Welcome to Monroe County MS History and Genealogy Presented by Mississippi Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy Your state host is Gene Phillips Please send any data submissions to me. I will upload them as soon as possible. This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Mississippi is covered under our "Southern" States mailing list. If you can't be a County Host, you can still be a great deal of help. We need volunteers who will find interesting Monroe County documents to transcribe and email to us. We are looking for the "raw data" information such as Biographies, Deaths, Births, Marriages and Obituaries. There will be the native Indian history of the area that will be of interest to a lot of people, as well as the Pioneer Families of the county Founded in 1821, the county is named in honor of President James Monroe. The county seat is Aberdeen Major Cities Aberdeen -- Amory Towns Hatley -- Nettleton (partly in Lee County) -- Smithville Villages Gattman Ghost towns Camargo -- Cotton Gin Port Also, many unincorporated places Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Extinct Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Slavery Data Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: Jan 2009: Narrative of Ex-Slave Pet Franks, Dora Franks and Wayne Holliday, WW2 Casualties Previous Updates: First Baptist Church Marriages; Extinct Towns, Newspaper data; Cemeteries; Vinton Cemetery Burials Surrounding Counties * Lowndes County (south) * Clay County (southwest) * Chickasaw County (west) * Lee County (northwest) * Itawamba County (north) * Lamar County, Alabama (east) Visit our MS State Site Visit our National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.