Freelance Researchers

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History maintains the following list as a service to patrons. To have your name added, email MDAH. The department does not recommend specific researchers or assume responsibility for their work. All inquiries regarding services and fees should be directed to the researcher.

Edward C. Esau
edesau@yahoo.com
601-255-4992

Thomas J. Fehn
tjfehn31@gmail.com
601-209-3664
601-260-6168

Cai Hamilton
cai.hamilton@earthlink.net
818-516-7078
Specializing in title searches, and analyses of deed records and court cases.

Stanley Hastings
stanleyhastings1@hotmail.com
228-224-1940
Specializing in Claiborne County/Port Gibson history; genealogy of Samuel Gibson and descendants; genealogy of Granbery, Wharton, and Hastings families.

Jan Hillegas
newmsian@hotmail.com
601-352-3398
Specializing in Mississippi African American family history, Mississippi civil rights documentation

Chris Nordmann
canordmann@sbcglobal.net
314-963-9579
Specializing in St. Louis-area research and free black families, Mobile County, Alabama

Steve Sansom
yorktown1781@att.net
601-957-0764
Specializing in Mississippi and Tennessee research

Terry Thompson
tterry@worldnet.att.net
901-240-8177
Specializing in genealogy, courthouse, and photography research

William Ashley Vaughan
wavaughan70476@earthlink.net
601-366-2907
Specializing in Mississippi genealogical, historical, and legal research

Floyd W. Weatherbee, Jr.
fweatherbee@knology.net
334-272-4226
Specializing in military history and genealogical research

George R. & Patricia J. Weeks
geopatwks@bellsouth.net
601-591-4958
Specializing in Mississippi Research, National & State Society Applications (DAR, First Families, etc.)