Missouri Genealogy Trails
Welcome to this
Missouri Genealogy Trails
Website
Peggy Thompson is the State Host
Our
goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by
transcribing genealogical and
historical data
and placing it online for the free use of all researchers
We regret that we are unable to do personal research for
anyone
All
data we come across will be added to this site.
We thank you for visiting and hope
you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site
Happy
Trails to you on your quest for your ancestors.
In memory of
Melody Beery
who hosted this state site for us for many years.
About Missouri
In 1812 the Northern part of the Territory of Louisiana was changed and
named the Territory of Missouri and given territorial Rights.
On October 1, 1812, Governor Clark organized the five administrative
districts of the former Louisiana Territory into counties, which later
became the first five counties of the state of Missouri:
Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, and Ste. Genevieve
Most of the rest of the counties were organized from those original 5 counties.
St. Louis was the seat of the Territorial Government until 1820
Missouri entered the Union:
August 10, 1821 as the 24th state
It contains 114 Counties
The State Capital is Jefferson
City
State Nickname -"The Show Me State"
State Flower - " Hawthorn Crataegus" Common Name-White Hawthorn
State Bird - Eastern Blue Bird
State Motto: Salus populi suprema lex esto: "The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law"
State Highest Point - Taum Sauk Mountain
State Lowest Point - St. Francis River at southern Arkansas border
Kansas City
Kansas City was first named West Point.
On Dec. 2, 1897, West Point was annexed by Kansas City, Missouri.
The Kansas City metropolitan area lies in 7 Counties and 2 states,
situated at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers (Kaw
Point), and straddling the state border between Missouri and Kansas.
Old newspapers list it as either Kansas City, Missouri or Kansas City, Kansas.
Kansas City, Missouri includes 4 counties: Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte.
Kansas City, Kansas includes two counties: Johnson and Wyandotte
Here at Missouri Genealogy Trails when the county is not listed,
data for Kansas City will be located on the Jackson County, MO site.
COUNTY DATA
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OUR COUNTY SITES
All of our sites have extensive
transcribed
data on them, whether they have a host listed or not.
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DATA The majority of our state data is located on our county sites. The data below is just state related data. |
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| Biographies | Book Transcriptions |
| Cemetery Adventures |
Census |
| County Descriptions | |
| Maps | History Topics |
| News Gleanings | Military Records |
| Slavery Records | Obituaries and Death Notices (state related only - check our county sites for specific data!) |
| State Institutions | State Government |
| State Executions | |
| Updates: April 2023 - Slavery Records - Lynchings - added articles for Hughes & Hepler October 2022 - Slavery Records - Lynchings - added articles for 55 names |
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