19th Century Orleans Par LA Marriages v3 1807-1900
Subtitle: Computer Indexed Louisiana Marriage Records by Nicholas Russell Murray
By: managed by Dixie A Murray, dixie_murray@yahoo.com
Series: Hunting For Bears Early Louisiana Marriage Records
Publisher: Hunting For Bears Genealogical Society and Library
Published: 1980
Place of publication: 3878 W  3200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84120-2154  ph.801-966-1611  HuntingForBears@yahoo.com (First published 1980 in Hammond, LA USA)
Language: eng
Format: soft cover, genealogy marriage data
Number of pages: 199
Copyright date: 2013
Description: The format for this series of books was designed specifically to address an extreme weakness in genealogical research methodology as it existed in the later half of the last century. The primary component of this solution was an extremely large data base of records which could be accessed via computer instantly to provide location of additional existent and more complete records needed by researchers. Marriage records were uniquely the form of research in need of this additional research methodology.

	Several barriers to this project will be lost to the fog of history unless mentioned somewhere so here are a few; A few County Clerks were naturally obstinate. The worst two were Parish Clerks in Louisiana, one of Assumption Parish, who would not allow our elderly collection team any access to the records unless they stood at the counter and hand copied the data. The books containing the dates were in a separate book and to see it required an individual retrieval and put back for each marriage. A neighboring parish, Ascension, arrested and prosecuted my wife and I for conducting a legal bingo (the mayor himself had issued the permit) to raise funds to continue the data collection process when the inheritance my parents had left, ran out.

	Another involves an elderly lady named "Annie" and the Mississippi Genealogy Society who have no problem with taking the data that HFB paid teams of people to travel to each local court, collect the data, process it and publish it. Annie and MGS then publishes it on the internet and locally in print form thereby, negating any chance of recouping any of the expenditure put out in accruing the data.

	There is a corporate "wolf"  who has done the same as MGS does locally on a small scale on a national scale, no an international one. HFB had been approached by a small startup CD producer to make our data available on CDs. He assured us the data would be protected by an unbreakable decryption method. Maybe he was correct, the "wolf" bought controlling interest in his company, took our data and built the world's largest data repository and search service. All of this was done while I was suffering disabling injuries while serving in the Gulf War, I just love it when a person with a big smile says "Thanks for your service" the whole time they are stealing every thing of yours they can get their hands on. Eventually they did pay $35,000 in recompense for the misappropriated data, half of that amount was to cover back royalties on already sold CDs to avoid lawsuits (less than 1/4 the cost of gathering data from one small state in 1960).
Notes: Early Louisiana Marriage Records by Hunting For Bears Genealogical Society and Library