St. Louis Public Library

United States Missouri St. Louis City Archives and Libraries St. Louis Public Library

St. Louis Public Library Contact Information E-mail:  help@slpl.org Address: Central Library 1301 Olive Street St. Louis, MO 63103 Telephone:  314-241-2288 Fax:  314-539-0393 Hours and holidays:  Mon-Thu 10-9; Fri-Sat 10-6; Sun 1-5 (1st floor only); Holidays Map, parking, and public transportation: MapQuest map:  St. Louis Public Library Central Library Parking Public transportation:  Metro Transit-St. Louis bus routes 10, 32, 41, 74, 94, and 97 stop near the Central Library. The Civic Center MetroBus Center is six blocks (700 yards) south of the Central Library. Internet sites and databases: St. Louis Public Library card account, calendar, about us, and libraries/hours. For Genealogists obituary search, recent arrivals, passenger lists, family histories, Heritage Quest, and the Gateway Family Historian publication. St. Louis Public Library Catalog online. Search by author, subject, ISBN, title, or call number. Also available in WorldCat. Collection Description The St. Louis Public Library has an on-line Obituary Index for the years 1880–1927; 1942–1945; 1992–2006. They also have hundreds of published family histories, passenger lists, and access to the Heritage Quest database. The Gateway Family Historian is published by the Library. Guides George Gambrill, Genealogical Material and Local Histories in the St. Louis Public Library, Rev. ed. (St. Louis, Missouri: St. Louis Public Library, 1965) At various libraries (Worldcat). FHL Film 928060 items 7-8; Book 977.866 A3s. Alternate Repositories If you cannot visit or find a source at the St. Louis Public Library, a similar source may be available at one of the following. Overlapping Collections 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 Manuscripts, and KY taxes. 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. Similar Collections 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, yearbooks, and access to LDS microfilms. Neighboring Collections St. Louis Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar, birth and deaths since 1825; marriages since 1766. St. Louis City Medical Examiner, suspicious deaths. St. Louis City Courthouse, local civil, criminal, and probate records since 1766. U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court records. 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. National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St. Louis, federal government employee and military personnel records starting 1917. St. Louis Mercantile Library, early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths. 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. Repositories in surrounding counties: in Missouri: Franklin, Jefferson, St. Charles, St. Louis County, in Illinois: Madison, and St. Clair. Missouri Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Jefferson City, birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates. 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. Missouri State Genealogical Association has donated their books the the Midwest Genealogy Center. 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. State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials. 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. Missouri United Methodist Archives, Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers. Repositories in surrounding states: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. 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. Dallas Public Central Library, outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Missouri, Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states. Newberry Library, a large Chicago repository with genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and British Isles. Sources