This website is dedicated to preserving the history of Franklin County, Missouri and to providing helpful information and resources to genealogy researchers.

 History and Genealogy of     Franklin County, Missouri

1937 Confirmation at Stony Hill

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Helpful General Links for Researchers

 

Franklin County Research Links

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Message Board, over 24,000 entries - remember to check the circle marked Franklin County and to add your information.

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Personal Genealogy Websites for Franklin County Families - Please send a link to your website!

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Birth and Death Records for Franklin County Familes in the archives of the Secretary of State (these load slow - be patient.)

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Brian Oster's Site - includes Volumes A, B, and L of Franklin County Marriages - from 1819 - 1865 and Volume A colored 1914 - 1922 plus births from 1826 - 1899.

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Washington.com site History and genealogy of the Washington area and a list of helpful links for researchers

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U.S. Military Pensioners on the rolls - 1883

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Bureau of Land Management - Find out where your relatives owned land

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Tombstone Transcription Site for Franklin County

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Will of John Coulter

Census Records for Franklin County, Missouri

1830 Census Images for Franklin County

1840 Census Images for Franklin County

1850 Census Images for Franklin County

Census Records transcribed (none for
Franklin County as of last check)

Census Records on Microfilm are available at Scenic Regional Library and other research centers.

Ancestry Census Images Free Trial

A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, Past and Present, of Franklin County

 

Research Facilities in Franklin County
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Scenic Regional Library

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Family History Center

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Franklin County Offices

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Historical Societies

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The Missourian newspaper serves Washington, Union, Pacific, and St. Clair communities

 

Helpful General Links

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Social Security Index - over 65 million entries

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Trying to figure out what county a town is in? Try this site. Includes all of U.S.

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Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will do lookups in their database if you believe an ancestor served in the American Revolution. Address your message subject: DAR Lookup > surname > location > dates. Put information about the person in the body, fill in the surnames box and leave the email response box checked. Allow a week or so for a response.

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Search for surnames and genealogy sites here (includes  Common Threads and I Found It!)

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The Genealogist's Index to the World Wide Web

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The Political Graveyard The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried

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Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - This is a comprehensive listing of sites of value to genealogy researchers.

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 Gene Stark's Index
of names for all GenWeb sites.

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Passenger records of more than 22 million who entered US through Ellis Island

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Mailing list index for over 21,000 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy mailing lists

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 Census Records transcribed (none for Franklin County as of this date)

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Presidential Genealogy - Do you think you might be related to a President?

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Gendex

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LDS Search

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Genealogical Center Lending Library in Marietta, GA- They have 473 MO titles!

bullet http://www.uscitydirectories.com A site that is collecting information from city directories.
bullet Internet Resource for Genealogy - Many links

 

MISSOURI Research Links

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Neighboring Counties: Crawford, Gasconade, Jefferson, St. Charles, St. Louis County, St. Louis City, Warren, and Washington

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Other Missouri Counties

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Missouri GenWeb Home Page

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St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds - perhaps your Franklin County ancestors were born, died, or were married in nearby St. Louis

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Index to The Civil War in Missouri

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The Wire Road The Wire Road is an historic route which ran through Franklin County.

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Vital Records - Missouri Website providing information on requesting state records.

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Missouri State Genealogical Association

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Missouri Family History (connected with Missouri State Genealogical Association)

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Review the Missouri Surname Researchers List

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University of Missouri Press

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Missouri Archive & Manuscript Repositories

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Missouri Methodist Archives

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State Historical Society of Missouri

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Missouri Historical Society

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Anne Hood's Missouri page - Many Links!

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State Historical Society of Missouri Newspaper Library

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Missouri Death Index

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Vivid pictures of a Missouri Pacific Train wreck (three trains) of people going to the 1904 World's Fair. (Happened near Warrensburg).

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U.S. Military Pensioners on the Rolls in Missouri 1883

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Missouri County Formation Maps 1804 to Present and Missouri Census Maps

 

 

This page was last updated Thursday September 06, 2007 .

  Sue Blesi, Franklin County Coordinator, Missouri USGenWeb Project

©Copyright 1996-2007, Sue Blesi. All rights reserved.