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Online Resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1800-Current Missouri, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• 1822-1994 Missouri Newspaper Death Index, 1822-1994 at Ancestry — index ($)
• State Historical Society of Missouri Index to Selected Newspapers
• Missouri Online Historical Newspapers at Google
• Missouri Newspapers at chronicling America
• Missouri Newspapers at Ancestry ($)
• Missouri Newspapers
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014 at FamilySearch; index & images — How to Use this Collection
• NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a collection of digitized Missouri newspapers online. This database is free at some libraries. It may be under the name Access NewspaperArchive.
• The State Historical Society of Missouri has historical Missouri newspapers online including the Daily Missouri Republican, 1861-1865.
• Missouri Historical Newspapers Online - via the Online Historical Newspapers Directory.
• Chronicling America has some historical issues for the state of Missouri online.
• The State Historical Society of Missouri Newspaper Collection
• Newspaper Abstracts - Missouri
• Newspapers.com ($)
• Ancestry ($)
• Southeast Missourian; obituaries and newspapers.
• St. Louis Obituary index
• Chronicaling America: Library of Congress; Newspaper images (digital search engine) 1777-1963.
• MackleyGenealogy.com: has over 17,000 obituaries for Missouri (particularly the South-East portion) and it's free online. Some obituaries go as far back as 1830. Most of their obituaries are scanned copies of the actual obituary clippings.

Resources for Missouri Newspapers

Libraries and Archives

State Historical Society of Missouri has Missouri newspapers from about 1800, and card indexes by name and subject to some of the early papers. The Society also has a map by county of newspapers on microfilm. They are available for inter-library loan. The Society and the FamilySearch Library also have several published abstracts and indexes of obituaries and marriages from 1808 to 1870.

St. Louis Public Library has a list of newspapers owned by the library in its microfilm collection; covers 1808-2008.

Newspaper Directory

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Indexes

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index - created by the St. Louis Public Library. Index covers obituaries, death notices, and burial permits. Years indexed thus far include: 1880-1927, 1942-1945, 1992-2005
  
• St. Louis Argus Index -- an African-American newspaper; index created by the St. Louis Public Library. Years indexed include 1915-1927, 1942-1945.
• Westliche Post Death Notice Index - (St. Louis German-language newspaper) Years indexed: 1875-1895; by last name: 1878-1891.
• Index to Selected Missouri Newspapers - Index to some 1800s Missouri newspapers at the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Print Resources

• William H. Taft, Missouri Newspapers, When and Where, 1808-1963 (Columbia: University of Missouri, 1964) At various libraries (WorldCat), FS Catalog book 977.8 B3t