Mississippi Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

: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.<ref name="DB127">William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 127-28. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FSC|728550|item|disp=FS Library Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref><br><br>

:This is the best place to start genealogy research in Mississippi. Researchers can find original records from every Mississippi county here. They also have newspapers, genealogies, and county histories.<ref name="DB65" /> 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). {{WorldCat|865859264}}; {{FSC|185430|item|disp=FS Library Book 976.2 A3h}}.

:*[https://books.google.com/books?id=LB9DAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=1868+Yazoo+County+Tax+Collector&source=bl&ots=vXTtPiakZq&sig=ZKUjHNz2zSUUqkweOuteq6XoAFs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIsJz3u4zKAhVLpB4KHWEyAlwQ6AEINDAE#v=onepage&q=1868%20Yazoo%20County%20Tax%20Collector&f=false An Official Guide to the Historical Materials in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History], prepared in 1911-1912 by the Director, Dunbar Rowland, LL.D., is available on-line in its entirety at Google books.

:'''''Wiki articles describing parts of their online collections are found at:'''''

:*[[Mississippi State Archives, Various Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|Mississippi State Archives, Various Records - FamilySearch Historical Records]]<br><br>

:Their collection is now part of the ''Mississippi Department of Archives and History'' above.<br>

: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."<ref name="DB65">Dollarhide and Bremer, 65.</ref><br><br>

:Regional and local genealogy for early Mississippians, and American Civil War records including local history, histories of Warren County families, local cemetery records, census records, business directories, civil war manuscripts, maps, marriage records, and tax records.<ref name="DB65" /> <ref>[http://oldcourthouse.org/mccardle-library/ McCardle Library] in ''Vicksburg's Old Courthouse Museum'' (accessed 11 November 2015).</ref><br>

:The Mississippi State University Libraries has digitized and made available in its Digital Collections the Orville Babcock Diaries and the Letters of Pvt. Arthur McKinstry. The Babcock and McKinstry materials are a part of the overall Ulysses S. Grant Collection, which is housed at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library on the first floor of Mitchell Memorial Library at MSU's Starkville campus.

:They also have books, manuscripts, maps, biographies, and genealogies.<br><br>

:They have an excellent collection of records about Mississippi such as logging, early settlers, oral histories, manuscripts, and local histories.<ref name="DB65" /><br>

: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.[5] Their collections help with ethnic research about Latinos, African Americans, Germans, Swedes, Texas pioneers, the American South including plantations and slavery, and official Spanish documents of the Mexican state of Coahulia y Texas.[6] Military records cover all conflicts involving Texas such as the Texas Revolution (1836), Indian wars, and the American Civil War.[7]

:Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Oklahoma, Louisiana, '''Mississippi''', the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.<ref name="DB107">Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.</ref> 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.<ref>[http://dallaslibrary2.org/genealogy/collection.php Dallas Public Library Genealogy Collection] in ''Dallas Public Library'' (accessed 10 November 2015).</ref><br>

: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.<ref name="DB65" />