For questions about ancestors and records in the US state of Louisiana, including questions pertaining to the period before the state's admission to the US (1812) when it was a French colony, later Spanish, and then an American territory.
The state of Louisiana is located in the southern United States on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Part of the territory known as the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Became the 18th state on April 30, 1812.