A Natchitoches Bibliography

The following will be of interest to anyone doing research on ancestors from Natchitoches, Louisiana.  The majority of these books are still in print and available via their publishers or an online retailer such as Amazon.  Copies of all books on the list can also be located in libraries via WorldCat.

• Burton, H. Sophie, and F. Todd Smith. Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
• De Ville, Winston. Marriage Contracts of Natchitoches, 1739-1803. Nashville, 1961. Print.
• Mills, Donna Rachal. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Tuscaloosa: Mills Historical Press, 1985.
• Mills, Elizabeth Shown, and Gary B. Mills. Tales of Old Natchitoches. Natchitoches: Association for the Preservation of Historic Natchitoches, 1978.
• Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Natchitoches, 1729-1803: Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste Des Natchitoches in Louisiana. Westminister, MD: Heritage Books, 2007.
• Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Natchitoches 1800-1826: Translated Abstracts from Register Number Five of the Catholic Church, Parish of St. François Des Natchitoches, Louisiana. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2004.
• Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Natchitoches Church Marriages, 1818-1850: Translated Abstracts from the Registers of St. François Des Natchitoches, Louisiana. Westminster, MD: Heritage, 2007.
• Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Natchitoches Colonials: Censuses, Military Rolls, and Tax Lists, 1722-1803. Chicago: Adams Press, 1981.
• Mills, Gary B., and Elizabeth Shown Mills. The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2013.
• Prud'homme, Lucile Keator, and Fern B. Christensen. The Natchitoches Cemeteries: Transcriptions of Gravestones from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries in Northwest Louisiana. New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1977.
• Riffel, Judy. Natchitoches Baptisms, 1817-1840: Abstracts from Register 6 of St. Francis Catholic Church, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Comite Des Archives De La Louisiane, 2007.
• Riffel, Judy. Natchitoches Baptisms, 1841-1849: Abstracts from Register 9 of St. Francis Catholic Church, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Comité Des Archives De La Louisiane, 2010.