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Humphreys County, Mississippi |
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Welcome
Hello, my name is Betty
Aron-Schneider
and I am the County Coordinator (CC) for Humphreys
County.
I would like to thank Judy and David Spiers
and all of the
former CC's of Humphreys County who have volunteered
before me.
I do not live in Humphreys County, nor in Mississippi.
I am in Temecula, California.
I
am sorry,
but
I am unable to do any local look-ups or research.
I hope you will find the information you are
looking for while you are visiting. If you have comments about or problems
with these pages, or if you have information to add, please contact me.
I am looking for any and all information that contains names, dates, places
or resources of Humphreys County. This includes but is not limited
to cemetery information
(who is buried where and when), tombstone photos,
graduation or class photos with the date and name of school, church rosters
with name of church, dates, names of the members, photos of the county buildings
now and then. In other words anything and everything pertaining to
Humphreys County. Please help me, help you.
Map of Humphreys County
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Humphreys
County
Message
Center
This is where you can post your
Queries, Bible notations and Biliographies.
Also information about
Births, Cemeterys, Census, Deeds, Immigrations,
Marriages, Military service,
Obits, Pensions and Wills
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HUMPHREYS COUNTY MAILING LIST ONE CLICK SUBSCRIBING!
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use these links.
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Neighboring Counties
Check these counties if you don't find what you are looking for here.
The county lines changed frequently.
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Jaketown Site - located on the west side of State Hwy. 7, about four miles north of Belzoni, Mississippi.
History of Belzoni and Humphreys
County
a native of Claiborne County, was educated in New Jersey and entered West Point in the same class Robert E. Lee in 1825,
but he was dismissed from the academy for participating in a Christmas frolic that turned into a riot.
He returned to Mississippi, represented Claiborne County in the State Legislature from 1839 to 1844,
and moved to Sunflower County, where he became a successful planter, in 1846.
Commissioned a captain in the Confederate army in 1861, he was promoted to brigadier general
after the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. On October 2, 1865, he was elected Governor of Mississippi
under President Johnson's Reconstruction policy, and he was re-elected in 1868;
but, with the institution of Congressional Reconstruction, he was removed from office
by federal troops on June 15, 1868. He was engaged in the insurance business in Jackson until 1877,
when he retired to his plantation in Sunflower County, where he died in December of 1882.
Benjamin G. Humphreys was the grandson of Major David Smith, for whom Smith County was named.
Created by the Fourth Constitution (1890), May 31, 1918 from
Holmes, Washington, Yazoo and Sunflower Counties.
County Seat -- Belzoni
Humphreys County Courthouse
P.O. Box 696
Belzoni, MS 39038
(601) 247-3065
Humphreys Chancery Clerk
102 Castleman St
Belzoni, MS 39038-0547
(601) 247-1740
Humphreys County Library System
105 South Hayden Street
Belzoni, MS 39038
(662) 247-3606
The Belzoni Banner
-- weekly newspaper for the city of Belzoni and Humphreys County
Banner Printing
115 East Jackson Street
P.O. Box 610
Belzoni, MS 39038-0610
General Genealogy LinksUSGenWeb Links
USGenWeb Main Page
USGenWeb Archive Project- Find out how you can contribute to USGenWeb archives.
Index of Humphreys County WWI registrants
MSGenWeb Links
Mississippi Master County Index
GENDEX: The WWW Genealogy Index (Gene Stark) - including all Newton Co. lines
Genealogists' Index to the World Wide Web (John Rigdon)
Family Reunions - listed alphabetically by surname
Mississippi Census Maps 1820-1920CensusTools - 35 free electronic spreadsheets for archiving federal, state and international census data!
Humphreys County Links (Please advise me of any Humphreys Co. Links)
U.S. Census Digital Interactive Maps: Humphreys County
Humphreys Co. Vital Records
Other Links of Interest
Lori Hoffman's Genealogy Page - includes volunteers for CD lookups
ROOTS-L U.S. Resources - Mississippi
African American Genealogy - The most comprehensive site concerning African-American
research.Ancestry.Com - includes:
- Social Security Death Index
- American Marriage Records (searchable)
- Early American Immigration Library
- American Biographical Library - searchable biographical sketches
- Geographic Reference Library - info for virtually every place in the U.S.
- Chronology of American HistoryBerrylink- Military records at the Nation Archives
Rare Maps of Colonial America - Note: must be downloaded to view
Mississippi Maps - from the Color Landform Atlas of the United States
United States Geological Survey - National Mapping Information
United States Census Bureau
United States Library of Congress
Mississippi Vital Records Information
National Archives
Listing of Mississippi web sites
Tombstone Inscription Project
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet (Mississippi)
Available Resources and Lookup VolunteersReturn to Quick linksUSGenWeb County Help Copyright Page -USGenWeb'S Official Policy
USGenWeb will not tolerate any copyright violations. Lookup requests should be limited to one name, or perhaps two if it is a married couple. Information given will be minimal, for example if it is a cemetery lookup, the information will be the name of the cemetery and the dates on the headstone. Please do not ask for "everybody with X surname" or an entire family group, or for hardcopies to be mailed; the volunteers have been asked not to comply with such requests.
Our lookups will extend to searching the book to determine if the book would be helpful to you in your research. Should the book prove useful, we can provide the authors address and ordering information.
The USGenWeb Project will endeavor to get a WRITTEN statement from each copyright holder which stipulates which books may be used for lookups.
Humphreys County Lookup Volunteers
Feel free to request a look-up from the following resources, using these guidelines.
- Limit your request to one name per message.
- Send your request to the volunteer's e-mail address that is listed.
- Put HUMPHREYS COUNTY LOOKUP in the subject line of your request to insure the message is not overlooked.
- In the first line of the message, put the name of the book from which you are requesting the lookup.
Don't forget to thank your volunteer for his or her time.
- 1971 BELZONI LISTINGS JUDY AND DAVID SPIERS
- Your resource here Your Name Here
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Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide
a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored.
In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual
were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index.
At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to
coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page.
That is how this project was started, and it is an invaluable resource to researchers.
If you would like to participate by adopting a county,
volunteering for one of the special projects,
or adding your information with other researchers,
please contact either
Thank you for visiting please
come back soon. If you have any comments or suggestions please contact
Betty Aron Schneider. --
If you are have problems using the above link please try this one --
Betty Aron Schneider and please place "Humphreys County" in the subject line.
Thank you.
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