Hello! I hope you are all enjoying the end of summer. Below is a list of the new material on the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives since the last update. New Material on the Archives: 1) Index to the 1930 Union Parish census by wards. Thanks to the superb efforts of Mary Ann Williams & Karen Mabry Rice, we will very soon have an index to the entire 1930 census! Due to the size of the entire census, the index is done by wards. All wards are now up except for Ward 3, which should be up soon. 2) Index to the 1920 Union Parish Census Ward 1, prepared & submitted by Karen Rice. 3) Transcription of 1870 Union Parish Census, Ward 4 by Shawn Martin. We are now very close to having Shawn's complete transcription of the 1870 census. 4) Union Parish Succession Transcriptions by Shawn Martin. This week, Shawn has transcribed & submitted for us these successions from 1859 - 1860: ### Henry Funderburk ### John A. Bayless ### James H. Carson ### sale of property of the firm of Carson & Bayless [By the way, Carson & Bayless was "the" Farmerville mercantile firm during the 1840s and 1850s. They owned a large amount of land, slaves, and merchandise. Most Union Parish farmers who lived anyway near Farmerville held accounts with them. I strongly suggest that everyone check these successions for their ancestors or families of interest. I have found over thirty relatives listed in these records so far myself.] 5) Biography of Pinckney Odom (1820-1895) & his wife Mary Caroline Ward Gee Odom (1818-1892) 6) Union Parish Post Office Page completed. This page contains records of every Union Parish post office between 1838 and 1930, including the names of all men and women who served as postmasters of Union Parish offices. 7) I also posted a new page containing records of slaves who lived in Union Parish prior to 1865. If you happen to have any records that would be appropriate to post, please send them in. Thanks to our transcribers & submitters: Mary Anne Williams, Shawn Martin, and Karen Mabry Rice. We greatly appreciate their dedicated efforts to put these valuable resources on the archives for us all!! Have a good week, Tim Hudson http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~launion/ _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963