Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Genealogy

Guide to Tallahatchie County, Mississippi ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.



Description
This county was named with a Choctaw word meaning "rock of waters". Tallahatchie County is located in the northwest area of the state.

County Courthouse
Tallahatchie County Courthouse District 1 P.O. Box 86 Charleston, MS 38921 Phone: 662-647-8758 Fax: 662-647-8490 Tallahatchie County Courthouse District 2 P.O. Box 96 Sumner, MS 38957 Phone: 662-375-8515 Fax: 662-375-7252  Tallahatchie County Website Clerk Circuit Court has marriage records from 1909. Clerk Chancery Court has divorce and probate records from 1909 and land records from 1858.

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Census Records

 * 1660-1820 U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820 at Ancestry $
 * 1792-1866 Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866 at Ancestry $
 * 1805-1890 Mississippi, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1805-1890 at Ancestry $
 * 1830, 1840 1830 &amp; 1840 Federal Census of Scott County, Missouri Mississippi County, Missouri, being part thereof at that time at FamilySearch
 * 1841  at FamilySearch
 * 1845  at FamilySearch
 * 1860 1860 Census of Mississippi County, Missouri at [http://www.familysearch.org FamilySearch
 * 1866  at FamilySearch
 * 1870  at FamilySearch
 * 1880  at FamilySearch

Church Records
List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * FamilySearch Places

Catholic Church
 * Mississippi Co. Missouri, St. Henry's Catholic Church baptism records, 1874-1930, Charleston, Mo.
 * Mississippi Co., Missouri, St. Henry's Catholic Church marriage records, 1873-1930
 * St. Henry's Catholic Church, Charleston, Mississippi County, MO, death register, 1880-1930 Viewable

Ethnic, Political, and Religious Groups
African Americans 
 * The Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records at Mississippi Department of Archives and History - index and transcription

Land and Property Records

 * 1845 list of taxable lands in Mississippi County, Missouri

Local Histories

 * Eskridge's Early history of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. (First published in 1904 and 1905, in The Tallahatchie Herald newspaper, Charleston, Mississippi)

Maps and Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places:Cities and Towns- How to Use FS Places
 * Maps of Mississippi (1785-1918)

Military Records
Civil War 
 * 1861-1865  at FamilySearch
 * 1861-1865  at FamilySearch
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1889-1942  at FamilySearch
 * 1900-1974  at FamilySearch


 * - 1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry
 * Company D - Tillatoba Grays
 * - 2nd Regiment, Mississippi Partisans (Also known as 2nd Partisan Rangers Cavalry/Ballentine’s)
 * Company I - Eskridge’s Company
 * - 32nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
 * Company F - Southern Farmers
 * - 11th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry
 * Tallahatchie Guards Independent Cavalry

World War I 
 * 1917-1919  at FamilySearch — index
 * 1917-1918  at FamilySearch — index and images

Probate Records
Online Records


 * 1780-1982 Mississippi Wills and Probate Records 1780-1982 at Ancestry $
 * 1781-1930 at FamilySearch

Social Security Records

 * 1935-2014 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.

Tax Records

 * 1834-1895  at FamilySearch

Birth

 * 1805-1879 Tallahatchie County Birth Index 1805-1879. Batch  at FamilySearch

Marriage

 * 1776-1935 Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935 at Ancestry $
 * 1800-1825 Mississippi, Compiled Marriages, 1800-1825 at Ancestry $
 * 1800-1911  at FamilySearch
 * 1826-1850 Mississippi Marriages, 1826-50 at Ancestry $
 * 1826-1900 Mississippi Marriages, 1826-1900 at Ancestry $
 * 1856-1916 Tallahatchie County Marriage Books 2-11 Index 1856-1916 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch
 * 1858-1979  at FamilySearch — index and images

Death

 * 1822-1921 - at FamilySearch — index, some images
 * 1912-1943 - at FamilySearch — index
 * 1912-1943 Reclaim the Records: Mississippi Death Index at Archive.org - images of index

Websites

 * Tallahatchie County Mississippi Genealogy and History Network
 * Tallahatchie County MSGenWeb
 * Mississippi Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Mississippi Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * Mississippi GenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.