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Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Mississippi, click here

Microfilm images

 * 1850-1880--Mortality schedules are at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Mississippi, click here.

State, territorial, and colonial censuses
1792-1866-- These censuses are available at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and at the Family History Library (Family History Library film 899868-870).

For an index covering the years 1792 to 1816, see:


 * Norman E. Gillis, Early Inhabitants of the Natchez District.Baton Rouge, Louisiana: N.E. Gillis, 1963 (Family History Library book 976.2 X2p) This includes a list of residents in 1810.

Published indexes are available for the surviving censuses for the years 1810, 1820-25, 1830/37, 1840/41, and 1845.

Existing and lost censuses
For a list of available and missing Mississippi censuses, click here.

Why use a census?
A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.

More about censuses
Click here for additional details about how to use censuses, such as:


 * index searching tips
 * analyzing and using what you find
 * census accuracy
 * historical background
 * contents of various census years and types