Marleen, Thanks for the infomation. Just my luck that the missing link in my Brown genealogy moves to a black hole. LOL I have been in hopes that since Albert Brown was a doctor he would have left more of a record. I do want to add that although I was disappointed in the Kemper holdings as well as some to the other county book holdings, I found the staff at the Archives to have been some of the more friendly and helpful that I have worked with. There were three of us in a group from our Autauga Genealogical Society in Alabama and we all were impressed with how friendly and helpful the staff at the Archives were. I guess either we were lucky or you visited on an off day. John On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Marleen Van Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > I visited the Mississippi Archives last year, and was also extremely > disappointed. I felt they actually resented that I dared to enter their > door. > > As to information on Kemper County, there is very little available. The > courthouse burned three time before 1915. Most of the information > available can be found on the Kemper County GenWeb site. There are > federal censuses, state censuses before 1850, tax lists and land rolls. > There are no land records, such as deed, leases or mortgages. There > are no birth, marriage or death records. There are 124 affidavits > attesting to marriages for CW widows. > > Kemper County is one of the genealogical black holes. > > Marleen Van Horne > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- John K. Brown [email protected] "Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."