Mississippi, United States Genealogy

United States Mississippi

Guide to Mississippi, ancestry, family history and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records. Welcome to Mississippi, the Magnolia State

Counties
Extinct or Renamed Counties:  Bainbridge | Colfax | Pickering | Sumner

Major Repositories
Online Records· National Archives at Atlanta· Mississippi Department of Archives and History· Mississippi Historical Society Library· Evans Memorial Library· McCardle Research Library· Mississippi State University Mitchell Library· University of Mississippi Williams Library· Briscoe Center for American History, Austin TX· Dallas Public Central Library TX· Mobile Municipal Archives AL

Migration Routes
Mississippi River· Yazoo River· Alabama, Choctaw and Natchez Trail· Choctaw-Bay St. Louis Trail· Federal Horse Path· Gaine's Trace· Jackson's Military Road· Lake Ponchartrain Trail· Lower Creek Trading Path· Memphis, Pontotoc and Mobile Trail· Mobile and Natchez Trail· Natchez-Lower Creeks Trail· Natchez-New Orleans Trail· Natchez Trace·Chickasaw Trail· Tombigbee and Arkansas River Trail· West Tennessee Chickasaw Trail· Illinois Central Railroad

Most pre-statehood settlers of Mississippi came from the older Southern states along the Atlantic seaboard. Some came from New England and a few colonial French families settled in the Biloxi area. Most of the settlers, however, were of Ulster Scottish, English, and northern European ancestry. Blacks outnumbered whites in Mississippi from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. Most of the Indians were gone by the late 1830s, but there are still a few thousand Choctaws living in east central Mississippi.

Research Tools

 * Mississippi Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * How to order Mississippi Vital Records
 * State of Mississippi County &amp; City Government Court links
 * Rotating Formation Mississippi County Boundary Maps and Atlases
 * Mississippi Genealogy Research Community: Ask a question.  Find answers, and share what you know.
 * Find which county a town is in, what town a cemetery is in, even where a postoffice or building is by using the United States Geographical Survey's Geographical Names Information System.
 * Mississippi Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * List of Mississippi Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies
 * History &amp; Facts of Mississippi Counties
 * David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures.
 * The Mississippi GenWeb Project has a wealth of information and is a part of the larger USGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb Project provides internet information on every county in every state in the United States.
 * Access Genealogy: Mississippi Genealogy has a wealth of resources.
 * BYU Mississippi Research Outline largely duplicates these Wiki pages. Includes some bibliographic lists from BYU Library, 2001
 * Family Tree Encyclopedia - Terminology &amp; Meanings of Genealogical Terms
 * Printable Genealogy Forms used in Research

Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:


 * Mississippi Enumeration on Educable Children (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Mississippi Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Mississippi, Tippah County Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Obtain additional help

 * Call or chat with an experienced researcher
 * Join a Facebook Group
 * Consult a Professional Genealogist

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