PORT ALLEN —More than a century ago, this West Baton Rouge Parish city was nothing more than a quaint five-block village with a few homes, ... which came through the area in the mid-1800s. ...

The current pilot program, called the Louisiana Genealogy Index-a-thon: Ascension Parish, started last summer when Hambrick and Angelique Bergeron, director of the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port ...