• Arkansas
  • Death Record Index 1914-1949 (fiche)
• California
  • Death Index 1905-1939
  • Fetal Deaths 1905-1939
• Missouri - St. Louis City and County 
  • Record of Births, St. Louis City 1850-Oct 1910 (Users guide 266k PDF )
  • Index to Record of Births, St. Louis City 1910-Dec 1929 (Users guide 266k PDF )
  • Register of Stillbirths, St. Louis City, Jan 1902-Dec 1908
  • Register of Deaths, St. Louis City, Feb 1850-Jan 1909
  • Register of Juvenile Deaths, St. Louis City, May 1907-Sept 1908
  • Register of Deaths Outside the City of St. Louis, Dec 1878-Oct 1895; Mar 1905-Dec 1908
  • Register of Births, St. Louis County 1883-1895  Index
  • Register of Stillbirths, St. Louis County 1883-1908  Index 244k PDF
  • Permanent Record of Births, St. Louis County 1895-1910 
  • Register of Deaths, St. Louis County 8 Nov 1883 - 11 Apr 1910 
  • Index to Deaths, St. Louis County 1910-1936 
• Kentucky
  • Kentucky Births, 1911-1995 (fiche)
• Louisiana
  • Orleans Birth Indices 1790-1899 
  • Orleans Death Indices 1804-1949 
  • Louisiana State Death Indices 1900-1949 
• Mississippi
  • Death Certificate Index 1912-1943 

Burial Certificates 1882-1908, St. Louis City (Consult the online guide for this set to determine the roll of film for a specific date and certificate number.)
 
Cemetery Records (Extensive listings are available on a separate page.)

Census Records

FEDERAL

• All federal population schedules and Miracode/Soundex for Arkansas, 1830-1880, and 1900-1930; slave schedules 1850-1860; agricultural schedules, 1850-1880; defective, dependent and delinquent schedules, 1880; mortality schedules, 1850–1880; social statistics, 1850–1870
• All federal population schedules and Soundex for Illinois, 1820-1880, and 1900-1930; agricultural schedules 1850-1880; mortality schedules 1850-1880
• All federal population schedules and Miracode/ Soundex for Louisiana, 1810-1880, and 1900-1930; agricultural schedules, 1850-1880; defective, dependent and delinquent schedules, 1880; mortality schedules 1850-1880 and indexes; slave schedules 1850-1860 
• All federal population schedules and Soundex for Mississippi, 1820-1880, and 1900-1930 ; agricultural schedules, 1850-1880; mortality schedules 1850-1880; slave schedules 1850-1860 
• All federal census schedules and Soundex for Missouri, 1830-1880, and 1900-1930; agricultural schedules, 1850-1880; defective, dependent and delinquent schedules, 1880; industrial and manufacturing schedules, 1850-1880; mortality schedules 1850-1880

STATE

Illinois State Census

• Illinois State Census for the following years and counties:
  

Year	Counties
1810 & 1818	[Note: These years are available in book form - Illinois Census Returns 1810 and 1818 by Margaret Cross Norton, R929.3/N886I.]
1825	Edwards, Fulton
1830	Morgan (This is the only county whose returns survive for 1830.)
1835	Fayette, Fulton, Jasper, Morgan
1840	Adams, Alexander, Bond, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Champaign, Clark, Coles, DeKalb, DeWitt, Edgar, Calhoun, Clay, Effingham, Franklin, Fulton, Hardin, Jo Daviess, LaSalle, Whiteside, Clinton, Cook, Jasper, Stark, Green, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jefferson, Jersey, Johnson, Lawrence, Lee, Monroe, Scott, Shelby, St. Clair, Tazewell, Wabash, Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Will, Winnebago
1845	Cass, Putnam, Tazewell
1855	Adams
1865	Adams, Alexander, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, DeWitt, Douglas, DuPage, Ford, Edgar, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Massac, McDonough, McHenry, McLean, Menard, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Pike, Platt, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saint Clair, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Washington, Wayne, White, Will, Woodford


Missouri State Census
• 1840 Missouri State Census for the counties of:

New Madrid	Newton	Pike
Randolph	Ray	Rives (Henry)
Shelby	Stoddard	Warren
Statistical census information is also available for 14 other counties, but no names are listed.

• 1844 Missouri state census for:
• Callaway
• Greene
• 1850 Missouri state census for Audrain Co.
• 1856 Missouri state census for Audrain Co.
• 1868 Missouri state census for Cape Girardeau
• 1873 Missouri state census for Cole - Jefferson City only
• 1876 Missouri state census for the counties of:

Atchison	Benton	Butler
Callaway	Cape Girardeau	Carroll (Eugene Twp)
Cass	Christian	Daviess
Franklin	Gasconade	Greene
Holt	Howard	Madison
McDonald	Moniteau	Montgomery
Osage	Perry	Phelps
Reynolds	Ripley	Saint Francois
Stone	Texas	Webster
Worth


CITY
• Carondelet City census microfilm for 1857, 1858, and 1869
• St. Louis City census microfilms for 1847, 1850-51, 1853, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1860, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866
  (Note: For further information about the St. Louis City census films, see "Rare Census Records" by M. B. Darrish, pages 14-16, in Genealogy Day: Sources for Family and Social History R929.1/G326)

Churches

• There is at least some information on microfilm for each of the following churches:
  • Bellevue Presbyterian, Caledonia, Mo. (StLGS Film #112)
  • Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran, St. Louis, Mo. (StLGS Film #133-134)
  • Big Barren Baptist Church, Ripley Co., Mo. (StLGS Film #7)
  • Fee Fee Baptist, St. Louis Co., Mo. (StLGS Film #228)
  • German Methodist Episcopal Churches, Circuit of Bem, Bland, Koenig & Leduc, Mo. (StLGS Film #135)
  • Grand Avenue Presbyterian, St. Louis, Mo. (StLGS Film #73)
  • Holy Cross Lutheran, St. Clair Co., Ill. (StLGS Film #5, 14)
  • Holy Cross Lutheran, St. Louis, Mo. (StLGS Film #125, 126)
  • Horse Creek Church, Randolph Co., Ill. (StLGS Film #7)
  • Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran, St. Louis, Mo. (StLGS Film # 328)
  • Kirkwood Methodist, Kirkwood, Mo. (StLGS Film #111)
  • Leslie United Methodist Church, Leslie, Mo. (StLGS Film #320)
  • Lewis Memorial Methodist Church, Crescent, Mo. (StLGS Film #112)
  • Pinedale Missionary Baptist Church, Reynolds Co., Mo. (StLGS Film #5)
  • St. George’s Episcopal, St. Louis, Mo. (StLGS Film #112)
  • St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Westphalia, Mo. (StLGS Film #72)
  • Second Baptist Church of St. Louis (StLGS Film #144-145)
  • Trinity Lutheran, Millstadt, Ill. (StLGS Film #5)
  • Trinity Lutheran, St. Louis, Mo. (StLGS Film #99, 100, 120)
  • United Baptist Church of Christ, Freedom, Morgan Co., Mo. (StLGS Film #85)
  • Zoar Methodist Church of Woollam, Mo.( StLGS Film #135)
• Belleville Catholic Diocesan Records (170 Rolls)
  The link above is for the website of the St. Clair County (Illinois) Genealogical Society that provides the roll-by-roll finding aid for these films here in Special Collections.
• Catholic Parish Jubilee Histories
• Evangelical & United Church of Christ
• Lutheran Church Records
• Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas  (www.archives.nd.edu/)
  (Web site from the Notre Dame archives includes background information, a name list, and searchable calendar for this film set.)
• St. Louis Archdiocesan Parish Records (242 reels)
  These records, dating from 1766-1993, include Catholic baptisms (baptismal records since about 1920 are usually closed), marriages, first communions, confirmations, and burials. 
  
  

  The St. Louis Archdiocese includes the following counties/independent cities of Missouri:
  St. Louis City (Independent City)	St. Louis County	Franklin County
  Jefferson County	Lincoln County	Perry County
  St. Charles County	St. Francois County	Ste. Genevieve County
  Warren  County	Washington County

  
  Records vary from parish to parish within the Archdiocese.
  The finding aid that covers this microfilm set is entitled Guide to St. Louis Catholic Archdiocesan Parish Records (R977.86/H893G). A copy of the Guide is available in Special Collections, or your own copy can be purchased.
• WPA Inventories of Church Archives [South Carolina] (fiche)

City and County Directories (years vary - check full listings)

STATE	CITIES
Illinois	Chicago
Louisiana	New Orleans
Mississippi	Biloxi	Clarksdale	Columbus
	Gulfport	Hattiesburg	Jackson
	Meridian	Vicksburg
Missouri	Kansas City	St. Louis (city)	St. Louis (county)

Coroner's Records, City of St. Louis: 1846 - March 1900  (A searchable index for this resource is now available online from the Mo. State Archives)

County Information

• WPA Source Material for Mississippi History (for counties of Adams, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Holmes, Humphrey’s, & Panola)  

Funeral Home Records

• Bauman Colonial Chapel, mixed dates, Jun 1900-Feb 1934
• Bopp Funeral Home, 1906-1920
• Croghen Chapel, 1922-1927
• Cullen & Kelly Funeral Home, 1877-1900, 1934-1945
• Donnelly Funeral Home, 1934-1958, 1960-1969, 1977, 1980
• Edith Armbruster & William Armbruster, 1927-1934
• Edward Howard Funeral Home, Nov 1903-1954, Apr 1956-May 1961, Sep 1973-Aug 1975, 1931-1935 Death Certificates
• Fendler Funeral Home 1914-1921
• Gebken Benz (Gravois), 1901-Apr 1920
• Gebken Benz (Meramec) 1910-Jan 1917
• Hoffmeister Index, 1898-1906
• Hoffmeister Undertaking & Livery Co., 1884-1897
• Len DeMoor-Tom Murray Monument Co. Obits, mixed dates 1954-1990
• Parker-Aldrich Funeral Home, 1919-Jan 1948
• Peetz Funeral Home, 1905-1914, 1920-1949
• Robert Armbruster Funeral Home, mixed dates 1934-1958
• Schumactler-Smith Funeral Home (Manchester), 1911-1916
• Schumactler-Smith Funeral Home (Meramec), Jul 1905-Dec 1910, Dec 1916-Apr 1923
• Smith & Croghen, 1916-1920
• Southern Funeral Home, 1921-1935, Jul 1962-Jul 1965
• Weick Undertaking Funeral Records, 1911-1952
• William Armbruster Funeral Home, 1909-Jul 1947
• Wm. J. Robert Livery & Undertaking Co., 1893-1954

Immigration & Passenger Arrivals

• Atlantic and Gulf Ports
  • Supplemental Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports (Excluding New York) 1820-74 - M334
• Baltimore
  • Index (Soundex) to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, Maryland, 1897-July 1952 - T520
• Boston
  • Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 1, 1902-June 30, 1906 - T521
  • Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, July 1, 1906-Dec 31, 1920 - T617
• Canadian Border Entries - Known as "St. Albans List"
  • Alphabetical Index to Canadian Border Entries Through Small Ports in Vermont, 1895-1924 - M1462
  • Soundex Index to Canadian Border Entries through St. Albans, Vermont, District, 1895-1924 - M1461
  • Soundex Index to Entries into the St. Albans, Vermont, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1924-1952 - M1463
  • Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific & Atlantic Ports 1895-1954 - M1464
• New Orleans
  • Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, before 1900 (1853-1899) - T527
  • Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, 1900-1952 - T618
  • New Orleans Passenger Lists from Manifests of the Customs Service, 1813-1866 - V116
  • Quarterly Abstracts of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, 1820-1875 - M272
  • Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, 1820-1902 - M259
  • Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, 1910-1945 - T905 
    (Special Collections has rolls 1-138 of this set covering the period  Jan 1903 - Jan 1931)
• Registers of Vessels Arriving at the Port of New York from Foreign Ports, 1789-1919  - M1066  
  (Note: This set lists the names and dates of SHIPS arriving, not the names of the people who were passengers on those ships.)

Land Records

• Missouri, St. Louis County, General Index to Deeds, 1766-1834
• Missouri, Louisiana Purchase, Land Commissioners Minutes, Book 1-C5 thru Book6-C5
• Missouri, St. Louis County, Direct and Indirect Index to Deeds, 1804-1885
• Missouri, St. Louis County, Collet's Index to Deeds - Grantor & Grantee, 1804-1854
• Missouri, St. Louis County, Deeds, 1804-1832
• Missouri, St. Louis County, Deeds, Direct & Inverted Indexes, 1887-1930 
• Missouri, St. Louis County, Deed Books #1-1128 
• War of 1812 Military Bounty Land Warrants 1815-1858 

Marriage Records

• Arkansas Marriage Index 1933-1939
• Louisiana, Orleans Marriage Indices, 1831-1949
• Marriage Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land 1861-1869 - M1875  sample images
• Mississippi (Soundex) Index to Marriages prior to 1926
• St. Louis City, 1806-1965, male and female marriage index
• St. Louis City, 1808-1966 marriage records
• St. Louis County, Marriage License Index 1877-1980
• St. Louis County, Marriage Records 1881-1980

• General Military
  • Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925–1941 – M1916 
  • Discharge Certificates and Miscellaneous Records Relating to the Discharge of Soldiers from the Regular Army, 1792-1815 – M1856
• Revolutionary War
  • George Rogers Clark Papers: The Illinois Regiment  
    (13 reels of film - indexed on web at http://my.execpc.com/~sril/clark)
• Old War Index to Pension Files, 1815-1926 - T316
• War of 1812
  • War of 1812 - Missouri Soldiers
  • War of 1812 Military Bounty Land Warrants 1815-1858 - M848
• Mexican War
  • Index to Mexican War Pension Files 1887-1926 - T317
• Civil War
  • Card Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans - M1845
  • Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate and Union Soldiers for Missouri - M390 (Union) and M380 (Confederate)
  • Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With U.S. Colored Troops - M589
  • Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the U.S. Colored Troops (Civil War): 
  (Index to Civil War Slave Compensation Claims - taken from service records of USCT soldiers from border states)
  • Artillery
    • Artillery Organizations - M1818 
  • Cavalry
    • 1st through 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry - M1817
  • Infantry
    • 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored) - M1898
    • 55th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored) - M1801
    • 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Colored) Company A, 1st U.S. Colored Infantry (1 Year) - M1819
    • 2nd–7th U.S. Colored Infantry, including the 3rd Tennessee Volunteers (African Descent), 6th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), 7th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), and Miscellaneous Service Cards  – M1820
    • Infantry Organizations, 8th through 13th, including the 11th (new) – M1821
    • Infantry Organizations, 14th through 19th – M1822   
  • Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865 - M1894  (Online index) 
  • Documents Relating to the Military and Naval Service of Blacks Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor From the Civil War to the Spanish American War - M929
  • Missouri Confederate Pension & Home Applications
  • Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861-1900  - T289 (SC owns Rolls 258-291 covering the state of Missouri, and Rolls 540-579 covering the U.S. Colored Troops.)
• Regular Army
  • Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925–1941 – M1916 
  • Discharge Certificates and Miscellaneous Records Relating to the Discharge of Soldiers from the Regular Army, 1792-1815 – M1856
  • Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914 - M233  244k PDF (SC has rolls 25-81 covering 1855-1914)
• World War I
  • Civilian World War I Draft Registration Cards - M1509 (For list of states currently in the collection, look under World War I Draft Registration Cards at the bottom of this page.)
  • MO World War I  Army Discharge   
  • MO World War I  Navy Discharge  
  • MO World War I National Guard

Naturalization Records

•  99 rolls of federal and local courts 1816-1941 for St. Louis (An SC on-going Naturalization Index Project covers mainly 27 Sept 1907 and later.)

Newspapers  (These Newspapers on microfilm are located on Tier 4 unless otherwise noted.)  

• 14th St. White Way News  — see North St. Louis Community News
• Amerika: (German – St. Louis)  January 3, 1903 – June 30, 1914 
• Amerika Sunday Edition: (German Catholic – St. Louis) 3 Sept 1876 – 13 Oct 1878 
• Amerika Weekday Edition: (German Catholic – St. Louis) 23 Oct 1872 – 31 Dec 1902 
• Anzeiger des Westens: (St. Louis)  October 18, 1842 – June 7, 1898  
• Baden News — see North St. Louis Community News
• Baden News Press, (St. Louis) 16 June 1948 – 29 Dec 1964 
• Boston Transcript: (Genealogy Newspaper Columns)  6 June 1896 - 30 April 1941 (fiche on Tier 5)
• Carondelet News: 31 Jan 1903 – 20 Dec 1935 (City of St. Louis and St. Louis Co., Mo.) (Index) 
• Carondelet Progress, 26 Nov 1898 – 29 Apr 1899 
• Daily Missouri Democrat: 5 Apr 1853 – 30 Dec 1853
• Free Press: (Jewish - St. Louis):  6 Mar 1885 – 25 Nov 1887 (Lacks 27 Feb 1885 & 22 Jan 1886)
• Herald des Glaubens, (German Catholic – St. Louis) 16 Oct 1889 – 27 Sept 1899 
• Independent Patriot: (Jackson, Cape Girardeau Co., Mo.) 23 Dec 1820 – 13 Dec 1826 
• Jewish Light: (St. Louis) 1947 – 1977 
• Jewish Tribune: (St. Louis) 29 Aug 1879 – 17 June 1881 (incomplete); 6 Oct 1882 – 18 April 1884 (Lacks 14 Mar 1884)
• Jewish Voice: (St. Louis) 6 Jan 1888 – 31 Dec 1920
• La Lega Italiana, (Italian – St. Louis) 9 Oct 1914 – 25 Dec 1920 
• La Revue De L'Ouest: (French - St. Louis) 1854 Index 284k PDF
• Le Patriote: (French - St. Louis) 1878, 1884, and 1886-1887  Index 235k PDF
• Maplewood Champion / Maplewood News Champion, 12 Dec 1912 – 22 Dec 1935 
• Maryville Republican: (Nodaway County, Mo.) 1870-1882 
  Note: The Maryville Republican microfilms are indexed by Abstracted Newspaper Index of Nodaway County, Missouri, 1869-1900, R977.8124/O23A, which is available in Special Collections.
• Missouri Democrat: (Daily):  5 Apr 1853 – 30 Dec 1853
• Missouri Republican News: 1828-June 30, 1838
• Naborhood Link News: (Lemay, St. Louis County) 1930-1969
• New York Times: 1851 to date
• North St. Louis Community News — includes 14th St. White Way News, Baden News, and West Florissant News 1931 – 1933 
• St. Louis Argus (African American):  1 Jan 1915 – Dec 1942; Jan 1945 – Dec 1962; 1965 – 1966; 1986 – 1997
• St. Louis Bugle: 1945 - 1972 (Lemay and Carondelet area) 
• St. Louis Christian Advocate: (Methodist) 1851–1934
  Note: The following two books in Special Collections reference some of the obituaries in this newspaper:
  Missouri Obituaries: Abstracts of Obituaries Published Weekly in the "St. Louis Christian Advocate" ― (R977.8 W893M) and State-wide Missouri Obituaries: From "The St. Louis Christian Advocate" (Methodist) 1851-1882 ― (R977.8 W893S)
• St. Louis Countian:  September 8, 1951-September 28, 1985 
• St. Louis Countian: (Kirkwood) 24 Jan 1919 – 27 Dec 1952 
• St. Louis Daily Record:  October 16, 1890-September 28, 1985 
• St. Louis Globe Democrat:  1853-1986
  Index to deaths in the Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri: 1860,  255k PDF
  Note: The Missouri Democrat was published as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat after 1872.
• St. Louis Newspapers, Part 2 — Microfilm roll includes scattered and single issues of various titles. Inquire at the Special Collections Department Reference Desk on Tier 5 for more information.
• St. Louis Palladium: (African American) 10 Jan 1903 – 5 Oct 1907
• St. Louis Post Dispatch:  1874 to date
• St. Louis Republican, 4 Jan 1850 – 26 Dec 1851 and Jan – June 1854
• St. Louis Star Times: 1910-1950
• Watchman Advocate: (St. Louis)  1881-1985  (Index)
• Webster Groves News / Webster Groves News-Times, 7 Jan 1916 – 22 Dec 1960
• Westliche Post: (St. Louis)  September, 1857-November, 1932 

Orphanages

• German General Protestant Orphan’s Home Intake Records [St. Louis, Mo.], 1878-1943
• House of Refuge [St. Louis, Mo.], 1854–1897

Passports

• Registers and Indexes for Passport Applications (1810-1817; 1830-1831; 1834-1906) – M1371

Post-Civil War Records

• Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
  • Marriage Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land 1861-1869 - M1875
  • Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869 - M999 (SC has Roll 25 only)
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - M1900  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - M1901  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870 - M1902  
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872 - M1905 
  • Records of the Field Offices for the States of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 – M1906
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 – M1907
  • Records of the Mississippi Freedmen's Department ("Pre-Bureau Records"), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1865 - M1914 
  • Register of Marriages of Freedmen and Indentures of Colored Orphans: Mississippi - M826, Roll 42 
    Labor Contracts of freedmen: Mississippi - M826, Rolls 43-50 
    (These rolls are from the NARA microfilm set Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869, M826)
  • Mississippi Freedman's Bureau Labor Contracts Index [microfiche stored in burgundy fiche cabinet]
  • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Missouri, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872 - M1908 
  • Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869 - M1483  
• Freedmen's Savings & Trust Co.
  • Indexes of Deposit Ledgers in Branches of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Co, 1865-1874 - M817 
  • Registers of Signatures of Depositors: Branches of the Freedman's Saving & Trust Co, 1865-1874 - M816  
• Southern Claims Commission
  • Barred and Disallowed Case Files of the Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880 - M1407 (fiche)  
  • Records of the Commissioners of Claims (Southern Claims Commission), 1871-1880 - M87
  • Records of the U.S. House of Representatives: Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880 - P2257 
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880: Alabama - M2062
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880: Georgia - M1658  (fiche)
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880: Virginia - M2094  
  • Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880: West Virginia - M1762  
  • U.S. Court of Claims Docket Cards for Congressional Case Files, 1884-1937 - M2007

Probate Records  

• St. Louis County Probate Case Files, Prior to 1877 (Includes both St. Louis city and county.) 
  (Includes case files 1–12,569 except for case files 12041–12058 which are still pending.)
       (Index for these packets is available from Mo. State Archives. - Be sure to view with Internet Explorer.)
• St. Louis City, Probate Case Files 1877 & later (Includes only St. Louis City.)
  (Includes case files 12,570–15,299.)
       (Index for these packets is available from Mo. State Archives. - Be sure to view with Internet Explorer.)
• St. Louis Will Books 1816-1964 (Covers city and county prior to 1877, then just city from 1877-1964.)
• St. Louis County Closed Estate Files (Includes only St. Louis County after 1877.) [Filmed in alphabetical order by name of the deceased.] There is also an index is on microfiche.
• St. Louis County Wills (Includes only St. Louis County - indexes for 1878-1976 and wills for 1877-1969.) 

Slavery

• U.S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana: 
• Inward Slave Manifests, 1807-1860   
  • Partial transcription of Inward Slave Manifests is available in the Slave Data section on the AfriGeneas website. 
  • An index for the Slave Manifests inward bound to New Orleans from Baltimore and other Maryland ports is available on pages 132-639 of Cash for Blood by Ralph Clayton.  [R973.711 C622C]
• Outward Slave Manifests, 1812-1860 
• Wilbur H. Siebert Collection (Underground Railroad)  
  An online guide is available from the Ohio Historical Society. (PDF format, 4 Mb)

Vital Records
        see listings under:
             Birth & Death Records
            Marriage Records

Voter Registration

• St. Louis City Register of Voters, Voter Affidavits, Canceled Voter Affidavits, and Abstracts of Votes

World War I Draft Card Registration Cards (Civilian Records)

• Arkansas 
• Louisiana  
• Mississippi  
• Missouri