Muscogiana Surname Index

Muscogiana: Journal of the Muscogee Genealogical Society

How to Access the Muscogiana Digitized Archive

As of March 2015, through a project in conjunction with the CSU Archives and Archive.org, the Muscogee Genealogical Society began offering full text access to all but the latest two years of its journal, Muscogiana. Later that same year, the CSU ePress at Columbus State University began mounting digitized images at its web site as well. Note: All but the last two years of journals are available online.

There are a number of options for accessing information on your ancestor or topic in back issues of Muscogiana.

  1. Do a Google search for your name/subject along with the word “Muscogiana.” Look for the hits on the results list that will take you to the CSU ePress and click on one of those to open up a document. This will pull up a scanned version of the issue. When you pull up the issue it will be in the form of a PDF. Hit CTRL and the F key to pull up a search box and type in the name/subject you are looking for. The computer will take you through the issue, highlighting the occurrences of the word you have typed.
  2. Do a Google search for your name/subject along with the word “Muscogiana.” Look for the hits on the results list that will take you to Archive.org and click on one of those to open up a document. This will pull up a text version of the issue. When you pull up the issue it will be in the form of a PDF. Hit CTRL and the F key to pull up a search box and type in the name/subject you are looking for. The computer will take you through the issue, highlighting the occurrences of the word you have typed. NOTE: With Archive.org, there is an option on the first screen that allows you to open up other formats (i.e., PDFs, etc.).
  3. Go to the Muscogee Genealogical Society’s web page at click on “Muscogiana Surname Index (below).” Then scroll down to the letter of the alphabet for you ancestor’s surname initial. Click on the letter and scroll down the list to find your ancestor’s name. Once you have it, go to the CSU ePress site and find the issue and turn to the cited page.

Surname Index:

Surname Index: