Liberating Pointe Coupee Parish History

This series will include subjects of Pointe Coupée, such as:

• the French and Spanish colonial eras
• documented narratives about those famous and not so famous
• Southern Claims Commission and French American Claims Commission suits
• a significant Reconstruction civil rights suit
• Calendar of Abstracts from the Cuban Papers- from Archive des Colonies Series 13 (General Correspondence from the Colonies)
• Fully translated selected records from the Cuban Papers
• various translated original documents from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries from French and Spanish to English.

The narrative history of Pointe Coupée lies in a number of public and private archives, collections, and boxes of heirlooms. These records can be found in the parish, throughout Louisiana, the United States, in France and Spain; written in French, Spanish, the Créole dialect, and English. In this 21st century, pieces of the history lay dormant in anticipation of a re-awakening of the past through the translated word.

Liberating Pointe Coupée Parish History will re-awaken Pointe Coupée's past.The content for this series is derived from meticulous research of the original civil, court and church records from Pointe Coupée, the National Archives and various repositories whose holdings include records pertaining to Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana.

Watch as new research becomes liberated online at: Pointe Coupée Parish History.