Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana
Archives
Thank you for checking about how to contribute your genealogical
materials and data for use in the USGenWeb Project. All contributed materials
will remain accessible, without charge.
How to assist the archivists
- Please copy the USGenWeb Notice to your hard disk and place it at the top of each item you submit. (Just update the contributor and email address.)
- Indicate the county name in the subject of the transmittal email.
- Submit items for more than one county in separate emails.
- Check with the archivist to assure your file formats and programs are
transferable and readable.
- Submit files in text format, preferably saved in a text editor, such as,
Tex-Edit Plus © (MAC) or Notepad+ (PC).
- Submit spreadsheet data in either comma or tab delimited format. While we accept some spreadsheet and data base files, they take a great deal of extra
effort to prepare for readable viewing. If you can convert them to a text format, prior to
submission, that is preferable. Follow file size guideline below.
- Keep files to around 60 kb in size. Split into smaller ones, if necessary. Larger ones really eat up the bandwidth.
- Notify us if you change your email address. If you have a permanent email address, please use that.
USGenWeb Notice Example
John Smith, 1823-, Biography, Tangipahoa Parish, LA
File Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by John Doe, Apr. 2003
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Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives
http:/www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
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Copyright. All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
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Family History: Sam Jones descendants, Tangipahoa Parish, LA
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Some types of records to get us started
- Federal Census (free, slave, mortality, agriculture, veterans... schedules)
- State Census
- Vital Records
- Marriage
- Birth
- Death
- Divorce (or under court?)
- Court records (county, federal, civil, circuit, probate....)
- Church records (members lists, baptisms...)
- Bible Records
- Newspapers (obits, marriage & birth announcements, local events...)
- Prison Records
- Military Records (rosters, muster rolls, service records, pension applications...)
- Revolutionary
- Civil War,
- Indian Wars
- Mexican
- Spanish-American
- War of 1812
- WWI
- WWII
- Korean
- Viet Nam
- Persian Gulf
- Land Records (deeds, land transfers, federal land grants, surveyor's records...)
- Tax Records (land, property, state, federal, local....)
- Local Histories
- Local Directories (phone books, old county and city directories....)
- Occupational (?) (Mining inspector's reports, Accident reports, railroad reports, company newsletters....)
- Educational (?) (school histories, newsletters, KY's school census, yearbooks?)
- Cemeteries
- Deeds/grants
- Miscellaneous
- Newspapers/obits
- Ship Lists
- Tax lists
- Wills
Archives Submission Guidelines
- Only virus-checked files will be accepted.
- Text is preferred and depending on the size, we may zip it.
Non-text may be converted to text before storing. Large files may be
split. We may, at our discretion, store the same data in several
formats. Scanned documents will be considered, depending on their
content.
- All data is free to the public, and the USGenWeb Archives project
will not pay royalties on any submissions.
- Data is provided for downloading "as is" -- no guarantees of
anything.
- File contributors must use their own discretion regarding the
inclusion of data on living people.
- We will not accept gedcoms due to space considerations. Family histories
are acceptable.
- No executable files will be accepted.
- Do not send copyrighted material, unless it is your own, and you
include a statement of permission to use in the document.
Note: Public domain records cannot be copyrighted.
- No anonymous submissions.
- We cannot guarantee permanency, in the event data is lost.
- Any obviously false, malicious, libelous, or copyrighted data
will be deleted. We do not guarantee the validity of any files.
- These guidelines are subject to change.
- We retain the right not to use any submission.
- Files in the USGenWeb Archives may not be copied for selling in
any format.
To have your data placed in the Tangipahoa Parish, LA USGenWeb Project Archives, send an email to Sandra McLellan PLEASE include the NAME of the parish in the message subject.