Mississippi is one of the states that does not have a central online state repository for searching historical newspapers. Several states use the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as their main central online site for searching old newspapers and Mississippi has most of its online newspapers available on that site. Mississippi also has additional newspapers from other websites. Some are free and many require a subscription. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them.
There are over 1,500 newspapers that have been published in the Magnolia State – certainly not all of them are searchable online. But there are quite a few that are indeed available. So go for it – find your Mississippi ancestors and all the interesting articles that capture the stories of their lives.
Please note that I have not always entered the dates that are included in the collections, as I suspect they will change as more items are digitized. Also I suspect that some of these links may change over time – so if there is a dead link – please use your favorite search engine to find their new location. .
(Updated May, 2021; recently added links are in BOLD)
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Chronicling America – Mississippi
Aberdeen, 1842-1848 – Mississippi advertiser.
Aberdeen, Miss, 1848-1853 – The weekly independent.
Aberdeen, Miss., 1848-1852 – Monroe Democrat.
Aberdeen, Miss., 1854-1860 – Weekly conservative.
Aberdeen, Miss., 1856-18?? – Sunny South.
Aberdeen, Miss., 1866-current – The Aberdeen examiner.
Aberdeen, Miss., 1878-1933 – The Aberdeen weekly.
Bay Saint Louis, Miss., 1892-current – The sea coast echo.
Biloxi, Miss., 1895-19?? – The grander age.
Brandon, Miss., 1892-1961 – The Brandon news.
Brookhaven, Miss., 1875-1883 – The Brookhaven ledger.
Brookhaven, Miss., 1883-1891 – The Brookhaven leader.
Brookhaven, Miss., 1895-1905 – The Leader.
Brookhaven, Miss., 1905-1941 – The Semi-weekly leader.
Canton, Miss., 18??-1837 – Canton herald and Mississippi intelligencer.
Canton, Miss., 18??-1882 – The Canton mail.
Canton, Miss., 18??-19?? – The Daily picket.
Canton, Miss., 1837-1839 – Canton herald.
Canton, Miss., 1839-1841 – Madison Whig advocate.
Canton, Miss., 1841-1851 – The Mississippi Creole.
Canton, Miss., 1842-1844 – Independent Democrat.
Canton, Miss., 1850-1855 – The Madisonian.
Canton, Miss., 1851-1863 – American citizen.
Canton, Miss., 1863-1864 – The tri-weekly citizen.
Canton, Miss., 1864-1890 – American citizen.
Canton, Miss., 1893-1906 – The Canton times.
Canton, Miss., 1894-19?? – The weekly picket.
Carrollton, Miss., 18??-18?? – The Carrollton Democrat.
Carrollton, Miss., 1840-1842 – Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser.
Carrollton, Miss., 1843-1843 – The hornet.
Carrollton, Miss., 1844-18?? – Mississippi Democrat.
Carrollton, Miss., 1844-1845 – Western statesman.
Carrollton, Miss., 1845-1846 – The Whig creed.
Cary, Miss., 189?-19?? – The weekly Negro world.
Clinton, Miss., 1838-1839 – Southern marksman.
Clinton, Miss., 1885-1888 – Sword and shield.
Columbus, Miss., 1???-19?? – The Columbus dispatch.
Columbus, Miss., 18??-18?? – Columbus Democrat.
Columbus, Miss., 18??-1852 – The primitive Republican.
Columbus, Miss., 1834-1842 – Southern Argus.
Columbus, Miss., 1842-1843 – The Democratic Whig.
Columbus, Miss., 1843-18?? – Columbus Whig.
Columbus, Miss., 1851-1856 – Southern standard.
Columbus, Miss., 1865-18?? – Mississippi index.
Columbus, Miss., 1869-1893 – Columbus index.
Columbus, Miss., 1875-1883 – The patron of husbandry.
Columbus, Miss., 1893-1922 – The Columbus commercial.
Columbus, Miss., 19??-1922 – The Columbus dispatch.
Columbus, Miss., 1902-1905 – The Columbus weekly dispatch.
Columbus, Miss., 1905-1908 – The Columbus dispatch.
Columbus, Miss., 1908-19?? – The Columbus weekly dispatch.
Corinth Miss., 1863-1863 – Corinth chanticleer.
Corinth, Miss., 1862-186? – The Corinth war eagle.
Corinth, Miss., 1894-19?? – The weekly Corinthian.
Corinth, Miss., 1895-current – The daily Corinthian.
DeKalb, Miss., 1898-1908 – The Southern star.
Durant, Miss., 1882-1985 – The Durant news.
Ellisville, Jones, Miss., 1881-1891 – The alliance eagle.
Ellisville, Miss., 1888-1905 – The New South.
Ellisville, Miss., 1905-1909 – The new South-news.
Ellisville, Miss., 1909-1924 – The Jones County news.
Fayette, Miss., 1861-1862 – The gazette.
Goodman, Miss., 1866-18?? – The national star.
Grand Gulf, Miss., 1834-1839 – Grand Gulf advertiser.
Greensboro, Choctaw, Miss., 18??-18?? – The Southern motive.
Greenville, Miss., 1868-1917 – The Greenville times.
Greenville, Miss., 1939-19?? – The Delta leader.
Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss., 1916-1919 – The daily commonwealth.
Greenwood, Miss., 1896-1923 – The commonwealth.
Greenwood, Miss., 1919-1926 – Greenwood daily commonwealth.
Grenada, Miss., 1868-1955 – The Grenada sentinel.
Grenada, Miss., 1885-18?? – The Grenada gazette.
Handsboro, Miss., 1858-1878 – The Handsboro Democrat.
Hattiesburg, Miss., 18??-1909 – Hattiesburg daily progress.
Hattiesburg, Miss., 1907-1908 – Hattiesburg daily news.
Hattiesburg, Miss., 1908-1917 – The Hattiesburg news.
Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss., 1869-1876 – The Copiahan.
Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss., 1876-1885 – The weekly Copiahan.
Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss., 1885-1888 – Signal-Copiahan.
Hazlehurst, Miss., 1860-1861 – Copiah County news.
Hazlehurst, Miss., 1865-186? – The weekly Copiahan.
Hazlehurst, Miss., 1875-1??? – Mississippi Democrat.
Hazlehurst, Miss., 1882-1883 – The Copiah signal.
Hazlehurst, Miss., 1883-1885 – The Hazlehurst signal.
Hazlehurst, Miss., 1888-1899 – Copiah signal.
Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss., 1898-1970 – Times-promoter.
Hernando, Miss., 1879-1898 – DeSoto times.
Holly Springs, Marshall County, Miss., 1853-18?? – The Mississippi times.
Holly Springs, Mi. [i.e. Miss.], 1839-1840 – Holly Springs banner.
Holly Springs, Miss. [i.e. Miss.], 1841-18?? – Holly Springs gazette.
Holly Springs, Miss., 1838-1839 – Marshall County Republican and free trade advocate.
Holly Springs, Miss., 1839-18?? – Marshall County Republican.
Holly Springs, Miss., 1839-1839 – The Southern banner.
Holly Springs, Miss., 1840-1841 – Conservative, and Holly Springs banner.
Holly Springs, Miss., 1841-1841 – Southern banner.
Holly Springs, Miss., 1842-1846 – The guard.
Holly Springs, Miss., 1851-1852 – Mississippi palladium.
Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss., 18??-18?? – Southern patriot.
Houston, Miss., 1914-19?? – The hummer.
Iuka, Miss., 18??-1888 – The Gale.
Iuka, Miss., 1888-1894 – Iuka reporter.
Iuka, Miss., 1894-1912 – The Iuka vidette.
Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss., 1912-1967 – The Vidette.
Jackson, Miss., 185?-18?? – Weekly flag of the Union.
Jackson, Miss., 1850-18?? – Flag of the Union.
Jackson, Miss., 1859-1864 – The weekly Mississippian.
Jackson, Miss., 1863-1882 – The weekly clarion.
Jackson, Miss., 1866-1866 – Daily clarion and standard.
Jackson, Miss., 1866-1866 – Daily Mississippi clarion and standard.
Jackson, Miss., 1866-1866 – The daily Mississippi clarion.
Jackson, Miss., 1866-1888 – The Daily clarion.
Jackson, Miss., 1873-1??? – The farmers’ vindicator.
Jackson, Miss., 1877-1882 – The comet.
Jackson, Miss., 1883-1888 – The clarion.
Jackson, Miss., 1892-1895 – Mississippi leader.
Jackson, Miss., 1894-1??? – Kate Power’s review.
Jackson, Miss., 1907-1909 – The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home.
Jackson, Miss., 1938-current – The Mississippi enterprise.
Jackson, Miss., 1939-current – Jackson advocate.
Keesler Field, Miss., 1941-19?? – The Keesler field news.
Kilmichael, Miss., 19??-19?? – The new Mississippi Socialist.
Kosciusko, Mi. [i.e. Miss.], 1844-18?? – Central journal.
Kosciusko, Miss., 18??-1898 – The Kosciusko star.
Kosciusko, Miss., 1838-1839 – Spirit of Kosciusko.
Kosciusko, Miss., 1839-18?? – Central register.
Kosciusko, Miss., 1843-1844 – Attala register.
Kosciusko, Miss., 1844-1844 – Jeffersonian Democrat.
Kosciusko, Miss., 1844-1845 – Jeffersonian.
Kosciusko, Miss., 1846-1872 – Kosciusko chronicle.
Laurel, Miss., 19??-19?? – Voice of the people.
Leakesville, Miss., 1898-current – Greene County herald.
Lexington, Miss., 18??-18?? – The Lexington advertiser.
Lexington, Miss., 1838-18?? – Lexington union.
Lexington, Miss., 1838-187? – Lexington advertiser.
Lexington, Miss., 1840-18?? – Whig Republican.
Lexington, Miss., 187?-18?? – The advertiser.
Lexington, Miss., 1902-1903 – The progress-advertiser.
Lexington, Miss., 1904-1985 – The Lexington advertiser.
Lexington, Miss., 1906-1906 – The Holmes County times.
Lexington, Miss., 1959-current – Holmes County herald.
Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.], 1838-1840 – Piney Woods planter.
Liberty, Miss., 1835-1866 – Liberty advocate.
Liberty, Miss., 1838-1838 – Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector.
Liberty, Miss., 1866-current – The Southern herald.
Louisville, Miss., 1842-1843 – Louisville messenger.
Macon, Miss., 1838-1840 – Macon intelligencer.
Macon, Miss., 1841-1842 – Macon herald.
Macon, Miss., 1848-1849 – The Noxubee rifle.
Macon, Miss., 1849-1859 – Union beacon.
Macon, Miss., 1859-1995 – Macon beacon.
Magnolia, Miss., 1872-current – The Magnolia gazette.
Memphis, Tenn., 1847-1886 – Memphis daily appeal.
Meridian, Miss., 1863-1866 – The daily clarion.
Meridian, Miss., 1931-1942 – The Weekly echo.
Meridian, Miss., 1942-1960 – The Echo.
Monticello, (Miss.), 1820-18?? – Monticello Republican.
Monticello, Miss., 1823-18?? – The Monticello gazette.
Monticello, Miss., 1837-18?? – The Pearl River banner.
Monticello, Miss., 184?-18?? – The Southern journal.
Mound Bayou, Miss., 1933-19?? – The Southern advocate.
New Albany, Miss., 19??-19?? – The Community citizen.
Ocean Springs, Miss., 1???-1905 – The progress.
Ocean Springs, Miss., 1905-1905 – The Ocean Springs progress.
Okolona, Miss., 18??-1??? – The people’s messenger.
Okolona, Miss., 1851-1875 – The prairie news.
Okolona, Miss., 1880-1900 – The Chickasaw messenger.
Okolona, Miss., 1900-current – Okolona messenger.
Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss., 1876-current – Oxford eagle.
Oxford, Miss., 1845-18?? – The organizer.
Oxford, Miss., 1856-18?? – The Oxford signal.
Oxford, Miss., 1860-18?? – The Oxford intelligencer.
Oxford, Miss., 1865-18?? – The Oxford falcon.
Panola Panola County, Miss., 1856-1857 – The Panola star.
Panola, Mi. [i.e. Miss.], 1845-1845 – The lynx.
Panola, Mi. [i.e. Miss.], 1845-1846 – The Panola lynx.
Panola, Mi. [i.e. Miss.], 1846-1846 – The Panola Miss. lynx.
Panola, Miss., 1846-18?? – The Mississippi lynx.
Panola, Miss., 1856-1856 – The Southern star.
Panola, Miss., 1857-1881 – The weekly Panola star.
Pascagoula, Miss., 1873-1878 – The star of Pascagoula.
Pascagoula, Miss., 1878-1920 – The Pascagoula democrat-star.
Pascagoula, Miss., 1905-1920 – The Pascagoula chronicle.
Pascagoula, Miss., 1920-1941 – The chronicle-star.
Pascagoula, Miss., 1941-1941 – The Chronicle-star the Moss Point advertiser.
Pascagoula, Miss., 1941-1949 – The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser.
Pascagoula, Miss., 1961-1966 – The Chronicle.
Pascagoula; Moss Point, Miss., 1949-1961 – The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser.
Pass Christian, Miss., 18??-1??? – The coast beacon.
Paulding, Miss., 1837-1863 – The eastern clarion.
Paulding, Miss., 1845-18?? – True Democrat.
Payne Field, West Point, Miss., 1918-1919 – Payne Field zooms.
Petal, Miss., 1953-19?? – The Petal paper.
Philadelphia, Miss., 1881-current – The Neshoba Democrat.
Ponola [sic] Panola, Miss., 1843-1844 – The Weekly register.
Ponola [sic], Miss., 1843-1843 – Ponola [sic] weekly register.
Pontotoc, Miss., 1841-1842 – The Spirit of the times.
Pontotoc, Miss., 1842-18?? – Southern tribune.
Poplarville, Miss., 1890-19?? – The Free press.
Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss., 1848-18?? – The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent.
Port Gibson, Miss., 1824-1833 – The Port-Gibson correspondent, and Mississippi general advertiser.
Port Gibson, Miss., 1833-1848 – The Port-Gibson correspondent.
Port Gibson, Miss., 1842-1848 – Port-Gibson herald.
Port Gibson, Miss., 185?-1857 – The Port Gibson reveille.
Port Gibson, Miss., 1851-185? – Southern reveille.
Port Gibson, Miss., 1858-18?? – Daily southern reveille.
Port Gibson, Miss., 1865-1867 – The weekly standard.
Port Gibson, Miss., 1876-1890 – The Southern reveille.
Port Gibson, Miss., 1890-current – The Port Gibson reveille.
Ripley, Miss., 1837-18?? – The Ripley transcript.
Ripley, Miss., 1843-1897 – The Ripley advertiser.
Rodney, Miss., 1834-1838 – Southern telegraph.
Rodney, Miss., 1838-1840 – The Rodney telegraph.
Rosedale, Miss., 1887-1969 – The Bolivar County Democrat.
Sardis, Miss., 1871-1872 – The daily Panola star.
Sardis, Miss., 1882-18?? – The Panola weekly star.
Scooba, Miss., 1875-1908 – The Kemper herald.
Scranton, Miss., 1897-19?? – The Scranton chronicle.
Starkville, Miss., 1870-18?? – East Mississippi times.
Starkville, Miss., 1876-1891 – Southern live-stock journal.
Starkville, Miss., 1895-1909 – The Southern farm gazette.
Starkville, Miss., 19??-1926 – East Mississippi times.
Starkville, Miss., 1902-1960 – The Starkville news.
Starkville, Miss., 1910-1920 – The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette.
Tupelo, Miss., 1876-1924 – The Tupelo journal.
Vicksburg, Miss., 1864-1867 – The Vicksburg weekly herald.
Vicksburg, Miss., 1868-1883 – Vicksburg weekly herald.
Vicksburg, Miss., 1884-18?? – Weekly commercial herald.
Vicksburg, Miss., 1898-19?? – The golden rule.
Water Valley, Miss., 18??-18?? – The Southern eagle.
Water Valley, Miss., 1882-1918 – Water Valley progress.
Water Valley, Miss., 1894-1918 – The City itemizer.
Water Valley, Miss., 1918-1929 – The Progress-itemizer.
Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss., 1888-1929 – The North Mississippi herald.
Wiggins, Harrison County, Mississippi, 1906-1916 – The Wiggins enterprise.
Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi, 1916-current – Stone County enterprise.
Winona, Miss., 18??-1??? – New farmer.
Woodville, Miss., 1832-1832 – Southern planter.
Woodville, Miss., 1833-1844 – Woodville Republican.
Woodville, Miss., 1844-1847 – The Republican.
Woodville, Miss., 1847-1853 – The Woodville Republican.
Woodville, Miss., 185?-current – Woodville Republican.
Woodville, Miss., 1853-18?? – The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser.
Yazoo City, Miss., 18??-1855 – The Yazoo City weekly Whig.
Yazoo City, Miss., 183?-1840 – The Yazoo City Whig and political register.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1839-18?? – State rights and democratic union.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1840-1842 – The Yazoo Whig and political register.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1842-1844 – The Yazoo City Whig and political register.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1844-18?? – The Yazoo Democrat.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1855-18?? – The weekly American banner.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1858-18?? – The Yazoo Democrat.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1878-1916 – The Yazoo sentinel.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1878-1976 – Yazoo City herald.
Yazoo City, Miss., 1926-19?? – Afro-American courier.
Yazoo City, Miss., 194?-19?? – The Century voice.
Yazoo, Miss., 1844-1851 – The Yazoo City Whig.
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County and Library Collections:
Coahoma County
Carnegie Public Library
Clarksdale Blues Star
Clarksdale Challenge
Clarksdale Daily Press
Clarksdale Daily Press Register
Clarksdale Daily Register
Clarksdale Daily Register and Daily News
Clarksdale Press Register
Clarksdale Register
Clarksdale Register and Daily News
Coahoma Living
Coahomian
Compass
Daily Clarion Ledger
Daily Democrat Times
Daily Register
Delta People
Delta Register
Fort Adams Item
Friars Point Coahomian
Friars Point Delta
Friars Point Gazette
Friars Point Weekly Delta
Gainesville Advocate
Mahogany
McInnis Porter
Natchez Democrat
New Coahomian
News Register
Press Register
Profile
The Dragon
The Traveller
Women Voter
Lincoln County
Lincoln Lawrence Franklin Regional Library
Wayne County
Waynesboro Wayne County Library System (in library only)
Student Collections:
Alcorn State University – Lorman
Belhaven University – Jackson
Blue Mountain College – Blue Mountain
Delta State University- Cleveland
East Mississippi Community College – Scooba
Hinds Junior College – Raymond
Jackson State University – Jackson
Millsaps College – Jackson
Mississippi College – Clinton
Mississippi Delta Community College – Moorhead
Mississippi State University – Starkville
Mississippi University for Women – Columbus
Mississippi Valley State University – Itta Bena
Northeast Mississippi Community College – Booneville
Saint Stanislaus School – Bay St. Louis
Southwest Mississippi Community College – Summit
Tougaloo College – Tougaloo
University Southern Mississippi – Hattiesburg
University of Mississippi – Oxford
William Carey College – Hattiesburg
Miscellaneous Collections and Indexes:
Southern Miss History Digital Collection
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers 1933-1941
Independent Voices – Alternative Press
Old Fulton Postcards
Small Town Papers
Southern School News Archive
The Olden Times – Mississippi
Newspaper Abstracts – Mississippi
For Obituary Indexes, transcriptions, and other death/obituary information from historic newspapers, please check out the Obituaries page.
Other Free Sites:
Biloxi
Brandon
Choctaw
Clinton
Columbus
Corinth
Hattiesburg
Hernando
Holly Springs
Jackson
Natchez
Oxford
Paulding
Port Gibson
Vicksburg
Woodville
Yazoo City
Subscription or Pay Sites:
Ancestry.com:
There are currently 27 publications available at this site. See all the titles at Ancestry – Mississippi Newspapers
Genealogy Bank:
There are currently 316 publications available at this site. See all the titles at Genealogy Bank – Mississippi Newspapers
Newspaper Archive:
There are currently 199 publications available at this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archive – Mississippi
Newspapers.com:
There are currently 375 publications available at this site. See all the titles at Newspapers.com – Mississippi
And Finally:
You also need to check out the Mississippi Department of Archives and History site, which can tell you what is happening in the state with regard to newspaper projects.
Please note – even more may be available via a local library where a library card is required. And of course there is always microfilm for those that have not been made available online as yet.
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LOOKING FOR HUBBARD A CRAWFOOT COURT HOUSE HE BUILD IN THE MID 1852
AFTER HE MOVED FROM NEW YORK.
WHERE DID HE BUILD THE COURT HOUSE AT.
ARE THERE ANY
DOCUMENTS SHOWING HE WAS A JUDGE IN MISSISSIPPI ..HE WAS ALSO KNOWN AS SQURE…
WHY I DONT KNOW
ANY NEWS PAPER AS A PHOTO OF HIM. AND HIS WHY ANN CRAWFOOT.
LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON THE
CRAWFOOT FAMILY OF
HUBBARD A.. CRAWFOOT.
WHAT IS HIS MIDDLE NAME……
Native of Mississippi
Thanks for using the “Stennis” flag to represent Mississippi. Hope it will be official someday.
Thanks Holly. I was always uncomfortable with the current flag and a couple of my readers complained in the last month – hence the replacement with the Stennis flag.
Lookin g for info on Ila Moore Breeland & Walter Marvin Breeland & families in Daisy Vestry, Jackson County, Mississippi. Marriages, occupations, residences. THANK YOU!
Looking for info on Mary Greene or family she was b.1845, she married Linsey Jones and lived in Baker County Ga, but she was born in Mississippi
Hi Who is the expert on newspapers about late 1950s early 1960s for Houston MS and NE area. Looking for info on railroad accident in Houston MS at that time. Train loco rolled down a bank!! Can anyone help. Charles from New Zealand