LibGuides: Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission: What's online?

The Baptist Record

We have digitized The Baptist Record from 1877-2018. You can find them all on Internet Archive:

The current issues of The Baptist Record are now published solely online. You can find them at:

We do our best to provide indexes for the materials that we do have. Below are listings of our current indexes.

Holdings by County
These are the materials we have here, organized by county.
Holdings by Church Name
These are the materials we have, organized by church name.

Mississippi Secretary of State
You can find your articles of incorporation paperwork on the MS Secretary of State's website. Just enter your church name in the Business Name search box.

Mississippi Baptist Convention Board
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives
The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives is a worldwide center for the study of Baptist history. Governed by the Council of Seminary Presidents, the SBHLA is one of the major denominational collections in the nation and serves, by assignment of the Southern Baptist Convention, as the central depository and archives of SBC records.
Baptist History and Heritage Society
An independent organization dedicated to "helping Baptists discover, conserve, access, and share their history." The organization offer researchers the opportunity to publish materials concerned with Baptist history, including local church and association histories, through the Baptist History Book Publishing Program.

Documenting Church Life Through Oral History
The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives has great information on how to do an oral history project at your church.

These are some of the first resources we check when looking up a person or church.

A Complete History of Mississippi Baptists From the Earliest Times: Vol 1
By: Zachary Taylor Leavell, Thomas Jefferson Bailey
Copyright 1904, Mississippi Baptist Publishing Company
A Complete History of Mississippi Baptists From the Earliest Times: Vol. 2
By: Zachary Taylor Leavell, Thomas Jefferson Bailey
Copyright 1904, Mississippi Baptist Publishing Company
Mississippi Baptist Preachers
By: Lovelace Savidge Foster
Copyright 1895
National Baptist Publishing Company, St. Louis, MO
Five Years in South Mississippi
By: T.S. Powell
Copyright 1889, Standard Publishing Company
Abstract History of the Mississippi Baptist Association for One Hundred Years
By: T.C. Shilling
Copyright 1906, J.G. Hauser, New Orleans, La.
The History of Negro Baptists in Mississippi
By: Patrick H. Thompson
Copyright 1898, R.W. Bailey Printing Company

Mississippi Baptist Churches
Here is a searchable directory of all active Mississippi Southern Baptist Churches.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
At Mississippi's state archives, researchers will find a bright, open library with three search rooms and a staff of professional historians and librarians ready to assist with questions about the political, military, religious, social, economic, and cultural history of the state.
Lauderdale County Department of Archives & History

Vital Records Information, United States
Information about where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States.
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives
One of the major denominational collections in the nation, SBHLA serves as the central depository and archives of SBC records. Researchers of local Southern Baptist church history who have identified individuals of broader denominational significance or exhausted local or state resources should utilize the resources of the SBHLA.
Alabama Baptist Historical Commission
Samford University
Louisiana Baptist Archives
East Tennessee Baptist Historical Collection
Carson Newman College
More Baptist Resource Links
Comprehensive list of links to other Baptist historical collections and sites. Complied by the SBHLA.