St. John Baptist Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Jean-Baptiste) St. John the Baptist was created March 31, 1807 by an act of the Orleans Territory Legislature, and was one of the original 19 Louisiana parishes. The parish seat is Edgard. There is no incorporated towns in St. John Baptist Parish. St. John the Baptist Parish was the second permanent settlement in Louisiana.. The parish was established in the early 1720s by a group of German colonists. Many families established towns around the Mississippi River in the areas now known as Lucy, Garyville, and Reserve. The area was under the French regime until 1768 when France delivered Louisiana to the Spanish. Around this time period, many Acadians, or "Cajuns", began arriving in south Louisiana due to being exiled from their homes in what is now Nova Scotia. The first Acadian village was established in what is now Wallace. The German and French cultures thrived alongside one another, but French came to be the dominant language. Communities Edgard Garyville LaPlace Reserve Wallace Adjacent parishes Tangipohoa Parish (north) Lake Pontchartrain (northeast) St. Charles Parish (southeast) Lafourche Parish (south) St. James Parish (west) Ascension Parish & Livingston Parish (northwest)	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! ONLINE NOW                         COMING SOON                           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 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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