Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center: Difference between revisions

Midwest Genealogy Center Internet site, map, collection, directions, floor plans, genealogical resources, catalog.
MCPL catalog online search by words or phrase, author, title, subject, or series, and in WorldCat.
MGC genealogy databases, Access NewspaperARCHIVE, African American Biographical Database, America's GenealogyBank, America's Obituaries & Death Notices, American Ancestors, American Civil War Research Database, Ancestry Library Edition, Archive Finder, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Confederate Newspapers, Digital Sanborn maps, Findmypast, HeritageQuest, ProQuest Obituaries. Additional databases useful for genealogical research are available in other categories, including history, biography, geography, and newspapers.
MGC history databases, 279 databases, of which 272 are available remotely with a MCPL library card.

Collection Description[edit | edit source]

Significant holdings include all federal censuses 1790-1930 and many indexes, federal land sales in Missouri 1818-1903, the Draper Manuscript Collection, Kentucky tax records, Missouri State Penitentiary Records 1836-1931, papers of the St. Louis fur trade, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations, indexes and Compiled Service Records of MO Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers, Civil War Union and Confederate unit histories, selected passenger arrival lists, Native American sources, partial state vital records for AL, AR, CA, GA, IL, IN, KY, OR, TX, WA, Massachusetts original town records, city directories, the Independence Examiner, and Kansas City Star and Times, other newspapers (primarily Missouri), American Biographical Archives, Black Biographical Dictionaries, UMI Genealogy and Local History Series, and the United States Serial Set.^[1]

The Midwest Genealogy Center, a branch of the Mid-Continent Public Library, opened in 2008 with 52,000 square feet on two floors. The collection covers the entire United States and includes over 80,000 family history books, 100,000 local history items, 565,000 microfilms and microfiches, and 7,000 maps. The center also has an extensive newspaper clipping file and thousands of family name files. Their collection has been built up with donations from the Daughters of the American Revolution, Independence Library's Missouri county histories, American Family Records Association (AFRA), Missouri State Genealogical Association, Heart of America Genealogical Society, Gann Family Association, and former area FamilySearch centers.^[1] The Midwest Genealogy Center averages about 10,000 customers per year.

Tips[edit | edit source]

Schedule an appointment with at genealogy expert at 816-252-7228 or email mgc@mymcpl.org.
Groups are welcome, but please give advance notice.

Alternate Repositories[edit | edit source]

If you cannot visit or find a record at the Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, a similar record may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections

Mid-Continent Public Library parent library system of the Midwest Genealogy Center, Jackson County, Missouri.
Mid-Continent Public Libraries branches, 30 branches in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties, Missouri.
National Archives at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; selected military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, adoptions, vital records, land, and Indian records.^[2]

Similar Collections

Allen County Public Library, Ft. Wayne IN, has a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, Canadians.^[3]
Dallas Public Central Library, outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Missouri, Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.^[4]
FamilySearch Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, censuses, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[5]
Newberry Library, Chicago, genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and Britain.^[6]

Neighboring Collections

Community of Christ Library and Archives, Independence, books, periodicals, letters, and diaries of the of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ.
Jackson County Courthouse, Kansas City, local civil, criminal, and probate records since 1828.^[7]
Jackson County Health Department, Independence, Jackson County birth certificates since 1920.^[8]
Jackson County Historical Society, Independence, title abstracts, diaries, letters, 2000 books, business ledgers, census, city directories, court, election, tax, vital records, plat maps, newspapers, periodicals, photos, subject indexes.
Jackson County Medical Examiner, Kansas City, suspicious deaths.
Jackson County Recorder of Deeds, Kansas City, marriage and land records since 1827.^[7]
Kansas City Health Department, Kansas City birth certificates; deaths 1874-1909.^[8]
Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections, The Missouri Valley Room has a great genealogy collection for Missouri and Kansas with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of the Kansas City area.^[9] ^[10]
United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Kansas City, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court records.
Repositories in surrounding counties: in Missouri: Cass, Clay, Johnson, Lafayette, Platte, Ray, in Kansas: Johnson, and Wyandotte.
Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, Department of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
Episcopal Diocese of Missouri Archives, St. Louis, a library, extensive document and photograph collections, and parish registers.
Missouri Bureau of Vital Records, Jefferson City, central registry of Missouri births and deaths since 1910; marriages and divorces since 1948.^[11]
Missouri History Museum Library, St. Louis, has regional history sources, St. Louis, Missouri, the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, the Louisiana Purchase, American West: indexes, guides, catalogs, photos, genealogy workshops. Many records of Missouri settlers from Illinois.</ref>
Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, has court, land, military, death records, federal censuses, county and municipal records, photos, penitentiary, and manuscript records. Birth and death record index since 1883 is online; birth records 1883-1895; marriages 1827-1937.^[8]
Missouri United Methodist Archives, Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers.
National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St. Louis, federal government employee and military personnel records starting 1917.^[12]
Ozarks Genealogical Society Library, Springfield, has Missouri and other states, a large periodical collection, and special southern Missouri family records.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.
St. Louis County Library, a Missouri collection including the National Genealogical Society, and St. Louis Genealogical Society collections, online databases, federal censuses, births, deaths, cemeteries, church records, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, wills, African American records, and yearbooks.
St. Louis Mercantile Library, early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.
St. Louis Public Library has an Obituary Index for the years 1880–1927; 1942–1945; 1992–2006, family histories, passenger lists, Heritage Quest, and Gateway Family Historian publication.^[13]
Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, St. Louis, comprehensive source for Judaica. 23,000 books.
Springfield-Greene County Library Center, for southern Missouri: censuses, church histories, directories, Civil War, online deaths 1910-1958, births, marriages, land, probate, cemeteries.^[14]
State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Library, Republic, find ancestors who served in the U.S. Civil War.^[15]
Repositories in surrounding states: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
Harrison County Historical Museum, Marshall TX, a key repository for Missouri and Texas settlers. A major center for MO Confederates. Family folders, books, letters, diaries, journals, surname lists.^[16]

Wikipedia has more about this subject: Mid-Continent Public Library

Sources[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogical Center "About the Midwest Genealogy Center" at http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/genlh/about/#microfilm (accessed 5 May 2010).
↑ William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 67. WorldCat 39493985; FS Library Book 973 J54d.
↑ Genealogy Center Collections in Genealogy Center (accessed 27 February 2015).
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 1 and 109.
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 39.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Alice Eichholz, ed., Ancestry's Red Book : American State, County, and Town Sources, 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City, UT : Ancestry Pub., 2004), 394. WorldCat 779185438; FamilySearch Catalog
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 Vital Records in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 2 Feb 2016).
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 47 and 67.
↑ Special Collections in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Information in Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (accessed 3 March 2016).
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 134.
↑ Genealogists in St. Louis Public Library (accessed 3 February 2016).
↑ Guide to Local History and Genealogy Department Collections in Springfield-Greene County Library District (accessed 15 March 2014).
↑ The Hulston Library in Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Missouri in National Park Service (accessed 15 March 2014).
↑ Our Collection in Harrison County Museum (accessed 7 March 2014).

[MGCAbout-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogical Center "About the Midwest Genealogy Center" at http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/genlh/about/#microfilm (accessed 5 May 2010).

[2] William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 67. WorldCat 39493985; FS Library Book 973 J54d.

[3] Genealogy Center Collections in Genealogy Center (accessed 27 February 2015).

[DB107-4] Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.

[5] Dollarhide and Bremer, 1 and 109.

[DB39-6] Dollarhide and Bremer, 39.

[Red-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Alice Eichholz, ed., Ancestry's Red Book : American State, County, and Town Sources, 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City, UT : Ancestry Pub., 2004), 394. WorldCat 779185438; FamilySearch Catalog

[VR-8] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 Vital Records in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 2 Feb 2016).

[DB4767-9] Dollarhide and Bremer, 47 and 67.

[SC-10] Special Collections in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 7 March 2014).

[11] Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Information in Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (accessed 3 March 2016).

[DB134-12] Dollarhide and Bremer, 134.

[13] Genealogists in St. Louis Public Library (accessed 3 February 2016).

[14] Guide to Local History and Genealogy Department Collections in Springfield-Greene County Library District (accessed 15 March 2014).

[15] The Hulston Library in Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Missouri in National Park Service (accessed 15 March 2014).

[16] Our Collection in Harrison County Museum (accessed 7 March 2014).

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 ===Contact Information===
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-*Schedule an [https://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy/resources/appointments appointment with at genealogy expert] at 816-252-7228 or e-mail [mailto:mgc@mymcpl.org mgc@mymcpl.org].
+*Schedule an [https://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy/resources/appointments appointment with at genealogy expert] at 816-252-7228 or email [mailto:mgc@mymcpl.org mgc@mymcpl.org].
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 *[https://centralmethodist.edu/academics/library/missouri-united-methodist-archives.html Missouri United Methodist Archives], Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers.
 *[[National Personnel Records Center (NPRC)]], St. Louis, federal government employee and military personnel records starting 1917.<ref name="DB134">Dollarhide and Bremer, 134.</ref><br>
-*[[Ozarks Genealogical Society Library]], Springfield, has Missouri and other states, a large periodical collection, and special southern Missouri family records.<nowiki></ref></nowiki> <ref>[http://www.ozarksgs.org/index.php/research Research] in ''Ozarks Genealogical Society'' (accessed 15 March 2014).</ref>
+*[[Ozarks Genealogical Society Library]], Springfield, has Missouri and other states, a large periodical collection, and special southern Missouri family records.
 *[http://archstl.org/archives Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records] parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.
-*[[St. Louis County Library]], a Missouri collection including the [http://www.ngsgenealogy.org National Genealogical Society], and [http://www.stlgs.org St. Louis Genealogical Society] collections, online databases, federal censuses, births, deaths, cemeteries, church records, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, wills, African American records, and yearbooks.<ref>[http://www.slcl.org/content/online-guide-st-louis-sources-history-and-genealogy-department Online guide to St. Louis sources in the History and Genealogy Department] in ''St. Louis County Library'' (accessed 2 February 2016).</ref>
+*[[St. Louis County Library]], a Missouri collection including the [http://www.ngsgenealogy.org National Genealogical Society], and [http://www.stlgs.org St. Louis Genealogical Society] collections, online databases, federal censuses, births, deaths, cemeteries, church records, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, wills, African American records, and yearbooks.
-*[[St. Louis Mercantile Library]], early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.<nowiki></ref></nowiki><br>
+*[[St. Louis Mercantile Library]], early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.<br>
 *[[St. Louis Public Library]] has an Obituary Index for the years 1880–1927; 1942–1945; 1992–2006, family histories, passenger lists, Heritage Quest, and ''Gateway Family Historian'' publication.<ref>[http://www.slpl.org/slpl/gateways/article240117800.asp Genealogists] in ''St. Louis Public Library'' (accessed 3 February 2016).</ref>
 *[http://brodskylibrary.org/collection.php Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library], St. Louis, comprehensive source for Judaica. 23,000 books.
-*[[Springfield-Greene County Library Center]], for southern Missouri: censuses, church histories, directories, Civil War, online deaths 1910-1958, births, marriages, land, probate, cemeteries.<nowiki></ref></nowiki> <ref>[http://thelibrary.org/lochist/collections.cfm?aid=925{{amp}}lid=62 Guide to Local History and Genealogy Department Collections] in ''Springfield-Greene County Library District'' (accessed 15 March 2014).</ref>
+*[[Springfield-Greene County Library Center]], for southern Missouri: censuses, church histories, directories, Civil War, online deaths 1910-1958, births, marriages, land, probate, cemeteries.<ref>[http://thelibrary.org/lochist/collections.cfm?aid=925{{amp}}lid=62 Guide to Local History and Genealogy Department Collections] in ''Springfield-Greene County Library District'' (accessed 15 March 2014).</ref>
-*[[State Historical Society of Missouri]], Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.<nowiki></ref></nowiki>
+*[[State Historical Society of Missouri]], Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.
 *[[Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Library]], Republic, find ancestors who served in the U.S. Civil War.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/wicr/planyourvisit/library.htm The Hulston Library] in ''Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Missouri'' in ''National Park Service'' (accessed 15 March 2014).</ref>
 *Repositories in '''''surrounding states:''''' [[Arkansas Archives and Libraries|Arkansas]], [[Iowa Archives and Libraries|Iowa]], [[Illinois Archives and Libraries|Illinois]], [[Kansas Archives and Libraries|Kansas]], [[Kentucky Archives and Libraries|Kentucky]], [[Nebraska Archives and Libraries|Nebraska]], [[Oklahoma Archives and Libraries|Oklahoma]], and [[Tennessee Archives and Libraries|Tennessee]].
-*[[Harrison County Historical Museum]], Marshall TX, a key repository for '''''Missouri ''''' and Texas settlers. A major center for MO Confederates. Family folders, books, letters, diaries, journals, surname lists.<nowiki></ref></nowiki> <ref>[http://harrisoncountymuseum.org/our_collection Our Collection] in ''Harrison County Museum'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref>
+*[[Harrison County Historical Museum]], Marshall TX, a key repository for '''''Missouri ''''' and Texas settlers. A major center for MO Confederates. Family folders, books, letters, diaries, journals, surname lists.<ref>[http://harrisoncountymuseum.org/our_collection Our Collection] in ''Harrison County Museum'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref>
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