Missouri State Genealogical Association: Difference between revisions

'''E-mail:'''<ref name="Cont">[http://www.mosga.org/contact.php Contacting MoSGA] in ''Missouri State Genealogical Association'' (accessed 1 March 2016).</ref> &nbsp;[mailto:webmanager@mosga.org webmanager@mosga.org] <br>  

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The '''Missouri State Genealogical Association (MoSGA)''' sponsors events, conferences, the Missouri First Families certificates program, newsletters, a blog, MoSGA's ''Journal'', researchers, speakers, research links, and annual awards.<ref>[http://www.mosga.org/index.php Home] in ''Missouri State Genealogical Association'' (accessed 1 March 2016).</ref> &nbsp;Their library collection is part of the [[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]] in Independence MO.<ref>[http://mosga.org/cpage.php?pt=12 Library Program] in ''Missouri State Genealogical Association'' (accessed 13 March 2014).</ref>

*[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]], Independence, a great American genealogy collection: censuses, MO federal land sales, penitentiary, St. Louis fur trade, Civil War, passenger lists, plantations, American Indians, city directories, newspapers, [[Draper Manuscript Collection|Draper Manuscripts]], and KY taxes.<ref>William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 67. {{WorldCat|39493985|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Ref Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> <ref name="MGCAbout">[http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/genlh/about/#microfilm About the Midwest Genealogy Center] in ''Mid-Continent Public Library'' (accessed 5 May 2010).</ref><br>  

*[[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.</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.<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>

*[http://www.courts.mo.gov/hosted/circuit13/courtoffices/bneclerkhome.htm Boone County Clerk of the Circuit Court], Columbia, has marriage, death, probate, land, and court records from 1821.<ref name="HBG229">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 9th ed''. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), 229. {{WorldCat|812163213}}; {{FHL|740321|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 1999}}.</ref> <ref name="rdb393">Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed''. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 393. [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3249 Ancestry digital copy ($)]; {{WorldCat|55947869}}; {{FHL|1185723|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27rb 2004}}.</ref>  

*[[Columbia Missouri Family History Center]] has [[Family History Center Portal|premium online services]] for free and can offer research guidance.<ref>[[Introduction to Family History Centers]] in ''Family History Research Wiki'' (accessed 29 February 2016).</ref>

*[[State Historical Society of Missouri]], Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.</ref>

*[[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>

*[[St. Louis Mercantile Library]], early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.</ref><br>

*[http://www.centralmethodist.edu/library/moumcarchive.php Missouri United Methodist Archives], Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers.