Missouri

There's much more to explore at the official Missouri State Archives website, including a host of digital resources -- many that will thrill family history researchers -- that are not part of the Digital Heritage site and are easy to overlook:

• Archives' Online Catalog
• Birth & Death Records Database, pre-1910
• Civil War Provost Marshal Index Database
• Coroner's Inquest Database
• County and Municipal Records on Microfilm
• Digital Collections
• Finding Aids
• Land Patents Database
• Local Records Inventory Database
• Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1964
• Missouri Judicial Index Database
• Missouri Judicial Records
• Missouri Supreme Court Historical Database
• Naturalization Records Database
• Soldiers' Records: War of 1812 - World War I
• St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project
• St. Louis Probate Court Digitization Project

The Birth/Death records include stillborn births, a rarity in genealogical research.

State archives also include a County Inventory database that indexes the (mostly offline) archives held at the local level, and highlight, as well, a few additional online collections:

• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Provost Marshal/United States Colored Troops PDF images
• The Missouri Mormon War

The Missouri-Mormon War! Who knew!

Speaking of collections, head back to the Digital Heritage Collections site for a moment, where you can find the full list of several hundred online Collections, not all of which (e.g. Albrecht Dürer Woodcuts) have a Missouri focus:

• 1948 Presidential Campaign
• 1951 Flood
• A. B. Nichols Panama Collection
• Achieve-the Alumni Magazine of William Jewell College
• Adair County Porter School House
• Advertising Cards
• African American History Collection (Guide)
• African American Portrait Collection
• African Americans in Northeast Missouri
• Albrecht Dürer Woodcuts
• American Civil War in Missouri
• American Regionalism: Visions from the Heartland
• Andrew Taylor Still Papers
• Archer's Thumb Rings
• Architectonic Fixations: Photographs from the Collection of Russell Sturgis
• Art to Enchant: Illustrators and Shakespeare
• Assorted Images of Kansas City
• Autochromes
• Bagnell Dam Construction Photographs
• Baron Missakian Collection
• Before Dred Scott: Freedom Suits in Antebellum Missouri
• Benjamin Gratz Brown, 1871-1873
• BEYOND TLC: Missouri Women in the Health Science Professions
• Big Fire
• Blue Springs Historical Society Archives Photograph Collection
• Boone County Historical Society Civil War Collection
• Border Star Newspaper [also Weekly Border Star]
• Brush Creek Follies: Photographs, Sound, and Video from the Arthur B. Church - KMBC Radio Collection
• Buck Clayton Collection
• Bureau of Labor and Statistics - The Red Book
• Camp Crowder Photograph Collection
• Cape Girardeau Argus
• Capitol Construction Photographs
• Carrie Watkins Cookbook
• Carthage Picture Booklet
• Cass Gilbert's Palace of Fine Arts
• Celebrating the Louisiana Purchase: The 1904 World's Fair
• Central Wesleyan College Archives
• Centuries of Civil Engineering: A Rare Book Exhibition Celebrating the Heritage of Civil Engineering
• Chariton Collector
• Charles Elliott Gill Photographs
• Civil War Collection (Guide)
• Civil War in Missouri - Monographs
• Civil War Letters of Lewis Riley
• Claiborne Fox Jackson, 1861
• Clarence M. Kelley Diploma Collection
• Classics and Landmarks Collection
• Claude N. Strauser, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District
• Club Kaycee
• Cold War Confrontation: Truman, Stalin, and the Berlin Airlift, June 1948 - May 1949
• Columbia Missourian 1929, 1969-1975
• Come Home Tigers
• Community and Conflict: the Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks
• Connor Brochure
• Constance Fauntleroy Runcie Collection
• Cook Bros. Carriage Co. (Jewish Federation-Women's Division), 1897-1904
• Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra
• Cows on the Lawn
• Crack of the Pistol: Dueling in the 19th Century
• Cuneiform Tablets: Records of Ancient Mesopotamia
• Daily Evening Herald and Commercial Advertiser
• Daily Missouri Republican
• Dallas Bartley, Small Town Boy
• Dave Dexter, Jr. Collection
• Deafness in Disguise
• Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
• Depicting Devotion: Illuminated Books of Hours from the Middle Ages
• Devil's Island Paintings
• Diamond Vision, Missouri Tigers on the Field
• Diary of Nancy Holmes Corse
• Domino Danzero Family Photograph Collection
• Dred Scott Case
• Dred Scott: 150th Anniversary Commemoration
• Early Manuscripts by Charlotte Brontë: "The Secret" and "Lily Hart"
• Education Curricula: Exploring the Foundations of Churchill's Leadership
• Education
• Ellinor Dale Runcie Collection
• Equatorial Africa: Material Culture from Peoples of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya
• Establishing the Marshall Plan
• Ethnographic Collection
• Exploring Object Virtual Reality
• Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo
• Facsimiles of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles
• Famous Missourians
• Far West
• Fourth of July Speeches
• Fragments From the Botanical Frontier
• Frank and Jesse James Circuit Court Documents
• Frenchtown Postcards
• Frisco: A Look Back at the Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway
• Fruitful Heritage
• Getting Physical: Women's Athletics at MU
• Grayson Archery Collection
• Greenwood Cemetery Funerary Art
• Guadalupe Center Scrapbooks
• Guerrillas and Outlaws
• Guides to Special Collections at Ellis Library - UMC
• Hall?s Index & Items of Genealogical Interest from the Springfield, Greene County, MO Newspapers
• Hamilton Rowan Gamble, 1861 - 1864
• Hancock Lee Jackson, 1857
• Hannibal Clipper
• Hannibal Courier-Post
• Harry H. Laughlin Papers
• Heart of the University: MU Libraries
• Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library
• Hezzie Goes to War: World War I through the Eyes of a Mid-Missourian
• Historic "Blue Book" Photograph Collection
• Historical Postcards of Springfield, Missouri
• Illustrated History of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1800-1920)
• Immigrant Community of Ilasco, Missouri: Cement Company Town 1901-1965
• James Merrill: Other Writings
• Japanese Ivory Carvings
• Johann Leonhard Rost. Atlas Portatilis Coelestis, 1723
• John G. Neihardt: Poet of the American West
• John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library
• Joplin 1902 Picture Booklet
• Joplin 1913 Picture Booklet
• Joplin Historical Postcards
• Joplin Tornado
• Joseph Washington McClurg, 1869-1871
• Journal-Post Photographs
• Journal of Reverend Benjamin Stevens
• Judge Elmo M. Hargrave Photograph Collection
• Kansas City Churches
• Kansas City Journal-Post's Diamond Jubilee Section
• Kansas City Photographs
• Kansas City Postcards
• Kansas City Sheet Music Collection
• Kansas City: Paris of the Plains, the Jazz Age in Kansas City, 1920-40
• Key Resources on 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
• Kirksville Cyclone
• Kirksville Photos by Drake
• Klondike of Missouri
• Korean War: The US Response to North Korea's Invasion of South Korea
• Lasting Impressions: German-Americans in St. Louis
• Laws of the City of St. Louis Government
• Leon Karel Business Forms Collection
• Lewis & Clark Across Missouri
• Lewis & Clark Expedition
• Liberty Banner (March 3, 1844)
• Liberty Tribune
• Life in St. Louis: The Matthews Family 1811 - 2000
• Lincoln and the Dome
• Lincoln University Yearbooks (1915-1975)
• Lindenwood University
• Livingston County History
• Look into the Past of Trenton Missouri and Grundy County
• Louise and Omar Putman Collection
• Main Street
• Man's Best Friend: The Old Drum Story
• Maplewood Historical Photographs
• Maps of Missouri
• Maps
• Marion County Atlas, 1875
• Mark Twain Zephyr Image Collection
• Mary Alice Hansen Postcard Collection
• Masks Around the World
• Max Hunter Collection of Ozark Folk Song
• Medical Journeys
• Medicine in the Jungle: Dr. Thomas Dooley and Earl Rhine in Laos
• Medicine in Times of Need: 21st General Hospital/Base Hospital 21
• Meet Me at the Union
• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis
• Mineral Area Historic Building Landscape through an Architect's Eyes
• Mining Health Study
• Missouri's Early Slave Laws: A History in Documents
• Missouri Birth & Death Records Database Pre-1910
• Missouri Census Schedules from 1830-1930
• Missouri Civil War Battle Flags
• Missouri Conservationist
• Missouri Coroner's Inquest Database
• Missouri County & Municipal Records on Microfilm
• Missouri County Histories
• Missouri County Plat Books
• Missouri Death Certificates
• Missouri Historical Review
• Missouri Judicial Records
• Missouri Land Records 1820-1969
• Missouri Local Records Inventory Database
• Missouri Memories: A History in Photographs
• Missouri Mormon War
• Missouri Naturalization Records Database (1816-1955)
• Missouri Platbooks
• Missouri Soldier's Database: War of 1812 - WWI
• Missouri State Archives Photograph Collections (1850-present)
• Missouri Supreme Court Historical Database
• Missouri Union Provost Marshal Papers 1861-1866
• Missouri: Its History, Geology, Culture
• Mizzou from the Air
• Mizzou in 1900
• Mizzou on Canvas: A Portrait of Leadership
• Mizzourah! MU Football: The Early Years
• Molas: Textile Art of Panama
• MU in Brick and Mortar
• Museum Archives Catalog
• Musicians Local No. 627 and the Mutual Musicians Foundation: The Cradle of Kansas City Jazz
• Nang: Thai Shadow Puppets
• National Archives & Records Administration - Archival Research Catalog
• National Archives & Records Administration - Central Plains Region Digitized Collections
• Native American & Western Photograph Collection
• Natural History Books
• Nelly Don Collection
• Nineteenth Century Kansas City
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• O'Reilly General Hospital of Springfield, Missouri
• Official Manual of the State of Missouri - The Blue Book
• Old Grubstake Days in Joplin
• Old Stagecoach Stop
• Origins and History of the Washington University School of Medicine
• Otomi Cutout Figurines
• Out of This World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas
• Ozarks Digital Library - Black Families of the Ozarks, Volumes 1 and 2
• Ozarks Digital Library - Greene County Missouri, History
• Ozarks Digital Library - Greene County Missouri, Records
• Ozarks Digital Library - Regional Periodicals - Bittersweet
• Ozarks Digital Library - Regional Periodicals - OzarksWatch
• Ozarks Digital Library - Regional Periodicals - White River Valley Historical Quarterly
• Ozarks Digital Library - The Turnbo Manuscripts
• Paper Dinosaurs, 1824-1969
• Papers of James Mickleborough Greenwood 1874 - 1914
• Pegram Ozark Life Collection, Ozark Folklife Project
• Phelps County New Era
• Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection
• Photographs from the Joseph K. Redmond Jr. Collection
• Pioneering Days by Bud Belden
• Plat Books of Jackson County, Missouri
• Politics in Missouri Oral History Collection
• Polk City Directories 1859-1925, Hannibal, MO
• Poplar Bluff History Photo Pages
• Portrait and Biographical Record of St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren Counties
• Postcards from the St. Louis World's Fair & Exposition
• Powerful Grace Lies in Herbs and Plants
• Preserve Louisiana's Images
• Progress Amidst Prejudice: Portraits of African Americans in Missouri (1880-1920)
• Progressive St. Charles 1916
• Propaganda War: World War II Posters
• Quest for the Cure: Care and Treatment in Missouri's First State Mental Hospital
• R.A. Longs City and Country Homes Photograph Album
• Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library
• Ravenna Mosaic Company: A Retrospective
• Registre d'Arpentage
• Richard W. Bolling Photograph Collection
• Riches From the Earth
• Robert Askren Photograph Collection
• Robert Marcellus Stewart, 1857-1860
• Rolla Express
• Rolla New Era
• Roman Imperial Coin Portraits
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Kansas City
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Missouri
• Savitar - The University of Missouri Yearbook (1895-1903, 1905-1922)
• School Yard Journal
• Shannon County Film Project
• Silas B. Woodson, 1873-1875
• South Central Business Association
• Southern Presbyterian Review Project
• Spiritual Journeys: Books Illustrating the First Two Centuries of Contemplation and Action in the Society of Jesus
• Springfield, Missouri, and Surroundings 1889
• St. Charles Car Company
• St. Charles County Historical Society Archives and Photo Gallery
• St. Charles County in the World War
• St. Charles Postcards
• St. Charles Rugby Owl
• St. Charles Rugby School of Technology
• St. Louis Area Civil War Digitization Project
• St. Louis Christian Advocate
• St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project
• St. Louis Globe Democrat Images
• St. Louis Mayors
• St. Louis Mechanics Liens
• St. Louis Mercantile Library Special Collections
• St. Louis Palladium
• St. Louis Probate Court Digitization Project 1802-1900 (now a part of Missouri's Judicial Records)
• St. Louis Views
• St. Louis Walk of Fame
• Star Atlases
• State Historical Society - The Civil War in Missouri
• State Historical Society of Missouri - Civil War Manuscripts
• State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection
• State Historical Society of Missouri Editorial Cartoon Collection
• State Historical Society of Missouri Images of Missouri Collection
• Steedman Architectural Collection
• Stephensophia
• Sterling Price, 1853-1857
• Stillwell Murder or A Society Crime by Minnie T. Dawson
• Swekosky-Notre Dame College Collection
• Tatler - The William Jewell College Yearbook
• Terra Incognita
• Thomas Clement Fletcher, 1865-1869
• Ticket to the Past: The First 25 Years of the Missouri State Fair
• Tigers Through the Hoop
• Timeline of Missouri History
• Transportation
• Tri-State Mining Maps
• Truman Administration's Civil Rights Program: The Desegregation of the Armed Forces
• Truman Doctrine and the Beginning of the Cold War
• Truman Library Photograph Collection
• Tycho Brahe. Astronomical Coniectur [A New Star], 1632
• Type Specimens from the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium
• UMKC's Book of Gregorian Chant
• United Nations 1945-53: The Development of a World Organization
• United States' Recognition of Israel
• United States Colored Troops in Missouri
• University City Image Collection
• University High School Yearbooks
• University of Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Publications
• University of Missouri Bulletin Journalism Series
• University of Missouri Libraries Electronic Books
• University of Missouri Sports Posters
• Upset! Truman's Whistle Stop Campaign Remembered
• Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection
• Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and the Home Front
• Voyages: Scientific Circumnavigations 1679 - 1859
• Walter C. Richards Photography Collection
• Walter J. Ong Collection
• Ward Parkway "A Grand American Avenue"
• Washington University Papyri Collection
• Washington University School of Medicine Oral History Project
• Welcome to 1890s Kirksville
• Westhoff Photo Collection
• WEW Radio: We Enlighten the World - Saint Louis University and the early days of radio
• What a Piece of Work is Man: Reading the Body in Medieval Manuscripts
• Where the Wilson Meets the James
• Willard Preble Hall, 1864 - 1865
• William Jewell College Histories
• Willis Castle Memorial Photographs
• Women's Work: Portraits of 12 Scientific Illustrators from the 17th to the 21st Century

Missouri seems to have a real dedication to preserving, digitizing and making available its historical materials, and is looking for even more content to offer online:

"...We’re always working to help local organizations digitize their collections and share them online. If you have ideas or suggestions, please send them to mdh@sos.mo.gov