Hello List Members, I just discovered a book at the library today which I think may be of great help to anyone who comes to New Orleans to do research. It is called "Index to the Archives of Spanish West Florida, 1782 - 1810" by Stanley Clisby Arthur (Polyanthos, New Orleans, 1975). In the 1930's, I believe as part of the WPA, a project was undertaken to translate and transcribe into English the papers of the Spanish Government of West Flordia, District of Baton Rouge. This project was completed in 1937 and produced nineteen volumes of translations and transcriptions, copies of which can be found at the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans. Arthur's book indexes each of the nineteen volumes and includes references to the Choctaw, Chickasaw and other tribes. It also includes the names of people who have had an historical relationship with these tribes, including one of my ancestors, Simon Favre, and others who have cropped up on the list on occassion such as John Turnbull. It includes references to many interpreters and to the surveyor Vicente Sebastian Pintado. It covers a lot of transactions concerning slaves, Free Negroes, Free Mulatoes, and it covers a lot of land transactions and who were involved. It really looks like an invaluable source to anyone researching those times and West Florida. I do not know where it is available outside Louisiana but I imagine that some of the main libraries across the Gulf Coast would have a copy. John Craven New Orleans