Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Mississippi Society
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Anne S. Lipscomb
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604736984
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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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resources the authors of Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors append an annotated bibliography of published and unpublished genealogical materials relating to Mississippi.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.

Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Mississippi Society
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 941

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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 509

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Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Mississippi Society
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Mississippi Society
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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The Mississippi Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution is supplying you in this book a collection of Family Records of some of the Revolutionary Soldiers known to have come, they or their widows, to settle in Mississippi.

Author: William Woody Turner
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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William Woody Turner was born 6 December 1905 in Fame, Mississippi. His parents were Albert Phelan Turner (1880-1953) and Sally Tharina Murrah (1884-1970). He married Mable Marina Walker (1915-2000), daughter of Thomas Tyre Walker (1874-1938) and Lucy Lee Little (1874-1948) in 1933. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, England and Scotland. Includes Blackford, McDonald, Wise and related families.

Author: Hazle Boss Neet
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ISBN: 9780788420535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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Accessible, trustworthy documentation is key to successful genealogy research and Hazel Boss Neet provides just such data in this publication. Extracted from data collected and certified as true and complete by W. W. Lamar, the local tax assessor, this valuable resource contains the names of all educable children in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, in 1892. The entries are arranged alphabetically by the name of the child's parent (or guardian) and include the following categories: range, township, sex, age, and color. The author also provides a helpful index for referencing children whose last names are different from the parent or guardian. Located in northeast Mississippi, Pontotoc County is part of the last territory in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee that was ceded by the Chickasaw Indians in the 1832 Treaty of Pontotoc. Anyone searching for ancestors in these locales may find strong evidence of them among the thousands of names included in this text.

Author: United Daughters of the Confederacy
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563115301
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Melvin J. Collier
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781477486016
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Mississippi to Africa captures Collier's fourteen-year journey in unearthing the buried history of his maternal grandmother's family - a journey that took him back seven generations, from northern Mississippi to the Piedmont hills of South Carolina, and even back to a specific people and region in West Africa where his ancestry undoubtedly began. Trekking the paths of his ancestors and their displaced relatives before Emancipation (1863), this emotion-filled journey traversed down an intricate paper trail of federal, state, and local records, other public records, and oral histories, presented in a narrative style to inspire, entice, and propel readers into the fascinating world of genealogy and historical discoveries. Collier also uncovered the ways in which his ancestors ingeniously retained aspects of their African heritage. DNA technology confirmed his research findings and verified ancestral ties. The reader will gain many research tips and techniques along the journey.