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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.

Map and public transportation:


 * Google map: Kansas City Public Library Central Branch
 * Public transportation:  The 10th and Main Transit Center is across the street from the Central Library. KCATA or Metro bus routes 24, 27, 28, 30, 47, 54, 71, 101, 102, 106, 108, 129, 173, 660, 661, and four other routes stop at the 10th and Main Transit Center.

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

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; selected military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, and naturalizations. Free computers for Ancestry, Heritage Quest, or Fold3.

Similar Collections


 * St. Louis County Library, a Missouri collection including the National Genealogical Society, and St. Louis Genealogical Society collections, online databases, federal censuses, African American records, and access to LDS microfilms.

Neighboring Collections


 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center parent library system of the Midwest Genealogy Center, Jackson County, Missouri.
 * MCPL branches - 30 branches in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties, Missouri.
 * Missouri Historical Society has regional history sources, St. Louis, Missouri, the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, the Louisiana Purchase, American West: indexes, guides, catalogs, photos, genealogy workshops.
 * Jackson County Health Department, Independence, Jackson County birth certificates since 1920.
 * State Historical Society of Missouri census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, manuscripts.
 * Missouri State Archives, Springfield, has court, land, military, death records, federal censuses, county and municipal records, photos, penitetiary, and manuscript records. Birth and death record index since 1883 is online.
 * Missouri State Genealogical Association has donated their books the the Midwest Genealogy Center.
 * Jackson County Historical Society title abstracts, diaries, letters, 2000 books, business ledgers, census, city directories, court, election, tax, vital records, plat maps, newspapers, periodicals, photos, subject indexes.
 * United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, federal court records.
 * Jackson County Courthouse, 16th Circuit Court local civil, criminal, and probate records.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: [Chattam], [Durham], and [Franklin]
 * Missouri Dept. of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Jefferson City, birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates.
 * St. Louis Public Library obituaries, passenger lists, family histories, and HeritageQuest online.
 * NARA National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, government and military personnel records starting 1917.
 * St. Louis Mercantile Library Early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.
 * Repositories in surrounding states: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
 * Allen County Public Library (Indiana) has a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, Canadians.
 * Newberry Library a large Chicago repository with genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and British Isles.
 * Dallas Public Central Library Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Missouri, Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.

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]