Illinois State Historical Society
Old State Capitol
Springfield, IL 62706

Illinois State Library
Centennial Memorial Building
Springfield, IL 62706
Kathryn Gesterfield, Director
Telephone: (217) 525-2994

Museum of African American History
Du Sable Museum of African American History
3806 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60653

Northwestern University Library
1937 Sheridan Road
Evenston, IL 60201

Liberia

Government Public Library
Ashmun Street
Monrovia, Liberia

Liberian Information Service Library
Monrovia, Liberia

University of Liberia Libraries
University of Liberia
P.O. Box 9020
Monrovia, Liberia

Louisiana

Dillard University Library
Amistad Research Center
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70122

(Card Index on blacks in New Orleans from newspapers covering the
period 1850-65. The center also contains the records of the American
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, American Home Missionary
Society Archives, and the American Missionary Association Archives.)

Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association (ALTGA)
P.O. Box 4462
Shreveport, LA 71104
Ms. Barbara Gilbert Smith, Corresponding Secretary
Telephone: (318) 742-1349
(Organization of genealogists interested in southern research,
especially Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Collects and provides
genealogical materials. Supports Genealogy Room of the Shreve
Memorial Library in Shreveport.)

Division of Public Health Statistics
State Department of Health
P.O. Box 60630
New Orleans, LA 70610
(Births and deaths 1914* for the entire state except the city of
New Orleans. Marriage records are in local parishes (countries) in
Custody of clerk of court.)

Bureau of Vital Statistics
New Orleans City Health Department
1 WO 3 City Hall
Civic Center
New Orleans, LA 70112
(Births 1790,* deaths 1804,* marriages 1831,*)

Grambling College of Louisiana
A.C. Memorial Library
P.O. Box 3
Grambling, LA 71245

Louisiana Historical Association
P.O. Box 44422
Capitol Station
Baton Rouge, LA 70804

Louisiana Historical Society
630 Maison Blanche Building
921 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70112

Louisiana State Library
P.O. Box 131
Baton Rouge, LA 70800
Thomas Jaques
Telephone: (504) 389-6651