Vital Records ~ Cemeteries ~ Obituaries
B ~ M ~ D's

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Reclaim the Records has uploaded new Birth Records for Missouri:
Missouri Birth Index, 1920(ish)-2015
"They tried to charge us $1.5 million for a public records request.
Then they decided to ignore the state Sunshine Law altogether."

Basic B~M~D Records can be found in many places, it is not my intent to locate or record those,
rather I try to locate records and resources outside the realm of normal research.
There is a huge number of FS Vital Record Films in the 'Historical Image' section of their Catalog.
This is a link to the list I gleaned last year.

Additionally: The Following are recommended:
MO Digital Heritage ~ Reclaim the Records ~ US GenWeb® Archives
Missouri Births and Christenings: 1827 1935 [Searchable collection on FS] ~ Guide to Birth and Death Records
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Family Search ~ "Collections" for 'Missouri Neighboring States':
Arkansas ~ Illinois ~ Iowa ~ Kansas [Scroll down] ~ Kentucky
Nebraska ~ Oklahoma ~ Tennessee
Sign into your FS Account, then use the above links

Missouri Marriages: 1750 1920 Marriage, Naturalization and Court Records: 1802 1969
FS: County Marriages, Naturalization and Court Records: 1800-1991

Marriage Records from the FS Historical Image Section
Often times folks traveled to get married: Below are links to Historical Images [Primarily Marriage,
Civil Registrations and Marriage Banns] for: St Charles ~ Franklin ~ Jefferson ~ City of St Louis, Missouri
Madison, IL ~ St Clair, IL ~ Monroe, IL

LDS Film 8133851 - Item 1 - Marriages
This link is for the index images

Family Search ~ Michigan Marriages
This link is for folks born in Missouri and who married in Michigan: 1868 - 1925
[Available Info: Full Name, Place of Marriage, Residence, Place of Birth, Age, Occupation, Officiant, Witnesses]
Sign into your FS Account, then use the above link.
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Missouri Deaths: 1867 1976 ~ Missouri State Archives
Born in Missouri, Died in San Luis Obispo Co., CA Possible Obits and D C Lookups
MO: Deaths and Burials - Index
Use Index above, then go to the FS "MO Deaths and Burials" City of St Louis: Vital Records and Vital Records for Illinois - FS
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City of St Louis: St Anthony's Catholic Church Death and Funeral Records: 1936 - 1993 LDS Film #1887324
Access: Log into your FS Account, Search, Catalog,
Enter Film # in Fiche/Film slot, using this linked chart to find persons of interest.

'Missouri Only Vital record Databases: Family Search [Chart]
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Vital Odds
Divorce Records are also considered "Vital Records"
Did any of your Family go to Colorado?
Here is info on Colorado Divorces: State Wide ~ Film Numbers are Here
Filmed Records: Family Search ~ 1900 1939 and 1975 1992
Information Entered: CO County of Divorce ~ Date and Place of Marriage Number and Names of Minor Children,
if any Maiden Name Restored ~ Date of Decree

...and this book which may be of interest:
Booklet: Divorce and Separations: Missouri ~ 1808-1853 LDS Catalog or Go Here
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Cemeteries and Mortuary Records

California, Sacramento, Cemetery Records, 1900-1959
FS Film # 104304412 See FS for Exact Birth & Death Locations / Search using "MO" Clark, Booth & Yardley [Mortuary Cards]

Note: Due to the proliferation of Organizations and Individuals who are digitizing Cemetery Records,
existing Cemetery Data will be listed here as references along with links.
Interesting News Article Notice about interments which had been moved in the following Cemetery:
Washington Park Cemetery North [and others in St Louis [City and County]
Further Investigation turned up a web page with explanations and and index [ca 2000].
The interments were done in 1996.
Read all about it here.

Cemetery Listings:
St Louis Gen Society USGW Archives: St Louis Cemeteries ~ Linkpendium: St Louis Cemeteries
Interment.net: St Louis ~ Find~A~Grave [280 Cemeteries]
F~A~G: Born in Missouri, Died in San Luis Obispo Co., CA ~ [Possible Obits]
Catholic Cemeteries of St Louis County
St Paul's Evangelical [Olivette] Cemetery
Historic Cemeteries of Missouri ~ Missouri Gravestone Project
U.S.,Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-2015 US Army Cemeteries 1827-1889 ~ Babler State Park
Westleyan Cemetery [Old Handwritten Indexes] LDS Film 1405557
Family Search Catalog: 1848-1929

DAR Cemetery Collections
Over the years the DAR Ladies compiled, collected and transcribed hundreds
of Cemeteries in the United States. These are important because many of the old wooden markers are now gone.
2 Cemeteries in St Louis County are among the many:
Parkway and Sappington: Film #870010

F-A-G, Canada, POB: FS Database
Other Cemetery Records can be found here.
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Mortuary Records California, Sacramento, Cemetery Records, 1900-1959 FS Film # 104304412
Please Use This Link
See FS for Exact Birth and Death Locations / Search using "MO"
Clark, Booth and Yardley [Mortuary Cards]
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Obituaries
There were many pages of Death Notices and Obits in the old St Louis Files.
They have been reformatted and can be found here.

Here are the Obituaries for 2023
There are Items from two TV News Stations and the St Louis Post Dispatch

Obituaries, Death Notices, Mortality Records: Archival Newspapers
Obituaries: NewsBank "America's Death Notices and Obituaries"
The linked date ranges below are screen dumps of the NewsBank Pages
NewsBank is now combined with "HeritageHub" which is a subscription database.
Each line on the linked pdf is the person's name, and the wording from the header of the News Article.
The links will not work unless you have a subscription to a Library that allows access.
So if you find a person of interest, Send along a note: Martha
Use the Links on the Chart below to find persons of interest: Dates

1981 - 1999	2000 - 2022
StLou,MO, Apr, 81 - Oct, 86	StLou,MO, Jan, 2000 - Feb, 2003
StLou,MO, Sep, 86 - Dec, 89	StLou,MO, Mar, 2003 - Apr, 2005
StLou,MO, Jan, 88 - Mar, 88	StLou,MO, May - Dec, 2005
StLou,MO, Mar, 88 - Apr, 88	StLou,MO, Feb, 2006 - Jun, 2008
StLou,MO, Apr, 88 - Jun, 88	StLou,MO, Jun, 2008 - Dec, 2010
StLou,MO, Jun, 88 - Jul, 88	StLou,MO, Feb, 2011 - Jan, 2014
StLou,MO, Jul, 88 - Sep, 88	StLou,MO, Jan, 2014 - Aug, 2015
StLou,MO, Sep, 88 - Oct, 88	StLou,MO, Aug - Dec, 2015
StLou,MO, Oct, 88 - Dec, 88	StLou,MO, Jan, 2016 - May, 2017
StLou,MO, Dec, 1988	StLou,MO, May, 2017 - Feb, 2019
StLou,MO, Jan - Dec,1989	StLou,MO, Feb - Oct, 2019
StLou,MO, Jan, 90 - Jan, 92	StLou,MO, Oct, 2019 - Oct, 2020
StLou,MO, Feb, 92 - Feb, 95	StLou,MO, Oct, 2020 - Dec, 2020
StLou,MO, Feb, 95 - Feb, 98	StLou,MO, Jan, 2021 - Aug, 2021
StLou,MO, Feb, 98 - Jul, 99	StLou,MO, Aug, 2021 - May, 2022
StLou,MO, Aug, 99 - Nov, 99	StLou,MO, May. 2022 - Sep, 2022
	StLou,MO, Sep, 2022
	St Lou,MO,Oct - Dec, 2022

Other Obituary Resource:: HeritageHub [Subscription Database]
HeritageHub is available at many Local Public Libraries
Access it with your Library Card

Obituary Indexes from the Legacy Collection of Jose Rivera Nieves
Here is the Index for St Louis County
Here is the Index for all of Missouri
Here is the Index for the United States
Here is an index for Countries of the World

Note:
Many of the Obituaries might be found using Heritage Hub Digital Newspaper Collection
which is available in many local Public Libraries.
Check your local Library under 'Resources' - Access requires a Library Card

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"Missouri Pioneers" Obituary Abstracts: St Louis Christian Advocate.
All of the Files, Indexes and Articles are in the FS Catalog
Please use this LInk

1860 Mortality Schedule
California, Oakland, Alameda County, Newspaper Record Collection,1985-2011 "Born in Missouri"
The images are available on Family Search, sign in for access.

Mildred Hooper Obituary Collection The Hooper collection is in the FS Catalog,
if you wish to look at it further, log into your Acct, Search, Catalog, enter 'Mildred Hooper' in the Keyword slot.

"Pahrump, Nevada Genealogical Society Obits 1970 - 2009": Published: 2010
Digital copies of obituaries for people with some connection to Pahrump, Nevada.
Individuals may have lived and or died in many different states."
Please use this link for all of the publications There are indexes and each book is searchable or available to download.

From the FS Catalog: "Tidbits from the Big Piney Examiner of Sublette Co., WY" 1912 2006 - Some Years Missing
Compiler: Anna Lee Woffinden

The Booklets are full of Obituaries, Death and Funeral Notices Accidents, and the odd news article about local Pioneers
The Booklets can be read online or downloaded from the FS Catalog.
There are indexes at the back of each Booklet
Please use this link
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Newspapers
Free Digital newspapers and other online 'goodies'
'Century Past': Free Online Library ~ All Sorts of Interesting Stuff

Missouri Digital Heritage
[Includes links to Historical Digital MO Newspapers not found on the MO Digi NP Project]
The Links below are all for various collections within the MO Digital Heritage Site.

St. Louis Christian Advocate
Contributed by: Central Methodist University
The St. Louis Christian Advocate Newspaper was published weekly by a committee of ministers for the Methodist Episcopal Church South in St. Louis. This collection covers August 22, 1857 through October 22, 1879.

St. Louis Daily Missouri Republican, 1854-1872
Contributed by: Missouri History Museum, University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis Public Library, State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri State Library

The Daily Missouri Republican was one of the few daily Missouri newspapers publishing continuously through the Civil War. A leading urban newspaper, it covered developments in St. Louis as well as major state news items and national politics.

St. Louis Missouri Republican
Contributed by: State Historical Society of Missouri
The St. Louis Missouri Republican was published between 1869 and 1873. The paper's lineage can be traced back to the Missouri Gazette, Missouri's first newspaper. This collection includes issues from 1869-1872.

St. Louis Republican
Contributed by: State Historical Society of Missouri
The St. Louis Republican was published between 1873 and 1876. The paper was published under various titles throughout its time and was considered one of the leading journals in the country.

Remember: Vital Records can be found in Newspapers
This is the link for the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
Chronicling America ~ Google Archives ~ California Digital Newspapers [There are Articles for MO]

The Chart Below is for St Louis Newspapers available on Heritage Hub
Note: Check the 'Digital Collections' in your local Library, many of then have a Subscription which you can access
with your Library Card.
I am also willing to do Lookups: Contact Martha [MoGenWeb Volunteer]