 Jasper County is one of the ten counties in Mississippi that have two courthouses. The Courthouse in Bay Springs has records available from 1906. The Chancery Clerks office has newspapers, divorces, deeds, estates, wills, and deeds of trust. Circuit Clerk's office has marriage records dating from 1906.
The Courthouse in Paulding houses land records (deeds, estates, wills, deeds of trust, oil & gas records and marriage and divorces from 1932.
There are books and records in the public library in Bay Springs. A cemetary book for Jasper County exists, but is no longer in print. There are copies available in the Bay Springs and Heidelberg Libraries. There are also many great old photographs in the Old Post Office Building next to the courtyard in downtown Bay Springs. The building is owned and maintained by Magnolia State Bank. The photo of Montrose above is located there.
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A list of general genealogical sources:
• Church registers
• Funeral sermons
• Civil registers/family registers (marriage registers, death lists)
• Court-, finance- and commercial sources (cadastral registers, tax registers, guild registers, sources for migration like certificates of residence)
• Servant books (civil servants)
• Address books
• Registers of nobility
• Military books and registers, chronicles of regiments and battalions
• Diaries, letters, autobiographies, memoirs - most libraries have manuscript and autograph collections
• Estates and family archives
• Monuments (artworks, buildings, jewellery, weapons, tombstones, memorials, heraldic signs in windows, tombs and carpets)
• Printworks (nobility almanacs, court calendars, biographical reference works, family histories)
CHANCERY CLERK
P O Box 1047
Bay Springs, MS 39422
(
601)764-3368
CIRCUIT CLERK
P O Box 447
Bay Springs, MS 39422
(601) 784-2245
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