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[[Image:Kansas City Public Library Central Branch.jpg|right|250px|Kansas City Public Library Central Branch.jpg]]'''[[Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections]]'''<br>Central Library<br>14 W. 10th Street, 5th Floor<br>Kansas City, MO 64105<br>Telephone: 816-701-3427<br>Fax: 816-701-3401<br> | [[Image:Kansas City Public Library Central Branch.jpg|right|250px|Kansas City Public Library Central Branch.jpg]]'''[[Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections]]'''<br>Central Library<br>14 W. 10th Street, 5th Floor<br>Kansas City, MO 64105<br>Telephone: 816-701-3427<br>Fax: 816-701-3401<br> [http://www.kclibrary.org/ Website]<br>[mailto:lhistory@kclibrary.org/ Email] <br> | ||
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.[2] [3] | |||
Jackson County births 1883-1895, marriage indexes 1827-1937, deaths 1874-1909.[4] They also hold papers, postcards, newspaper clippings, city directories, maps, school yearbooks, and ephemera from local individuals and organizations to document the history and development of the Kansas City area including some material from the Kansas City School District. They provide information on vital records research, adoption search resources, how-to-do obituary searching, African Americans, American Indians, the American Civil War, explorers, Mormons, and the Overland Trail.[3] | |||
Librarians began collecting genealogical materials almost from the beginning of the Library, but in 1933, a donation of the vast personal genealogical library of lumber baron John Barber White greatly enhanced the collection. Resources continued to be added. Of note are the many now out-of-print nineteenth-century histories of counties in the Midwest, specific family histories, and many genealogical periodicals beginning in the late 1800s. | |||
:Great genealogy collection for the Missouri Valley with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of KC area.<ref>[http://www.kclibrary.org/kchistory/special-collections Special Collections] in ''Kansas City Public Library'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref> <br><br> | :Great genealogy collection for the Missouri Valley with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of KC area.<ref>[http://www.kclibrary.org/kchistory/special-collections Special Collections] in ''Kansas City Public Library'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref> <br><br> | ||