Welcome to Rankin 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 Nancy. (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. Founded in 1828 The county is named in honor of Christopher Rankin, a Mississippi congressman who served from 1819 to 1826. The county seat is Brandon Cities Brandon -- Flowood -- Jackson (mostly in Hinds County, small portion in Madison County) Pearl -- Richland Towns Florence -- Pelahatchie Villages Puckett Unincorporated places Fannin -- Johns -- Leesburg -- Piney Woods -- Star -- Whitfield Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Extinct Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: 12 May 2013: Added Obituary for Bibb 08 Apr 2013: Added Marriage Announcement for Jayne-Walker 08 Apr 2013: Added Marriage Announcement for Layton-Harris 08 Apr 2013: Added Marriage Announcement for Glass-Wilson 09 May 2012: Added 1890 Veteran's Census Dist 4 28 May 2010: Added Crime Stories to Newspapers 15 Nov 2009: Added Cemetery Index Jan 2009: WW2 Casualties Previous Updates: 1850 Manufacturing Census Schedule; Extinct Towns; MCBRIDE Obit, Crime and Court News; Marriage Announcements Surrounding Counties * Madison County (north) * Scott County (east) * Smith County (southeast) * Simpson County (south) * Hinds County (west) Visit our MS State Site Visit our National Site This page last updated on -- 12 May 2013 Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.