New Titles @ McComb

Titles Recently Donated to Genealogy 

@ McComb Public Library: 

* Mississippi Newspaper Obituaries, 1876-1885

by: Betty C. Wiltshire

Includes abstracts from a variety of Mississippi newspapers, including The Brookhaven Democrat, The Brookhaven Ledger, The Brookhaven Leader, and Summit Conservative Times.

* Index to Early Will and Probate Records of Adams Co., MS

by Carolyn Cole

*  Pardons by the President

Final reports of the names of persons who lived in Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, or Georgia, were engaged in rebellion and pardoned by the President, Andrew Johnson. 

* A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia

edited by E. Merton Coulter and Albert B. Saye

* Vital Records of Three Burned Counties

Births, marriages, and deaths of King and Queen, King William, and New Kent Counties, Virginia

1680-1860

by Therese Fisher

*  Alexandria and Alexandria (Arlington) County Virginia

Minister Returns and Marriage Bonds 1801-1852

Transcribed by T. Michael Miller

* Apprentices of Virginia, 1623-1800

  Harold B. Gill, Jr. 

*  Wills and Administrations of Surry County, Virginia 1671-1750

Eliza Timberlake Davis

* Butler, Denson, and Allied Families

Research by Hoyt Butler

Other surnames appearing: 

Davidson, Spears, Spillman, Poindexter, Wilkinson, Heard, Jagers, Collins

    

* Virginia Genealogist

Volume 1, 1957

Volume 2, 1958

Volume 3, 1959

Volume 4, 1960

Volume 5, 1961

Volume 6, 1962

Volume 12, 1968

Each book includes January through March of each year. 

Pike County Enumeration of Educable Children

Mr. Paul Walker has graciously shared with the McComb Public Library - a collection of scanned images for Pike County's Enumeration of Educable Children
for the following years: 

 1890, 1896, 1900, 1908, 1912, 1912A, 1916, 1916A, 
1920, 1923, 1923A, 1925, 1925A, 1927, 1929, 1931, 
1933, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1949, 
1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965

These images include the parent's name and the children's names and ages.
This is a wonderful resource for us to have because the library only has the 1890 in book format. The 1890 and 1896 are great because it helps fill the gap caused by the loss of most of the federal 1890 census. 

Also, scanned images of 7 catalogs from the McComb Female Institute (it eventually merged with Belhaven College.)
The years available are 1895-96, 1896-97, 1897-98, 1898-99, 1899-00, 1901-02, and 1902-03. 

The catalogs have no pictures, but do include names of faculty and students.

To get access to these images, email me at monica@pawls.lib.ms.us and let me know which files you are interested in. All files are in PDF Format. 

Update: All files have now been uploaded and ready for sharing. 
I'm sharing via Dropbox and Google Drive (because I ran out of free storage space on Dropbox.)

New Titles @ McComb

Titles Recently Donated to Genealogy 

@ McComb Public Library: 

Washington Parish Cemeteries, Volumes 1 - 5

--compiled by Charles and Ernestine Miller

19th Century Baptist Church Records of Marion and Pike Counties, Mississippi  

Includes extracts of the minutes from Silver Creek Baptist Church (Pike), New Zion Baptist Church (Pike), and Antioch Baptist Church (Marion)

--by Bevin J. Creel 

The Crutcher Family of Yazoo County, Mississippi, 1800s-1900s

An African-American family - Jim and Elmira Hart Crutch

--by Marguerite K. Shaw-Pickett 

New newspapers added to Chronicling America!

Chronicling America has added more Historical Mississippi Newspapers! 

The newspapers cover the following areas: 

PASCAGOULA (new!)     

CANTON                 COLUMBUS                         GREENVILLE
MACON                   YAZOO CITY                      WOODVILLE             
JACKSON                

Click Here to see and view available titles and issues!

Update to African-American page

Added to the African-American Page: 

In the Genealogy Vertical Files: 

Homecoming of the Lincoln County Training School 1901-1982
August 21, 1982

Has names of former teachers and students / pictures / short bios of some of the people who attended 

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