Useful Links

Does anyone have useful research sites for Missouri genealogy research?

I will add to the list below as suggestions are made in the discussion thread so that you don't have to read through the discussion to find all the links.

Missouri Digital Heritage (this includes:
and several other collections.)
Missouri Sanborn Maps
Jackson County, Missouri Department of Records
Springfield-Greene County Library -- Digitized Collections
St. Louis Post Dispatch Obituary Search
Microfilm resources at the St. Louis County Library along with research request guidelines
Local History/Genealogy Index - St. Louis (MO History Museum)
Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of St. Louis
History of St. Louis Neighborhoods
AccessGenealogy-Missouri
GenealogyTrails-Missouri
GenForum-Missouri
USGenWeb-Missouri (MOGenWeb)

Genealogical/Historical Societies

Missouri State Genealogical Society
State Historical Society of Missouri

Barry County
Butler County
Camden County
Central Missouri (Boone County)
Grundy County
Jackson County
Joplin (Jasper County)
Lincoln County
Mine Au Breton
Moniteau County
Monroe County
Nodaway County
Ozarks
Platte County
Ray County
St. Charles County
St. Louis
Stone County
Washington (Franklin County)
Webster County

General Resources

These resources aren't focused on Missouri, but are excellent resources for genealogy research in general

Ancestry (subscription)
Footnote (subscription)
GenealogyBank (subscription)
FindAGrave (free)
RAOGK (free)
FamilySearch (free)
Ellis Island (free)
Castle Garden (free)

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Amy Steen on September 8, 2009 at 10:21pm

Thanks for listing MoGenWeb - which is an obvious choice. Would like to add some County notes available through their links that may help someone.
Madison County has great and early resources posted online and all links are current. The mining settlements there pre-date statehood by many years and there are great court records online there.
Also the crew running the St. Francois County website are doing a great job - they apparently have a partnership of sorts with the Farmington Public Library and many of their resources at that library are online at this site.

My biggest personal reminder that has saved me on more than one occasion is that our ancestors often went to the closest courthouse/township to conduct business and affairs, and these may or may not necessarily be the one representing their county. The other time this comes in handy is as older counties were subdivided or boundaries re-defined.

Permalink Reply by JESSE SHERWOOD on October 4, 2009 at 3:17pm

Chariton County http://users.cvalley.net/museum/
Johnson County http://www.jchs64093.org/
Midwest Genealogy Center http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/genlh/mgc.htm

Permalink Reply by Celesta A Eustice on February 1, 2010 at 5:51pm

The most useful genealogy site in Missouri is Barry Co. They have a dynamic list administrator Donna Cooper and a bunch of volunteers that contribute, canvas cemeteries, etc. Last year they were voted the best in the country. I highly recommend them.

Celesta Eustice
King City,Oregon

Permalink Reply by Rosemary J. Taylor on June 6, 2010 at 8:42pm

You gave a general link to Missouri Digital Heritage, but there is another more specific link to Historical books, including Houck's Histories of Missouri, that is ouzzing with names. I think there is a search feature.

http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=431fa5e...