Missouri Vital Records -- Including Missouri births, Missouri deaths, Missouri marriages, cemetery, census, and more records.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| "Gone But Not Forgotten" Missouri Pioneers | www.rootsweb.com/
~mopionee/index.html | 0ver 2500 | before 1890 | Free | A nice compilation site for those who have Missouri roots. You can contact the submitter for more information. |
| Global Tree Missouri Births | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put MO in the birth place field | 0ver 280,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
| RootsWeb Missouri Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Missouri in the birth place field | 0ver 1,500,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb Missouri Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Missouri in the marriage place field | 0ver 800,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| St. Louis Marriages (1754-1835) | genealogyinstlouis.access
genealogy.com/stlmarr.htm | 0ver 4200 | 1754-1835 | Free | Great site, not too many names and you have to search it via scolling, but nice that they have some early marriages. |
| RootsWeb Missouri Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Missouri in the death place field | 0ver 1,200,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| A Missouri Death Index | freepages.genealogy.rootsweb
.com/~nettimae/modeaths/ | around 35,000 | varies | Free | A site with quite a few records, but it is hard to read, but it has a picosearch to help out. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: Missouri | obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put MO in the Keyword Search | 0ver 280,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree Missouri Deaths | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put MO in the death place field | 0ver 200,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
Census Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| The USGenWeb Census Project | www.us-census.org and go down to Census Surname Search and then find MO and put in the word "census" | 732 links with varying numbers of records per each | 1790-1920 | Free | Wow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found this site great! You can search by year, state, or name! |
| Census Online, Missouri, 681 links | www.census-online.
com/links/MO/ | 1,000s | 1840-1900 | Free | Another nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not a surname search |
Cemetery Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Missouri Inscription Cemetery Search | www.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/mo-cem.htm | 3723 documents with various numbers of results per each | varies | Free | Another nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb, but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites. |
| Cemetery Transcription Library | www.interment.net
/data/search.htm | 100s | varies | Free | What a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the entire site. |
| Search the Virtual Cemetery | www.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html | 100s | varies | Free | A nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture of the actual headstone. |