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My name is Sue Wright, the person responsible for Walthall County, Mississippi of the USGenWeb Project. Basically, my job is to maintain the page and to post queries and surname register entries. Please contact me with your suggestions for the page's contents, additional Pike County links, or to report broken links.

Interest in the USGenWeb project and Walthall County has been tremendous and I have been contacted by a number of people who are just beginning their family research and are also interested in research advice. I hope that the expanded Other Genealogical Sources section, which includes resources for Beginners and Skill-Building, will provide guidance in these areas.

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Walthall County History - from Mississippi the Heart of the South by Dunbar Rowland, LL. D. (MSGenWeb page)

Walthall County Bibliography of Published Sources

Walthall County Research Facilities

Pike County and Walthall County Bible Records Project

GNIS Query Form - Locate Walthall County cemeteries, churches, civil divisions, etc.

Walthall County Court House (MSGenWeb page)

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World War I Draft Registration Cards - Transcribed by Ray Banks (MSGenWeb Archives)

Walthall County, located in southwest Mississippi, was created from the eastern portion of Pike County and western portion of Marion County in 1910. Tylertown is the county seat with the towns of Lexie, Mesa and Darbun located within its borders.¹

Among today's Walthall County residents are many descendants of the pioneer Pike County and Marion County families. Those researching Walthall County families will need to focus their pre-1910 research in either Pike County or Marion County.

(Source: 1. Ancestry's Red Book, American, County & Town Sources, edited by Alice Eicholz, Ph.D., C.G., Ancestry, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1992.)
 

Walthall County was formed in 1910 from Pike and Marion counties. Due to this fact and also because of changing county boundaries and migration patterns, it is often necessary to search the records of neighboring counties in pursuit of information on a family. The links below will take you to the MSGenWeb and LAGenWeb pages of the counties and parishes which border Walthall County.