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United States Missouri  Jackson  Archives and Libraries  Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:lhistory@kclibrary.org lhistory@kclibrary.org]

Address:


 * Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections Central Library 14 W. 10th Street, 5th Floor Kansas City, MO 64105

Telephone: 816-701-3427 Fax:  816-701-3401

Hours and holidays: Monday-Friday 9-5; Saturday 10-5; Holiday closures Sunday 1-5 ONLY when Missouri Valley Sundays are scheduled.

Maps and public transportation:
 * Google map: Kansas City Public Library Central Branch
 * Public transportation: 

Internet sites and databases:


 * Local history and genealogy hours, join, quick links, and this week in Kansas City history.
 * Special collections collection description and inventories.
 * Kansas City Public Library Catalog Search online. Search by title, author, subject, series, keyword in subject heading, or call number. Also available in WorldCat.
 * Digital Gallery images from the arts, architecture, culture, society, Kansas City, maps, and people.
 * Local History Index of 36,000 articles, newsletters, news clippings, and books about the Missouri Valley and Kansas City area.
 * Kansas City Regional Histories Index a master index to about 50 histories.

Collection Description
The Missouri Valley Room has a great genealogy collection for Missouri and Kansas with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of the Kansas City area.

They also hold papers, postcards, newspaper clippings, city directories, maps, school yearbooks, and ephemera from local individuals and organizations to document the history and development of the Kansas City area including some material from the Kansas City School District. They provide information on vital records research, adoption search resources, how-to-do obituary searching, African Americans, American Indians, the American Civil War, explorers, Mormons, and the Overland Trail.

Librarians began collecting genealogical materials almost from the beginning of the Library, but in 1933, a donation of the vast personal genealogical library of lumber baron John Barber White greatly enhanced the collection. Resources continued to be added. Of note are the many now out-of-print nineteenth-century histories of counties in the Midwest, specific family histories, and many genealogical periodicals beginning in the late 1800s.

Alternate Repositories
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If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * Alternate Repository {create link for each, and give line or two describing collection}
 * such as: NARA I
 * NARA II
 * National Archives at _____
 * State Archives
 * State Library
 * State Library

Similar Collections


 * National Personnel Records Center
 * LC
 * FHL
 * LC
 * FHL

Neighboring Collections


 * County Vital Records Office
 * City Vital Records Office
 * County Archives
 * County Orphan's Court
 * County Probate Court
 * County Recorder
 * County Coroner
 * U.S. District Court
 * County and local historical societies
 * County and local genealogical societies
 * Public Libraries
 * Museums and heritage societies
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: [Chattam], [Durham], and [Franklin]
 * State Vital Records Office
 * State Historical Society
 * State Genealogical Society
 * University Libraries
 * Church archives
 * Repositories in surrounding states (or provinces): [SC], [TN], and [VA]
 * Repositories in surrounding states (or provinces): [SC], [TN], and [VA]