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''[[United States Genealogy|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]] [[Missouri Genealogy|Missouri]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]] [[St. Louis County, Missouri Genealogy|St. Louis]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Missouri Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]] [[{{PAGENAME}}]]'' <br> | |||
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=== Contact Information === | |||
'''E-mail:'''<ref name="HG">[http://www.slcl.org/genealogy History and Genealogy] in ''St. Louis County Library'' (accessed 1 March 2016).</ref> [mailto:genealogy@slcl.org genealogy@slcl.org] <br> | |||
'''Address:'''<ref name="HG" /> | |||
:St. Louis County Library Headquarters<br>Tier 5 (top floor)<br>1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.<br>St. Louis, MO 63131 <br><br> | |||
'''Telephone:'''<ref name="HG" /> 314-994-3300, ext. 2070<br> | |||
'''Hours and holidays:'''<ref name="HG" /> Monday-Thursday 9-9 ; Friday-Saturday 9-5 ; [http://www.slcl.org/about/holiday_schedule Holiday closings] | |||
'''Map, parking, and public transportation:'''<br> | |||
:*'''''Google map: ''''' [https://www.google.com/maps/place/St+Louis+County+Library/@38.63016,-90.405112,13z/data=!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x87d8cce775ef310b:0x1695044a233dfcdf!2s1640+S+Lindbergh+Blvd,+St+Louis,+MO+63131!3b1!3m1!1s0x87df3341f8659a2f:0x90da3e5082faae12?hl=en-US St. Louis County Library] | |||
:*'''''Parking: ''''' The library has a large, free, well-lit parking lot. | |||
:*'''''Public transportation: ''''' [http://www.metrostlouis.org/Default.aspx Metro Transit-St. Louis] bus route [http://www.metrostlouis.org/Libraries/Metrobus_Maps/Map48121514.pdf 48 South Lindbergh] stops next to the St. Louis County Library. Route [http://www.metrostlouis.org/Libraries/Metrobus_Maps/Map58100614.pdf 58 Clayton Ballas] stops about 600 feet to the north on Clayton Rd. | |||
'''Internet sites and databases:''' <br> | |||
*[http://www.slcl.org/genealogy St. Louis County Library History and Genealogy] holdings, visits, security, finding aids, databases, e-newsletter, publications, forms, look-ups, and services. <br> | |||
*[http://webpac.slcl.org/screens/mainmenuclassic.html St. Louis County Library Catalog] online. Search by keyword, author, title, subject, call number, periodical, or ISBN.<br> | |||
=== Collection Description === | |||
The '''St. Louis County Library''' genealogical collection has 85,000 print items, 9,500 family histories, 850 periodical titles, 40,000 microfilm rolls, and many electronic databases. Their emphasis is on St. Louis, Missouri, and states and foreign countries that fed migration into Missouri, including New England states, the 13 colonies, and many foreign countries. Military history, African American, and other ethnic sources are well represented. Record types include online databases, federal censuses, births, marriages, 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> | |||
They also have collections from the [http://www.ngsgenealogy.org National Genealogical Society], the [http://www.stlgs.org St. Louis Genealogical Society], the African American Research Collection, the Jewish Genealogical Society, the Archdiocese of St. Louis parish records, and from the Archdiocese of Belleville, Illinois. SLCL also can order microfilms from the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City.<ref>[http://www.slcl.org/genealogy Genealogy and local history] in ''St. Louis County Library'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref> | |||
Significant miscellaneous items include 850 microfilms from parish registers of the Swiss Canton of Bern, over 100 Jewish Yizkor books, and sources for Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New England, and some rare English, Welsh, and Scottish genealogies.<ref>[http://www.slcl.org/genealogy_and_local_history/collections Department Holdings and Collections] in ''St. Louis County Library'' (accessed 1 March 2016).</ref> | |||
=== Tips === | |||
*'''''Tier 4.''''' Many genealogy books are shelved on Tier 4, an area that is normally closed to the public. The area is opened to the public on the third Saturday and Sunday of each month. Materals on Tier 4 are available for use at other times upon request. | |||
*'''''Computer access.''''' There is a 30-minute time limit on the public computers if others are waiting. Photo I.D. is required for using public computers. Free wireless access to the system is also available for personal computers. | |||
=== Guides === | |||
*[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] general, births, cemeteries, census, church records, deaths, Local History Index, maps, microfilm, military, miscellaneous, naturalizations, newspapers, wills, and yearbooks. | |||
*[http://www.slcl.org/genealogy-and-local-history/finding-aids-guides-landing Finding Aids by Topic] 72 guides. | |||
=== Alternate Repositories === | |||
If you cannot visit or find a source via the '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', a similar source may be available at one of the following. | |||
'''''Overlapping Collections'''''<br> | |||
*[[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 name="DB67">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 name="DB67" /> | |||
'''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | |||
*[[State Historical Society of Missouri]], Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.<ref name="DB67" /> | |||
'''''Neighboring Collections''''' | |||
*[http://www.claytonhistorysociety.org/ Clayton History Society] about them, support options, history, and historic places. | |||
*[http://www.lutheranhistory.org/ Concordia Historical Institute], St. Louis, Department of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. | |||
*[http://www.diocesemo.org/ministries/diocesan/communications/diocesan-archives/ Episcopal Diocese of Missouri Archives], St. Louis, a library, extensive document and photograph collections, and parish registers. | |||
*[[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 name="DB67" /> | |||
*[[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> | |||
*[http://archstl.org/archives Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records] parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths. | |||
*[http://www.stlouisco.com/LawandPublicSafety/CircuitCourt/CircuitClerk St. Louis County Circuit Clerk], Clayton, has court records since 1876, and divorce records.<ref name="HBG235">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 9th ed''. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), 235. {{WorldCat|812163213}}; {{FHL|740321|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 1999}}.</ref> <ref name="rdb396">Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed''. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 396. [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3249 Ancestry digital copy ($)]; {{WorldCat|55947869}}; {{FHL|1185723|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27rb 2004}}.</ref> | |||
*[http://www.stlouisco.com/healthandwellness/medicalexaminer St. Louis County Medical Examiner], St. Louis, suspicious deaths. | |||
*[http://www.stlouisco.com/LawandPublicSafety/CircuitCourt/CircuitClerk St. Louis <u>County</u> Recorder of Deeds], Clayton, has marriages and land records since 1876, and military discharges. Marriage, court, and land records of St. Louis County '''prior to 1876 are only available''' via the [https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/recorder/ St. Louis <u>City</u> Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar].<ref name="rdb396" /> | |||
*[http://www.stlouisco.com/HealthandWellness/BirthandDeathCertificates St. Louis County Office of Vital Records], Berkeley, has all Missouri births since 1920, St. Louis County only births 1883-1910; all MO deaths since 1980, and St. Louis County only deaths 1883-1910.<ref>[http://www.stlouisco.com/HealthandWellness/BirthandDeathCertificates Vital Records] in ''St. Louis County'' (accessed 2 March 2016).</ref> | |||
*[http://stlgs.org/ St. Louis Genealogical Society], about them, events, resources, research, education, first families, and surname search. | |||
*[[St. Louis Mercantile Library]], early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.<ref name="DB67" /><br> | |||
*[[St. Louis Missouri Family History Center]], Frontenac, has [[Family History Center Portal|premium online services]] for free, offers research suggestions, and can order microfilms from the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City.<ref>[[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers]] in ''Family History Research Wiki'' (accessed 29 February 2016).</ref> | |||
*[[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. | |||
*[http://www.moed.uscourts.gov/ U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri], St. Louis, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court records. | |||
*Repositories in '''''surrounding counties:''''' '''in Missouri: ''' [[Franklin County, Missouri|Franklin]], [[Jefferson County, Missouri|Jefferson]], [[St. Charles County, Missouri|St. Charles]], [[St. Louis City, Missouri|St. Louis City]], '''in Illinois: ''' [[Madison County, Illinois|Madison]], [[Monroe County, Illinois|Monroe]], and [[St. Clair County, Illinois|St. Clair]]. | |||
*[http://www.cofchrist.org/visit-library-and-archives 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. | |||
*[[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.<ref name="DB4767">Dollarhide and Bremer, 47 and 67.</ref> <ref name="SC">[http://www.kclibrary.org/kchistory/special-collections Special Collections] in ''Kansas City Public Library'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref><br> | |||
*[http://health.mo.gov/data/vitalrecords/ Missouri Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics], Jefferson City, birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates.<ref name="VR" /> | |||
*[[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.<ref name="VR">[http://www.kclibrary.org/kchistory/vital-records Vital Records] in ''Kansas City Public Library'' (accessed 2 Feb 2016).</ref> | |||
*[http://www.centralmethodist.edu/library/moumcarchive.php Missouri United Methodist Archives], Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers. | |||
*[[Ozarks Genealogical Society Library]], Springfield, has Missouri and other states, a large periodical collection, and special southern Missouri family records.<ref name="DB67" /> <ref>[http://www.ozarksgs.org/index.php/research Research] in ''Ozarks Genealogical Society'' (accessed 15 March 2014).</ref> | |||
*[[Springfield-Greene County Library Midtown]], for southern Missouri: censuses, church histories, directories, Civil War, online deaths 1910-1958, births, marriages, land, probate, cemeteries.<ref name="DB67" /> <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> | |||
*[[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. This was a center for MO Confederates. Family folders, books, letters, diaries, journals, surname lists.<ref name="DB67" /> <ref>[http://harrisoncountymuseum.org/our_collection Our Collection] in ''Harrison County Museum'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref> | |||
*[[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.<ref name="DB39">Dollarhide and Bremer, 39.</ref> | |||
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