The Mississippi Genealogy & History Network is new to Mississippi. In fact it is brand new and it is exclusively serving Mississippi researchers. If you have ancestors across the county line in Attala County, then you know me; my name is Everette Carr and I am a native son of Mississippi and Choctaw County. I was born on a bright, sunny Saturday morning in the front bedroom of my grandmother's house. Dr. Tabor was in attendance. My grandmother, Mamma, was Henrietta Huffman Carr, who at fifteen, married Reuben Carr, who was eighteen. Reuben and Henrietta were married in the Bear Creek Baptist Church where both father's were Elders. Rueben and Etta had four children. Reuben went into the dry goods business in McCool with his brother, Alonzo, but the business could not support two families. In 1915, Reuben Carr moved his family from Bear Creek to to Weir. My parents, Everette Carr & Josephine Rainey Kemp Carr, had two children, Bess Jo and Martha Jada before I was born. I never actually lived in Weir. My father was a salesman for a coffee company and in those days they called on their customers in their homes. We moved a lot during the first three years of my life until finally settling in Memphis, Tennessee, where I spent my childhood. I joined the U.S. Air force in 1954 and served four years being discharged as a Staff Sergeant. I attended Memphis State University on the GI Bill after service and then married the late Nancy Ellen Leith. We had two children, were married forty years until her death in January, 2001. I have lived in Allentown, PA for the last forty years, have two daughters and four grandchildren. Like most grandparents, I live for my grandchildren.

I have always been involved in genealogy, one way or another. I have been associated with the American Local History Network and MSGenWeb in the past. Currently I am the County Director for Attala, Choctaw and Clay counties and the State Director for Mississippi for The Mississippi Genealogy & History Network.

It is my intent to make the MSGHN Choctaw County genealogy site one of the best in all of Mississippi. To accomplish that goal I will need a lot of help. I need researchers in Choctaw County to send me material to post to this site. I am looking for anything old or historic. I need family histories, photographs, documents and anything of interest to the genealogy community. This would be a good time to look through your files and send me the data that you have. I will do my utmost to publish it promptly. Don't think your family is interesting enough to be Online?
I disagree! Everything that is old and familiar is welcome here. There a lots of folks out there that want to know about your family and what you have discovered about them. It doesn't matter that it is already posted somewhere else, it needs to be posted in as many places as possible. You never know where that next lead or clue to your past will come from. Send that material today to the e-mail listed below: