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United States Mississippi  Archives and Libraries

These repositories preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in Alabama.

National
National Archives at Atlanta 5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, Georgia 30260 USA Phone: 770-968-2100 Fax: 770-968-2547 E-mail: [mailto:atlanta.archives@nara.gov atlanta.archives@nara.gov] Internet: National Archives at Atlanta


 * Records from over 100 federal agencies and courts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Also includes Vice Admiralty Courts of SC, evolution of federal courts, Constitutional rights, Revolutionary War, Civil War, reconstruction, World Wars I and II, and space exploration. Microfilms for censuses, diplomatic missions, military service records, bounty-land applications, passenger arrival lists, naturalizations, American Indians, and African Americans.

Statewide
Mississippi Department of Archives and History 200 North Street Jackson, MS 39201 Telephone: 601-576-6850 E-mail: [mailto:info@mdah.state.ms.us info@mdah.state.ms.us] Internet: Mississippi Department of Arrchives and History


 * This is the best places to start genealogy research in Mississippi. Researchers can find original records from every Mississippi county here. They also have newspapers, genealogies, and county histories. A useful guide is:


 * Thomas W. Henderson and Ronald E. Tomlin, Guide to Official Records in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1975). ;.


 * A wiki article describing part of their online collection is found at:


 * Mississippi State Archives, Various Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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

Mississippi Historical Society Library

Regional
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."

McCardle Research Library

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

University of Mississippi Williams Library

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

Out of State
Briscoe Center for American History University of Texas at Austin 2313 Red River Street Austin, Texas 78705 Telephone: 512-495-4532 E-mail: Reference Request Form Internet: Briscoe Center for American History


 * This collection is as large as the Texas state archives including newspapers, biographies, private collections, the American South, military history, Western Americana, photos, and the Natchez Trace Collection papers from Mississippi and Louisiana.

Dallas Public Central Library 1515 Young St. Dallas, TX 75201-9987 Telephone: 214-670-1400 Internet: http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/index.php


 * Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states. 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps, marriage, probate, deed, tax abstracts, films of originals for some states, and databases.

Mobile Municipal Archives P.O. Box 1827 457 Church Street Mobile, Alabama 36633-1827 USA Telephone: 251-208-7740 Fax: 251-208-7428 E-mail: [mailto:archives@cityofmobile.org archives@cityofmobile.org] Internet: http://www.cityofmobile.org/archives/ Municipal Archives


 * Includes records of early Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida settlers: Spanish, French, and Anglo especially during the Spanish period. This is the premier library for Gulf Coast settlers from Louisiana to Florida.

Guides

 * Mississippi Genealogical Society (Jackson, Mississippi), Survey of Records in Mississippi Court Houses (Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Genealogical Society, 1957. ; and . Describes Mississippi county records. 
 * WPA inventories.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.