Father Donald Hebert was a Catholic priest located in Mire, LA. For years he went to all the southwest Louisiana Catholic Churches and Civil Courthouses. He published the indexes to those records in 41 volumes from pre-colonial times to about 1909. He also did the same for south Louisiana. Those indexes include births, baptisms, deaths, successions, and marriages among a few other records and documents. You can find those books in good genealogy library, if not, see if you can interlibrary loan them. They're worth the cost. Also, the Mormon Church's Family History Library started microfilming them without Fr. Hebert's permission and may still have some on microfilm. He also published the first 33 volumes of those books on a CD-rom. See his website at <A HREF="www.hebertpublications.com">Hebert Publications</A> . Cherryl Forbes Montgomery, <A HREF="mailto:CherrylM@AOL.com">CherrylM@AOL.com</A> <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/cherrylm/myhomepage/heritage.html">My Louisiana Afri-Creole Family</A> //\\//\\//\\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\// \\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\//\\//\\//\\//\\// Researching Southwest Louisiana parishes of Lafayette, St. Martin, St. Landry, and Iberia Parish surnames of MERCIER, WILTZ, ESCLAVON, DeCLOUET, MASSE, GREGOIRE, JEAN LOUIS, SHAY (CHAIX), GUIDRY, BASILE (CHIASSON), BARRAS, LeMELLE, LeBLANC, GUILLUAME, HENRY, and SIMON Also researching Louisiana old West Florida Parishes of East Baton Rouge, Livingston, East and West Feliciana surnames of FORBES, DUNN, CARTER, SCOTT, DeARMOND, EVANS, RICKS, BROWN, GAINES, CURRY, PATTERSON and ANDREWS.