Trouble In Mind

[autumnluv143]

Holy Crap! Genealogy research is expensive! If you don't want to pay for it, you are depending on the research of others and well.. God Knows they're 100% correct in theirs.

So much information I want to find out and so hard when you can't/won't pay a membership price that's more than your car payment.

Oi

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[beccala.livejournal.com]

Well ... its a lot of work ... membership price? What are you referring to? Don't you have others in your family that have done *some* work already? ... they have geneology socities in the area ...

I keep meaning to join but I never have time ... I've traced my roots (or others have) pretty far back ... I just keep meaning to compile all the information ...

I don't know if your family is from the area or not, but the lady that runs this http://www.acadiangenexch.com/pub.htm has done a TON of research over the years .... I think she's my either second cousin or second cousin once removed ... i forget ...

anway, her publications have helped me a ton and her research goes far beyond her own family. At the very least, it should give you a hint as to where to start ....

[autumnluv.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I'm not sure if it will help at all because the one french name I do have in the family may have been changed at some point in time.

The membership I was referring to is all the differet websites that are out there. You can search and search but to get to the good/historical documents you must be a member of the service. Genealogy.com/Ancestry.com/Genopro even charges if you want to use the family tree generator for more than 2 weeks. It's just annoying. The memberships are outrageous.

[autumnluv.livejournal.com]

And no, no one has done any real research on my family. That's why I'm trying to do it now. Before the ones that are left are gone, I want to get as much of it recorded as possible. Unfortunately, there aren't many left and the ones that are around all remember things differently.

[beccala.livejournal.com]

I'm at work so i'm not sure if these are charge or not but they seem to not be at first glance ....

http://www.genealogyspot.com/state/la.htm

http://www.lagenweb.org/

http://www.cyndislist.com/la.htm

The bluebonnet library in baton rouge has a substantial geneological section as well ... http://www.clickers.org/genealogy/index6.html

and then there's this which includes some information for new orleans as well ... though, i'm not sure how up to date it is.... http://www.vivelacajun.com/Genealogy%20Research/la-libraries.htm

Don't give up, there are lots of resources out there ... you just may have to dig a bit harder to find the freeish ones :)

and of course ... a search for "Free Genealogy" on google came back with tons of resources :)

[wolfaugen.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's a tad outragous! If you want I can hook you up with a friend of mine. She does Awesome genealogy research! Managed to get enough info on the hubby's family to fill a 4" - 3 ringed binder!!!