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St. Louis Resources in Special Collections
St. Louis Arch and SkylineThe St. Louis County Library System serves the population of St. Louis County, Missouri. A key point to understand when researching ancestors who lived in the St. Louis area is that in late 1876, the City of St. Louis separated from St. Louis County and the two are now totally separate governmental entities. If you learn about the split and its impact on St. Louis research, you will have a better understanding of how St. Louis records are titled and which record sets need to be searched. Hopefully that knowledge will enable you to be more effective in locating records and thus be more successful in finding your St Louis ancestors.

This listing of resources includes 

  • special St. Louis indexes available only in printed format in Special Collections
  • inks to Special Collections' web pages about St. Louis resources. If a page is not exclusively about St. Louis, a notation appears below the link explaining the portion of the page that does refer to St. Louis. 


red arrow Burial Certificates for the City of St. Louis 1882-1908
The online guide - Using St. Louis City [Mo.] Burial Certificates Microfilm at St. Louis County Library - will show which roll of film to use for a specific date and certificate number.
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Cemeteries
The majority of the film and fiche listings are for cemeteries in St. Louis city or county. 

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Census

green bullet Census Verification Project for St. Louis, Mo., City & County
green bullet Film Numbers for 1930 St. Louis Census Enumeration Districts
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Churches

green bullet Catholic
- Catholic Priests in St. Louis County, 1841-1869
- Catholic Priests of St. Louis, Missouri as Listed in the City Directories of 1870-1900 
- Catholic Research in the St. Louis, Missouri Area
- Guide to St. Louis Catholic Archdiocesan Parish Records 
- Index to History of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis 
green bullet Evangelical & United Church of Christ: Churches by Location
Scroll down to find the St. Louis (city and county) listings.
green bullet Lutheran 
- Index of
    
Immanuel Lutheran Church Records (St. Louis, Mo.)
    
St. Paul's Lutheran Church Records (Des Peres, St. Louis County, Mo.) 
- Lutheran Churches in the City of St. Louis on Microfilm at St. Louis County Library (map)
- Lutheran Microfilms by Church Location
Scroll down to find the St. Louis (city and county) listings. Notice that in this particular list, the name of each church is a hyperlink leading to a detailed descriptive list for the roll(s) of microfilm for that church.
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City/County Directory Holdings  
Contains a section for St. Louis, Missouri, listing the years Special Collections has directories in film or fiche format.

red arrow  Historical Newspapers at St. Louis County Library
Scroll down to the Missouri section which lists holdings for St. Louis City & County.
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Indexes - St. Louis related indexes produced by Special Collections staff or volunteers

  green bullet Carondelet News
green bullet Births
    
Register of Births, St. Louis County, Missouri 1883-1895 
     Stillbirths, St. Louis County, Missouri 1883-1908  244k PDF
  green bullet Deaths in the Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri: 1860,  255k PDF New
Note: The Missouri Democrat was published as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat after 1872.
green bullet Fifty Years on the Mississippi: Gould's History of River Navigation 405k PDF
Some of the biographical sketches in this book are for riverboat captains based out of St. Louis. 
  green bullet Fratellanza Society – Diamond Jubilee Anniversary History of the Fratellanza Society (1941) – St. Louis, Mo. (Italian fraternal and benevolent society)
green bullet History of the Archdiocese of St. Louis
green bullet Immanuel Lutheran Church Records Indexed by permission.
green bullet St. Louis County Watchman-Advocate Newspaper Index: 1881 and 1882
  green bullet St. Louis News Columns in La Revue de l'Ouest Newspaper 284k PDF (The Review of the West)
  green bullet St. Louis News Columns in Le Patriote Newspaper 235k PDF
green bullet St. Louis Enlistees Extracted from Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914 for the year 1855 288k PDF
green bullet St. Louis Naturalization Index
  green bullet St. Paul's Lutheran Church Records  (Des Peres, St. Louis Co., Mo.)
green bullet Southwest Saint Louis: Its Mercantile Interests and Prominent Citizens 344k PDF
green bullet St. Vincent de Paul (St. Louis, Mo.) Baptisms, 1844-1851 (ongoing project)  Indexed by permission. Available in paper format only. Printout is in blue 3-ring binder on Finding Aids table.
  green bullet St. Louis County Watchman-Advocate Newspaper (St. Louis County, Mo.)
  green bullet Westliche Post newspaper obituary index
red arrow Major Film/Fiche Holdings
Some of the film and fiche listed on this page are exclusively about St. Louis, others may contain information about St. Louis. 
red arrow Microfilm Cabinets & Film Shelves - Contents  
Check this page to find the location for a specific film or fiche set.
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St. Louis City and County Microfilm, Microfiche & CDs

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Table of Contents - selected listings - for St. Louisan (periodical)

red arrow Vital Records
green bullet Index to Register of Births, St. Louis County, Missouri 1883-1895   
green bullet Index to Stillbirths, St. Louis County, Missouri 1883-1908  244k PDF
red arrow World War I Draft Registration Cards
green bullet Determining Which St. Louis Draft Board to Check  
green bullet Missouri Microfilm Numbers
Scroll down to the listings for St. Louis City & St. Louis County
green bullet St. Louis City & County Draft Board Addresses
green bullet St. Louis City Street Guide to Draft Boards
green bullet St. Louis County Draft Boards

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