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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="DB65">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 65. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> | ||
'''Genealogical Collection: ''' has Monroe County cemetery records through 1938, an index to Monroe County marriages 1821-1825 and 1834-1921, ''A History of Monroe County'', Monroe County census indexes for 1850, 1860, and 1880, Monroe County census microfilms 1820–1930, a digital and a printed index to 14,000 images in the F. S. McKnight Photographic Collection 1894-1930, over 1600 surname files, and over 500 published family histories.<ref>[http://www.tombigbee.lib.ms.us/evans/collections/genealogical.html Genealogical Collection: a Research Guide] in ''Evans Memorial Library'' (accessed 9 November 2015).</ref> | '''Genealogical Collection: ''' has Monroe County cemetery records through 1938, an index to Monroe County marriages 1821-1825 and 1834-1921, ''A History of Monroe County'', Monroe County census indexes for 1850, 1860, and 1880, Monroe County census microfilms 1820–1930, a digital and a printed index to 14,000 images in the F. S. McKnight Photographic Collection 1894-1930, over 1600 surname files, and over 500 published family histories.<ref>[http://www.tombigbee.lib.ms.us/evans/collections/genealogical.html Genealogical Collection: a Research Guide] in ''Evans Memorial Library'' (accessed 9 November 2015).</ref> | ||
'''Evans Manuscript Collection: ''' '''''Record types:''''' personal correspondence, journals, diaries, business ledgers, government records and newspaper clippings from 1813 to present. '''''Organizations:''''' churches, clubs and lodges, city and county governments, courts, legal firms, post office, hospitals, schools, plantations, and fairs. '''''Topics:''''' slavery, Antebellum South, settlement of northeast Mississippi, steamboats, agriculture, American Civil War, Reconstruction, history of medicine, World War I and II, Mexican War, and the Grange.<ref>[http://www.tombigbee.lib.ms.us/evans/collections/manuscript.html The Evans Manuscript Collection] in ''Evans Memorial Library'' (accessed 9 November 2015).</ref> | '''Evans Manuscript Collection: ''' '''''Record types:''''' personal correspondence, journals, diaries, business ledgers, government records and newspaper clippings from 1813 to present. '''''Organizations:''''' churches, clubs and lodges, city and county governments, courts, legal firms, post office, hospitals, schools, plantations, and fairs. '''''Topics:''''' slavery, Antebellum South, settlement of northeast Mississippi, steamboats, agriculture, American Civil War, Reconstruction, history of medicine, World War I and II, Mexican War, and the Grange.<ref>[http://www.tombigbee.lib.ms.us/evans/collections/manuscript.html The Evans Manuscript Collection] in ''Evans Memorial Library'' (accessed 9 November 2015).</ref> | ||
=== Alternate Repositories === | === Alternate Repositories === | ||