Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors - Softcover

Lipscomb, Anne S.; Webster, Anne L.; Hutchison, Kathleen S.

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9780878056989: Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors

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ISBN 10: 087805698X ISBN 13: 9780878056989

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1994

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This easy-to-understand guide through a maze of research possibilities is for any genealogist who has Mississippi ancestry.

It identifies the many official state records, incorporated community records, related federal records, and unofficial documents useful in researching Mississippi genealogy. Here the contents of these resources are clearly described, and directions for using them are clearly stated.

Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors also introduces many other helpful genealogical resources, including detailed colonial, territorial, state, and local materials. Among official records are census schedules, birth, marriage, divorce, and death registers, tax records, military documents and records of land transactions such as deeds, tract books, land office papers, plats, and claims. In addition to noting such frequently used sources as Confederate Army records, this guidebook leads the researcher toward lesser-known materials, such as passenger lists from ships, Spanish court records, midwives' reports, WPA county histories, cemetery records, and information about extinct towns.

Since researching forebears who belong to minority groups can be a difficult challenge, this book offers several avenues to discovering them. Of special focus are sources for locating African-American and Native American ancestors. These include slave schedules, Freedman's Bureau papers, Civil War rolls, plantation journals, slave narratives, Indian census records, and Indian enrollment cards.

To these specialized resources the authors of Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors append an annotated bibliography of published and unpublished genealogical materials relating to Mississippi. Including over 200 citations, this is by far the most comprehensive list ever given for researching Mississippi genealogy. In addition, all of Mississippi's local, county, and state repositories of genealogical materials are identified, but because most documents for tracing Mississippi ancestors are found at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the authors have made the state archival collection in Jackson the focus of this book.

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Book Description:

An essential how-to guide for researching ancestral roots in the Magnolia State

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Where do you begin? In what resources will you find likely clues to guide you through the genealogical maze? For both novice and veteran researchers here is a guide that answers questions abut how to find your ancestors if they resided in Mississippi or dwelled there briefly during their migration. Included in this valuable handbook are more than six hundred descriptive profiles and printed sources - colonial, territorial, state, and local materials - that can help you follow the clues of your search.

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