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While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Biographies
of Missouri
This is the second volume from this set and contains 351 biographies
and photographs of leading men of the first century of history in
Missouri (1820-1921). Though this manuscript covers the entire state
of Missouri, a good portion of the individual biographies are on
people who had resided in St. Louis at some point in their life.
St. Louis
Naturalization Records, 1816 - 1955
Immigrants to Missouri primarily emigrated from European countries,
including England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Austria, Romania, Hungary,
Switzerland, Prussia, Germany, and various German principalities
including Hanover, Bavaria, and Saxony . They filed their naturalization
papers to become citizens in county courts across the state. The
information contained in the naturalization records includes name,
native city and/or native country, date of record, court of application
(county court, circuit court, Supreme Court), and microfilm location for
copy of full entry (reel number, volume and page numbers).
Missouri Land Records
Missouri State Land
Patent Search
The Land Patents Project at the Missouri State Archives is an ongoing
project to transcribe information from the state-issued land patents to
create a database of patent information, useful in placing an individual
in a specific location at a specific time. Other record series that will
be included in this project will be Individual Land Surveys, 1804-1823
and Tax Deeds, 1847-1878. The information contained in the land patent
database includes name of purchaser, county, date of purchase, legal
land description, and microfilm location for copy of full entry (reel
number, volume and page number).
Missouri Soldier
Database
The Missouri State Archives holds nearly 1½ million pages that document
the service of Missourians in domestic and foreign wars between 1812 and
World War I. These military records primarily consist of individual
service cards, but the extensive collection also includes muster rolls,
special orders, reports, and more.
