We are mounting our existing guide, How to Research the History of Your House (or Other Building) in New Orleans, more or less as is. Material enclosed in brackets {} indicates changes made to the published edition. Until such time as a full scale revision of the guide can be written, key relevant additions to our collections or to our website will be noted here:

• Orleans Parish. Conveyance Records, 1827-1887; index, 1827-1900 [VW420]
  The Orleans Parish conveyance records were filmed by the GSU in the early 1970s. The Conveyance Office's donor copies of the microfilm have recently been deposited in the Louisiana Division. (181 reels)

• Alphabetical and Numerical Index of Changes in Street Names and Numbers, Old and New, 1852 to Current Date [1938]

• Alphabetical Index of Changes in Street Names, Old and New Period 1852 to Current Date, Dec. 1st 1938

• Index to Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for New Orleans, 1885-1896

• Louisiana Division Photograph Collection
  In-progress online is our effort to scan the photographs -- including many photographs of local buildings and residences -- and add them to our website.

• An inventory of the James Harrison Dakin Collection is now online, complete with digital copies of the architectural plans in the collection.

• Our guide to building plans in the City Archives has been completed and is available on-line

• The Friends of the Cabildo, under the leadership of Robbie Cangelosi, has produced a guide to the building contracts in the Notarial Archives. A print out of this guide, arranged alphabetically by street address is available at the Louisiana Division reference desk. Future enhancements to this project are expected in the near future;

• The Department of Safety and Permits transferred the Plan Processing Section's building plan index to the City Archives. The Historic New Orleans Collection arranged for the index to be microfilmed and for copies of the film to be available in the Louisiana Division. Many of the plans listed in this index have not survived in the City Archives, but the data provided may be useful in tracking down building permits and/or copies of the plans in other locations.

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