you fifty cents if you do the coping yourself or they will charge you a dollar if you have them make the copies.


    North Louisiana Genealogical Society
    P.O. Box 324
    Ruston, LA 71273

    Annual Fees are $15.00. Libraries and other genealogical or historical societies $11.00. Regular meetings are held on the third Saturday in February, May, September and November at 2:00 PM in th Lincoln Parish Library, 509 West Alabama Avenue, Ruston, LA. Members are urged to submit material (such as bible records, cemetery records or ancestor charts) in the quarterly published journal.


    North Louisiana Military Museum
    off Highway 80 (Georgia Street) at Memorial Drive
    Ruston, Louisiana

    For information: (318) 255-2031
    Thursday, Friday and Saturday
    1:00PM - 5:00PM
    Saturday
    10:00AM - 5:00PM


    The Ark La Tex Genealogy Associaltion
    P.O. Box 4462
    Shreveport, LA 71134

    Membership is $12.50 for individuals and $15.00 for families. Meetings are the 2nd Saturday of every month at the Randal T Moore Senior Citizen Center, 3101 Fairfield, Shreveport, LA.



    Books about Lincoln Parish

    The following books are excellent Lincoln Parish resource books, unfortunatly I don't believe the first three books are currently being published. Fortunatly, those three books can be found in many of the libraries in Lincoln Parish.





    "Lincoln Parish History"
    Edited by Mary Frances Fletcher, Ralph Ropp
    Walsworth Pub Co.(1976), Marceline,MO
    672 pages with ill.



    "Lincoln Parish, Louisiana 1880 census, Index"
    edited by Marcia Duncan Richardson
    J & W Enterprises, Shreveport, LA, 1989



    "Cementaries of Lincoln Parish"
    "And a few Parishes near Lincoln also including miscellaneous material on the Hedgepeth and
    Colvin families. Tombstone Inscriptions (Incomplete)"
    Long Leaf Pine Chapter, Dar, 1957
    Ruston, LA



    "Public Education in Lincoln Parish"
    Earvin Ryland
    Published by M & M Company 1984
    Rustin, LA



    "Some Slaveholders and Their Slaves Union Parish, Lousiana 1839-1865"
    Harry F. Dill and William Simpson
    Heritage Books, Inc 1997, Bowie, Maryland
    {Note: Remember, some of Lincoln Parish originally comes from Union Parish}



    JACKSON PARISH LOUISIANA
    Copyright 1982
    Published by:Jackson Parish Chamber of Commerce
    Jonesboro,LA.
    Printed by:Taylor Publishing Company Dallas,Texas
    {Note: Remember, some of Lincoln Parish originally comes from Jackson Parish}


    CRIMEFIGHTERS: Centennial History of the
    Ruston Police department 1884-1984
    by Wesley Harris
    Published my M & M Printing
    Ruston, 1984


    Sketches of Old Ruston
    by M. S. Hayes
    aka Mattie Sue Martin Hayes
    Published by S.L.: S.N
    1976


    I do not have all the publisher information for the following books, but I know they exist because I reviewed them in the New Orleans Public Library.



    Notes on a History of Lincoln Parish Louisiana
    Kathleen Graham, Librarian
    Louisiana Polytechnic Institute



    Bulletin of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
    Historical Studies of Lincoln Parish, Commemorating the Sixtieth Aniversary of the Pierian Club.
    Edited by Mary Frances Fletcher
    Ruston, Louisiana



    Local Publishers of Genealogy Material


    J & W Enterprise
    P.O. Box 19443
    Shreveport, LA 71149-0443
    (318) 929-1730


    J & W Enterprises has an excellent selection of books for any family historian's library. From census index books to marriage record books to cemetary books. They have books of interest for most of the parishes of Northern Louisiana. Give them a call for a catalogue.

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