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Guide to Miller County, Missouri ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

County Courthouse
Miller County Courthouse PO Box 12; Tuscumbia, MO 65082; Phone: 573.369.2731 Miller County Website County Clerk has birth records 1883-1891; County Recorder has marriage and divorce records; Probate Judge has probate records; Clerk of the Circuit Court has court records.

Populated Places
The following are locations in Miller County, Missouri:

For more about Miller County populated places, see the following:
 * Townships:
 * Communities:
 * Resources

Biographies

 * All of the family biographies from the History of Miller County, Missouri (1889) by Goodspeed Publishing Company are available free online at My Genealogy Hound.

Cemeteries

 * Cemeteries (Genealogy Trails)
 * Cemeteries of Miller County (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Missouri Cemeteries Missouri Access Genealogy
 * Miller County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1 at Ancestry.com ($)

Census Records
General


 * Census (scroll down in page; GenWeb)
 * Census Records (USGenWeb Archives)

1840
 * 1840 Census (GenWeb)
 * McKinley, Robert L. 1840 Census of Miller County, Missouri with Annotations. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1997. WorldCat

1850
 * 1850 Census (GenWeb): Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Index
 * Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather. Miller County, Missouri 1850 Federal Census. Chillicothe, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat
 * Strange, Gaylord. 1850 &amp; 1860 Census, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, 1986?. WorldCat

1860
 * Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather. 1860 Census for Miller County, Missouri. Chillicothe, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat
 * Strange, Gaylord. 1850 &amp; 1860 Census, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, 1986?. WorldCat

1870
 * Strange, Gaylord, 1870 Census, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, 198-?. WorldCat

1880
 * Strange, Gaylord. 1880 Census, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, 1986?. WorldCat

1900
 * 1900 Census (USGenWeb Archives)

1920


 * 1920 Census (USGenWeb Archives)

Church Records

 * Miller County Baptist Association
 * Minutes of the . . . Annual Session of the Miller County Association of Baptist Churches, 1891-1957. Aurora Springs, MO: Cresset Job Print. WorldCat

Court Records

 * Miller County Clerk's Office
 * 1800 - 1991 at FamilySearch — index and images

Genealogies
General
 * Family Histories (at Library of the Miller County Historical Society)
 * Hake, Peggy Smith. Pioneer Families of Miller County, Missouri: A Journey to the Past. St. Elizabeth, MO: Self-published, 2000. WorldCat | Index

Specific families
 * Gott family: Gott, Jeannette Whitten. The Gott Family of Miller County, Missouri, 1650-1992. Lakewood, CO: Self-published, 2007. WorldCat | Google Books (no preview)
 * Humphrey family: The Humphrey Family of Miller County, Missouri
 * Livingston family: The Livingston Family of Miller County (GenWeb)
 * Teaverbaugh family: The Missouri Ancestry of Robert Reed ("The Brady Bunch") (GenealogyMagazine.com)
 * West family: John Laffoon West and Family (Genealogy &amp; History Notes)

Land and Property Records

 * Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office (land patent searches; searching for Miller County, Missouri without entering a name yields 208 pages of hits)
 * Miller County Recorder's Office

Local Histories

 * Hake, Peggy Smith. They Left a Legacy: Historical Stories of Miller County, Missouri. St. Elizabeth, MO: Self-published, 1991. WorldCat
 * History of Miller County (Welcome to Miller County website)
 * Jenkins, Clyde Lee. Judge Jenkins' History of Miller County, Missouri. Tuscumbia, MO, 1971. WorldCat
 * Jenkins, Clyde Lee, and Clayton Edwin Jenkins. Judge Jenkins' History of Miller County, Missouri. Tuscumbia, MO?: Clayton Edwin Jenkins, 1995. WorldCat
 * Miller County History and Vittles. Tuscumbia, MO: Miller County Historical Society, 1991. WorldCat
 * Osage River Country: A History of the People and Places of Miller County, Missouri. Tuscumbia, MO: Miller County Historical Society, 1995. WorldCat
 * Schultz, Gerard. A History of Miller County, Missouri. Jefferson City, MO: Midland Printing Co., 1933. WorldCat
 * Warman-Starlings, Kelly, and Kirk D. Warman. The Ghost Towns of Central Missouri: Cole, Miller &amp; Moniteau Counties. Jefferson City, MO: Ketch's Printing, 1994?. WorldCat
 * History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries and Osage counties, Missouri : from the earliest time to the present, including a department devoted to the preservation of sundry personal, business, professional and private records, besides a valuable fund of notes, original observations, etc., etc. Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1889.
 * Online at FamilySearch (Free)

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Maps of Missouri (1804-1889)
 * Boyd, Gregory A. Family Maps of Miller County, Missouri. Norman, OK: Arphax Publishing Co., 2006. Publisher | WorldCat. Available online at HistoryGeo.com ($). Free surname search.
 * Libre Map Project (detailed online topographic maps of Miller County)
 * Miller County Highway Map (pdf; MO Department of Transportation)
 * Miller County, Missouri (maps of townships, communities, etc.; Histopolis)
 * Miller County, Missouri 1857 (House Divided)
 * Miller County, Missouri 1895 (1895 U.S. Atlas)
 * Miller County, Missouri Zip Code Boundary Map
 * Miller County Townships (simple outline map; scroll down in page)
 * Plat Book of Miller County, Missouri. Rockford, IL: W.W. Hixson &amp; Co., date uncertain, abt late 1920s-early 1930s. University of Missouri Digital Library (digital copy) | WorldCat
 * Standard Atlas of Miller County. Chicago: Alden Publishing Co., 1905.

Military Records

 * 1900 - 1941 at FamilySearch — images
 * Military Records (USGenWeb Archives)

Civil War
Online Records
 * 1861 - 1865  at FamilySearch — index
 * 1861 - 1865  at FamilySearch — index
 * at FamilySearch — images
 * Miller County, Missouri Civil War Veterans (GenWeb)
 * Osage Reg. Home Guards, Co. K Roster (GenWeb)

Regiments

Service men in Miller County, Missouri served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Miller County, Missouri:
 * - 12th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry (Union), Company K
 * - 26th Regiment, Missouri Infantry (Union), Company D
 * - 42nd Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company C
 * - 47th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company I
 * - 47th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company K

World War II

 * Miller County, Missouri World War II Casualties, Army and Air Force (Access Genealogy)
 * 1941 - 1946 at FamilySearch — index and images

Naturalization and Citizenship

 * 1800 - 1991 at FamilySearch — index

Newspapers

 * Chronicling America list of historic Miller County newspapers (Chronicling America at the Library of Congress)
 * Miller County, Missouri Newspapers on Microfilm at the State Historical Society (State Historical Society, Columbia, MO)
 * Miller County Obituaries (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Miller County, Missouri Obituaries (NewspaperObituaries.net)
 * Miscellaneous Miller County Obituaries (Obit Central)
 * Newspaperarchive.com ($) has historical newspapers available on-line. Their database has Jefferson City newspapers from the early 1900's that covered local news on residents from Miller County communities.
 * Obituary Records (USGenWeb Archives)

Other Records
Miscellaneous
 * Hake, Peggy Smith. Book of Marks and Brands, Miller County, Missouri, 1837-1856. St. Elizabeth, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat | Internet Archive (digital copy)

Probate Records

 * Miller County Probate Records (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Probate Guardianship (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Will Book Transcriptions Prior to 1870 (GenWeb)

'''Online Probate Records
 * 1750 - 1988 at FamilySearch — images
 * 1766 - 1988 Missouri Wills and Probate Records 1766-1988 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Birth

 * 1827 - 1935  at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1851 - 1910 Missouri Birth Records, 1851-1910 at Ancestry.com — index/images $
 * Missouri Birth &amp; Death Records Database, Pre-1910 (very incomplete, but searching for Miller County without entering a name yields 2,258 birth records) (Missouri State Archives)
 * 1883 - 1891 Miller County Birth Index 1883-1891. Batches  and  at FamilySearch - free.

Marriage

 * 1750 - 1920 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1800 - 1991 at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1805 - 2002 Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 at Ancestry.com $
 * 1837 - 1882 Miller County Marriage Books A and B Index 1837-1882. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1850 Missouri Marriages to 1850 at Ancestry.com — index $
 * 1881 - 1885 Miller County Marriage Book C Index 1881-1885. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * Barnhouse, August F., and Carl G. Kelsay. Marriages, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: A.F. Barnhouse, 1984?. WorldCat
 * Hickok, Thelma Scott. Index to Marriages of Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Barnhouse and Kelsay, 1973-1974. WorldCat
 * Marriage Transcriptions (GenWeb)
 * Marriages of Miller and Maries Counties (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Strange, Gaylord. Marriages, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat

Death

 * 1834 - 1910 Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910 at Ancestry.com — index/images $
 * 1867 - 1976  at FamilySearch.org — index
 * Missouri Birth &amp; Death Records Database, Pre-1910 (very incomplete, but searching for Miller County without entering a name yields 646 death records) (Missouri State Archives)
 * 1910 - 1960 Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1960 (online digital scans; searching for Miller County without entering a name yields 6,437 records) (Missouri State Archives)
 * See also Newspapers &gt; Obituaries (above)

Libraries
List of Missouri Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies Heartland Regional Library System (Miller and Maries Counties) Resources

Societies
Miller County Museum and Miller County Historical Society P.O. Box 57 Highway 52 West Tuscumbia, MO 65082

Websites
Sites with online indexes or images of records Miller County:
 * Missouri Digital Heritage. Free. digital images of many types of records from institutions across the State
 * MOGenWeb. Free. Data may be submitted by individuals or complete transcriptions
 * USGenWeb Archives. Free. Data may be submitted by individuals or may be complete transcriptions
 * genealogytrails.com. Free. Data may be submitted by individuals or may be complete transcriptions
 * Free. identifies records and resources related to Miller County, MO and their locations
 * . Free. - The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records

Sites that search for links pertaining to Miller County:
 * RootsWeb resources. Free. Data may be submitted by individuals or may be complete transcriptions
 * Linkpendium. Free. Click links. Some sites they link to may have fees ($)
 * CyndisList. Free. Click links. Some sites they link to may have fees ($)
 * StateofUS. Free. family history resources and government records
 * epodunk.com. Free. family history resources and government records
 * Missouri Genealogy. Free. Click links. Some sites they link to may have fees ($)