St. Landry Parish clerk in home stretch of digitizing documents
Mon, 11/09/2015 - 6:00am
Even though the documents are scanned in, the originals must be kept. This room in the courthouse houses documents from the 1800s, and the empty file slots were being scanned into DocuNet on a recent day. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)
A parish that once encompassed almost 6,000 square miles is bound to accumulate some records, and St. Landry Parish is working to get more than 250 years worth of documents available to the public on line via a program called DocuNet.
