Welcome To Attala County Mississippi  Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy My name is Lisa Goss-Owens and I am your host for Attala County.  My family roots in Attala go back 5 generations. There is so much history in our county and it is my goal to help ensure that as much of that historical data is made available to everyone. Please send any contributions to Lisa Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic web page and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Mississippi is covered under our "Southern States" mailing list. Attala County was established on the 23rd of December, 1833, and was one of the sixteen counties carved from the Choctaw cession of 1830. The name is derived from the heroine (Atala) of an Indian romance written by Chateaubriand and chosen by the county's first state senator, Gordon D. Boyd   In Attala County, in the 1800's, farming was the primary occupation of many residents; the crops that resulted, timber, cotton, and corn, required harvesting that involved machinery. And the occupation of some of these early Attala County residents was "gin operator." Attala County is located in the geographic center of Mississippi and is located along the scenic Natchez Trace Parkway. Kosciusko is the county seat of Attala County.   Attala County Cities & Towns Sallis   *   Ethel   *   McCool  *   Kosciusko Online Data   Church Records   Marriages Extinct Towns Letters   Scenes from Attala   Biographies Military County Records News Articles   Obituaries   Births Family Bibles   Cemeteries   Website Updates:   Addresses & Off-Site Links Attala Chancery Clerk, Mr. Gerry Taylor, 230 West Washington Street, Kosciusko, MS, 39390 Attala County Circuit Clerk, Mrs. Wanda Fancher, 118 West Washington Street, Kosciusko, MS, 39390 Attala Historical Society, P O Box 127, Kosciusko, MS, 39390 Attala County Public Library, 201 South Huntington Street, Kosciusko, MS, 39390       Neighboring Counties Choctaw   Leake Montgomery Winston Carroll   Madison Holmes     Visit our Genealogy Trails National Site All data on this website is © Copyright 2008 by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.