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Headquarters Branch • 1640 So. Lindbergh Blvd. • St. Louis, MO 63131

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Genealogical Links

Ethnic & Immigration

African American Research in Missouri (www.missouri-slave-data.org)
- Missouri Slave Data (www.missouri-slave-data.org/slaveinfo.html)
AfriGeneas (afrigeneas.com/)
- Slave Data (afrigeneas.com/slavedata/)
- Dee Parmer Woodtor's Interactive Guide for Beginners (www.afrigeneas.com/guide/)
Dred Scott Decision 150th Anniversary (www.thedredscottfoundation.org/)
Freedman's Bureau Online (www.freedmensbureau.com/)
Castle Garden (castlegarden.org/)
Site covers arrivals through the port of New York for the years 1820-1892 and Ellis Island (www.ellisisland.org/) opened in 1892. This database contains information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892.
Christine's Genealogy Website (ccharity.com/) Award-winning site for African-American Research
Ellis Island (www.ellisislandrecords.org/)
Passenger list records cover the years of 1892-1924. Also available is the one-step search tools (www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/) site for searching this Ellis Island database. Note: New York arrivals prior to 1892 are covered by the Castle Garden (castlegarden.org/) database.

German Genealogy (www.genealogienetz.de/genealogy.html)
Italian Genealogy Home Page (www.italgen.com/)
JewishGen Jewish Genealogy (www.jewishgen.org/)
Missouri U.S. Colored Troops (www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/ct.htm)
Native American Resource Center (www.accessgenealogy.com/native/finalrolls/)
The Scottish Genealogy Society (www.scotsgenealogy.com/)
Slovak & Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy Research Pages (www.iarelative.com/slovakia.htm)
GENUKI (http://www.genuki.org.uk/)
Site for United Kingdom and Irish Genealogy - covers England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

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Genealogical & Historical Societies

National Genealogical Society (www.ngsgenealogy.org)
The NGS Book Loan Collection is housed here in Special Collections.
St. Louis (MO) Genealogical Society (www.stlgs.org/)
Lists Society's upcoming educational opportunities, meetings, library collection

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Libraries & Research Facilities

Allen County Public Library (www.acpl.lib.in.us)
Located in Fort Wayne, IN, this library has the second largest genealogical collection in the U.S.
Archives (www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/what_do_we_have/other_state_archives/)
This site provides links to state and other archives across the United States!
Illinois State Archives (www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/archives.html)
- Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 (www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/marriage.html)
- Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916–1950) www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/idphdeathindex.html)
Illinois State Historical Library (www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/)
Latter-day Saints Family Search (www.familysearch.org)
- Family History Library Catalog™ (www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp)
- Index to the 1880 U.S. census and the 1881 British & Canadian census (www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp)
Library & Archives of Canada: Canadian Genealogy Centre (www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/index-e.html)
Library of Congress: (www.loc.gov/)
- Catalog (catalog.loc.gov/)
- American Memory: (memory.loc.gov/ammem/) US History & Culture
- U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates (memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html)
  - Statutes at Large (memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsl.html)
  - American State Papers (memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsp.html)
  - U.S. Serial Set (memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss.html)
Library of Virginia (www.lva.lib.va.us/)
- Digital Collections (www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/)
- Guide to Virginia County Court Records on Microfilm (www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/local_rec/)
- Information about how to borrow their films through interlibrary loan (www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/ill/)
Mercantile Library (www.umsl.edu/mercantile/)
located in the Thomas Jefferson Library on the campus of the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
- Guide to St. Louis Newspapers (www.umsl.edu/mercantile/mguides/newspaper_guide.rtf)
- St. Louis Globe Democrat (www.umsl.edu/mercantile/special_collections/directory/slma-112.html)
Mid-Continent Public Library (www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/ge/)
Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center (www.mohistory.org/content/LibraryAndResearch/researchlibrary.aspx)
Missouri State Archives (www.sos.mo.gov/)
- Missouri State Archives Death Certificate Database (www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/) Contains over two million individual death certificates from 1910-1957.
- Roll-by-roll listing of microfilm by county (www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/county/croll.asp)
- St. Louis Probate Court Digitization Project: 1802 -1900 (www.sos.mo.gov/archives/stlprobate/)
  The probate packets for 1802-1885, available through this project, are also available on microfilms in Special Collections.
National Archives (Genealogy Page) (www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html)
- Also take a look at their site on immigration. (www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/)
New York Public Library (www.nypl.org/)
Newberry Library (www.newberry.org/)
- Railroad Archives (www.newberry.org/collections/Railroad.html)
  Includes the records of the Pullman Company which employed Pullman Porters
St. Louis Public Library (www.slpl.org)
- St. Louis Argus Obituary Index (previous.slpl.org/libsrc/argusobit.htm)
  Covers 1915-1927 and 1942-1945
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index (previous.slpl.org/libsrc/obit.htm)
  Covers years 1880-1927, 1942-1945, and 1992-2006
State Historical Society of Missouri (shs.umsystem.edu/)
- Missouri Newspapers on Microfilm at the State Historical Society of Missouri (shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/newspapercatalog/)
Washington University Library (library.wustl.edu/)
This site also provides access to MERLIN, which is the joint library catalog of four University of Missouri campuses and St. Louis University.
Western Historical Manuscript Collection (www.umsl.edu/~whmc/)
WorldCat for Genealogy (www.oclc.org/worldcat/genealogy/)
WorldCat is an online catalog of resources worldwide. Site includes a tutorial (in PDF format) on how to search for genealogy resources in WorldCat—a FirstSearch subscription database available, via remote access, to St. Louis County Library card holders residing in the metropolitan service area and to patrons at any St. Louis County Library branch facility..

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Maps & Atlases

1895 U.S. Atlas (www.livgenmi.com/1895/)
Maps (maps.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=mmfn)
Expedia.com shows location of towns worldwide. For places elsewhere than North America or Europe, be sure to choose "World (topographic maps)" under the heading "Search for a place".
Historical Maps of the United States (www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/histus.html)
Illinois County Boundaries: 1790 to present (www.rootsweb.com/~ilcumber/ilctybnd/)
U.S. Topo maps (www.topozone.com/findplace.asp)

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Master Sites

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/)
Includes name index for Civil War soldiers and sailors, histories of Union and Confederate regiments, battles of the war, and other historical information.nt>

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet (www.CyndisList.com/)
More than 190,150 genealogical links, 187,550 of which are categorized & cross-referenced, in over 150 categories.

Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu/)
Check this site for "texts, images and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture."

NUCMUC (www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html)
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Railroad Retirement Board (www.rrb.gov/)

Rand Genealogy Club (www.rand.org/personal/Genea/)

Rootsweb (www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/)

U.S. Genweb site (www.usgenweb.com/)

Vital Records Information: U.S. (www.vitalrec.com/)

Online searchable death indexes & records (www.deathindexes.com/)
Includes listing for St. Louis, Kansas City, & the state of Missouri (www.deathindexes.com/missouri/)

World GenWeb site (www.worldgenweb.org/)

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Miscellaneous Sites

International Telephone Directories on the Web (www.infobel.com/teldir/)
Switchboard (www.switchboard.com/)
Great site for finding living people.
Who/Where Internet Directory (www.whowhere.com/)

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Utility Sites & Databases

Bureau of Land Management - Eastern States, General Land Office (www.glorecords.blm.gov/)
Provides access to database of land patents for Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
- U.S. map showing principal meridians and base lines (www.blm.gov/cadastral/meridians/meridians.htm)for the 30 public domain states
Calendar Conversions (www.calendarhome.com/converter/)
Converts dates between the Gregorian, Julian, French republican and Jewish calendars.
GNIS Database (geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/)
Provides information about geographic place names in the United States that is commonly found in a printed gazetteer.
Social Security Death Index (ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi)
Soundex Conversion Program The Soundex system converts surnames of the same and similar sounds but of variant spellings to consistent codes. Enter the surname you want coded into the search field to find the Soundex equivalent used in the indexes.

Modified: 31 July 2008