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Mississippi - Established Dec 10, 1817 - State Capital: Jackson

Mississippi

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296 free genealogy resources for researching family history and records in Mississippi:

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Biographies (16) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Cemetery Records (6) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Census Records (10) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Church Records (6) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Immigration Records (10) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
African-American Collections
Chinese Heritage (National Archives)
Cornell Making of America Digital Library
FindMyPast
Leonard Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic & Gulf Ports, 1820-1874
Markings on the Manifest's Left Margin
On the Trail of the Immigrant
Passengers and immigrants to America
The Great Migration - Colonial America
Where to find passenger lists
Local Histories (67) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
A history of Columbus, Mississippi during the 19th century
A list of the purchasers of public lands at Columbus and Chocchuma, Mississippi, from 1st October, 1833 to 1st January, 1834 report from the commissioner of the General Land Office, 1834
A pilgrimage in America leading to the discovery of the sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River, with a description of the whole course of the former, and of the Ohio
A short history of the Mississippi Valley
American Association for State and Local History
American Library Association (ALA)
Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
Archive.org
Biographical Review
Chronicling America
Colonial families of the United States of America, Vol. VI
Cornell Making of America Digital Library
Deutsche Chronik in der Geschichte des Ohio-Thales und seiner Hauptstadt Cincinnati in's Besondere umfassend eine ausführliche Darstellung der Abentheuer
Exploration des affluents du Mississipi et découverte des montagnes Rocheuses (1679-1754)
FamilySearch
First settlers of the Mississippi Territory grants taken from the American state papers, class VIII, Public lands, volume I, 1789-1809
Historic Map Works
Historical sketches of Oktibbeha County (Mississippi)
History of Alabama and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period
History of Harrison County, Mississippi
History of Jackson County
History of Newton County, Mississippi from 1834 to 1894
History of Piatt County together with a brief history of Illinois from the discovery of the upper Mississippi to the present time
History of old Tishomingo County, Mississippi Territory
History of the Ram Fleet and the Mississippi Marine Brigade in the War for the Union on the Mississippi and its tributaries the story of the Ellets and their men
History of the valley of the Mississippi
History, Genealogy, and Archives: Databases and E-Resources
Internet Public Library: History
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Amite County
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Forrest County
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Grenada County
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Humphreys County
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Lamar County
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Pearl River County
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Tippah County
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Tunica County
Inventory of the county archives of Mississippi, Walthall County
JSTOR Journals and Books online
Journal of Jos. W. Fawcett (diary of his trip in 1840 down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Gulf of Mexico and up the Atlantic Coast to Boston)
Kemper County vindicated, and a peep at radical rule in Mississippi
Library of Congress
Life on the Frontier for the Williams Family
Map of the United States in 1800
Marches of the dragoons in the Mississippi Valley an account of marches and activities of the First Regiment United States Dragoons in the Mississippi Valley between the years 1833 and 1850
Midwest Genealogy Center suggested links
Minneapolis minnen kulturhistorisk axplockning frän qvarnstaden vid Mississippi
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Mississippi Valley beginnings an outline of the early history of the earlier West
Natchez on the Mississippi
Political history of Jackson County biographical sketches of men who have helped to make it
Proceedings connected with laying the corner stone of Mississippi's new State House in the city of Jackson on June 3rd, 1903
Reminiscences of pioneer life in the Mississippi Valley
Some materials for the social history of the Mississippi Valley in the nineteenth century
Southern Historical Association
Souvenir of the centennial anniversary of Washington's inauguration, April 30, 1789, as first president of the United States the birth of the American republic with the program of ceremonies
The French in the Mississippi Valley, 1740-1750
The Mississippi River Logging Company an historical sketch
The Mississippi Valley, and prehistoric events giving an account of the original formation and early condition of the great valley, of its vegetable and animal life, of its first inhabitants, the mound builders, its mineral treasures and agricultural developments all from authentic sources
The Mississippi question, 1795-1803 a study in trade, politics, and diplomacy
The last French post in the valley of the upper Mississippi, near Frontenac, Minn. with notices of its commandants
The opening of the Mississippi a struggle for supremacy in the American interior
The outlaws of Cave-in-Rock historical accounts of the famous highwaymen and river pirates who operated in pioneer days upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and over the old Natchez Trace
The sources of the Mississippi their discoveries, real and pretended a report
Transcription of county archives of Mississippi
Voyages des Français sur les Grands Lacs et découverte de l'Ohio et du Mississippi (1614-1684)
Western History Association
Your Ancestors Magazine
Maps (10) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Marriage Records (6) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Military Records (28) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Native American (6) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Newspapers (11) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Photos & Illustrations (7) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Vital Records (5) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
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American History & Genealogy
A godchild of Washington a picture of the past
Abraham Lincoln, lawyer
American Ancestors Jewish Heritage Center
American Association for State and Local History
American Catholic Historical Society
American Historical Association
American Jewish Historical Society
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
Civil War Soldiers Index 1861-1865
Coastal Georgia Genealogical Society
Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Cumberland County Affidavits and Estate Inventories of Revolutionary War Pension Applicants
Curt Teich Postcard Archives Digital Collection
Emigrants from Scotland to America, 1774-1775 copied from a loose bundle of Treasury papers in the Public Record Office, London, England
Facts about the Civil War
Famous Mayflower Descendants
Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory
Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1871
FultonHistory online newspapers and postcards
Genealogy, A Journal of American Ancestry
Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790
Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790. Records of the state enumerations, 1782 to 1785
History Channel
History of Pike County, Illinois
History of Science Society
History, Genealogy, and Archives: Databases and E-Resources
Internet Public Library: History
Latin American Network Information Center
Linkpendium's State by State Search Engine
Lost amid the fogs sketches of life in Newfoundland, England's ancient colony
National Archives and Records Administration
National Endowment for the Humanities
Native American Genealogy Books for Sale
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Organization of American Historians
Portraits of Native American Indians
Ray's Place - New England Genealogy and much more
Registers of the Huguenot Society of America
Society of American Archivists
Soldiers of the Civil War
Southern Historical Association
Souvenir of the centennial anniversary of Washington's inauguration, April 30, 1789, as first president of the United States the birth of the American republic with the program of ceremonies
The American Monthly Magazine
The narrative of Colonel David Fanning (A Tory in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain), giving an account of his adventures in North Carolina from 1775 to 1783
Twenty Years among our hostile Indians
U.S. Navy Personnel Research Guide
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Veterans History Project
Western History Association
WorldConnect
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