Louvenia and all. Just because your ancestors were not Catholic did NOT keep them out of the early church records.... NONE of mine were and they were all recorded. Since the Catholic Church was, for the most part, the only show in town AND since for a while, it was the LAW that folks be bapt., married in the Catholic church (no matter what their relig. was), most of the Protestants did go there for those kinds of things. AND, most of mine were either "English Catholics" (Church of England) or Episcopal, the Catholic Church was pretty close to what they were accustomed to in the places they came from..... So, be sure and check these books for your folks, no matter what religion they were. I would not have nearly the information that I have were it not for these books. They are wonderful resources. BUT, you must ALWAYS go for the original record. My family found the maiden name of a grgrgramma by ordering the marriage record of a brother of the ancestor! We had been searching for this FINE lady's maiden name for years! The name was NOT in Hebert's books but was on the original document. Hope this helps someone. Happy Hunting. Jan At 07:56 AM 10/22/99 EDT, you wrote: >James, the best place to search the Lafourche etc., areas is to go to the >library. In Houma, our library has extensive information. But the most >important one is Father Hebert's books. He has every listing of every birth, >death, marriage, Christening, etc. That is, if your ancestors were Catholic. > And most of the Acadians, Cajuns, were. There are a great number of books >done on indivual families. Our library also has an in-house genealogist. I >did my husband's entire line never leaving Houma and going no place other >than the library. Hope this helps you. Louvenia Solar >