| City Archives New Orleans Public Library | |
| Orleans Parish
Civil and Criminal Courts Finding Aids, Inventories and Indexes | |
| The City Archives houses, on deposit from
the Civil District Court, all records of the Orleans Parish civil
courts (1804-1926). The City Archives also holds the records of the
Orleans Parish criminal courts (1830-1931).
Link here for a A Brief Explanation of the Orleans Parish Civil & Criminal Court System. For records that follow the dates outlined above, please contact either the Clerk of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans or Orleans Parish Criiminal Clerk's Office. Indexing for most of the Orleans Parish civil courts is available either in published volumes or on microfilm. In addition, Louisiana Division/City Archives staff and volunteers have prepared indexes for several courts that came to the Archives with no extant indexing. These indexes are linked below. Additional indexes are in progress and will be added here as they are completed. Finding aids for the various courts not formally described below are also in progress. Indexing for the Orleans Parish criminal courts is fragmentary prior to 1880 and after 1918. Finding aids for the criminal courts not formally described here are forthcoming. Microfilmed court records are available for in-house use during regular hours. Unfilmed records (including civil court lawsuits and all criminal court records after 1853) may not be available on the day of request and can be used only by prior appointment or arrangement. The records of the Court of Probates (1804-1846) and the Second District Court (1846-1880) have been digitized by FamilySearch.org and are (partially) available online. Docket books and extant indexing to those docket books for a number of the civil courts listed below have also been digitized. See the individual finding aids for further information.
Before ordering court records by mail carefully read all instructions. Please also note that we do not
provide mail reference service in the criminal court records.
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ORLEANS PARISH CIVIL COURTS
 Minute Book, 1804
Suit records, 1804-1813
Civil Suit
Records, 1804-1807
Index
to Civil Suits, 1804-1807
General Index of
All Successions . . ., 1805-1846 [Digital images of successions and wills available at Familysearch.org]
Index to Suit
Records, Numbered Series, 1823-1845
Suit
records, 1807-1813 (Go directly to the Index).
Index to
Insolvents' Docket, 1807-1813
Bonds of
Priests and Ministers and Marriage Licenses, 1807-1808
Records, 1813-1846.
Index
to suit records, 1813-1835
Index
to slave emancipation petitions, 1814-1843
Records,
1813-1846
Index
to suit records, 1813-1846
Habeas
Corpus Records, 1831-1846
Records,
1839-1846
Suits relating to the slave
mutiny aboard the brig Creole, 1841
Index to
Successions, 1846-1853
Records,
1846-1880
General Index of
All Successions . . ., 1846-1880 [Digital images of wills and some of the successions available at Familysearch.org]
Recordation of
Marriages, May 12, 1879 to April 12, 1880
Records,
1846-1880
Records,
1846-1880
Records,
1846-1880
Records,
1853-1880
Records,
1868-1872
Records,
1870-1872
Records, 1872-1877
Records, 1880-1967 [bulk, 1880-1927]
General Index
of All Successions . . ., 1880-1903
Index to
death records in the Employers' Liability Agreements, 1915-1944
Enumeration of
Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Widows of Deceased Solders, 1911
| ORLEANS PARISH CRIMINAL COURTS Please note: The criminal court records are available for in-house use only, by appointment.
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Updated 2/2020 |
