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NOTE: Each database covers different cemeteries, although some may overlap. Don't be discouraged if you do not locate your individual in the first database. Check each collection.

Notice the wealth of information in these FindAGrave records. Each name in blue is a link to another FindAGrave record. Likewise, the World War II draft in may give birth date, birth place, residence, occupation, employer, and other family members as contacts.

Search for your male relatives born in this time period at. This collection consists of two card indexes to widows who had applied for a pension renewal. The first covers service between and the second covers service in the Civil War and later. This is helpful in locating a woman in census and death records under her new surname. The census records may show that your ancestor was born in another country.

It will be necessary to try to find the town or city they were born in to continue research in the country of origin. Searches of immigration records usually passenger lists and naturalization citizenship records are the next goal.

Immigration refers to people coming into a country, such as the United States, and emigration refers to people leaving a country to go to another. Usually these records are passenger lists of the ships they sailed on. A typical record will show name, age, and country of origin, but in ship lists after you can find the actual town of birth, the next of kin still living in the old country and their residence, and the names of relatives in the place they are traveling to.

Census records can provide important clues about nationality and immigration. This chart lists data that can be found in each of the census records. Gather the information in the census records specifically about immigration, as it will help narrow down your search. Passenger lists and border crossing lists are the most common immigration records.

There are many immigration records available. Click here to see a complete list of available immigration records online. Notice that they are listed by state, but under the letter "U" there is a long list of records that cover all of the United States.

Unless family information tells you the port where family arrived, you will need to search all of the United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records for the time period when your ancestors arrived. Naturalization is the process of becoming a citizen. Records can include the immigrant's declaration of intent to become a citizen, petitions for citizenship, and final certificate of naturalization.

Naturalization records after can show birth date and place, spouse's name, marriage date and place, and lists of children with their birth dates.

Missouri naturalization records could be recorded at the county court or the Federal District or Circuit Court. You must look for them in both locations. Try searching first in any county where the person lived, unless the census tells you the year they were naturalized, and you have evidence of where they lived that year. If you cannot locate them in the county records, try searching for them in the Federal courts.

You can now go through a process of working back and forth between all the different record types. Most researchers find clues in the census records that alert them to new certificates to obtain. The certificates then give them ideas of new facts to look for in the census. For example, when a marriage certificate gives you a wife's maiden name, you will then want to look for her in earlier censuses listed with her family as a child.

When the census shows you her parents' names, you may then search for their death records. The death records might show their patents' names and take you back to the census to search for them. A naturalization record listing children's names might lead you back to birth certificate searches, and so on. Here is a simple pedigree showing what we have discovered so far: Here are some sample research projects you could continue with:.

These collections of biographies can be searched online. Most have a table of contents and an index. Or you can use the "Find" function on your computer. This online directory by GenealogyInc. Here is an example of an internet website for a local genealogical society. Use the Wiki articles for Missouri and its counties to find out about other records in state, county, or local repositories. Although FamilySearch is actively working to microfilm and preserve records throughout the world, this huge job is nowhere near complete.

We have tried in the Wiki to provide information about collections, books, and records held in government and ecclesiastical archives beyond the Family History Library records.

In Missouri, United States Genealogy, you can find links to these records and how to access them. Also here you will find information on records from your particular Missouri county of interest. Memories Overview Gallery People Find. Sign in Create Account. Family Tree. From FamilySearch Wiki. Missouri Step-by-step research present A suggested approach to genealogy research in Missouri family history records. Step-by-step Missouri Research to the present Table of Contents 1.

Contact living relatives. Online census records. Births, marriages, and deaths online 4. Obituary and cemetery records online. Military records online. Immigration and naturalization records online. Study clues.

Printed local histories or biographies online. Wills and probate. Historical or genealogical societies. Visit a Family History Center. What sets this era in Missouri genealogy apart from earlier time periods are the advent of civil registration state birth, marriage, and death certificates and the possibility that you have older living relatives who can provide memories and family records. In addition, U. See also, How to use "record hints". Find out everything you can from living relatives and their family records: [ edit edit source ] Every good genealogy project starts with finding all the clues you can gather from living relatives — both from their memories and from documents or memorabilia in their homes.

What should you ask? Using the clues to lead to census record searches. This website requires a paid subscription for full access. Navigation menu Personal tools English. Namespaces Page Talk. Views Read View source View history.

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Step 2. Find your ancestors in every possible census record, , online. You should find your family members in every possible census, using these convenient links: U.

Missouri, Births and Christenings, Index only. Missouri Birth Records, Index and images. Missouri, Marriages, Index only. Missouri Marriages, Index only. Missouri, Deaths and Burials, Index only. Coroner's Inquest Database. Some obituaries go as far back as Most of their obituaries are scanned copies of the actual obituary clippings. Immigration and Naturalization Found in the U.

Census by Year other information also given but is not listed here. Whether father and mother are of foreign birth. Place of birth for father and mother Naturalization status: alien, papers submitted, or naturalized Year of immigration to U. How many years lived in U.

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Related Websites. Birth and Death Records Database. Missouri Department of Health. Missouri State Archives. Collection Citation: The citation for this collection can be found on the Collection Details Page in the section Citing this Collection.