Hi... I thought I'd share a very helpful email I received from Rita Curry-Pittman about my missing succession query. Others might benefit.... Renee in St. Louis Renee, There is always the possibility that the succession was pulled as some sort of proof of prior possession of property in a later succession. It may have been left inside that later succession but there is no telling you which one. You can begin by looking into each succession for his children and then for his grandchildren. If it still exists, you may find it or a reference to it there. When Union troops took over New Orleans during the Civil War many documents were confiscated including succession dockets. A number of dockets I came across reported the removal by the Union forces. One said they were re-applying to the court to settle a succession because the Union had taken the original which had been filed earlier that same year. Another docket said proof of heirship of property could not be proved by succession records because the Union had removed the succession papers of the parent. They had to rely on sworn oath given in the court......... There is also the possibility that a succession was switched to another court as when creditors file suit against the succession and it goes to a different civil court that handles such suits. In which case it would have been given a new number relevant to that second court. Rita