Título: Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors
Autor: Anne S. Lipscomb, Anne L. Webster, Kathleen S. Hutchison
Sinopse: This easy-to-understand guide through a maze of research possibilities is for any genealogist who has Mississippi ancestry.
It identifies the many official state records, incorporated community records, related federal records, and unofficial documents useful in researching Mississippi genealogy. Here the contents of these resources are clearly described, and directions for using them are clearly stated.
Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors also introduces many other helpful genealogical resources, including detailed colonial, territorial, state, and local materials. Among official records are census schedules, birth, marriage, divorce, and death registers, tax records, military documents, and records of land transactions such as deeds, tract books, land office papers, plats, and claims. In addition to noting such frequently used sources as Confederate Army records, this guidebook leads the researcher toward lesser-known materials, such as passenger lists from ships, Spanish court records, midwives' reports, WPA county histories, cemetery records, and information about extinct towns.
Since researching forebears who belong to minority groups can be a difficult challenge, this book offers several avenues to discovering them. Of special focus are sources for locating African American and Native American ancestors. These include slave schedules, Freedman's Bureau papers, Civil War rolls, plantation journals, slave narratives, Indian census records, and Indian enrollment cards.
To these specialized resources the authors of Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors append an annotated bibliography of published and unpublished genealogical materials relating to Mississippi. Including over 200 citations, this is by far the most comprehensive list ever given for researching Mississippi genealogy. In addition, all of Mississippi's local, county, and state repositories of genealogical materials are identified, but because most documents for tracing Mississippi ancestors are found at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the authors have made the state archival collection in Jackson the focus of this book.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors”, de Anne S. Lipscomb, Anne L. Webster, Kathleen S. Hutchison, publicado pela editora University Press of Mississippi, em 1994 e com 201 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: University Press of Mississippi
Páginas: 201
Ano: 1994-08-01
Edição: Annotated
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 087805698X
ISBN13: 9780878056989
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora University Press of Mississippi trazem uma experiência de leitura que combina rigor acadêmico com narrativas humanas e culturais profundas. O catálogo revela um interesse constante por personagens reais e fictícios que dialogam com a história e a identidade do sul dos Estados Unidos, explorando desde biografias de artistas e cineastas até estudos sociológicos e relatos de movimentos sociais. O tom varia entre o ensaístico e o narrativo, com obras que equilibram análise crítica e histórias de vida, muitas vezes focadas em comunidades marginalizadas ou em processos culturais específicos. A linguagem tende a ser densa e informativa, mas acessível, convidando leitores interessados em temas históricos, culturais e artísticos a uma imersão reflexiva.
