Mississippi Research Sources, Unusual But Important

 Mississippi was approached with a different prospective.

 Having heard many talks and reading many blogs,  checking many sites and sources,
it was felt, research needs looked at in a different light.

 Tackling historical references, timelines and history, attaching it to your research, to fill in the blanks and to find the clues that are missing.  This applies to all states, in fact, but you will have to find this information for the state your looking in.

Learning the history of the state or region your doing research, will open doors and will help you find clues you are missing.

 Here is some Mississippi Information and Southern Information to help researchers.

MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH

By Susi P.

COMPLIMENTS OF USGENWEB. MISSISSIPPI ARCHIVES,

LIBRARIES, COURTHOUSES,  TOWN HALL, CHURCHES etc.

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events

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Blues_Trail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Florida

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crittenden_County,_Arkansas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Colbert

2013-02-05. "Chickasaw Chiefs and Prominent Men". Mississippi

Genealogical & Historical Research. Retrieved 2013-02-05. Dr. W.A.

Evans, Aberdeen Examiner

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issaquena_County,_Mississippi

• Choctaw name. means Deer River, First inhabitants.

The comments on slavery will take your breathe away.

Issaquena County is notable for its participation in slavery. In 1860,

92.5% of Issaquena County's total population were enslaved people,

the highest concentration anywhere in the United States.[9] The U.S.

Census for that year showed that 7,244 slaves were held in

Issaquena County, and of 115 slave owners, 39 held 77 or more

slaves.[10] Dr. Stephen Duncan of Issaquena County held 858 slaves,

second only to Joshua John Ward of South Carolina.[11] This large

"value of slave property" made Issaquena County the second richest

in the nation, with "mean total wealth per freeman" at $26,800 in

1860.[12] By 1880—just 15 years after the abolition of slavery—the

county had developed "a strong year-round market for wage labor",

and Issaquena was the only county in Mississippi to report "no

sharecropping or sharerenting whatsoever".[12]

http://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA167

v=onepage&q&f=false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis

http://www.datesandevents.org/american-°©‐timelines/24-°©‐mississippi-°©‐history-°©‐

timeline.htm

Important to read and understand this time line.

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/mstimeln.ht

m

A similar database but worth going through.

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/printpage/m

slarge.htm

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Mississippi_History

http://go.newspapers.com/welcome?xid=301&gclid=CPq5v97

KksMCFcqVfgodbDMAmA

sites unusual:

Ask.com,  www.worldatlas.com,

http://www.historyorb.com/countries/usa/mississippi,

about.com,

www.c-‐span.org/history

http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/index.php

Mississippi State Archives varies agencies.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Mississippi+state+archive

s&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

This page has much on the State Archives Records.

Films, digital, books,maps, genealogy.

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://mdah.state.ms.us/new/resear

ch/genealogy/&sa=U&ei=IOm1VKKoMIqmyASG6YFQ&ved=0CCQQjBAwAw&sig2=F

B245FCBCbvFL4RKa9HKrA&usg=AFQjCNGVNYdnoJbOrNXYukaqDwZ1AZ6OJg

Off site research requests help:

http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/refreq.php  State ArchivesMississippi Department of Archives and History

Do not forget to check out fraternal organizations. Church Affiliations, and Granges and

local meeting events for the time frame.  Church  groups were very important part of lives in this time period very early.

http://www.msgw.org/     usgenweb.org site for Mississippi

Neighboring states:  Alabama, Louisana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and the Tennessee Records Repository has many records.

http://www.msgw.org/ct-a.htm

University Archives Division - Mississippi State University

library.msstate.edu/specialcollections/archive.asp

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1. Mississippi - National Archives and Records Administration

   www.archives.gov/nhprc/projects/states-territories/ms.html

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   Records Projects. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS $35,282 to support basic funding for the state historical records advisory board, ...
   
   

Mississippi USGenWeb Archives

usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.htm

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Jan 29, 2012 ... Archives of Genealogy Records for the State of Mississippi.

Remember many times records are found next door, war caused many shifts in valuables, documents etc.

Hoping we are all beginning to look outside the box.  Check out these also.

 Very interesting that distant cousin Heather Wilkinson Rojo , (Nutfield Genealogy: 10 Unexpected Places to Find Family History Online), posted this.


Please enjoy this information and share with others. Susi C Pentico
Sources are listed as presented.