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Missouri Valley Special Collections

From the Kansas City Public Library. The Missouri Valley Special Collections (MVSC) consist of the non-circulating local history and genealogy resources of the Kansas City Public Library as well as the Library’s archives.

National Archives and Records Administration

Newberry Library - Missouri Genealogy

Online Schools - Libraries in Missouri

The Mid-Continent Library is a great place to start your genealogy research. You can use this site's Missouri library finder tool to find location, contact, and website information for the over 400 libraries in the state.

Public Libraries in the United States - Missouri

A directory with detailed information for public libraries in each state.

PublicLibraries.com - Missouri

Smith's Master Index to Maritime Museum Websites - Missouri (Wayback Machine)

St. Louis County Library

St. Louis Mercantile Library

The task of the Mercantile Library as a research library is to make its collections, which have come to concentrate on Western Expansion and the history, development, and growth of the St. Louis region and of the American rail and river transportation experiences, available to the widest number of local and national users.

St. Louis Public Library

State Historical Society of Missouri

The Archives at Eden Theological Seminary

St. Louis, Missouri. Holds the official materials of the former Evangelical Synod of North America and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Its primary purpose is to catalog and make available records of United Church of Christ congregations, persons, and agencies that belonged to the former Evangelical Synod of North America.

The University of Missouri - Western Historical Manuscript Collection

UMKC University Libraries - Kansas City Sources

List of Local Heritage Centers, Archives, & Museums in Kansas City, Missouri.

United Methodist Church - Annual Conference Commissions on Archives and History

List of annual conference archive contacts for the state. For local Methodist church records, your best resource is the annual conference archives. The boundaries of the annual conference do not necessarily coincide with state boundaries, and some states may have several conferences within their borders.

University of Missouri - Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Columbia

The four campuses have joined in the cooperative effort with the State historical Society to make the Western Historical Manuscript Collection a statewide resource readily available to everyone.

William Jewell College Archives and William E. Partee Center for Baptist Historical Studies

From William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. Jointly sponsored by the College and the Missouri Baptist Convention, the Center gives an organized approach to the historical needs of Missouri Baptist churches and fosters an interest in Baptist history of the American Midwest.

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