Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, they are prime sources of genealogical information; but, unfortunately, official vital records are available only for relatively recent periods. These records, despite their recent creation in the United States, are critically important in genealogical research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, by Loretto Szucs and Sandra Luebking.
Mississippi State Vital Records Office
Vital Records, State Dept of Health
2423 North State Street
P.O. Box 1700
Jackson, MS 39215
(601) 576-7960
Fax: (601) 576-7505
Mississippi Bible Records
- Mississippi bible records and a few prerequisite items, v. 3; genealogical records; Mississippi bible records and a few genealogies, v. 4; Mississippi, bible records, v. 1
Microfilm of original records in the D.A.R. Library in Washington, D.C. - Mississippi genealogical record; genealogical records, v. 1-2; bible record; genealogical records, v. 1-3
Microfilm of original records in the D.A.R. Library in Washington, D.C.
Mississippi Birth Records
Mississippi Death 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. - Mississippi mortality schedule for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880
Mississippi Marriage Records
- Mississippi, marriages, 1800-1911
This project represents Legacy extraction data available in the EASy system & data on the Vital Records Index CDs and it includes 779,751 records with 1,571,075 names.