WELCOME
To the Carroll County, MSGenWeb Project - the #1 source for
Carroll County research on the web!
This web site was developed to provide research and family
history resources for Carroll County, Mississippi ancestry. New
resources are added as they are made available, so check back often
for new content and be sure to visit the What's New page, for a
listing of the new items posted.
Enjoy your visit here - and come back soon!
*** Due to
internal service, rebuilding of the entire site is in progress.
Please be patient as the pages get rebuilt. All info and data
is still available, just some of the data pages will appear
different until I can get to them. John. November 13,
2009
Areas of the
website updated: All Menu Pages, Home, Biographies Pioneers, Lookup Volunteers,
Other Links, Mail List, Native
Americans, Publications, Resources, Vitals, Whats new. November 20. 2009***
Carroll County Contacts
Hello, my name is John
Hansen, and I am your County Coordinator. Efforts will be made
to continuously expand the website. If there are any specific
requests of what to include on-site, please contact the
County Coordinator.
The Assistant County Coordinator is
Leo
"Buddy" Pergson. He is very knowledgeable with Carroll County
and is also an expert on the Mississippi Choctaw Band.
State Coordinator
Jeff Kemp
Assistant State
Coordinators Annie Geoghan and
Denise Wells
Carroll County History
Carroll County, Mississippi was established by legislative act in
1833, and named for Charles G. Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, one
of the immortal signers of the Declaration of Independence. It was
carved out of a part of the territory ceded by the Choctaw Indians
to the United States by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830.
As originally established, it embraced territory more than twice its
present size. It extended on the north three miles farther than now,
and reached some five miles east of the present city of Winona (now
in Montgomery County). On the west it was bounded by the
Tallahatchie and Yazoo rivers. The southern boundary was as at
present, but then extended from the Yazoo to Big Black River.
(more history...)
