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UNITED DAUGHTERS
OF THE CONFEDERACY

LOUISIANA DIVISION

Links to other UDC web sites:
Links to genealogy research web sites:
(The confederate ancestor must be proved with documents)

Booth's louisiana soldier records

​Search the segments for the Last name and scroll down until you see the soldier name you want. .  Look at the page shown in the left column that is blue bordered to make sure the number you print is the same as your target on the screen. This microfilm page number does not correspond with the book page.  The number on the page in the image is correct to the hardbound copy of the three books.

other records and research info

Links to Other Historically Informative Sites
​Ordering a Birth or Death Certificate in LA  (written 2021 and may change)
 
Google Online:  Louisiana Secretary of State, or cut and paste on your search line:
 a.  http://www.sos.la.gov/Pages/default.aspx  or
 b.https://www.sos.la.gov/HistoricalResources/ResearchHistoricalRecords/Pages/OnlinePublicVitalRecordsIndex.aspx
 
  1. Select “Historical Resources”;  then “research historical resources; LOOK AT LEFT, SKIP “VISIT THE RESEARCH LIBRARY, then SEE:  “LOCATE HISTORICAL RECORDS”  AND CLICK IT; In the Center of page see “Searchable Databases” with  choices IN BLUE. One is “Online Public Vital Records Index”;  go see; LA Death Records, LA Birth Records see point further down. You get a choice for Vital Records Registry for Deaths that occurred less than 50 years ago, or for older records you try the LA Archives Building in Baton Rouge and view on their screen.
Birth records were not required by law from the parishes until 1918, unless it occurred in New Orleans, then you have a chance of getting something really old.    For deaths that occurred in Louisiana between 1911–1964  the cost is for $5.00 for NON CERTIFIED.   A combo of Birth/Death is $24.00.
 
Select Advanced Search at the bottom. look at all of the Smiths. If you can narrow it down by year or parish, it will help.  See the year on the left and the parish on the right.   If you find your person, click the BLUE “print form”. Practice on a person you know has a DC before you PAY for a stranger. Non certified copies are $5.00. Certified are $10 and not needed, unless you have no choice. Then you click “create Printable Form” that you will mail in with a check and a  COPY OF YOUR DRIVER”S LICENSE. You will get a  statement “you can order certified copies of the death certificate of John Smith of Washington Parish, who died in January 1927.”  Fill in your mailing address USE YOUR LEGAL FULL NAME from drivers’ license.  Your person may be listed  by SOME VARIATION of his first name: William, Will, Bill, W. D. Mrs. W. D; so let it give you many choices to pick from. The parish where he died may not be his home parish.
 
 
  1. The order may contain UP TO 10 Forms ONLY in one envelope. REMEMBER TO WRITE A SEPARATE CHECK and paper clip it to EACH FORM within an envelope.   You are doing separate checks in case they do not have one of the documents you are ordering; it won’t hold up them sending you the rest of them.  You get them back.
 
 
  1.  For Confederate Pensions applied for in Louisiana only  from page “Locate Historical Records” scroll down the screen, pass “ Library Handouts” to “Searchable Databases: to the second dot “Confederate Pension Application Database”.   Even if he served in another states’ unit, he may have applied for a pension in LA if he or his widow moved here.  Pensions did not start until 1900, and he may not have been granted a pension because the state ran out of funds, not because his service was unproved.  Fold3 has better records than the states, but not the pensions; those come from each state.   Scroll past the black box looking for the “search For” narrow box.  Type in the LAST NAME, comma First Name. Or just look at all records for that last name. Look for the man and/ or his wife ( soldiers and wives are grouped together here).  Be sure to go on to the next numbered page in blue at the bottom, there are more than one page of Smiths.
 
  1. WRITE DOWN: the reel number, or print the page:  Example: CP1.86-Microdex: 4-Sequence 29.  This will give you which box of microfilm to view and how far into the images you have to look, at YOUR LIBRARY ( most LA libraries have a copy of all the LA Pensions)  and download all cards/documents to a memory stick for FREE or print them there. ASK FOR HELP. If you forget to bring a memory stick to the library, you can usually purchase a red one from them. NOTE: these are cheap and do not last long, so transfer the data when you get home.    IF you order from the Sec. of State use the “Confederate Pension Application Request Form” , small lettering in blue in the middle of the page; it is $20.00, and an extra $5.00 if you use a credit card. They really want a check or money order mailed in to them with the form:  https://www.sos.la.gov/HistoricalResources/PublishedDocuments/LFP4RequestForConfederatePensionApplication.pdf
 
 
  1. From the Index select “ Louisiana Death Records”  in blue. This
     service only issues certified copies of microfilmed death certificates. 
   
 
  1. If you wanted a Birth Record: This service only issues certified copies for births that occurred in Louisiana between 1819–1914. Birth records for all other parishes ,except Orleans Parish (has 1790-1819), were not required by law until 1918. Some records are available prior to this.
           
  1. For more information about obtaining copies of Louisiana birth
    certificates for births that occurred less than 100 years ago, visit the
    Vital Records Registry. More information on the ordering person is needed   and they are careful about giving out data on living persons. YOUR  photo ID required. Go in person to a health unit on a list.
 
  1. Look to the bottom in the darker box with white lettering and
    ALWAYS SELECT “ADVANCED SEARCH”.  This is creating your order 
    form for the actual document.
 
9.  The black and blue box lists the year and IF you recognize your
     person. Look for “order” in blue. Select that.
 
10. If this was not your person, go back and search again.
 
11. Now you are ready to get a paper copy of your form. See the
      bottom box saying “Create Printable Form”. BEFORE you click there  
      you need to turn off your POP-UP BLOCKER. How do you know if 
      your computer is blocking pop-ups? At the top of your screen, to 
      the right of the website address is a TINY icon of a box with a RED
      X on it if your browser is CHROME. This you have to click and it 
      should turn into a CLEAR STAR “allow pop-ups from this site only”.
      Now you are ready to click “Create Printable Form”. If you are using
      a different browser you only need to RIGHT CLICK on the BIG form
      up on your screen and a selection box will appear with  PRINT in it;
      do it.
 
 

fold 3

Using Ancestry.com and Fold3.com  (the military service records site)
 
 
Fold3.com is FREE soldier records site for all wars for 7 Days and then BEFORE the 7 days are up you have to decide to unsubscribe or select a membership level; if you do not unsubscribe you will be billed. You may download a complete service record at once, or each page individually and improve the image clarity using “Photoscape”.or instruct it to print the pages. The square box with dots in it shows you the entire set of service card images, numbered so you can select one. You will need the microfilm number-like M327; the roll number is not shown on the left any longer, why we need the source page that comes last.
 
​UDC now requires ONE COPY of the Source page that is at the end. Less paper is used if you download and print your own pages as an image of the entire full page,  except the LAST ONE with the Source page at the end not being numbered, which should be selected as a PDF. If you print all the pages you will get a source page with EACH paper printed. 
Read the Frequently Asked Questions at :
https://www.fold3.com/help/problems/sign-in
 
 You may subscribe to Ancestry for 6 months or a year at a time it is a monthly charge and there are bargain times to start.   Visit here: https://www.ancestry.com/offers/subscribe
Study the membership chart: Fold3 is included with an Ancestry Basic subscription (about $1.00 a day); or an All-Access membership (about $2.00 a day). Newspapers.com is on the higher level.
 
It is Definitely worth Subscribing to Fold3 annually because each soldier’s record from an archive would cost $17.00+, think of how much you are saving, and you can see it NOW to see if this man is the YOUR ancestor, or someone with the same name.
 
Pointers on Finding a Service Record on Fold 3
Make a folder on your Desktop or memory stick titled with the man’s name so you can put what you download there.Slide down on the opening home page and see the WARS in picture blocks; select US Civil War (Confederacy). In the red box below the search box SEE Featured Publications and to the right in blue “See All …”, click that.
  1. Scroll down several titles until you see “Civil War Index (CMSR) and  the state you want; click the blue title. A page with RED headings will come up.
  2.  See the horizontal box with a magnifying glass that says “People, Records, Places, Dates or Service Number…”. Click the magnifying glass image. Now type in the man’s Last name by the blinking curser for people, records. (later try adding his first or initials)  You are given the choice of “Key Words, Name or Place”. Try Key words first, then name.
  3. Most often you will select Search, BUT if you click Browse you will see a list of all the units in the state. This is helpful if you ALREADY know the unit, or want to see if he is listed by only an initial in a unit. Browse lets you look through all the units. Scroll down in Filter Publication List sometime and see other choices.
  1. All the men with that last name will come up in blue lettering next to an image of the Index card and number of pages in the file down below. Click either the name or the image. NOTICE the number in parenthesis by his name. This is HIS AGE, not the number of cards, so you can immediately eliminate that man if he is too old to be yours.
  1. After you type in the name, an image on the left (a vertical card) will  come up (Milti Image File) Click that photo .  Look Left:  This I area is for the information about the source of this file. Write DOWN the publication number: like M3ll; continue scrolling down and note the ROLL: 0072. This data will go on the application on page 3.  DO NOT write down the Record Group 109, not needed. Look at the bottom right for an icon of FOUR SMALL RED SQUARES—these bring up all of the soldier cards, numbered, so you could look at them individually quickly. This complete group begins numbering with the INDEX CARD as #page 1; you will be printing all of the cards.  If you are not paying attention and get two copies of a card you will be able to delete it before printing.
 
 
  1. SKIP to the LAST 3 or 4 CARDS to see if he DESERTED or was AWOL, or if  there is some discharge date, or that he died. Stop now if he deserted or swore an oath to the Union to keep from being tortured.  It is difficult to prove later service after that.
  2. Click the first card, the index card. SEE the light shaded oval directly above the card that says ACTIONS…”; click it. You can select to Download or Print.
  3. SELECT “Download”. Look left: and see two choices: “Entire Page” or “Select a Portion”.  You want the entire page. You will then get a choice of a download format: JPG (J-peg is an image you may edit) or PDF ( No editing).  For all of the pages except the last one click JPG, and then on the last image click PDF to get the source page, too.
  4. Move to the next service card: by right arrow or selecting the next number from the Red Squares display. Click the next card. Actions, and download or print on all of the cards.
  5. Check to see if you got all of the cards by going to YOUR Downloads file on your desktop  If you got all of them, select ALL and drag them in to your folder, or do “Save as” and put the man’s name.
  6.  DO NOT PRINT DIRECTLY FROM THE CARDS. The images might be too light and you have to do it again.   You will want to get them to your computer and use a PHOTO editing program called “Photoscape” or another you may have to ENHANCE the images. Most need to be darkened before you print them. Light images are rejected.
  1.  PHOTOSCAPE IS FREE: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php#:~:text=PhotoScape%20is%20provided%20free%20of%20charge.

A Box will ask you “save as”  From the window select the FILE FOR THE SOLDIER THAT YOU NAMED ON YOUR DESKTOP. ( make one now if you have not). The file name at the bottom says “Page 1” ADD THE FIRST NAME OF THE SOLDIER after Page 1, in case you are downloading pages from several men. Save all cards. 
 
  • In many cases you are deciding from several choices which RECORD exactly matches your target man. Eliminate by AGE, the parish or county where he lived, if you know he lived after the war. You may find he served in more than one unit. Cross check with “Booth”. On your App. Use the last unit, but put all units on page 3 under “other”.
  • Don’t bother looking for a CONFEDERATE PENSION on Fold3. Only US UNION soldier pensions are cataloged here. FOR CONFEDERATES: You have to try the individual STATE where he LIVED AFTER THE WAR, few pensions were given until 1900.
 
  1.  ALSO try to find more cards for him by using the initials, There are errors in the record keeping and a card may have been misfiled, or FOLD3 doesn’t have it and the state will.
 
  1. LOOK AT THE Confederate Civilian files for the family surname. Sometimes you find a gem like the Father supplied grain for horses. Also there are 47 Publications besides the service records you can search for the surname. Yes, you need to know the state.
 
  1. CAREFULLY READ EACH CARD ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM.  Gems are in the “Remarks”, and sometimes in the UNIT history at the bottom. The name of the unit may have changed.
Details that will go under “other”: he changed units on what date; wounds he suffered; what he looked like; where he lived; what job he did before the war; how old he was when enlisted; single or married; was he promoted; was he a POW?
 All of this will help you to be sure you have the CORRECT man to claim as your ancestor.
 
When in doubt: download it now and delete it later.
 
Try “ Southern Bivouac” Magazine; (not online)  it was published from 1881 to 1887 and includes MANY Obituaries for Confederate soldiers, a good many for officers. These volumes are black-bound and look like a set of encyclopedias. Shreveport: Shreve Library Broadmoor Branch Genealogy section has a set, as does Louisiana Tech in Ruston. Most large libraries have it. There is an Index volume that can be  searched by last name.
 
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MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY
Those eligible for membership are women at least 16 years of age who are lineal or collateral blood descendants of men and women who served honorably in the Army, Navy, or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America, or who gave Material Aid to the Cause. Women who were adopted are eligible only through the bloodline of the biological parent. Also eligible are those women who are lineal or collateral blood descendants of members or former members of UDC.

No Confederate ancestor who took the Oath of Allegiance before April 9, 1865, shall be eligible to be used for application for membership. If proof of further Confederate service is available, thereby nullifying the Oath of Allegiance, the ancestor shall be considered for approval.

ADMISSION
Admission to the Organization shall be by invitation through a UDC Chapter.
If you are interested in becoming a member, please send your name, mailing address, and telephone number to:

UDC Memorial Building
328 North Arthur Ashe Blvd.
Richmond, VA 23220-4009
Telephone: 804-355-1636
Fax: 804-353-1396
[email protected]

The Business Office will see that you are referred to a Chapter near you. Written or e-mail inquiries directed to the General Organization must include name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address (if any).

REQUIRED PROOF OF ELIGIBILITY
Proof of ancestor’s service to the Confederate States of America may be obtained, if available, upon request from one of the following sources:

UDC Business Office: From records of military service compiled from registered UDC applications and National Archives Compiled Confederate Service Records, upon request of UDC Chapter Registrar and payment of research fee.

Limited pension records are available from the UDC Business Office for a fee (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, and Tennessee).

State Departments of Archives and History, Confederate Records, if certified.

General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, 8th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20408 (www.archives.gov)

An authoritative publication:
Photocopy of title page, name of author, volume, page number, year of publication, location of library. Provide certified copy of pertinent data relating to Confederate ancestor only.
Data from a tombstone is not acceptable as proof of military service but may be used as proof of birth and death dates. Proof of applicant’s relation to Confederate ancestor must be established through birth, marriage, and death certificates.

DUES
Dues are determined by Chapter Bylaws and usually include Division and General per capita fees.

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