Online indexes to the sources listed below were produced by the staff and volunteers of St. Louis County Library's Special Collections Department. 

• Carondelet News (City of St. Louis and St. Louis Co., Mo.) 
   
• Civil War Slave Compensation Claims
   
• Deaths in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, Mo. 
  (The Missouri Democrat was published as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat after 1872.)
   
• Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers  for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865 (NARA Microfilm Publication M1894) 
  Source includes key documents for 5,000+ African Americans who enlisted in the U.S. Colored Troops at a Missouri recruiting station. Search by either name of recruit or name of former slave owner.
   
• Fifty Years on the Mississippi 405k PDF (lists many Riverboat Captains)
   

• Fratellanza Society – Diamond Jubilee Anniversary History of the Fratellanza Society (1941) – St. Louis, Mo. (Italian fraternal and benevolent society)
   
• Histories of Religious Congregations in St. Louis 
   
• History of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis
   
• Home Place: A Celebration of Life in Bridgeton, Missouri  151k PDF
   

• Immanuel Lutheran Church Records (St. Louis, Mo.) 
  • Baptisms (1848-1909)
  • Marriages (1848-1920)
   

• Index to Emigrant volumes by Dr. Heinz Marxkors
   
• Individuals in Institutions in the Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Schedules from the 1880 Federal Census for St. Louis, Missouri
   
• Le Patriote Newspaper  235k PDF  (French language newspaper published in St. Louis)
  Index to St. Louis News Columns: 1878, 1884, and 1886-1887
   
• La Revue de l’Ouest 284k PDF (The Review of the West) Index to St. Louis News Columns
   
• "List of Colored Persons" in Wesleyan Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 1847–1868  694k PDF
  (This copyrighted index is made available through the courtesy of the compiler, Gloria Dettleff.)
   
• Newspapers
  • Carondelet News (City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, Mo.)
  • Le Patriote Newspaper  235k PDF  (French language newspaper published in St. Louis)
    Index to St. Louis News Columns: 1878, 1884, and 1886-1887
  • La Revue de l’Ouest 284k PDF (The Review of the West) Index to St. Louis News Columns
  • St. Louis County Watchman-Advocate Newspaper (St. Louis County, Mo.)
  • St. Louis Globe-Democrat deaths (St. Louis, Mo.)
    (The Missouri Democrat was published as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat after 1872.)
  • Westliche Post Obituary Index (St. Louis, Mo., German-language newspaper) 
     
• St. Louis City Wills, Volumes M–X, (1877–1894) 748k PDF 
   
• St. Louis County Court Records Volume 1, 1824–1835 (in progress) 495k PDF
   
• St. Louis County Vital Records
  • Register of Births, St. Louis County, Missouri 1883-1895
  • Stillbirths, St. Louis County, Missouri 1883-1908  244k PDF
     
• St. Louis County Watchman-Advocate Newspaper (St. Louis County, Mo.)
   

• St. Louis Enlistees 289k PDF
  Extracted from Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914 (Regular Army) - 1855
   

• St. Louis, Mo., Naturalization Index  66,000+ Names 
   
• St. Louis World War Fighters, 126k, PDF
  (Series of newspaper articles in the St. Louis Star about men in World War I)
   
• St. Paul's Lutheran Church Records  (Des Peres, St. Louis Co., Mo.)
  • Baptisms, 1849-1909
  • Deaths 1851-1891
     
• Southwest Saint Louis 344k PDF
   
• Westliche Post Obituary Index (St. Louis, Mo., German-language newspaper)