Libraries 

Allen Parish Library - Branches in Oberlin (Main), Oakdale, & Kinder.
Director - Ms. Karen Teigen
Oberlin, LA
(318) 639-4315
Louisiana ILL Code: B1AL
Email: xxx1139@ucs.usl.edu

• Oberlin Branch:
  P. O. Box 400 - Sixth Street
  Oberlin, LA 70655-0400
  318-639-4315
  FAX:318-639-2654
  Ms. Carolyn Marcantel, Branch Manger
  
  
• Kinder Branch:
  P.O. Box 637 - 4th Street
  Kinder, LA 70648
  318-738-2126
  Email: mailto:kinderbranch@centuryinter.net
  Mr. Steven Lane, Branch Manager
  
  
• Oakdale Branch:
  405 E. Sixth Avenue
  Oakdale, LA 71463
  318-335-2690
  Ms. Dot Fournerat, Branch Manager
  
  
• Special Collections & Services:
  • Business Collection - Oakdale
  • Tourist Information - Oberlin
  • Genealogy - All Branches
  • Internet Access at Oberlin and Oakdale

Use the e-mail address below to submit your question. Be sure to give your name, address, phone number and e-mail address (if you have one) so staff can get back to you with the answer.
xxx1139@ucs.usl.edu

Resource Books

Cole Footprints book (History of the Cole Family from Stephen (Steven) Cole and his wife Elizabeth 1660 to the Coles migration to Mississippi and St. Landry, Calcasieu, Beauregard, and Allen Parishes, is now being republished. Price is $25.00.

Camellia Denys
1251 Briar
Provo, UT 84604-2864
(801) 377-5915

Lookups

To request a lookup from any of the references, click on the email address of the volunteer/owner and ask them politely. Please remember, you may only ask for one family name or surname at a time. They in turn will notify you, if there is a match, of the page(s) of the reference, the reference's author and/or publisher and address and a brief summary about what was mentioned.

Please do not ask them to copy or send you any pages. And, although e-mail can be fast, people are not, especially volunteers. It may take anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of weeks for a reply! Please be patient! Also, although we try to keep our "links" and e-mail addresses updated, both change frequently!

But most of all, please remember to thank them for their help!

As you can see, volunteers are needed.

Reference	Author	Volunteer Email
Southwest Louisiana Records (all volumes)	Fr. Donald Hebert	Need Volunteer!
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country	Brasseaux, Fontenot, and Oubre	Need Volunteer!
Louisiana Tapestry: The Ethnic Weave of St. Landry Parish	Baker and Kreamer (Editors)	Need Volunteer!
The Free Negro in Ante-Bellum Louisiana	H. E. Sterkx	Need Volunteer
The Louisiana Link	Glenwith H. McHenry	Kathy LeMay Kelly
The History of Louisiana Vol 1-3 (Includes biographies of prominent Louisianans of this era - 1925.)	Published by: The American Historical Society	Frances Ball Turner
The Civil War Veterans of Old Imperial Cacasieu Parish, Louisiana	B. T. Rosteet and S. F. Miguez	Jimmy E. Cooley
Oberlin 1893-1993: The First 100 Years	Pat Carroll Marcantel	Barbara H. Swire
Looking Back at Kinder	Ethelinda J. Andrus & Grace H. Cornish	Don & Leavon Ladner