This month’s US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project focus on WikiTree is the state of Mississippi, specifically Alcorn, Lafayette, and Marshall counties. I suggested Lafayette and Marshall (as a member of the USBH Mississippi team) because I’ve previously focused on them (mostly Lafayette because a lot of my more recent paternal ancestors were from there), but I decided to work on Marshall exclusively this month because only 1% of the black people in the 1880 census for Marshall County were recorded on the tracking spreadsheets as of September 1st (out of 18,587 people total).… Read more “Marshall County, Mississippi Research and Discoveries”