Pike County, Missouri
Welcome to Pike County, Missouri Genealogy. A Member of MoGenWeb Project
I hope you find these resources helpful in your search for your ancestors. Additional links are on the left. If you have any resources that you consider helpful, please let me know.
I've included links to the USGenWeb Project, USGenWeb Archives Project and additional Special Projects and WorldGenWeb Project - they have been providing a wealth of information for over 25 years to assist you in your search for ancestors. In addition, FGS includes a link to Missouri and Pike County, Missouri, and instructions for submitting a family Group sheet. The Tombstone Transcription and Photo also includes links to Missouri and Pike County.
Links to websites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not emply any endorsement of the websites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project.
African American Genealogy - are you trying to find your roots? If you’re running into some brick walls with your genealogical research or just don’t know how to get started, this guide should be helpful to you.
American History & Genealogy Project; by state Missouri
American Revolutionary War - the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent (as well as some naval conflict).
American Society of Genealogy - founded in 1940, is an independent honorary society of the leading published scholars in the field of American genealogy.
Bureau of Land Management - we provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present. We also have images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records
Calendar and Dating - I use this website from Rootsweb
Chronicling America - via the Library of Congress, a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Civil War Data - fee based civil war database, the largest, most in-depth and fully searchable database of American Civil War soldiers and event. I have a membership and can do free lookups.
Coffelt Database of Vietnam Casualties - the Coffelt Database of Vietnam War casualties has its roots in an effort begun by Richard Donham Coffelt.
Color Landform Atlas - state maps
Conference Keeper - a genealogical calendar
Cornell University Library - civil war documents
Cyndies List - a comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online for 25+ years
Dar Library - since its founding in 1896, the DAR Library has grown into a specialized collection of American genealogical and historical manuscripts and publications, as well as powerful on-site databases
Digital Public Library of America - Discover 52,510,446 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States
Deciphering Old Handwriting - from a genealogy course taught by Sabina J. Murray
Diseases - USGenweb has compiled a list but I have compiled an even larger list based on my research on my family tree
Do History
- a site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments
that have
survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard.
Facebook Genealogy Calendar of Events - facebook's genealogical calendar
FamilySearch - search billions of ancestor profiles, photographs, and historical documents at once—absolutely FREE
FindAGrave - find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world.
Fold3 - part of Ancestry (explore billions of historical records) and fee based. I have a membership with Ancestry and Fold3 and can do free lookups
Genealogical.com - books and ebooks
Genealogical Spot, The
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - place names within the United States and its dependent areas are available in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and are the responsibility of the Domestic Names Committee (DNC) of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN)
History Hub - ask questions, get answers
Internet Archive - I use this site all the time, and now you can even rent books for a period of time with a free account
Irish American Immigration History - An educational resource for understanding the history of irish immigration
Jewish History - explore millions of records from around the world, identify relatives, discover the towns of your ancestors, experience how they lived, connect with our global JewishGen community, and more!
Library of Congress - Maps (1544-1996)
Linkpendium - Linkpendium - Pike County. Linkpendium is a 10,000,000+ resource directory to everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties. We cover both free and subscription sites, with a strong emphasis upon free resources provided by libraries, other government agencies, genealogical and historical societies, and individual
Missouri Digital Heritage - includes collections for birth and still born (pre 1910), death (pre 1910), death certificates (1910-1974) and naturalization (1816-1955) records
National Archives - explore our nation's history through our documents, photos, and records, includes Veteran's Service Records; at St. Louis, at DC
National Genealogical Society - recognized as 101 best websites
National Park Service - soldiers and sailors database, the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) is a database containing information about the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.
Native American History - The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) maintains historically significant and permanently valuable records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Record Group 75. Most BIA records in NARA's holdings document administrative matters and the federal government’s management of tribal and individual resource
Newspapers.com - a fee based database of newspapers. I have an account and can do free lookups and type up obits
Northeast Missouri Genealogical Society
Olive Tree Genalogy - created by Lorine in February 1996 was started to bring genealogists FREE genealogy records. Olive Tree Genealogy has more than 1,900 pages of free genealogy records to help you find your brick-wall ancestors and build your family tree, includes Ship Passenger Lists
Open Library - million of free books to read online
Project Gutenberg - over 75k of free ebooks
Rootsweb - Welcome to the Ancestry.com Family History Wiki, a great place to learn more about family history, a service from Ancestry.com
Sons of the American Revolution (search); SAR Library; SAR Genealogy
The State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSMO) - a great source for Missouri/Pike County history that has been been in business since 1898
ThoughtCo - navigate the world from home with these maps of cities, states, countries, and the world. Find geographic models of all types, including physical, topographic, road, and street maps
Wikipedia - wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects.
WikiTree - where advanced genealogists and casual family historians collaborate on a global family tree for our cousins and descendants to enjoy for free, forever with a free account. Includes a worldwide G2G (Message Board)
Worldcat - WorldCat.org connects genealogical researchers to millions of pieces of unique content not found elsewhere
Youtube - includes these channels Family History Fanatics, Genealogy Gems, Genealogy TV
Transcribed by County Coordinator, Kimberly Taylor Morgan