Genealogy Room, St. Louis Public Library, 1301 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63103
Contact: 314-539-0385 or webref@slpl.org.
Hours: Mon-Thurs: 10 AM-9 PM; Fri-Sat: 10 AM-6 PM; Closed Sunday.
The Genealogy Room, St. Louis Room, History & Geography Room, the Rare Books & Special Collections Department are all located on the 3rd Floor of Central Library.
Our collection focuses mainly on Missouri and on those states and countries that furnished large numbers of emigrants to Missouri (that is, most states east and south of Missouri, plus Germany, France, Ireland, and the United Kingdom).
Holdings
The Genealogy Room’s collection consists of books, periodicals, city directories, and telephone books, microfilm, and vertical file materials (mostly newspaper clippings or family history materials that could not be bound). The book collection includes thousands of family histories in book form plus numerous local, county, and regimental histories. The microfilm collection includes city directories, census records, passenger records, some military records, plus various vital records, cemetery records, and newspapers for the St. Louis City and County area. Most of these materials have been cataloged and can be searched via our online catalog: http://www.slpl.org/.
We also have extensive map and heraldry collections. The map collection includes topographic maps, Sanborn fire insurance maps, highway maps, land ownership maps, county plat maps, and atlases, Missouri and Illinois county highway maps, St. Louis ward maps, and city maps (domestic and foreign). There is also a large series of sheet maps of WWII-era Europe, plus there are numerous atlases and gazetteers in our book collection.
Reference computers in the Genealogy Room provide access to Ancestry Library Edition, Fold3.com, HeritageQuest Online, and numerous other reference databases.
The Library also has extensive collections on St. Louis history, including its government, neighborhoods, architecture, artists, and authors. A huge Local History Card File and the Local History Vertical File are located in the St. Louis Room. The Special Collections Department has large photograph and postcard collections, plus a large collection of 1904 World’s Fair materials (books, guidebooks, periodicals, photographs, and ephemera). That department also owns collections of St. Louis imprints, cuneiforms, illuminated manuscripts, miniature books, and several old Bibles, including a King James Bible (1611).
Rules
You do not need a library card to use our materials in-house, and there is no use fee for out-of-town residents. You may use pen or pencil in the Genealogy Room (pencils only in Special Collections). You may bring personal belongings into the Genealogy Room, but we reserve the right to search bags / briefcases as necessary. You can bring bottled water or soda (no cans or other open containers), but may only eat in the café area (see Amenities).
Our photocopier and microfilm machines can be used to make paper copies, or you can bring a flash drive and save to it on either type of machine. You may also use cameras (without flash) to make photographs for personal use (you must obtain prior permission from us to use such images in print or electronic publications). You may bring your laptop or tablet, and free wi-fi is available in the Genealogy Room.
We prefer to be notified in advance if you plan to bring a group of 10 or more persons to the Library (314-539-0385).
Amenities
The library is located in downtown St. Louis at the corner of 13th and Olive Streets. On weekdays there is parking at meters and on pay-per-day lots. Meters are not checked after 7 PM on weekdays. We also have limited free parking for customers on a lot we own at 15th and Olive Streets (directly behind the Campbell House Museum). You can pull right onto the lot, but must get a parking token from the Olive or Locust Street Circulation Desks in order to exit from the lot.
Located in the west wing of the Locust Street Atrium (1st Floor), Urban Eats Café features many of the same tasty foods and drinks with an ethnic twist that St. Louisans have come to love at Urban Eats’ south city location. Other places to eat are also available within easy walking distance of the Library.
More information
More about the Library: http://www.slpl.org/
Our blogs: http://www.slpl.org/slpl/library/blogs.asp
Our genealogy newsletter: http://gfh.slpl.org/
Our obit index and other indexes: http://indexes.slpl.org/
More on our parking lot: http://www.slpl.org/slpl/library/central_parking.asp
More about Urban Eats: http://hgdept.blogspot.com/2014/08/urban-eats.html
Find Places Downtown: http://www.downtownstl.org/places/
Explore St. Louis: http://explorestlouis.com/
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