Monroe County site

The Monroe II site is now back at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msmonro2/. Please update your bookmarks.

Northeast Mississippi Heritage Gathering

The Northeast Mississippi Heritage Gathering will be hosted once again in Aberdeen, Mississippi. The dates for this year's events are June 6-7. You'll find a listing of workshops and those leading them as well as registration information at their site.

Monroe County Files Have Moved

If you have http://www.rootsweb.com/~msmonro2/ bookmarked as Monroe County, MSGenWeb, you may want to update your bookmarks to http://ms-library.msgenweb.org/Monroe2/. The files have been moved to this location in order to go back to having one Monroe County project within the MSGenWeb Project.

Early Mormons in Mississippi

Terry has a great post about the early Mormon Settlers in Monroe County over at Hill Country of Monroe County.

Arphax Publishes Monroe County Maps

Arphax Publishing has released Monroe County, Mississippi in its Family Maps series. All Mississippi volumes published to date can be found at the site.

Amory's Masonic Cemetery

I wanted to share a couple of interesting items related to Amory's Masonic Cemetery. First of all, there is a clean-up of the Southern section of the cemetery set for December 1 at 11 a.m. Second (and a matter of great excitement for genealogists) is the announcement of a database of burials that will be available at the Amory Municipal Library, the Amory Regional Museum, and at the Gilmore Foundation. This is Amory's oldest cemetery. The historic part of the cemetery was the original Cotton Gin Port cemetery. The Daily Journal also has an article about a recent facelift (straightening stones, etc.) that the cemetery received.

Cotton Gin Port

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal had an article on the extinct town of Cotton Gin Port in Monroe County today.

Mother Monroe Available

The Chamber of Commerce in Aberdeen just received a case of W. A. Evans' classic Monroe County history entitled Mother Monroe.

Mississippi Mormons

Terry Thornton has a discussion of the Mississippi Mormons from Monroe County, Mississippi at Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi. Today, Dear Myrtle posted a list of online resources which might be helpful to those researching this group or other Mormon groups from Mississippi.

Northeast Monroe County Plat Map

Robin Linn has produced a wonderful plat map of northeastern Monroe County [PDF].

Update 9/7: I fixed the link.