Janice Branch Tracy

Janice Branch Tracy attended the University of Mississippi and retired from a 30-year career with the U.S. Government, working in several states. After retiring in Dallas, the author transitioned her family history research hobby into a blog entitled "Mississippi Memories," which Family Tree Magazine named one of its Top Forty Blogs in 2011 and in 2013. In 2014, and again in 2015, Tracy wrote two books, The Juke Joint King of the Mississippi Hills: The Raucous Reign of Tillman Branch, and...See more

Janice Branch Tracy attended the University of Mississippi and retired from a 30-year career with the U.S. Government, working in several states. After retiring in Dallas, the author transitioned her family history research hobby into a blog entitled "Mississippi Memories," which Family Tree Magazine named one of its Top Forty Blogs in 2011 and in 2013. In 2014, and again in 2015, Tracy wrote two books, The Juke Joint King of the Mississippi Hills: The Raucous Reign of Tillman Branch, and Mississippi Moonshine Politics: How Bootleggers and the Law Kept a Dry State Soaked, each published by The History Press and Arcadia Publishing. Tracy is the mother of five children and stepmother to two daughters and lives with her husband in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, gardening, genealogy research, and occasional travel. See less