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== Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Geneal Center == | == Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Geneal Center == | ||
[[Image:Midwest Genealogy Center 1.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence, Missouri]]'''[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]]'''<br>3440 S. Lee's Summit Road<br>Independence, MO 64055-1923<br>Telephone: 816-836-5200<br>Fax: 816-521-7253 <br>E-mail: [mailto:ge@mymcpl.org ge@mcpl.lib.mo.us]<br>Internet: [http://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy Midwest Genealogy Center] | [[Image:Midwest Genealogy Center 1.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence, Missouri]]'''[[Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center]]'''<br>3440 S. Lee's Summit Road<br>Independence, MO 64055-1923<br>Telephone: 816-836-5200<br>Fax: 816-521-7253 <br>E-mail: [mailto:ge@mymcpl.org ge@mcpl.lib.mo.us]<br>Internet: [http://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy Midwest Genealogy Center] | ||
: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. Significant holdings include all [[United States Census|federal censuses 1790-1930]] and many indexes, [[Missouri Land and Property|federal land sales in Missouri]] 1818-1903, the [[Tennessee History#The_Draper_Manuscript_Collection|Draper Manuscript Collection]], [[Kentucky Taxation|Kentucky tax records]], Missouri State Penitentiary Records 1836-1931, papers of the St. Louis fur trade, [[African American Slavery and Bondage#Finding_plantation_records|''Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations'']], indexes and [[Compiled Service Records|Compiled Service Records]] of MO Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers, Civil War [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865#Union_Unit_Histories|Union]] and [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865#Confederate_Unit_Histories|Confederate unit histories]], selected [[US Immigration Passenger Arrival Records|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''.<ref>[ | :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. Significant holdings include all [[United States Census|federal censuses 1790-1930]] and many indexes, [[Missouri Land and Property|federal land sales in Missouri]] 1818-1903, the [[Tennessee History#The_Draper_Manuscript_Collection|Draper Manuscript Collection]], [[Kentucky Taxation|Kentucky tax records]], Missouri State Penitentiary Records 1836-1931, papers of the St. Louis fur trade, [[African American Slavery and Bondage#Finding_plantation_records|''Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations'']], indexes and [[Compiled Service Records|Compiled Service Records]] of MO Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers, Civil War [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865#Union_Unit_Histories|Union]] and [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865#Confederate_Unit_Histories|Confederate unit histories]], selected [[US Immigration Passenger Arrival Records|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''.<ref>[https://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy/mgc-information/about-mgc About the Midwest Genealogy Center] at ''Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogical Center'' (accessed 14 December 2021).</ref> | ||
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