Exhibitor Profile-Missouri History Museum

Booth #419

The Missouri Historical Society (now known as the Missouri History Museum) was founded in 1866 and since that time has been collecting books, documents, photographs, and objects. to document the history of St. Louis, the state of Missouri, and the nineteenth-century American West. Among these collections are many unique items of great genealogical value. Notable genealogical items include:

• Twentieth-century employee magazines of St. Louis–area companies

• Yearbooks for St. Louis–area schools

• More than 3,000 catalogued archival collections including personal papers (letters, diaries, receipts, scrapbooks, certificates, military papers, etc.); records of businesses, organizations, and institutions (minute books, letters, rosters, etc.); and records of various government agencies, mostly from St. Louis City and County (licenses, tax records, voter registrations, court records, land records, etc.)

• World War I biography and service questionnaires filled out by persons who enlisted in St. Louis City and County

• Necrology scrapbooks that include obituaries clipped from St. Louis newspapers, circa 1880s-1970s

Start your search with the Genealogy and Local History Index at http://genealogy.mohistory.org. Additional catalogs, guides, and indexes can be found at collections.mohistory.org.

Associate archivist Dennis Northcott will be staffing the Missouri History Museum exhibit booth # 419, and will be happy to offer advice regarding your St. Louis genealogy research.

The Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center, located at 225 South Skinker Blvd. (across from Forest Park), will be open the following extended hours for NGS Conference attendees: Monday, 11 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Exhibitor Profile-Missouri History Museum