Regional Organizations Gulf Coast Historical Society Directory A Web site with information, documents, and Web links on the history of Mississippi and Louisiana locales on the Gulf. This Web site includes a list of surnames being researched by members. Local Organizations For a good list of Web sites having local Mississippi genealogical and historical information, see Mississippi Genealogy . The most important project for bringing local historical information to the Internet is the USGenWeb project, sponsored by the National Genealogical Society. Many Mississippi counties are presently represented in this project.
Volunteers transcribe and post local public records at appropriate county Web sites.
Many sites are posting information on local Civil War units. See the directory of Mississippi GenWeb sites . Despite anyone's best efforts, no one can effectively keep up with the scattered sources of information on one topic on the Internet, particularly the Web. Mississippi State University State of Mississippi University of Mississippi Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System may be the most ambitious and significant plan for providing Civil War records on line. The National Park Service, in cooperation with the National Archives and other organizations, has begun work to computerize all the compiled military service records of the Civil War and to link the records of individual servicemen to other on-line Civil War information.