If your ancestors are from Wilkinson County, born between the years 1824 to 1844, and may have fought in the Civil War, but are not on the Wilkinson Census, look for the 1890 Veterans Censuses and Military Cemetery records in the following nearby locations: 1. Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi is…
Family history researchers know that most of the 1890 Federal population census were destroyed in a 1921 fire in Washington, D.C. This leaves many researchers without vital family information during the 20 years between 1880 and the next federal census in 1900. Fortunately for Wilkinson County Mississippi Black Family researchers…
In the opening statement of the 1885 book, Serena Abbess Haymon gives a vital warning: “I Did Not Change the Document in any way. If a name is misspelled, I feel that, this is part of your American History Transcript of the Original Document Educable Children” The 1885 book is…
The only U.S. Population Census that my great-great-grandfather Phillip McWhorter and his wife Patsy Williams McWhorter are enumerated in is the 1880 U.S. Population Census. Both died in 1899 and therefore were not on the 1900 U.S. Census. I have constructed a McWhorter Family spreadsheet with the information contained in…
