St. Helena Parish (French: Paroisse de Sainte-Hélène) President James Madison had already issued a proclamation ordering Governor Claiborne of Louisiana to take possession on October 27, 1810. It was on December 10, 1810 that Governor Claiborne took possession of West Florida. It was proclaimed that all of the area eastward from the Mississippi River shall constitute one county to be known and called by the name Feliciana. The county was then divided into the parishes of Feliciana, Baton Rouge, St. Helena and St. Tammany. St Helena Parish was formed by the Act of Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans on April 24, 1811. Louisiana, including the Florida parishes, became the eighteenth state of the union. After many years of confusion and instability, the West Florida region of Louisiana was now a stable portion of the United States of America. The parish seat is Greensburg. Cities and towns Greensburg Montpelier   Adjacent parishes and counties Amite County, Mississippi (north) Tangipahoa Parish (east) Livingston Parish (south) East Baton Rouge Parish (southwest) East Feliciana Parish (west)	Welcome to this Louisiana Genealogy Trails Website. My name is Janice, and I am your host for Louisiana.  If you would like to submit data for this site, please email me with your submissions. Happy Trails to you on your quest for your ancestors. This is a new site, fashioned after our successful Illinois Trails websites, and we hope to soon add data here that can help Louisiana researchers as much as we've been able to help our Illinois researchers. We need some help to do that though - volunteers to host these county websites. If you can make a basic webpage, and you have a desire to transcribe data for the free use of all researchers, we can use your talents! Review our Volunteer Information and email Kim. In the meantime, join our mailing list to be kept apprised of updates to this website.     Online Data We intend to put data from all these categories online eventually. Feel free to contribute your data to this site to help it grow!   Louisiana is organized by Parish rather than County We need Parish Hosts! Email Kim if you want to help us to keep online Genealogy free! Acadia Parish Madison Parish Allen Parish Morehouse Parish Ascension Parish Natchitoches Parish Assumption Parish Orleans Parish Avoyelles Parish Ouachita Parish Beauregard Parish Plaquemines Parish Bienville Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Bossier Parish Rapides Parish Caddo Parish Red River Parish Calcasieu Parish Richland Parish Caldwell Parish Sabine Parish Cameron Parish St. Bernard Parish Catahoula Parish St. Charles Parish Claiborne Parish St. Helena Parish Concordia Parish St. James Parish DeSoto Parish St. John The Baptist Parish East Baton Rouge Parish St. Landry Parish East Carroll Parish St. Martin Parish East Feliciana Parish St. Mary Parish Evangeline Parish St. Tammany Parish Franklin Parish Tangipahoa Parish Grant Parish Tensas Parish Iberia Parish Terrebonne Parish Iberville Parish Union Parish Jackson Parish Vermilion Parish Jefferson Davis Parish Vernon Parish Jefferson Parish Washington Parish Lafayette Consolidated Government Webster Parish Lafourche Parish West Baton Rouge Parish LaSalle Parish West Carroll Parish Lincoln Parish West Feliciana Parish Livingston Parish Winn Parish
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