Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors
Title | Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Anne S. Lipscomb |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2009-10-20 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1604736984 |
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resources the authors of Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors append an annotated bibliography of published and unpublished genealogical materials relating to Mississippi.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.
Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors
Title | Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Anne S. Lipscomb |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9780878056972 |
An essential how-to guide for researching ancestral roots in the Magnolia State.
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors
Title | Tracing Your Irish Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | John Grenham |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | 556 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806317687 |
Ancestry magazine
Title | Ancestry magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 64 |
Release | 2000-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors
Title | A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Franklin Carter Smith |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2009-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806317885 |
Tracing one's African-American ancestry can be uniquely challenging. This guide helps overcome the obstacles and pitfalls of specialized research by offering a proven, three-part approach.
Finding Your African American Ancestors
Title | Finding Your African American Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | David T. Thackery |
Publisher | Ancestry Publishing |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780916489908 |
Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.
Red Book
Title | Red Book PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Eichholz |
Publisher | Ancestry Publishing |
Total Pages | 812 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781593311667 |
" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.