Mississippi Genealogy Project

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Mississippi Genealogy Project

The USGenWeb Project is a national volunteer effort to provide a WWW page for genealogical data for every county in the United States. Begun in March 1996 in Kentucky, the project is growing daily, and has already provided many genealogists with clues to finding their ancestors. Volunteers coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the individual county web pages. This Madison County page is part of the Mississippi GenWeb Project, thus part of the USGenWeb Project.

My name is Ann Allen Geoghegan. I am the volunteer County Coordinator for Madison County. I descend from the families of Allen and Braxton, as well as ties to Herrod, Turnage, Carson, Martin, and other allied families of Madison County from about 1830 to the late 1900's.

The information found on this website is not limited to my own family lines.

You may visit my other sites by going here: Annie's Place

I would like to thank Sue Skay Abruscato, her husband, Tony Abruscato and her sister-in-law, Mary Abruscato Hara for all the hard work they put into this site over the years. They worked tirelessly for many hours on this project to make it what it is today. If credit is due, the credit is all theirs. I am only the grateful recipient and new caretaker.

AnnieG

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Discussion List - How to subscribe
Search the Madison-L Archives. Press your back button to return to this website.

History

Early History of Madison County New
History of Madison County
Historical Locations Along The Natchez Trace
Place Names and Locations
1895 Map of Madison County. Please use your back button to return to this website.

Queries

Rootsweb/Ancestry.com's Madison County, MS message boards - formerly GenConnect.

Archived Queries - Queries can be found here from Sep. ' 96 through August 13, 1998.

Military Histories

Harvey's Scouts - Awarded Civil War Interactive's 4-Star Award
This database includes the history of the Confederate unit "The Harvey's Scouts." Though not all, most of the men who served in this unit were from Madison County.

Confederate Dead at Canton MS - Awarded Civil War Interactive's 3-Star Award
This database includes the history of how the Confederate soldiers came to be buried in the Canton Cemetery. Also includes the history behind erecting new monuments, and correctly identifying the soldiers that were buried in this cemetery, including names and death dates.

Searchable Databases

World War 1 Draft Registrations: Here you can find transcriptions of the 1917 - 1918 civilian draft registration for Madison County.
1850 Federal Census - This database includes the transcriptions of the 1850 census for Madison Co. All surnames listed are cross referenced. Scanned images have been added to households 1-1 through 49-50 so far. They can be easily accessed through the enumeration index.

1850 Mortality Schedule - Companion to the 1850 census. This document contains the names of individuals that died in Madison County, during the year of 1850.

General Index to Wills - Books A - 13

Courthouse address for ordering wills.

About the index. What information will be found there.

Probates and Wills - Updated 3-31-99 - Now contains 124 records!
This database includes abstracts of wills and probates with links to the full transcriptions. All surnames listed are cross referenced. Slave names are also included for our African-American researchers.
Bureau of Land Management - Eastern States General Land Office - the official land patent records site. Here you can search for land patent records and view and download the actual images

Mississippi Vital Records Information - Locate addresses for MS county vital records.

African-American Research

Wills and Probates: Abstracts linked to full transcriptions, including slave names
Madison County, African-American Surname Index
Other Links

Cemeteries

Walter W. Wellington's 16,800+ listings database of Madison County, Cemeteries - Full listings of cemeteries is now completed.
USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project