Mississippi Archives and Libraries

The following archives, libraries, and societies have collections or services helpful to genealogical researchers in Mississippi.

Mississippi Department of Archives and History 100 South State Street P.O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39201 Telephone: 601-359-6850 Telephone: 601-359-6975 Internet: http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/

A useful guide to their collection is Thomas W. Henderson and Ronald E. Tomlin, comps., Guide to Official Records in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1975; Family History Library book 976.2 A3h.)

National Archives Southeast Region (Atlanta) 5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, GA 30260 Telephone: 770-968-2100 Fax: 770-968-2547 Internet: http://www.archives.gov/southeast/

Mississippi Genealogical Society P.O. Box 5301 Jackson, MS 39216

Evans Memorial Library 105 North Long Street Aberdeen, MS 39730 Telephone: 601-369-4601 Fax: 601-369-2971 Internet: http://www.tombigbee.lib.ms.us/evans/

Mississippi State University-Mitchel Memorial Special Collections-Genealogical Library P.O. Box 5408 Mississippi State, MS 39762 Telephone: 601-325-7679 Fax: 601-325-3560 Internet: http://nt.library.msstate.edu/index.htm

University of Southern Mississippi McCain Library and Archives P.O. Box 5148 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148 Telephone: 601-266-4345 Fax: 601-266-4409 Internet: http://www.usm.edu/index.php

To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of Mississippi counties, use the nine inventories of county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. The Family History Library has copies of most of these inventories.

Another helpful guide to Mississippi county records is Survey of Records in Mississippi Court Houses (Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Genealogical Society, 1957; Family History Library book 976.2 P2m; fiche 6100939.)