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Lincoln Parish

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I am Rebecca Maloney, Webmistress and Coordinator for this Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make. I would like to thank all of our previous coordinators who have spent countless hours gathering information, building websites and finding volunteers. Your genealogy research has helped family history researchers find their ancestors! The hard work you have put in shows and we appreciate you! I welcome your family group sheets, biographies, descendent reports and more!

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Lincoln Parish Was Established

Lincoln Parish (French: Paroisse de Lincoln) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 46,735. The parish seat is Ruston. The parish was created on February 24, 1873 from parts of Bienville, Claiborne, Union, and Jackson parishes, and its boundaries have changed only once in 1877. This makes Lincoln parish one of the Reconstruction parishes. Lincoln Parish comprises the Ruston, LA Micropolitan Statistical Area

I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of Lincoln Parish roots. I post everything I have for all to use.

Lincoln is a relativly new parish and you may eventually find that you will have to do some of your research in one of the adjacent areas. When you research the Lincoln Parish area you will discover that in the decades between 1810 thru 1870 the area had been under the control of many different parishes. Many records were transferred to Lincoln Parish when it was formed, but it is not likely they all were. So be sure to check Claiborne, Bienville, Jackson, Ouachita or Union parish if your Lincoln Parish research starts to turn stale. Go to the Pre Parish Map of Lincoln Parish to assist you with your research.

Research Resources

Make sure you check the "Research Resources" section! There are books on line: History of Lincoln Parish, c. 1868 (it has all kinds of names and dates of Lincoln Parish families), indexes of books: "The First 100 Years", also "Yankeetown News" from 1890, books for sale, newspaper articles beginning in 1877, helpful links, look up volunteers and local researchers to help you out.

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"The Chosen"

We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."

by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."

 

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If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:

Coordinator - Rebecca Maloney

State Coordinator: Marsha Bryant

Asst. State Coordinators: Available

Questions or Comments?

If you have questions or problems with this site, email the Parish Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research. I do not live in Louisiana and do not have access to additional records.

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