Scholars
This platform stands on the shoulders of scholars, archivists, and researchers whose decades of work made these records accessible in the first place.
Professor Emerita of History, Rutgers University. Creator of the Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719–1820 database — the most comprehensive digital archive of enslaved individuals in Louisiana history. Her lifelong commitment to recovering the names and lives of enslaved people made the Hall Archive possible.
Louisiana Catholic priest and genealogical historian whose multi-volume transcription of Southwest Louisiana church records — spanning baptisms, marriages, burials, and successions from 1720 to 1865 — forms the backbone of the Hebert Archive. His work preserved records that might otherwise have been lost to time.
This platform is dedicated to the families whose names appear in these records — and to those whose names do not, but whose lives shaped Louisiana nonetheless.
“Connecting generations across the 1865 divide.”