This reply is to M. Willis and other seeking Baptist Church info for Mississippi and not just Attala County. The Mississippi Baptist Historical Center located on the second floor of the Leland Speed Library in Clinton, Mississippi. That serves Mississippi College, a Baptist institution. The Historical Center is a preserver, not a generator, of records pertaining to Baptist work in Mississippi and contains records of State and County Associations for Mississippi. It also contains records of the Mississippi Baptist newspaper under it's various name through the years. It has other records of MS Baptist work, too. These records have no membership list of individual churches, but there are many names of Mississippi Baptist scattered thought out these records. Some Church donated their past years minutes to the Historical Commission. The Commission through the years has many of those old minutes on microfilm. It's a hit and miss situation to look to the Historical Commission to find info on a particular church. The best place (and first) place to start is with the churches themselves. Some churches, not exclusive to Baptist churches, since their beginning have kept excellent church minutes that includes list of member and their coming and leaving. Other churches have generated and kept little or nothing in the way of prior records. In my case Good Hope Baptist Church, the church of my g-grandfather, located in the northeastern part of Madison County, Mississippi kept good records and has kept minute records since its founding in 1851. In 1951 three of those Minute Books were given to the Historical Commission for save keeping. Years ago I bought a copy of the microfilm of those minute books. In those three Minute Books contain info on the lives on many of my ancestors. Then the church of my grandfather in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Linn Baptist Church, has kept or generated no records of its prior years of existence. Records of my ancestors attending this church are none due to poor attention to keeping records. Some people just don't understand the need of keeping records-legally or historically. Prosperity suffers from such thinking. Poor record keeping is not just a problem in the past. Today I belong to a Baptist Church that has kept no records of its past and has few for today. This church doesn't know who its prior members were. Record keeping is immaterial, or low priority, to many churches. The Mississippi Baptist Historical can't produce records that were never generated in the first place as I said earlier it only preserves records passed on to it. Too, the Commission doesn't keep membership list of Baptist churches in MS. One will only find such membership list in individual churches themselves or possibly in any records donated to the Commission for safe keeping. Yes, too as mention perviously the Commission is only staffed by one individual and can offer only limited help. So as suggested phoning in advance is best for anyone traveling a great distance. Then allow yourself plenty of time. Research in a hurry only generates frustration. The Commission is the Archive of Baptist work in MS, so visit if you can you could strike a gold mine, then you could strike out. Others on this List may have other thoughts on the subject of locating Baptist Church membership list, not necessarily just Baptist churches. Curtis McDaniel