Missouri History Museum Library

United States Missouri  St. Louis City  Archives and Libraries  

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Contact Information
Library E-mail: [mailto:library@mohistory.org library@mohistory.org] Archives E-mail:  [mailto:archives@mohistory.org archives@mohistory.org]

Address:


 * Street address: 225 South Skinker Blvd Mailing address: P.O. Box 11940 St. Louis, MO 63112-0040

Telephone: Library 314-746-4500;  Archives 314-746-4510 Fax:  314-746-4548

Hours and holidays: Tuesday-Friday 12 - 5 ;  Saturday 10 - 5. Missouri holidays

Directions, map, parking, and public transportation:


 * Driving directions:  From Lambert Airport, From Downtown, and From I-44
 * Google map:  Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center
 * Parking and Public transportation:  Parking/Public Transportation

Internet sites and databases:


 * Library and Research Center your visit, search the collections, collections, and family history.
 * Musuem Home plan a visit, events, exhibits, education, research, and publications.
 * Museum's Library Catalog online. Search by keyword, author, title, subject, call number or other searches. Also available in WorldCat.
 * Genealogy and Local History Index online search by name, business, street address, or source.

Collection Description
They have an excellent collection about early Missouri settlers and immigrants through Illinois, 90,000 books, periodicals, St. Louis newspapers, fire insurance maps, city directories, St. Louis people, western fur trade, and Missouri history. The library has an online genealogy index. Copies of records can also be ordered online.

Tips

 * Reading room procedures

Guides

 * Beverly D. Bishop, and Janice L. Fox, A List of Manuscript Collections in the Archives of the Missouri Historical Society (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1982). ..
 * Archives Collection Guides and Other Finding Aids

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


 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, a great American genealogy collection: censuses, MO federal land sales, penitentiary, St. Louis fur trade, Civil War, passenger lists, plantations, American Indians, city directories, newspapers, Draper Manuscripts, and KY taxes.
 * National Archives at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; selected military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, adoptions, vital records, land, and Indian records.

Similar Collections


 * St. Louis County Library, a Missouri collection including the National Genealogical Society, and St. Louis Genealogical Society collections, online databases, federal censuses, births, deaths, cemeteries, church records, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, wills, African American records, yearbooks, and access to LDS microfilms.

Neighboring Collections


 * St. Louis Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar, birth and deaths since 1825; marriages since 1766.
 * St. Louis City Medical Examiner, suspicious deaths.
 * St. Louis City Courthouse, local civil, criminal, and probate records since 1766.
 * U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court records.
 * St. Louis Public Library has an Obituary Index for the years 1880–1927; 1942–1945; 1992–2006, family histories, passenger lists, Heritage Quest, and Gateway Family Historian publication.
 * National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St. Louis, federal government employee 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.
 * Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.
 * Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, Department of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
 * Episcopal Diocese of Missouri Archives, St. Louis, a library, extensive document and photograph collections, and parish registers.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: in Missouri: Franklin, Jefferson, St. Charles, St. Louis County, in Illinois: Madison, and St. Clair.
 * Missouri Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Jefferson City, birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates.
 * Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, has court, land, military, death records, federal censuses, county and municipal records, photos, penitentiary, and manuscript records. Birth and death record index since 1883 is online; birth records 1883-1895; marriages 1827-1937.
 * Missouri State Genealogical Association has donated their books the the Midwest Genealogy Center.
 * Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections, 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.
 * State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.
 * Community of Christ Library and Archives, Independence, books, periodicals, letters, and diaries of the of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ.
 * Missouri United Methodist Archives, Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers.
 * Repositories in surrounding states: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
 * Allen County Public Library, Ft. Wayne IN, has a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, Canadians.
 * Dallas Public Central Library, outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Missouri, Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.
 * 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.