HISTORICAL
AND GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
African Ancestored Genealogy
African American
Cemeteries Online
Cyndi's List: African-American
About.com: African-American
Genealogy
Sankofa's African Slave
Genealogy
The Freedmen's Bureau Online
Library of Congress:
African American Perspectives
Genforum: African American
Forum
Native American: Chickasaw Research
The Chickasaw History Site
The Chickasaw Indians and Their Nation in Northeast Mississippi
The Official Chickasaw Nation Site
Ancestry Chickasaw Message Board
For Further Research
Itawamba County MSGenWeb
is an excellent site by Lori Thornton. Be sure to pay her site a visit!
The USGenWeb Search Us
is a special project in the USGenWeb Project. Researchers can search all
the local projects at once from any given state including local projects
that have no search engine. Definitely a nifty tool that is long overdue
for the genealogical and historical researcher.
The Official Land Patent Records
Site is an excellent resource from the US Department of Interior -
Bureau of Land Management. Image access is provided to more than two million
Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between
1820 and 1908, including all the land patents of Itawamba County.
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
System is an excellent resource from the US National Park Service.
This system includes a computerized database containing basic facts about
servicemen who served during the Civil War.
The database currently contains
approximately 2.7 million soldier names from over 30 states and territories
including 174,699 soldiers from Mississippi.
The Mississippi 1885
Atlas and Gazetteer site contains a listing of all places found in
Mississippi during 1885, as well as 1885 maps of each of Mississippi's
counties.
Mississippi History and
Genealogy Notes blog is an excellent site devoted entirely to research
in Mississippi. The site contains, not only current news relating to Mississippi
research, but many excellent Missisisippi links as well.
Documenting the American South
is an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides access to
digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American
history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at
every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference,
studying, teaching, and research.
The Mississippi Historical Society's online publication Mississippi
History Now is a facinating online magazine devoted entirely to Mississippi
History. Be sure to click the Search
the Archived Features link for numerous interesting articles devoted
entirely to Mississippi history.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy
Sites on the Internet: US - Mississippi, contains an abundance of excellent
links to various internet sites dealing with Mississippi genealogy and
history.
The Online Books Page History:
United States (Regional), and the Americas Section, contains links
to scores of valuable 19th century and earlier regional histories, biographies
and other works.
Making of America,
(MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history
from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly
strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently
contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th
century imprints.
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the depth of our history and heritage, and the excitement of our outlook
for the future. To view the movie, I Am Mississippi, simply click
the movie screen above. The movie will open in a new window. Simply close
the window to return to The Itawamba Historical Society.
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