SLCL: Research Guidelines and Procedures

Research Guidelines and Procedures – Special Collections

What Can be Requested | Where to Send Copy Requests

Searches are restricted to paper sources with the exception of microfilmed obituary and indexed microfilm records listed on this page. You must allow us to complete your current request before submitting your next request. The St. Louis Genealogical Society will search additional sources, including microfilm. See their Web site.

Copies of either NEWSPAPER OBITUARIES or microfilmed records indexed in the following sources:

Carondelet News (City of St. Louis and St. Louis Co., Mo.)
Immanuel Lutheran Church Records
Daily Missouri Democrat Newspaper (St. Louis, Missouri: 1860) 255k PDF
La Revue Newspaper 303k PDF
Le Patriote Newspaper, 249k PDF
Missouri U.S. Colored Troops 1863-1865
Register of Births, St. Louis Co., Mo. 1883-1895
Stillbirths, St. Louis, Mo. 1883-1908 164k PDF
St. Louis County Watchman-Advocate
St. Louis Enlistees Extracted from Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army (1855), 288k PDF
St. Louis, Mo., Naturalization Index
St. Paul's Lutheran Church Records (Des Peres, St. Louis Co., Mo)
Westliche Post Obituary Index (St. Louis, Mo., German-language newspaper)

Directions:

Limit of 3 searches per mailing.
You must allow us to complete your current request before submitting your next request.
Provide name and all information from the index listing such as name of deceased and exact date of death for an obituary search.
For obituaries, we will search 3 issues of the St. Louis Post Dispatch (Jan 1874 to date) or St. Louis Globe Democrat (5 April 1853 - 29 October 1986).
Copies are 25¢ a page plus $1.00 for mailing.
Invoice is included with the copies.
International researchers are billed the exact cost of mailing.

Copies of articles in the following books indexed on this Web site:

The Diamond Jubilee Anniversary History of the Fratellanza Society (1941)
Emigrant Volumes By Dr. Heinz Marxkors: Series A and B
History of the Archdiocese of St. Louis
Southwest Saint Louis 184k PDF
Fifty Years on the Mississippi 207k PDF

Directions:

Limit of 3 searches per mailing.
You must allow us to complete your current request before submitting your next request.
Provide full name and page number(s) as listed in the index.
Photocopies are 10¢ for an 8x11 page, 20¢ for an 11x17 page, plus $1.00 for mailing.
Prepay or invoice will be included with copies.
International researchers are billed the exact cost of mailing.

Copies from Quarterlies

Directions:

Limit of 1 request per mailing.
Photocopies are 10¢ for an 8x11 page, 20¢ for an 11x17 page, plus mailing costs.
Limit of 30 pages copied from one source.
An entire quarterly or book cannot be copied.
No more than one article can be copied from a single issue.
City directories cannot be copied due to their fragile condition.
This service is also available through Interlibrary Loan. Contact your local library.

Copies for Which Pre-payment is Necessary

Slave Compensation Claims (Index for selected regiments online)
Southern Claims Commission (Consult Southern Claims Commission guide.)
- Approved claims for Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, and West Virginia

Barred and Disallowed that have not been appealed

Directions:

Send index information and request a price quote.
If copies are desired after receiving price quote, send payment for quoted amount and copies will be sent.

Staff will make photocopies of printed material only if source is indexed or an exact citation is submitted. Designate a specific source. Examples of acceptable requests follow:

Check the book Genealogical Abstracts Of Revolutionary War Pension Files abstracted by Virgil D. White. Photocopy a listing for John Cessna.
Please photocopy the article entitled "Index to the Marriage Records of the First Congregational Church in New Orleans" Louisiana Genealogical Register, vol. 21, October 1982.
Look in the index of County of Christian, Kentucky by William Henry Perrin. Please copy any reference in the index to the surname DeWitt.
Does St. Louis County Library have this particular book? (Provide the exact title.)
What is the address of the National Genealogical Society?
Does St. Louis County Library have this family history in your collection? (Provide the exact title.)

Examples of unacceptable questions because they are not specific follow:

Find a cemetery listing for John Hinch.
Do any books on St. Louis mention Zoe Aubuchon?
When did John Durant die?

Send Copy Requests to:

E-mail (preferred method of contact)

scollections@slcl.org

Be sure to include mailing address in request.

U.S. Postal Service

     Special Collections
     St. Louis County Library
     1640 S. Lindbergh
     St. Louis, MO 63131-3598

Be sure to include mailing address in request.

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code), governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One specified condition is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request or later uses a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. In addition, copyright law limits photocopies of journal material to one article per issue and book length material to one section or chapter or a limit of 30 pages. Journal articles less than five years old are also more restricted than older material. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order, if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would violate the copyright law.