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Category : Magnolia (Miss.)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
An Historical Sketch of Magnolia, Miss
Author: Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors
Author: Anne S. LipscombPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604736984
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
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resources the authors of Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors append an annotated bibliography of published and unpublished genealogical materials relating to Mississippi.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.
The Journal of Mississippi History
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
An Historical Sketch of the State Normal College at Albany, N.Y. and a History of Its Graduates for Fifty Years. 1844-1894
Author: State College for Teachers (Albany, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Schools
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Annual Report of the Director of the Department of Archives and History of the State of Mississippi from ...
Author: Mississippi. Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Author: Ted OwnbyPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496811593
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1461
Book Description
Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Mississippi
Author: John Knox BettersworthPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Biographical Cyclopædia and Portrait Gallery with an Historical Sketch of the State of Ohio ...
Author: An Historical Sketch of the State Normal College at Albany, New York and a History of Its Graduates for Fifty Years, 1844-1894
Author: State University of New York at AlbanyPublisher:
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Category : Teachers colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Index to the Journal of Mississippi History, Volumes I-XX, 1939-1958
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Category : Journal of Mississippi history
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This index covers volumes I to XX (volumes 1 to 20) of the Journal of Mississippi History. January 1939 through October 1958.