Mississippi Archives and Libraries

United States 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 Phone: (601) 359-6850 Phone: (601) 359-6975

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..

National Archives Southeast Region (Atlanta) 5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, GA 30260 Phone: (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 Phone: (601) 369-4601 Fax: (601) 369-2971


 * This is an outstanding regional library with records of the deep South, including Mississippi and Alabama oral histories, church records, newspapers, maps, military records, Chickasaw Indians, African Americans, fraternal histories, scrapbooks, manuscripts and photos. One of the largest genealogy collections in the South - could be called "the Fort Wayne Library of the South."

Mississippi State University-Mitchel Memorial Special Collections-Genealogical Library P.O. Box 5408 Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: (601) 325-7679 Fax: (601) 325-3560

University of Southern Mississippi McCain Library and Archives P.O. Box 5148 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148 Phone: (601) 266-4345 Fax: (601) 266-4409

To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of Mississippi counties, use the nine inventories of county archives published by the 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. and.

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Mississippi State Archives, Various Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)