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Mississippi is a state
located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital
and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which
flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi
("Great River"). The state is heavily forested outside of the Mississippi Delta area. Early explored by the
Spanish and colonized by the French, Mississippi’s warm climate and rich soil
proved ideally suited to cotton, which became the main crop even before 1800
and remained the mainstay of its economy until the 20th century. Mississippi entered the Union on December
10, 1817, as the 20th state. Jackson, Mississippi’s capital and largest city, was founded at about the same time. |
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GENEALOGICAL
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Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Ph. (601) 576-6850,
fax (601) 576-6964 ·
Mississippi State Records Center, 929 High St, Jackson, MS
39201; tel. (601) 354-7688, fax (601) 354-7393 ·
Historic
Jefferson College, Mississippi Department of, Archives and History U.S. Highway 61 North,
PO Box 100, Washington, MS 39190; Phone: 228.442.2901 |
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HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL
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Family Research
Association of Mississippi, P.O. Box 13334, Jackson, MS 39236-3334 ·
Mississippi Historical Society, PO Box 571, Jackson, MS
39205-0571 ·
Historical and Genealogical Association of Mississippi, 618 Avalon Road,
Jackson, MS 39206 ·
Northeast Mississippi Historical & Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 434, Tupelo,
MS 38801 ·
Mississippi Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 12 Avery Circle,
Jackson, MS 39211 ·
The Magnolia Connection, PO Box 697, Ellisville, MS 39437 ·
Mississippi Genealogical Society, PO Box 5301, Jackson,
MS 39296-5301 ·
Mississippi Memories, P.O. 18991 , Shreveport, LA 71138-1991 ·
South
Mississippi Genealogical Society, Southern Station, P.O. Box 15271, Hattiesburg, Ms 39404-5271 ·
Dancing
Rabbit Creek Genealogical Society, 114 East Franklin Street, Carthage MS 39051 ·
Southwest
Mississippi Genealogy Society, P.O. Box 175, McComb, Mississippi, 39649 |
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Bolivar
County Public Library ·
Central
Mississippi Regional Library System ·
Columbus-Lowndes
Library System ·
Copiah-Jefferson
Regional Library ·
Hancock
County Library System ·
Harrison
County Library System ·
Jackson-George
Regional Library |
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Madison
County Library System ·
Pearl
River County Library System ·
Starkville-Oktibbeha
County Library System ·
The
Library of Hattiesburg, Petal & Forrest County ·
Warren
County-Vickburg Public Library ·
Waynesboro-Wayne
County Library System |
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STATE LIBRARY |
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Mississippi
Library Commission 3881 Eastwood
Drive Jackson, MS 39211 1-800-MISS
LIB (647-7542) (601) 432-4111 1-800-446-0892 (BPHLS) |
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Source: State Library Web Sites |
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HISTORICAL PLACES |
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Adams
Alcorn
Amite
Attala
Benton
Bolivar
Calhoun
Carroll
Chickasaw
Choctaw
Claiborne
Clarke
Clay
Coahoma
Copiah
Covington
De Soto
Forrest
Franklin
George
Greene
Grenada
Hancock
Harrison
Hinds
Holmes
Humphreys
Issaquena
Itawamba
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
Jones
Kemper
Lafayette
Lamar
Lauderdale
Lawrence
Leake
Lee
Leflore
Lincoln
Lowndes
Madison
Marion
Marshall
Monroe
Montgomery
Neshoba
Newton
Noxubee
Oktibbeha
Panola
Pearl River
Perry
Pike
Pontotoc
Prentiss
Quitman
Rankin
Scott
Sharkey
Simpson
Smith
Stone
Sunflower
Tallahatchie
Tate
Tippah
Tishomingo
Tunica
Union
Walthall
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Webster
Wilkinson
Winston
Yalobusha
Yazoo |
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The
following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
died in this location. |
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To find out more about
each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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Free Genealogy Surname Search Help from Google |
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Use this free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" |
that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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The following named counties are associated with
the history of our DIRECT ancestors.
To select a specific ancestral county, click on the following link.
Here you will find additional links to our county pages where you can obtain
information about our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of
persons, in our database, who have lived in the selected county. |
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The links below may assist you
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Gazetteer
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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List of cities in
Mississippi |
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Mississippi Cities
- profiles of 3,213 Mississippi cities, towns & neighborhoods Mississippi Physical Features such as lakes,
islands & steams Mississippi Cultural Features such as schools,
parks, hospitals & airports Mississippi Civil Features such as Native
Areas and Political Subdivisions |
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County Research
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Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
state lines. |
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Colfax Davis |
Pickering Sumner |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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The Google search engine button
and following web sites
may provide you |
with additional information to assist with your research about this
U. S. State. |
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GENERAL
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium > Genealogy
> USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb - Libraries
on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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Snail
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Pony Express: Tom |
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