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

Magnolia Gazette Resources

The McComb Public Library now has The Magnolia Gazette on microfilm for the years 2012 and 2013.

The Progress Public Library now has bound copies of The Magnolia Gazette for the years 2011, 2012, and 2013. 

Thank you to Dr. Luke Lampton for donating these valuable resources!

New Additions @ McComb

Genealogy Books recently added to McComb Public Library: 

*Black Genesis – A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy

By James M. Rose and Alice Eichholz

G 929.1 ROS

*Autobiography of George Howard Alford:
Some of his writings and speeches and a chapter on the Alford family and the history of farm development for fifty years. (Progress, Mississippi)

G 630 ALF

*The Duck Book

By: Mary Duck Pallon

G 929.2 PAL

Kyzars: John Kyzar (ca 1765) to Marshal Chase Kyzar (July 1982)

By: Clyde K. and Norva Kyzar Reeves

G 929.2 KYZ

African-American Page!

I am pleased to announce the addition of a new page to this blog highlighting African-American resources...books that our library owns and websites of local interest. The page is currently under construction, but there are some titles and links up.

If there is a African-American genealogy book that you'd like to recommend the library purchase or a link that you'd like me to add to that page, please feel free to email me - 
monica (at) pawls.lib.ms.us with the information.  Thanks! 

 

New Additions @ Liberty and Walthall

New Genealogy Additions @ Liberty Public Library: 

* Census for each state for surname Temple

by Joyce Temple Barnett -- G 929.2 BAR

New Genealogy Additions @ Walthall County Library: 

*The Natchez Indians 

by Jim Barnett -- G 976.24004979 BAR

* Persistence of pattern in Mississippi Choctaw Culture

 MS Department of Archives and History -- G 976.200497 PER

*  Seed of Jacob Jeffcoat family history and genealogy

by Vera Dell Spires Jeffcoat --  G 929.2 JEF

* Stovall Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (July 1978)

G 929.2 STO V. 1

* Graham : Montrose Clan

by Margie Graham Bailey -- G 929.2 BAI

* Some Historical Facts about Stovall, N. C. and Vicinity

by J. E. Spicer -- G 975.6756535 SPI

New Additions @ McComb

Recently Added to McComb's Genealogy Collection: 

1. My People  
by Ina Inez Greer May  -- G 929.2 MAY

(About the Greer and Cole families, including the author's parents - Jesse Wiley Greer and Patty Leone Cole)
 
2. The Historic Treasure Chest of the Madonna of the Trail Monuments
by Fern Ioula Butler -- G 973 BAU

3. The State of Mississippi Historic Properties (1982)
MS Department of Archives and History -- G 724 STA

4. Persistence of Pattern in Mississippi Choctaw Culture
MS Department of Archives and History -- G 976.200497 PER

5.  1850 Federal Census
Carroll County, MS - G 929.3762633 EIG
Smith County, MS - G 929.3762582 EIG
Leake County, MS - G 929.3762653 EIG

6.  Georgia Salzburger and allied families 
by Pearl Rahn Gnann -- G 920.0758 GNA

7. Cities, Towns, and Communities of Georgia Between 1847-1962
by Marion Hemperley -- G 917.58 HEM

8. The History of Our Family in the Southern United States: Sellars, Kinsaul, Kaigler, Bryan
David A. Peterson and Bama Sellars Kosirnik

9.  Kentucky Kinfolk - two issues
Vol. 13 No. 4, Fall 1997 
Vol. 14, No. 3, Summer 1998

10.  1860 Federal Census
Smith County, MS - G 929.3762582 EIG

11. Briley: The Descendants of Abraham Briley
Gregory S. Smith and Paul Crawford -- G 929.2 BRI

 Tomorrow I will post books newly added to our branches.

New Additions at Liberty, Part 3

New Additions at Liberty Public Library, part 3

11. Those Were the Days: Glimpses From Our Past (Liberty Consolidated School, Liberty, MS)

By: Eva Frances Dixon Phares/ Call #: G 976.224 THO

12. Uriah Barnett, born 1783 and his descendants

By: Joyce Temple Barnett/ Call #: G 929.2 BAR

13. Moaks and Folks

By: Joyce Temple Barnett/ Call #: G 929.2 BAR

14. Our May Family  

No author listed...the book starts with Henry Enos May, born February 10, 1872 and died 1943.

Call #: G 929.2 OUR