Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors Anne S Lipscomb Kathleen S Hutchison by Anne S. Lipscomb, Kathleen S. Hutchison 9781604736984, 9780878056972, 0878056971, 1604736984 instant download after payment.

Where do you begin? In what resources will you find likely clues to guide you through the genealogical maze? For both novice and veteran researchers here is a guide that answers questions abut how to find your ancestors if they resided in Mississippi or dwelled there briefly during their migration. Included in this valuable handbook are more than six hundred descriptive profiles and printed sources—colonial, territorial, state, and local materials—that can help you follow the clues of your search.

The study of family histories, is a subject of particular appeal to many persons. The undertaking of research in this area, however, can sometimes be disheartening when the investigator is faced with the prospect of locating and digging through obscure and incomplete records from the past. Many experienced researchers acknowledge that the pursuit of vital data can be tedious and unprofitable, with long hours of toil and little to show for it. Those same persons, though, express a feeling of great accomplishment when they finally discover a morsel of information that supplies the missing piece to a puzzle. This book is intended to be a guide through the maze of research possibilities for anyone, veteran or novice, whose ancestors may have lived in Mississippi.

The book consists of two main sections. The first is a comprehensive review of the many resources available to one researching Mississippi ancestors, with specific information of where and how to locate them and how to use them. These resources include official records of the county, state, and federal governments and unofficial public and private documents, ranging from cemetery records to personal diaries and papers. A special feature of this section is a chapter for those gathering information on ancestors belonging to minority groups—particularly African-American and native Americans. The second half of the book, “Descriptive Profiles of Printed Sources,” presents an annotated list of published books and