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=== Contact Information ===
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'''E-mail:'''<ref name="Col">[http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/columbia/ Columbia] in ''The State Historical Society of Missouri'' (accessed 26 February 2016).</ref> [mailto:shsofmo@umsystem.edu shsofmo@umsystem.edu] <br>
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'''Address:'''<ref name="Col" />
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:State Historical Society of Missouri<br>University of Missouri Ellis Library<br>1020 Lowry Street<br>Columbia, Missouri, 65201-7298<br>
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::With additional centers at [http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/capegirardeau/ Cape Gerardeau], [http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/kansascity/ Kansas City], [http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/rolla/ Rolla], [http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/stlouis/ St. Louis], and [http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/springfield/ Springfield].<br><br>
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'''Telephone:'''<ref name="Col" /> 573-882-1187<br>'''Fax:''' 573-884-4950<br>
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'''Hours and holidays:'''<ref name="Col" /> Tuesday-Friday 8:00-4:45 ; Saturday 8:00-3:30 ; [https://oa.mo.gov/commissioner/state-holidays Missouri holidays]<br>
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'''Map, parking, and public transportation:'''<br>
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:*'''''Google map: ''''' [https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+State+Historical+Society+of+Missouri/@38.9433179,-92.3319443,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x87dcb7c0bd1d527f:0x69fafd501d12c2f?hl=en State Historical Society of Missouri at the University of Missouri Ellis Library]<br>
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:*'''''Parking: ''''' is very limited: [http://map.missouri.edu/?bldg=37165 University Avenue Garage]: metered parking on top level; [http://map.missouri.edu/?bldg=37279 Hitt Street Garage]: metered parking on levels 4, 5, and 6; Limited [http://mu-cf-map.col.missouri.edu/muparking/ campus parking map].<ref name="Col" />
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:*'''''Public transportation: ''''' The [https://www.comoconnect.org/ COMO Connect Transit] bus routes [http://tigerline.missouri.edu/day.html Tiger Line] routes, [https://www.comoconnect.org/schedules/black/ 1 Black], [https://www.comoconnect.org/schedules/gold/ 2 Gold], and [https://www.comoconnect.org/schedules/red/ 10 Red] each stop within a few blocks of the Ellis Library.
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'''Internet sites and databases:''' <br>
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*[http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/columbia/ The State Historical Society of Missouri Columbia Research Center] contact, hours, location, campus navigation and parking, group visits and tours, policies and procedures.
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*[http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/index.shtml About SHSMO] become a member, donate, events, exhibitions, research requests, and visitor information.
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*[http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/visit Merlin online catalog]. Search by keyword, title, author, or journal title.
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=== Collection Description ===
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Good genealogy collection with historic Missouri manuscripts and reference books<ref name="DB67" />, collection of 460,000 books, 500,000 [http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ manuscripts], 150,000 archival records, 2,900 [http://shs.umsystem.edu/map/ maps], databases, [http://shs.umsystem.edu/art/ art], [http://shs.umsystem.edu/census/ census], [http://statehistoricalsocietyofmissouri.org/ digital collections], [http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/ newspapers], [http://shs.umsystem.edu/oralhistory/ oral history], and [http://shs.umsystem.edu/photograph/ photographs].<ref>[http://shs.umsystem.edu/research/ Collections and Research] in ''State Historical Society of Missouri'' (accessed 7 March 2014).</ref> This Society has research centers at Cape Girardeau, Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla, St. Louis, and Springfield.
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=== Guides ===
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*[http://shs.umsystem.edu/research/guides/genealogy/ Genealogy Guides] introduction, getting started, adoptions, African American, birth and death, census, land, marriage, military, and Native American.
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*[http://shs.umsystem.edu/research/guides/ Research Guides and Resources] art, census, digital collections, ILL, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, oral history, photos, reference, research requests, rights and reproductions.
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=== Tips ===
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*[http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/visit Visitor information] locations, upon arrival, protocol.
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*Before your visit, please read the [http://shs.umsystem.edu/about/visit.html#facility policies and procedures] regarding use of SHSMO's facilities.
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=== Alternate Repositories ===
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If you cannot visit or find a source at the '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', a similar source may be available at one of the following.
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'''''Overlapping Collections'''''<br>
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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 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>
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*[[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" />
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*[[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" />
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*[http://www.slcl.org/genealogy St. Louis County Library], a Missouri collection including the [http://www.ngsgenealogy.org National Genealogical Society], and [http://www.stlgs.org St. Louis Genealogical Society] collections, online databases, federal censuses, births, deaths, cemeteries, church records, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, wills, African American records, yearbooks, and access to LDS microfilms.<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><br>
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'''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br>
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*[http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/health/vital-records/ Boone County Health Department], Columbia, births since 1920, and deaths since 1980.
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*[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=FHL 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=FHL Book 973 D27rb 2004}}.</ref>
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*[https://www.showmeboone.com/recorder/ Boone County Recorder of Deeds], Columbia, has marriage, and land records since 1821<ref name="HBG229" /> <ref>Eichholz, 383 and 393.</ref> and military discharges.
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*[http://www.countyoffice.org/mo-boone-county-medical-coroner/ Boone County Medical Examiner], Columbia, suspicious deaths.
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*[http://www.mow.uscourts.gov/locations.html#jc U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri], Jefferson City, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court records.
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*[http://boonehistory.org/ Boone County Historical Society], Columbia, about, membership, museum, meet the author, concerts, hall of fame, contact, Maplewood House, Art Gallary, Village at Boone Junction, latest news.
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*[http://boonecomogen.org/ Genealogical Society of Boone County and Central Missouri], Columbia, join, events, library, indexes, area deaths, ''GSCM Journal'', bios, cemeteries, surnames, pioneers, and museum.
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*[http://www.dbrl.org/reference/subject-guides/genealogy Daniel Boone Regional Library], Columbia, has Ancestry.com, Heritage Quest Online, key Internet links, guides, and how-to-find births, marriages, and deaths.
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*[[Columbia Missouri Family History Center]] can offer research suggestions, and can order genealogical microfilms from the [[Family History Library]] in Salt Lake City.
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*[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" />
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*Repositories in '''''surrounding counties:''''' [[Audrain County, Missouri|Audrain]], [[Callaway County, Missouri|Callaway]], [[Cole County, Missouri|Cole]], [[Cooper County, Missouri|Cooper]], [[Howard County, Missouri|Howard]], [[Moniteau County, Missouri|Moniteau]], and [[Randolph County, Missouri|Randolph]].
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*[[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>
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*[[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>
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*[http://www.mosga.org/ Missouri State Genealogical Association] has donated their books the the Midwest Genealogy Center.
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*[[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>
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*[[St. Louis Mercantile Library]], early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.<ref name="DB67" /><br>
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*[[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>
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*[http://jacksongov.org/151/Medical-Examiner Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records] parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.
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*[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.
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*[http://www.lutheranhistory.org/ Concordia Historical Institute], St. Louis, Department of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
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*[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.
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*[http://www.centralmethodist.edu/library/moumcarchive.php Missouri United Methodist Archives], Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers.
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*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]].
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*[[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.<ref>[http://www.genealogycenter.org/docs/default-source/resources/aboutusbrochure.pdf?sfvrsn=2 Genealogy Center Collections] in ''Genealogy Center'' (accessed 27 February 2015).</ref><br>
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*[[Dallas Public Central Library]], outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including '''Missouri''', Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.<ref name="DB107">Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.</ref><br>
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*[[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.<ref name="DB39">Dollarhide and Bremer, 39.</ref>
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