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

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!