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Territorial and state censuses were taken at frequent intervals between 1792 and 1880 for various counties. Few are complete and the information in the censuses varies. For example, maiden names are included in the 1792 census. These censuses are available online in Mississippi State Archives, Various Records, 1820-1951, as well as onsite at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and at the Family History Library (FHL 899868-870]).

United States Mississippi

Welcome to Mississippi,
the Magnolia State

Counties

Adams Alcorn Amite Attala Benton Bolivar Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Choctaw Claiborne Clarke Clay Coahoma Copiah Covington DeSoto Forrest Franklin George Greene

Grenada Hancock Harrison Hinds Holmes Humphreys Issaquena Itawamba Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones Kemper Lafayette Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Leake Lee Leflore

Lincoln Lowndes Madison Marion Marshall Monroe Montgomery Neshoba Newton Noxubee Oktibbeha Panola Pearl River Perry Pike Pontotoc Prentiss Quitman Rankin Scott Sharkey

Simpson Smith Stone Sunflower Tallahatchie Tate Tippah Tishomingo Tunica Union Walthall Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wilkinson Winston Yalobusha Yazoo

Extinct or Renamed Counties: Bainbridge | Colfax | Pickering | Sumner

Most pre-statehood settlers of Mississippi came from the older Southern states along the Atlantic seaboard. Some came from New England and a few colonial French families settled in the Biloxi area. Most of the settlers, however, were of Ulster Scottish, English, and northern European ancestry. Blacks outnumbered whites in Mississippi from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. Most of the Indians were gone by the late 1830s, but there are still a few thousand Choctaws living in east central Mississippi.

Research Tools

• Mississippi Genealogy Research Community:  Ask a question.  Find answers, and share what you know.
• Find which county a town is in, what town a cemetery is in, even where a postoffice or building is by using the United States Geographical Survey's Geographical Names Information System.
• David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures.
• The Mississippi GenWeb Project has a wealth of information and is a part of the larger USGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb Project provides internet information on every county in every state in the United States.
• Access Genealogy:  Mississippi Genealogy  has a wealth of resources.
• BYU Mississippi Research Outline largely duplicates these Wiki pages. Includes some bibliographic lists from BYU Library, 2001.
  

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Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:

• Mississippi Enumeration on Educable Children (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Mississippi Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
  
• Mississippi, Tippah County Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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