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Missouri State Genealogical Association

Missouri State Genealogical Association

Contact Information[edit | edit source]

E-mail:^[1] webmanager@mosga.org

Mailing Address:^[1]

P.O. Box 833
Columbia, MO 65205-0833

Internet sites and databases:

Missouri State Genealogical Association events, newsletters, surname databases, video overview, online store, Missouri first families certificates, researchers and speakers, membership, conference, blog, journal, and awards.
Mid-Continent Public Library catalog online

lists the MoSGA collection. Search by words or phrase, author, title, subject, or series. Also available in WorldCat.

Surname Databases four databases with over 113,800 names.
MoSGA facebook.

Collection Description[edit | edit source]

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.^[2] Their library collection is part of the Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence MO.^[3]

Alternate Repositories[edit | edit source]

If you cannot visit or find a source via the Missouri State Genealogical Association, 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.^[4] ^[5]
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>

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, and yearbooks.^[6]

Neighboring Collections

Boone County Clerk of the Circuit Court, Columbia, has marriage, death, probate, land, and court records from 1821.^[7] ^[8]
Boone County Health Department, Columbia, births since 1920, and deaths since 1980.
Boone County Historical Society, Columbia, about, membership, museum, meet the author, concerts, hall of fame, contact, Maplewood House, Art Gallery, Village at Boone Junction, latest news.
Boone County Medical Examiner, Columbia, suspicious deaths.
Boone County Recorder of Deeds, Columbia, has marriage, and land records since 1821^[7] ^[9] and military discharges.
Columbia Missouri Family History Center has premium online services for free and can offer research guidance.^[10]
Daniel Boone Regional Library, Columbia, has Ancestry.com, Heritage Quest Online, key Internet links, guides, and how-to-find births, marriages, and deaths.
Genealogical Society of Boone County and Central Missouri, Columbia, join, events, library, indexes, area deaths, GSCM Journal, bios, cemeteries, surnames, pioneers, and museum.
State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.</ref>
U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, Jefferson City, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court records.
Repositories in surrounding counties: Audrain, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard, Moniteau, and Randolph.
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.^[11] ^[12]
Missouri Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Jefferson City, birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates.^[13]
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>
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.^[13]
National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St. Louis, federal government employee and military personnel records starting 1917.^[14]
St. Louis Mercantile Library, early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.</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.^[15]
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.
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.
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.
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.^[16]
Dallas Public Central Library, outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including Missouri, Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.^[17]
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.^[18]

Sources[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Contacting MoSGA in Missouri State Genealogical Association (accessed 1 March 2016).
↑ Home in Missouri State Genealogical Association (accessed 1 March 2016).
↑ Library Program in Missouri State Genealogical Association (accessed 13 March 2014).
↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 67. At various libraries (WorldCat). FS Library Ref Book 973 J54d.
↑ About the Midwest Genealogy Center in Mid-Continent Public Library (accessed 5 May 2010).
↑ Online guide to St. Louis sources in the History and Genealogy Department in St. Louis County Library (accessed 2 February 2016).
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 9th ed. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), 229. WorldCat 812163213; FS Library Book 973 D27e 1999.
↑ Alice Eichholz, ed., Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 393. Ancestry digital copy ($); WorldCat 55947869; FS Library Book 973 D27rb 2004.
↑ Eichholz, 383 and 393.
↑ Introduction to Family History Centers in Family History Research Wiki (accessed 29 February 2016).
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 47 and 67.
↑ Special Collections in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 Vital Records in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 2 Feb 2016).
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 134.
↑ Genealogists in St. Louis Public Library (accessed 3 February 2016).
↑ Genealogy Center Collections in Genealogy Center (accessed 27 February 2015).
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 39.

[Cont-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Contacting MoSGA in Missouri State Genealogical Association (accessed 1 March 2016).

[2] Home in Missouri State Genealogical Association (accessed 1 March 2016).

[3] Library Program in Missouri State Genealogical Association (accessed 13 March 2014).

[4] William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 67. At various libraries (WorldCat). FS Library Ref Book 973 J54d.

[MGCAbout-5] About the Midwest Genealogy Center in Mid-Continent Public Library (accessed 5 May 2010).

[6] Online guide to St. Louis sources in the History and Genealogy Department in St. Louis County Library (accessed 2 February 2016).

[HBG229-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 9th ed. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), 229. WorldCat 812163213; FS Library Book 973 D27e 1999.

[rdb393-8] Alice Eichholz, ed., Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 393. Ancestry digital copy ($); WorldCat 55947869; FS Library Book 973 D27rb 2004.

[9] Eichholz, 383 and 393.

[10] Introduction to Family History Centers in Family History Research Wiki (accessed 29 February 2016).

[DB4767-11] Dollarhide and Bremer, 47 and 67.

[SC-12] Special Collections in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 7 March 2014).

[VR-13] 13.0 ^13.1 Vital Records in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 2 Feb 2016).

[DB134-14] Dollarhide and Bremer, 134.

[15] Genealogists in St. Louis Public Library (accessed 3 February 2016).

[16] Genealogy Center Collections in Genealogy Center (accessed 27 February 2015).

[DB107-17] Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.

[DB39-18] Dollarhide and Bremer, 39.

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-*[[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=FS Library 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>
+*[[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)}}. {{FSC|728550|item|disp=FS Library 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>
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 '''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br>
-*[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=FS Library 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 ($)]; {{WorldCat|55947869}}; {{FHL|1185723|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27rb 2004}}.</ref>
+*[http://www.courts.mo.gov/hosted/circuit13/courtoffices/bneclerkhome.htm Boone County Clerk of the Circuit Court], Columbia, has marriage, death, probate, land, and court records from 1821.<ref name="HBG229">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 9th ed''. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), 229. {{WorldCat|812163213}}; {{FSC|740321|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27e 1999}}.</ref> <ref name="rdb393">Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed''. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 393. [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3249 Ancestry digital copy ($)]; {{WorldCat|55947869}}; {{FSC|1185723|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27rb 2004}}.</ref>
 *[http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/health/vital-records/ Boone County Health Department], Columbia, births since 1920, and deaths since 1980.
 *[http://boonehistory.org/ Boone County Historical Society], Columbia, about, membership, museum, meet the author, concerts, hall of fame, contact, Maplewood House, Art Gallery, Village at Boone Junction, latest news.