Lincoln County MSGenWeb:

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My name is Gina Brown and I am the County Coordinator for Lincoln County, MS. Please feel free to contact me if you have any contributions or suggestions for this site. I would also appreciate your patience while this site is updated and new material added. If you find any broken links, please tell me.

LeFloris Lyon, Barbara Till Prestridge and Pat Miller did a great job as CC for this county for many years, and we all appreciate the hard work.

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NOTE: MSGenWeb does not require or expect that its coordinators engage in personal research or lookups for visitors! The best way to assist researchers is to provide as much fresh and appropriate online information and links as is possible. We help researchers, but we do not do the research for them.

Lincoln was formed in 1870 from parts of Lawrence, Pike, Franklin, Copiah, and Amite Counties so don't forget to check these neighboring counties when you hit a brick wall.

Our Neighbors

Table of contents

Biographies

Lucius Layton Conerly

Henry “Jack” William Driggs

Slave Narratives

Cemeteries

Lincoln County Tombstone Photo Project - Offsite

Caseyville Cemetery, Lincoln County, MS - Offsite (Photos)

Census

Amite County 1870 Census Offsite

Copiah County 1870 Census Offsite

Franklin Co. 1860 Census Full Name Index Offsite

Lincoln County Census Lookups - Contact me Ann Allen Geoghegan

Civil War Links

Educable Children 1892

1892 Educable Children List - White Caseyville, MS Offsite

1892 Educable Children List--Colored, Caseyville, MS Offsite

History

Court House at Brookhaven Burned

Lookup Volunteers

Lincoln County Marriages 1893-1914 Temporarily Unavailable

Historical Places on the National Register

Maps

Query Form

Old Queries, Surnames & Researchers 1996-1998

Place Names

Surname Registry (Current)

Note: Your email addresses cannot be harvested from this site. I use a special code.

Archives Table of Contents

Lincoln County Event Calendar

Offsite Links

African-American Surname Registry

Bogue Chitto Mississippi

Brookhaven Daily Leader (Newspaper)

Brookhaven Mississippi Online

Freedmen's Bureau Online

Historic Brookhaven

LDS 1880 Indexed Census

Lincoln-Lawrence-Franklin Regional Library

Digital Images of Lincoln County documents and photos

Genealogy and History Indexes

Oral Histories

Index of Obituary Pages at Brookhaven Library

Index of Towns in Mississippi by County

Mississippi School for the Arts!

Mississippi Vital Records Information and Courthouse Addresses

National Register of Historic Places

ROOTS-L U.S. Resources: Mississippi

Saving Graves

U.S. Census Digital Interactive Maps

USGenWeb Project Links

MSGenWeb Project

USGenWeb Tombstone Project

Lincoln County Web Pages

Willie L. Robinson

Barbara's Genealogy Garden

Remembering Their Names

History of Caseyville

The Stories of Jessie Ruth Sluder Guffy

Help for Beginners

Information that's especially useful when you're getting started, but of interest even after you've been at it for years.

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Handy Online Starting Points

Cyndi Howells adoption-specific sites

Genealogy Resources on the Internet

Please Note

Because the Courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1893 - no records exist between the formation of the county in 1870 until 1893. Here is a newspaper account of the fire.

Court House at Brookhaven Burned
9th of November 1893

"If you teach them where they come from, they won't need as much help finding where they are going!"

Cordelia Carothers " Aunt Dee" Geoghegan (1894-1987)

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County Coordinator: Gina Brown
State Coordinator: Everette Carr
Assistant State Coordinator: Bill White