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• A New Southern Woman: The Correspondence of Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, 1871-1883

  Eliza Neilson was a resident of Columbus, Mississippi, and my book features the letters she wrote to her sisters and her niece between 1871-1883. The book will be of interest to genealogists

• Access Genealogy - Society of Mississippi Choctaw 1914

  Alpahbetical membership listings.

• Biographical Index Search - Mississippi Department of Archives and History

  Begun by the Department sometime in the mid-1930s before the death in 1937 of Dunbar Rowland, the Department's first director. Much of the indexing was done in the ensuing administration of William D. McCain (1938-1955), with some additional indexing done in the years following. Although not all of the index keys have survived completely, the index is still useful.

• GEDCOM Index - Mississippi

  Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.

• Lantern Project

  A collaborative project led by Mississippi State University as part of a coalition of institutions located within Mississippi and Alabama. The Lantern Project provides, for the first time, centralized and institutionally supported access to information in legal records documenting enslaved persons, including probate records, court records (orphans court, civil court, criminal court, and others), deeds, receipts, bills of sale, and other documents which were or could have been used as evidence in a trial, from across Mississippi and the Deep South.

• Online County and Town Histories - Mississippi

  This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

• Our Family Tree - Mississippi Genealogy

  Collection of family trees and resources for the state of Mississippi: Pope, Fortenberry, Magee, Smallwood, Boone, Buckley, Walters, Floyd, Roberts, Burks

• P.A. Miller - Slave Records from my research

  Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland.

• Tribes and Villages of Mississippi