I haven't been blogging for some time now, but that is changing starting with this post I will try to post at least once a week. That being said I thought it was a good time to remind you that you can see and print copies of Missouri death certificates at the Mo. State Archives website at sos.mo.gov They now have the death records to look at and print from 1910-1960. You just have to remember that to check more than one spelling of your name in the index. I know that some of mine have been really mispelled in the index but then when you look at the certificate it is spelled right so whomever indexed it just read it wrong. Going all the way to 1960 has helped in my research of parents and spouses names for some that I didn't have before. Some of the other records online there that you should check are:
Civil War Provost Marshal Index Database
Coroner's Inquest Database( just a few counties)
Land Patents Database
Naturalization Records Database ( only for a few counties)
Soldiers' Records: War of 1812 - World War I
If your ancestors are from Missouri this is a great place to start, at the archives, but don't forget that you can find marriage records at ancestry.com
More about each county in Missouri later.
Good Hunting! I will be hunting my Capp, Bilyeu, Anderson, Vincent, Hyatt, Jones, and Slawson families from Missouri today.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
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