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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 Archives at Atlanta 5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, Georgia 30260 Telephone: 770-968-2100 Fax: 770-968-2547 Email: [mailto:atlanta.archives@nara.gov atlanta.archives@nara.gov] Internet: http://www.archives.gov/atlanta/


 * Collects federal agency and court records for North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. They have both a Microfilm Research Room and an Archival Research Room. There is an extensive microfilm collection of value for genealogy research and general historical interest. Genealogy records include censuses, military service records, pensions and bounty-land, and Gulf Coast passenger arrivals. Subject specialties include the Vice Admiralty Court of South Carolina, Civil War and Reconstruction, organized crime, World Wars, the New Deal, and space exploration. The collection holds about 70,000 cubic feet of archival holdings from 1716 to the 1980s, primarily textual records but also maps, and photographs.

Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave. SE Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ G4 Washington, D.C. 20540-4660 Telephone: Reading Room: 202-707-5537 Fax:  202-707-1957 E-mail:  Ask a Librarian Internet: http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/


 * Use this library for its outstanding genealogical guides and indexes. They are part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources. The "Local History and Genealogy Reading Room" has moved to the main reading room, but services are unchanged.

State
North Carolina State Archives 109 East Jones Street  (Mail to: 4610 Mail Service Center) Raleigh, NC 27699-4610 Telephone: 919-807-7310 Fax: 919-733-1354 E-mail: [mailto:archives@ncdcr.gov archives@ncdcr.gov] Internet: http://www.ncdcr.gov/archives/Home.aspx


 * Collection of county court records so large it has not all been cataloged. The North Carolina State Archives maintains original records of North Carolina governments on the state, district, and county levels. Includes audio visual material, government records, maps, War of 1812, Civil War, World Wars, newspapers, photos, county records, state agency records, veterans records, organization records, private collections, and defunct academic institution records.

State Library of North Carolina 109 East Jones Street  (Mail to: 4641 Mail Service Center) Raleigh, NC 27699-4641 Telephone:  919-807-7460 E-mail:  [mailto:slnc.reference@ncdcr.gov slnc.reference@ncdcr.gov] Internet: http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/index.html


 * Great collection of books, periodicals, and genealogies for North Carolina. Their collection includes genealogy databases; digital: family Bibles, marriages, deaths, newspapers, and cemetery photos; genealogy guides; county records including wills, deeds, marriages, court minutes, tax lists, and probate records.

Regional
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries


 * Wilson Special Collections Library 200 South Rd. Wilson Library Campus Box #3948 UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890 Telephone: 919-962-1172 Email:[mailto:nccref@unc.edu nccref@unc.edu] Internet: Louis R. Wilson Special Collections Library


 * The Wilson Library is home to: the famed Southern Historical Collection with strengths in plantations, slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights, communities, family, race relations, and religious communities ; the North Carolina Collection of published works on North Carolina and its people and biographical index ; the Rare Book Collection; the Southern Folklife Collection; the Manuscript Department  collection of personal papers, letters, and diaries of early North Carolina residents; and the Map Department. [[Image:UNC Davis Library.jpg|right|150px|UNC Davis Library.jpg]]


 * Davis Library 208 Raleigh Street Campus Box #3916 UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Telephone: 919-962-1151 E-mail: E-mail a Question form Internet: UNC Chapel Hill Libraries


 * Humanities, and foreign language materials, maps, government documents repository, and microforms are found here.

Duke University Perkins Library 104 Chapel Drive Durham, NC 27708 Telephone: 919-660-5800 E-mail: Ask a Librarian e-mail form Internet: Duke University Libraries


 * Largest manuscript collection in the South, including newspapers, county records, Bibles, and journals. They also have many census records originally at the National Archives.


 * Nannie M. Trilley, and Noma Lee Goodwin, Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1947). . This guide lists about 8,000 names of individuals, families, and historical subjects, and it is indexed.

Rowan Public Library 201 West Fisher Street Salisbury NC, 28144 Telephone: 704-216-8253 Fax: 704-216-8237 E-mail: [mailto:gretchen.witt@rowancountync.gov gretchen.witt@rowancountync.gov] Internet: Rowan Public Library


 * This library has manuscripts, diaries, journals, Bible records, and family folders from the crossroads of colonial North Carolina. Emphasis is on "Old Rowan County," including 150,000 abstracts in the McCubbins Colleciton, 2,000 family histories, and Civil War records.

Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room 310 North Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28202 Telephone: 704-416-0150 E-mail: Send an E-mail form Internet: Main Library: Carolina Room


 * Virtually a second state archives for the southern part of the state. Emphasis is on Germans, Highland Scots, and Scots-Irish immigrants to North Carolina. Many references to Quakers moving from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. This collection has good indexes, biographies, family folders, and genealogies.

Genealogical Society of Old Tyron County 319 Doggett Road PO Box 938 Forest City, NC 28043 Telephone: 828-247-8700 E-mail: [mailto:info@rutherfordcountync.gov info@rutherfordcountync.gov] Internet: Genealogical Society


 * Use this library for finding books, periodicals, Bible records, obituaries, biographies and indexes for pre-Civil War people from both North Carolina and South Carolina. Emphasis is on counties of Rutherford, Polk, and Cleveland, but also includes all of North and South Carolina. Immigration data, 500 family histories, 3,000 genealogy books, 60 Carolina county heritage books.

McEachern Library of Local History Dulpin County Historical Society 314 East Main Street, PO Box 130 Rose Hill, NC 28458 Telephone: 910-296-2180


 * This library has the largest collection in North America of family folders for immigrants from Scotland, including the highland Scots who came to the Cape Fear River region of North Carolina.

Olivia Raney Local History Library 4016 Carya Drive Raleigh, North Carolina 27610 Phone: 919-250-1196 Internet: Olivia Raney Local History Library


 * The collection of 18,000 items is primarily local and family history oriented including background materials on American, North Carolina and local history. Includes Internet genealogy databases.

Outside North Carolina
Chattanooga Public Library Downtown 1001 Broad Street Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402 Telephone: 423-757-5317 E-mail: [mailto:library@lib.chattanooga.gov library@lib.chattanooga.gov] Internet: Local History and Genealogy Department


 * Includes the Upper South's largest family folder collection which is heavy on North Carolina. Internet genealogy databases, census, newspapers, obituary index, county records, 30,000 books, manuscripts, and genealogical periodicals.

Knox County Public Library Calvin M. McClung Historical Collections 601 South Gay Street Knoxville, Tennessee 37901-1629 Telephone: 865-215-8801 E-mail: [mailto:www.easttnhistory.org www.easttnhistory.org] Internet: http://www.knoxlib.org/


 * The McClung Historical Collection includes an index to early North Carolina families. No index in North Carolina can top this one. Internet genealogy databases, more than 75,000 books, 3,000 genealogies, 15,000 First Families of Tennessee, manuscripts, censuses, state and local government records, newspapers, Knoxville city directories, maps, and photos. The same building also houses the Knox County Archives, and the East Tennessee Historical Society and Museum.

Bristol Public Library 701 Goode Street Bristol, Virginia 24201-4199 Telephone: 540-645-8780 Fax: 276-669-5593 E-mail: [mailto:bplref@yahoo.com bplref@yahoo.com] Internet: http://www.bristol-library.org/


 * They have a relatively small family folder collection. Nevertheless, it is an important resource for settlers coming from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and northern Virginia along the Great Valley Road into Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina.

Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown 224 Church Street Santa Cruz, California 95060 Telephone: 831-427-7707 ext. 5794 E-mail: E-mail reference service form Internet: http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/


 * Holds the Genealogial Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the Tina Brayton Collection which is equivalent to the Draper Collection but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia  families.

Guides

 * Ellen Garrison, Archives in Appalachia: A Directory  (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). . . For Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, arranged alphabetically, each entry shows the archive, address, phone, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, subjects, and size of the collection. Indexed by record type, and by subject.

Guides and inventories for collections at archives and libraries can be found in the Family History Library Catalog by using a Place Search  under:




 * MISSOURI, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES

Jefferson City and Columbia
Missouri State Archives 600 West Main Street Jefferson City, MO 65102 Telephone: 314-751-3280 Fax: 573-526-7333 Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday. Saturday hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Microfilm and published materials are available in the research room; records from the Archives' stacks should be requested in advance for use on Thursday evenings, Saturdays or holidays

The holdings of the Missouri State Archives date from 1770 and include: executive, legislative, and judicial records; records of state departments and agencies; land records; military records; state publications; photographic collections; county and municipal records on microfilm; and manuscript and reference collections.

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.

A list of county records on microfilm is available at the following link.

A helpful guide to the collection is A Guide to the Missouri State Archives (Jefferson City, Missouri: Missouri Secretary of State, 198-; not at Family History Library). (Worldcat)

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

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)


 * Western Historical Manuscript Collection 23 Ellis Library University 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.

Kansas City and Independence
Kansas City Public Library Special Collections Heart of America Genealogical Society 311 East 12th Street Kansas City, MO 64106-2454 Telephone: 816-221-2685 Fax: 816-421-7484

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 The Mid-Continent Public Library shares its genealogical materials through interlibrary loan. To learn more about the history, record keeping, and available records of Missouri counties, use the 15 inventories of the county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. The Family History Library has copies of most of these inventories.

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

St. Louis
Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center 225 South Skinker Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63112-0040 Telephone: 314-746-4500 Fax: 314-746-4548


 * Mailing Address: Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center P.O. Box 11940 St. Louis, MO 63112-0040.

The library has an online genealogy index that can be searched before visiting. Copies of records can also be ordered online.

A helpful guide to the society's collection is 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;(Worldcat) and ).

National Personnel Records Center (NPRC)

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 from WWI to the present. Records prior to WWI are in Washington, D.C.

St. Louis County Library

Their collection includes holdings from the St. Louis Genealogical Society, the National Genealogical Society and 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.

For further information regarding the St. Louis Library, see George Gambrill, Genealogical Material and Local Histories in the St. Louis Public Library, Rev. ed. (St. Louis, Missouri: St. Louis Public Library, 1965; (Worldcat); ; items 7-8, 1965/66 catalog and 1971 supplement).