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Missouri Archives and Libraries

United States Missouri  Archives and Libraries

These archives, libraries, societies, and museums preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in Missouri.

National
National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) 1 Archives Drive St. Louis, MO 63138 Telephone: 314-801-0800 Fax:  314-801-9195 E-mail: [mailto:MPR.center@nara.gov MPR.center@nara.gov]


 * The National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It is the central repository for both the military and civil services personnel-related records. It maintains military personnel records for servicemen dischared from 1912 to 1952* (*i.e. 62 years after discharge). Records prior to WWI are in Washington, D.C.

National Archives at Kansas City 400 West Pershing Road Kansas City, MO 64108 Telephone: 816-268-8000


 * Collects federal agency and court records for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. They have all federal censuses 1790-1940 and most indexes, photos, maps, naturalization records, immigration, military records, and federal land records. Specialties include frontier and territorial history, and American Indians of the Northern Great Plains.

Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center 3440 S. Lee's Summit Road Independence, MO 64055-1923 Telephone: 816-836-5200 Fax: 816-521-7253


 * One of America's most complete genealogical centers including censuses and indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers. Surrounding states are well represented. The Mid-Continent Public Library shares its genealogical materials through interlibrary loan.

State
Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center 225 South Skinker Blvd (P.O. Box 11940) St. Louis, MO 63112-0040 Telephone: 314-746-4500 Fax: 314-746-4548


 * 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. See:
 * 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). ..

Missouri State Archives 600 West Main Street Jefferson City, MO 65102 Telephone: 314-751-3280 Fax: 573-526-7333


 * A "user-friendly" facility with original county records on microfilm from all counties, photos, census, land, military, and penitentiary records. Databases:  births/deaths pre-1910, deaths 1910-1963, soldiers 1812-1918, coroners inquests, land patents, and naturalizations. They have an online genealogy index. Copies of records can also be ordered online. See:
 * Missouri State Archives, A Guide to the County and Municipal Records on Microfilm (Jefferson City, Missouri: Missouri State Archives, [1997]). ..


 * Through the Missouri Digital Heritage Initiativebegun in 2007, the Missouri State Archives and the Missouri State Library, in partnership with the State Historical Society of Missouri, are assisting institutions across the state in digitizing their records and placing them online for easy access.

State Historical Society of Missouri 1020 Lowry Columbia, MO 65201-7298 Telephone: 573-882-7083 Fax: 573-884-4950 (located at Ellis Library, Univ. of Missouri campus)


 * Includes research centers at Cape Girardeau, Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla, St. Louis, and Springfield. Good genealogy collection with historic Missouri manuscripts and reference books, collection of 460,000 books, 500,000 manuscripts, 150,000 archival records, 2,900 maps, databases, art, census, newspapers, oral history, and photos.


 * Western Historical Manuscript Collection 23 Ellis Library Universi[ty of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65201-5149 Telephone: 573-882-6028 Fax: 573-884-0345

Note: Records kept at the state capitol were lost by fires in 1837 and 1911. Several counties in Missouri have also lost records due to fire, war, and other destruction.

Missouri State Genealogical Association P.O. Box 833 Columbia, MO 65205-0833 Telephone: 816-747-9330

Regional
Kansas City Public Library Special Collections Central Library 14 W. 10th Street, 5th Floor Kansas City, MO 64105 Phone: 816-701-3427 Fax: 816-701-3401 E-mail: [mailto:lhistory@kclibrary.org lhistory@kclibrary.org]]


 * Great genealogy collection for the Missouri Valley with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of KC area.

St. Louis County Library


 * Their collection includes holdings from the National Genealogical Society, St. Louis Genealogical Society, African American Research Collection, Jewish Genealogical Society, parish records from the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and the Archdiocese of Belleville, Illinois.

St. Louis Public Library (City)


 * The St. Louis Public Library has an on-line Obituary Index for the years 1880–1927; 1942–1945; 1992–2006. See:


 * George Gambrill, Genealogical Material and Local Histories in the St. Louis Public Library, Rev. ed. (St. Louis, Missouri: St. Louis Public Library, 1965) ..

Saint Louis Mercantile Library


 * Early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.

Springfield-Greene County Library Midtown


 * Substantial genealogy for southern Missouri.

Ozarks Genealogical Society Library


 * Substantial genealogy for southern Missouri.

Outside Missouri
Harrison County Historical Museum Old Harrison County Courthouse 117 East Bowie (P.O. Box 1987) Marshall, Texas 75671 Phone: 903-938-2680 E-mail: [mailto:info@harrisoncountymuseum.org info@harrisoncountymuseum.org]


 * A key repository for locating selected early Missouri  and Texas  settlers. This was a center for Missouri Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. It has a great collection of family folders, books, letters, diaries, journals, and surname lists.

Miami, Oklahoma also has significant association with southern Missiouri heritage and genealogy.