Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest.com Available for Lincoln County Public Library Patrons!

                               (access available only from library computers)

     (available from your home computer or in the library; 

                                                                               use your library card number to log in)

                  (Search link for Social Security Death Index plus more)

ProQuest has partnered with MyFamily.com to create Ancestry® Library Edition, one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. This collection, with thousands of databases and billions of names, is essential to having a broad genealogy collection, and its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest™ Online.

The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes); Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes); The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630; Social Security Death Index (updated monthly); WWI Draft Registration Cards; Federal Slave Narratives; and a strong Civil War collection. Ancestry Library Edition updates continually, with more indexes and original images added all the time.

HeritageQuest Online is the marriage of ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Online, a collection of over 23,000 family and local histories, and content from HeritageQuest^®, the largest genealogical data, products, supplies and equipment provider to consumers and institutions in the United States. In August 2001, ProQuest acquired HeritageQuest.  HeritageQuest Online gives any library the opportunity to tap into one of the largest collections of genealogy material in the country.

For Information send an e-mail to: 

    libraryinfo@llf.lib.ms.us

We will be happy to make copies from microfilm or photos in our archives. Please send an e-mail to the address above for pricing information and instructions. Requests will be filled on a first come/first served basis as time permits.

Our phone number is 601-833-5038 or you may write to:

Archives

Lincoln Lawrence Franklin Regional Library 

100 South Jackson Street

Brookhaven, MS 39601

Other Genealogy/History Websites of Interest

Archives and Manuscripts

A digitized collection of Lincoln County Public Library's local history documents and photos including 

Whitworth College items.

John Holly Williams Archives -- 100,000+ photographs, about 200 digitized. If you can identify any person or place, please e-mail us at libraryinfo@llf.lib.ms.us 

Wedding List--1940-

A list of wedding photos with names from the Williams Collection..

Obituaries

Indexes of obituaries (first entries only--subsequent entries are indexed in-house)

Daily Leader (Brookhaven, MS) 1968-2001   Updated 3/18/2008

Surnames Index (PDF Files):

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z, Information

Requires Adobe Reader 7.0 or higher  

Lawrence County Press (Monticello, MS) 1980-2003   (1997-2003 added 6/24/2009)

Surnames Index (PDF Files): 

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z

_{Requires Adobe Reader 7.0 or higher}

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EARLY LINCOLN COUNTY NEWSPAPER INDEXES: 

The following turn of the century indexes have interesting notes and since there were very few obituaries published in the form we know them today, many tributes, poems, notices, trials, local columns and other tidbits are indexed.

Early Brookhaven Newspapers 1875-1885

Lincoln County Times 1909-1947

Semi-Weekly Leader 1907-1939

Brookhaven Leader 1883-1906 

Brookhaven Cemeteries

Three lists of cemetery records divided by year. Brookhaven cemeteries include Rose Hill, Easthaven, St. Francis Catholic, Jewish, and Hoskins. Dates on list refer to date of burial, not date of death..

    Cemeteries 1: 1938-1962

    Cemeteries 2: 1963-1983

    Cemeteries 3: 1984-2002

Mission Hill Baptist Church Cemetery      

   List covers burials from 1893-2003

Funeral Home Index

  Comprehensive index of all names compiled from Brookhaven Funeral Home and Harrigill (formerly Hartman and Hartman-Henderson) Funeral Home records (1929-1980s)

Oral Histories

  Interviews with local citizens concerning the history of Lincoln County and the surrounding area. 

Several interviews added in 2005

Book Reviews

  Reviews of books and audiotapes by Henry Ledet which have been published in the Daily Leader