Look at the website www.familysearch.org Look down the right hand side to find a link to a long list of LDS family history centers. Try to find one in your county or an adjoining county. These FHCs are dedicated to genealogy. Then call them up the FHC and ask when it is open, and what holidays is it observing (like Thanksgiving, etc.) Is it open on Saturday? If so, what are the hours? Then, when you have time, go in to the FHC and get acquainted with their holdings. Many LDS centers have microfiche which may be of interest to you. Some also have computers, and some have access to Ancestry.com, including the 1930 census and so on. Each FHC is different as the members of the LDS church support it and let us non-members use their facilities. Anyway, most of the time you can borrow films from the Family History Library at Salt Lake City for a limited time for a small fee, but you have to have time to read the films. Then, you want to go back to that same website and study the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC), particularly the holdings for Wilkinson Co., MS. Filmed records of Wilkinson Co. is where I have found most of the material for my families who were in Wilkinson Co. ca 1815 or so. The films for the later years probably are better indexed also. Also, with your public librarian, you want to ask about the possibility of interlibrary loan. Not all genealogical libraries lend their books, but you want to surf the net for the holding of the St. Louis County [not City] Missouri library which currently has the books of the National Genealogical Society. One does not need to be a member of NGS to borrow these books. You may find some books in Missouri (St. Louis Co.) that pertain to Wilkinson Co., such as those by O. Weise [I may have misspelled this] of theWoodville newspapers. Although the newspapers may not have been abstracted for the late dates in which you are interested. Get well acquainted with the LDS website. There are lessons, a research outline for Mississippi (and all the other US states plus for many European countries as well as some Latin American and Asian countries). Click on every link on that LDS website. You will be amazed. And, hopefully, someday after you have gotten acquainted with all the internet holds (some badly mistaken), you will be able to travel to a good genealogical library. Your State Library may even hold some genealogical books. ASK lots of questions of every librarian. Good luck in your searches. When you post a query, besides including the name, also include a date (even if it is a guess) and a PLACE. So many people neglect to do that. E.W.Wallace