The Louisiana State Archives has collections that include vital records, governmental records, assessment records, colonial documents, passenger manifests for the Port of New Orleans, military service records, Confederate Pension Applications, records from the State Land Office, books on general histories, census indexes, immigration schedules, church records, and family histories. The online vital records index is a database where you can find and order death records over 50 years old and birth records over 100 years old, as well as an index of marriage records for Orleans Parish.