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Records Management
Harrison County was the first county in Mississippi to join the Local
Government Records program in 1996 and adopt the $1 records management
fee added to all recording fees. The Board of Supervisors appointed the
Chancery Clerk as official custodian of the County's records. Since the
records management program began, Chancery Clerk employees have spent
many hours sorting, identifying and organizing older records that have
been stored in various County facilities, while creating procedures for
storage of newer records. Retention schedules adopted by the Local Government
Records Committee
(see www.mdah.state.ms.us/recman/schedulemain.html)
allow the County to dispose of a number of older records no longer necessary
for the function of County government, while the records management fee
provides funding for restoration and preservation of permanent records.
In 2001-02 volunteers from the Genealogical Society of Utah microfilmed
many of the older Chancery Court, land, voter registration and marriage
records.
Harrison County contracts with a commercial off-site storage facility
for storing many of our older records, saving valuable office space that
would otherwise be needed for these records. The County's efforts at records
management earned it Mississippi Historical Society's 2001 James T. Dawson
Award for an outstanding records management program.
Contact Information
- Mailing Address - First Judicial District Attn: Records Management
John McAdams, Chancery Clerk
P.O. Drawer CC Gulfport, Ms 39502-0860
- Physical Address - First Judicial District Attn: Records Management
John McAdams, Chancery Clerk
1801 23rd Ave Gulfport, Ms 39501
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