Mississippi Genealogy

This page of our website provides links to Mississippi genealogy databases and historical narratives about Mississippi. These genealogical records may include, vital records (birth, marriage and divorce, death), ethnic records (Black, Native American), court records (land, probate and wills, criminal and civil), church records (Bibles, baptisms, marriages, burials and histories), cemeteries, census records, military records directories and yearbooks.

Mississippi Black Genealogy

Mississippi African American Genealogy

Mississippi African American Cemeteries
WPA Slave Narratives
Slave narratives are stories of surviving slaves told in their own words and ways. Unique, colorful, and authentic, these slave narratives provide a look at the culture of the South during slavery which heretofore had not been told.

Mississippi Cemeteries

Mississippi Cemetery Records

Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery

Mississippi Census Records

Mississippi Counties

Lawrence County
- Early Senators and Representatives

Mississippi History

Mississippi Land Records

U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions.
Arizona Land Patents online. Index.

Mississippi Military Records

Military Records
Mississippi Forts
List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902.
Mississippi Battlefields and other Historic Places
Revolutionary War Records
- 1840 Pensioners Database
- Revolutionary War Pension Records
Civil War Records
- Mississippi Civil War Battlefield Map
  - The Battle of Tupelo, or Harrisburg, July 14th, 1863
  - Battle of Brice’s Cross Roads, Or Tishomingo Creek, June 2nd to 12th, 1864
- Civil War Pensions Index Cards
  Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
- 12th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
- 38 Mississippi Infantry
- 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles, Union Army
- Artillery of the MS Confederate Army
- Cavalry of Mississippi Confederate Army
- Engineers of the MS Confederate Army
- Sharpshooters of the Mississippi Confederate Army
- Mississippi Infantry Personnel Confederate Army about 115,000 names.
1890 Veterans and Widows Census
World War I Records
- World War 1 Draft Registration Records
World War II Records
- World War 2 Casualties – Army, Air Force
- Mississippi Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
Korean War Casualty List
Vietnam War Casualty List

Mississippi Native American Resource Center

Mississippi Indian Tribes
- The Indians of Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi
Condition of the Mississippi Indians in 1890
Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements of Mississippi
Choctaw Mixed Bloods and the Advent of Removal
Choctaw Mixed Blood and the Advent of Removal: This dissertation by Samuel James Wells lists the names and families of the known mixed bloods and examines their role in tribal history, especially regarding land treaties during the Jeffersonian years preceding Removal. This dissertation includes a database of over three thousand names of known and probable mixed bloods drawn from a wide range of sources and therefore has genealogical as well as historical value.
Michigan, Minnesota, and Mississippi Indians Wounded in Action
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska and Nevada Indian Honored War Dead
Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery
McKennon Roll ~ Choctaw
- Case Findings on the McKennon Roll
Cooper Roll ~ Choctaw
Mississippi Land Patents – Chickasaw
Mississippi Land Patents – Choctaw
Identified Mississippi Choctaw ~ 1902
Society of Mississippi Choctaw ~ 1914
Society of Mississippi Choctaw ~ 1916
Reeves Report ~ 1916
Mississippi Choctaw Claims ~ 1933
Col. William Wards Register ~ Choctaw
Current Federally Recognized Indian Tribes by State
List of Federally Non-Recognized Tribes
State Recognized Tribes

Mississippi Vital Records

Mississippi Vital Records
1912-1943 Mississippi Death Index
Digital scans of microfilm held at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson Mississippi containing an index to the death records of Mississippi for the years of 1912-1943. There are often multiple scans of the same images, and even then, some images are unreadable. But this compilation is the first official list of Mississippi death records for these years. You need to know the year your ancestor died, and their name. Microfilm is by years, the individuals scans are alphabetical.