Upcoming Events

Join us for an exciting genealogy seminar series led by our Special Collections Librarian, Ms. Gwen Kelley! Discover valuable tips and resources to help you trace your family history, uncover hidden stories, and unlock genealogical mysteries.

The members of the Jefferson Parish Community Band perform a musical concert.

Unleash your family's creativity in Creative Collage. Forget about your to-do list or your schedule, just come and tear, cut, paste, and glue to make your own masterpiece.

Join us for an exciting genealogy seminar series led by our Special Collections Librarian, Ms. Gwen Kelley! Discover valuable tips and resources to help you trace your family history, uncover hidden stories, and unlock genealogical mysteries.

Get ready for an action-packed experience with our interactive hula hoop event! The fun kicks off with a dazzling hula hoop performance that will leave you inspired.

Join us for an exciting genealogy seminar series led by our Special Collections Librarian, Ms. Gwen Kelley! Discover valuable tips and resources to help you trace your family history, uncover hidden stories, and unlock genealogical mysteries.

Join us for an exciting genealogy seminar series led by our Special Collections Librarian, Ms. Gwen Kelley! Discover valuable tips and resources to help you trace your family history, uncover hidden stories, and unlock genealogical mysteries.

Join us for an exciting genealogy seminar series led by our Special Collections Librarian, Ms. Gwen Kelley! Discover valuable tips and resources to help you trace your family history, uncover hidden stories, and unlock genealogical mysteries.

Join us for an exciting genealogy seminar series led by our Special Collections Librarian, Ms. Gwen Kelley! Discover valuable tips and resources to help you trace your family history, uncover hidden stories, and unlock genealogical mysteries.

U.S. census records can offer you a window into your ancestors’ stories—and clues about new relatives to add to your family tree.  This lecture will focus on how to use U.S. census records to reconstruct your family history.

The members of the Jefferson Parish Community Band perform a musical concert.

The term "vital records" most commonly refers to forms such as birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage licenses, which are essential documents that can be used to link each generation to the next.

The details and facts included in newspapers and obituaries will bring your ancestors to life. This lecture will show you how to access this valuable information.

Cemetery records let you know where your family members were laid to rest--and can connect them together.

The approach to researching records of enlisted men and women, officers, and for each branch of the military is complex.  Individual records will need to be requested from archives.

Finding immigration records is the first step in finding where and when your family came to the United States--so that you can research your family history in other countries.

Ancestry.com is perhaps the main genealogy database that currently exists.  This lecture will focus on searching the database, using the library version of Ancestry.com as well as what the Ancestry.com website offers to subscribers.