The Hancock County Historical Society has a website with lots of historical info on births, marriages, deaths, divorces, census, etc. Definitely worth checking since many N.O. families had summer homes there and, just like today, many New Orleanians retired there. The address is www.hancockcountyhistoricalsociety.com. Jan Dean in N.O. >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 08:56:39 -0400 >From: "Carolyn Long" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Jan Strickland's records >To: <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >We should always consider Hancock County, Mississippi, as a possibility. I >found some of Marie Laveau's descendants living there at the turn of the >21st Century. > >Carolyn Long >