Update to African American Page

Added to the African-American Page:

In the Genealogy Vertical Files:
1. Oliver Wendell Cunnigen, Sr. booklet (9 pages)
2. Commodore Dewey Higgins booklet 

As I find African-American resources in our Genealogy Room, I add them to this page. 

If you have anything you'd like to donate to the library to share with other researchers, please feel free to do so. It WILL be added to the collection!

Yearbook Updates!

The following yearbooks are being added to the Yearbook Collection at McComb Public Library:

McComb High School 
1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970

Southwest MS Community College
1972

Mississippi State
1973, 1974

LSU
1971

Updates!

Updates to LINKS page and AFRICAN-AMERICAN page!

Added to LINKS page: 
Lincoln County Marriage Search

Added to AFRICAN-AMERICAN page: 
African-American Gateway - Mississippi
(From Allen County Public Library)

Precious Photos on AfriGeneas
Precious Photos 2

Colored Marriages -Wilkinson County, Mississippi - 
Books G, H - 1865-1870

Digitized MS Newspapers

The MS Department of Archives and History received a grant last year to digitize 100,000 pages of Mississippi newspapers!
MS Newspapers to be Digitized - click here to read more!

The digitized newspapers will be freely available on the Library of Congress Chronicling America site. 
Chronicling America - Mississippi - click here!

So far the following newspapers are available: 
Macon Beacon ( Noxubee County, MS) - new!
Woodville Republican (Wilkinson County, MS) - new!
and
The Memphis Appeal (Memphis, TN)
includes coverage of northern Mississippi

The site is continually updated, so check back often!








 

New Additions to McComb!

We now own three scrapbooks (donated by Mr. Tommy Parker)

McComb High School Football, the 1940s (Volumes 1 & 2)

and 

McComb Sports and Dixie Youth Scrapbook  (mostly 1940s)

These scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings and lots of pictures! Enjoy this bit of McComb's history!

African-American Page Updated

A new website has been added to the African-American Page!

www.thewestbrookfamily.com

Descendants of David and Phyllis Westbrook of Amite County, Mississippi. 
The site includes a history of David and Phyllis's family and a link to the Westbrook Family Facebook page.

New Genealogy Additions @ McComb

New Genealogy Additions at McComb Public Library:

1. Cemeteries of Pontotoc County, MS

2. Lee County, Mississippi Cemetery Records, 1820-1979

3. Copiah County, MS taxpayers 1825-1841

4. Echols Notes, volumes 1 & 2
(collected by Rebecca Echols Terry)

5.  Marriage Notices in the Charleston Courier, 1803-1808

6. Lunenburg County, Virginia Register of Marriages 1850-1872

7. The Powell families of Virginia and the South

8. Wilkes County, Georgia deed books A - VV, 1784-1806

Genealogy Book Added to Walthall County Public Library: 
 * The Jones Family : stories of the William Vastine and Sarah Adeline Roberts Jones family and collateral lines - a genealogy