Livingston County, Missouri Genealogy

United States Missouri  Livingston County

Parent County
1837--Livingston County was created 6 January 1837 from Carroll County. County seat: Chillicothe

Boundary Changes

 * See an interactive map of Livingston County border changes at N2Genealogy.

Places/Localities

 * The State Historical Society of Missouri has information on historical Missouri place names for all Missouri Counties.

Neighboring Counties

 * Caldwell
 * Carroll
 * Chariton
 * Daviess County
 * Grundy
 * Linn

Cemeteries

 * A Grave Find A Grave has 95 cmemteries listed in Livingston County. There are also several pictures of headstones.

Land

 * Land Patent (1831-1969) From the Missouri State Archives.

Local Histories

 * A Past and present of Livingston County, Missouri A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement (1913) Volume 2 is available online free from Google Books. This book contains biographical sketches of Livingston County residents.


 * A History of Livingston County, Missouri (1937) The history was published by The Livingston County Centennial Committee.


 * The Livingston County Library has a web paged titled Livingston County History. The site has County History, Communitiy Histories, Biographies, and a few Genealogy links.

Maps

 * Map of Livingston County townships (Histopolis)


 * The University of Missouri Digital Library has digital copies of Missouri county plat books (ca. 1930) for all Missouri counties including Livingston County. The city of St. Louis is not included in this collection.


 * Map of Livingston County Map (1896)

Military

 * This link is an index of Missouri Confederate Casualties. It is taken from the Offical Records of the Civil War. Missouri Confederate Casualties

Newspapers

 * The Archives of The Chillicothe Constitution Tribune (1889-2009) provides free access to their newspapers online.

Births

 * Missouri State Archives provides on-line access to Missouri Birth and Stillbirths. These are Pre-1910Missouri Pre-1901 Birth Records


 * Familysearch.org has indexed the Missouri Births and Christenings, 1827-1935.Missoouri Birth and Christenings

Deaths

 * Missouri State Archives provides on-line access to Missouri Death Certificates more than 50 yrs old starting in 1910.


 * Familysearch.org has indexed the Missouri Death and Burials, 1876-1976Missoouri Death and Burials

Census Records

 * This article was written by G. David Dilts. It deals with finding elusive ancestors in the census. He gave this presentation at the Atlanta Fami;ly History expo in 2010. Finding Elusive Ancestors


 * A good help on Analyzing U.S. Census DataAnalyzing Census data

Web Sites

 * MOGenWeb project May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
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