This came in on the LAORLEAN list. Do we know if our Degruys used any particular notary? From: "Jan Strickland" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] NO Notarial Archives To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" from home page: The Notarial Archives is a government agency that files and maintains land records and other contracts recorded in Orleans Parish. In addition, the Notarial Archives assists Notary Public applicants by offering testing and application information. The agency also serves historical researchers and genealogists through its research center. You can still look at the old Notary files volume by volume and page by page which BTW, is very interesting and sort of like sitting down and going page by page. *If you know that a family used a certain Notary, like maybe Narcisse Broutin, they have scanned the books, some in original handwritting some transcribed years ago and they are on line at this link: * http://www.notarialarchives.org/research.htm go to bottom of page Jan S AND As I wrote yesterday, this URL only takes you to the INDEXES for certain early notaries--it doesn't include every notary. You can learn the names of the parties, the type of act, and the page/act number. There are NO actual notarial acts available online. Carolyn AND Thanks, Carolyn. They are a joy to just read through and if you have done > any research in Louisiana, you will see names that are familiar. I am > having a ball, just looking through the volumes, even the hand written ones. > This will do fine, it's sort of like going to a reasearch library and looking > page by page, which is something I adore doing. You never know what you might > find. What a great source to have scanned and online. Any new source is > terrific for me way over here in Florida. > > Jan S - Orlando, FL