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There are many good periodicals and newsletters published by local historical societies throughout the state. A listing of these organizations is kept at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
"The earliest newspapers in the state were located in the Tombigbee-Mobile area and included the Mobile Sentinel, Fort Stoddert, 1811; Mobile Gazette, Mobile, 1812; Halcyon, St. Stephens, 1815; and Blakeley Sun and Mississippi Advertiser, Blakeley, 1819. Early newspapers from the Tennessee Valley included the Madison Gazette, Huntsville, 1812; Florence Gazette, Florence, 1820; and Tuscumbia Advertiser, Tuscumbia, 1821.
Other pre-statehood papers included the Cahawba Press and Mississippi Intelligencer, Cahawba, 1819; Mississippi Courier, Claiborne, 1819; and Tuscaloosa Republican, Tuscaloosa, 1819.
Mississippi law requires that all county newspapers that carry legal notices be maintained by that county's probate judge. Few of the county collections are complete.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities project to preserve old newspapers. A statewide inventory of all repositories was followed by a project to microfilm newspapers of historic significance. A national union list is available for the project, which indexes newspapers by name, place of publication, language, and date of publication. Each entry indicates which issues of the newspaper are extant and the repository which houses those issues. Larger libraries and archives should have the publication United States Newspaper Project National Union List, Microfilm: June 1987, 2d ed. (Dublin, Ohio, 1987)."
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Over 2,000 newspaper titles have been published in Mississippi since the first paper, the Mississippi Gazette, appeared in Natchez in 1799. With the completion of the Mississippi Newspaper Project, a grant initiated by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, surviving titles were identified, located, and microfilmed for preservation and research purposes. General bibliographic information was gathered along with detailed holdings data for courthouses, museums, and all types of libraries throughout the state. This information may be accessed through OCLC, a national online database found in many public and academic libraries, or through the Mississippi Union List of Newspapers.
Since it records documented events including births, deaths, and marriages, the newspaper is a source that should not be overlooked by researchers. Furthermore, some titles of newspapers are the only surviving documentation of the existence of a community or town
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- The Journal of Mississippi History (1939–present) P.O. Box 571, Jackson, Mississippi 39205
- Family Trails (1977-1990)
- Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly (1968-present) P.O. Box 513, Biloxi, Mississippi 39533
- Mississippi Genealogical Exchange (1955-87)P.O. Box 16609, Jackson, Mississippi 39211
- Mississippi Genealogy and Local History (1969-70; 1974-79)
- Pioneer Publishing Company
