Jackson County, Mississippi:
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Projects

• Jackson County      (Source: Mississippi Genealogy and History Network)
• Jackson County Genealogy & History      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Jackson County MSGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• George County, MS  to the north
• Harrison County, MS  to the west
• Mobile County, AL  to the east
• Stone County, MS  to the northwest

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Jackson Co, Mississippi, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Jackson County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Jackson County GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries (13)

Census Records and Indexes (33)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Jackson County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Estate Records

• Mississippi, Probate Records  1781-1930     (Source: Family History Library)

History

• Brief History of Jackson County 
• Jackson County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Jackson County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Jackson County Historical Markers      (Source: The Historical Marker Database)
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • Brewton      (Source: Ghosttowns.com)
  • History of Ocean Springs 
  • Pascagoula Profile and Trivia 

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Gulf Coast, LA, MS, AL, FL Hurricane BETSY, Sep 1965      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Gulf Coast, MS Hurricane CAMILLE Eyes Coast, Aug 1969      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Hurricane in Sept-Oct 1860      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Jackson Battle Summary  1863     (Source: American Battlefield Protection Program)
  • Jackson County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis and Jones County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Pascagoula, Mississippi Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • Pascagoula, MS Sawmill Explosion, July 1869      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (11)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Jackson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Genealogy and Local History Department  Pascagoula Public Library
• Jackson County Archives Department 
• Jackson County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Jackson County, Mississippi     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards (28)

Maps and Gazetteers (11)

Military Records and Histories

• Jackson County Military Data      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Jackson County, Mississippi     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Jackson County     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Jackson Battle Summary  1863     (Source: American Battlefield Protection Program)
  • Mississippi Confederate Records  1889-1942     (Source: Family History Library)
  • Southern Claims Commission  Jackson County - Approved Claims, 1871-1880     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
  • Southern Claims Commission  Jackson County - Barred and Disallowed Claims     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Jackson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Jackson County, Mississippi  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Jackson County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Jackson County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Jackson County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area 
• Mississippi State Archives  Various Records, 1820-1951     (Source: Family History Library)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Jackson County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Jackson County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Funeral records from 1904-1948 for the coast of Mississippi      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Gautier, Mississippi Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Holder Wells Funeral Home  Moss Point, Mississippi
• The Mississippi Press  30-day Obituaries Archive
• The Mississippi Press, Pascagoula      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Taylor Funeral Home Records      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

• MS-JACKSON-OBITS-L Obituaries for Pascagoula, Moss Point, St. Martin, Gautier, Ocean Springs, Kreole, Hurley, Wade, Pecan, Fort Lake, Orange Grove, Escatawpa, Vancleave, Three Rivers and surrounding areas, and requests for obituary lookups for residents of Jackson County, Mississippi

  • MS-JACKSON-OBITS-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • MS-JACKSON-OBITS-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • MS-JACKSON-OBITS-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Historic Ocean Springs 
• Historical Postcards of Jackson County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Jackson County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Ocean Springs      (Source: Touring Turn-of-the-Century America)
• Penny Postcards from Mississippi      (Source: USGenWeb Mississippi Archives)

School Records and Histories

• Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children  1850-1892 and 1908-1957     (Source: Family History Library)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Jackson County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Jackson County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Jackson County     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• Live Oak Rifles Camp 1985, Helena      (Source: Wayback Machine)
• Ocean Springs Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (62)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)
• Jackson Co. MS 1836 Tax Index      (Source: Melba's Southern Families)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Jackson County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Jackson County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Jackson County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mississippi Historic Light Station Information & Photography 
• Patents  Jackson County, Mississippi     (Source: Google Patents)
• Round Island Lighthouse  Local History

Vital Records

• 1860 Jackson County Mortality Schedule      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Jackson County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Marriage Index Page  includes Jackson County     (Source: Melba's Southern Families)
• Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935  includes Jackson County 1875-1900     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Jackson County     (Source: Family History Library)

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