The Henry County Library 123 E. Green Clinton MO 64735 660-885-2612 or 866-CALLHCL 105 W. Benton Windsor MO 65360 660-647-2298

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Some Genealogy Resources on the Internet

Henry County:

• MOGenWeb for Henry County
  • 1883 History of Henry County
  • 1895 Henry County Platbook
  • Henry County Cemetery Listings
  • And much, much more ...
• American History & Genealogy Project for Henry County
• Lamkin's 1919 History of Henry County is available at the Missouri Digital Heritage website, in the Missouri: Its History, Geology, Culture Collection. Go to Browse and then scroll down the list of books, which is alphabetical by author.
  It is now also available in online or in several dowloadable forms at archive.org,
• TACnet History of Henry County
• TACnet Henry County Chronology
• Microfilm Newspapers Available at the Henry County Library
• Microfilm Newspapers Available at the Henry County Library, arranged by Year for each city
• Newspapers in Henry County
• Henry County Missouri World War II Casualties, Army and Air Force
• 1930 Henry County Platbook by W.W. Hixson & Co.
• Sanborn Fire Maps for Calhoun, Clinton, Deepwater, Montrose and Windsor for various dates from 1885 to 1918 are at UM's MIssouri Sanborn Fire Map Collection. Set the Search Option to 'Title' and search on the city name.
• Other Henry County plat books can be found at the Historic Map Works Residential Genealogy website; go to Search by Location and put in Henry County, Missouri.

Missouri:

• MOGenWeb
• American History and Genealogy Project for Missouri
• MoGenWeb links to counties
• Missouri Digital Heritage, formerly Virtually Missouri
  • All Collections
  • Missouri: Its History, Geology, Culture
  • Missouri Historic Newspapers Project
  • Missouri 1930 Platbooks
  • Sanborn Maps for Missouri
• State of Missouri Website
• State Historical Society of Missouri
• Missouri Library List
• Missouri Libraries on the Internet
• Missouri State Archives
  • Missouri State Archives: Missouri History
  • Birth and Death Records Database
  • Missouri Death certificate Database
  • Land Patents Database
  • Civil War Provost Marshall Records Database
  • Soldiers Database (War of 1812 - World War I)
  • and more ...
• Missouri Spatial Data Information System
• Maps of Missouri from St. Louis Public Library
  • Table of USGS Maps on Maps of Missouri
  • List of Maps on Maps of Missouri by ID number
• University of Alabama Historical Maps of Missouri
• University oif Alabama Selected Missouri Out of Print Quadrangles
• Libre Map Missouri topographic maps
• Kansas City Public Library Local History Collection from Kansas City Public Library

  Maps, Photographs, Postcards, Exhibits and more ...

• Mid-Continent Library Genealogy pages

United States:

• USGenWeb Project
• American History & Genealogy Project
• FirstGov: U.S. Government Official Web Portal
• National Archives & Records
• Library of Congress
  • American Memory Collection Finder
• Cornell Library's Making of America pages
  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies
• University of Michigan's Making of America pages
• State Webpages: http://www.state.xx.us where xx =\is the state's postal abbreviation.

  Note: Many states have moved their home pages to a .gov address, but the www.state.xx.us address will usually still get you to the active website.

  • [MO] [NE] [IA] [KS] [OK] [AR] [TN] [KY] [IL] [VA] [WV]
• USGS Geographic Name Information Service query page
• University of Arkansas U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Links
• Historic USGS Maps of New England and New York
• Historical USGS Maps from Mytopo (CN, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, VT, WV)
• University of Alabama Historical Map Archive
• University of Texas Perry Castaneda Library Historical Map Collection
• Historic Map Works Residential Genealogy has numerous maps, county atlases and platbooks. Search by kewyword or location.
• Perry-Castaneda US 1:250,000 maps

  Kansas City (8.4MB)	Moberly (8.9MB)	Quincy (8.5MP)
  Lawrence (7.9MB)	Jefferson City (10.1MB)	St. Louis (11.1MB)
  Joplin (7.6MB)	Springfield (9.9MB)	Rolla (11.2MB)

• Google Maps
• Acme Mapper 2.0 with Topographic and Satellite maps.
• Bing Maps
• MSR Maps (formerly Microsoft Terraserver-USA)
• Libre Maps (USGS Quadrangles)
• MSN Maps & Directions (Mappoint)
• MapsOnUs
• MapQuest
• Windows Live Local

Canada:

• Canadian Geographical Names

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
• WorldGenWeb Project
• LDS Church FamilySearch
• LDS Family History Centers
• About.com: Genealogy
• Google Genealogy Directory
• Google Books

  Google is in the process of scanning and digitzing an enormous number of books, including many of use to genealogists. Most books printed before 1923 are available in full text.

• archive.org

  archive.org also provides an extensive collection of scanned books in downloadable form; many are duplicates of those scanned by Google, but they also have books not available elsewhere.

• Yahoo! Genealogy Directory
• Access Genealogy
• Ancestry.com
• Everton Publishers
• Genealogy.com
• kindredkonnections.com and mytrees.com
• Rootsweb.com
  • Rootsweb Mailing List Index
  • ROOTS-L Mailing List
  • Soundex Convertor
  • Rootsweb Surname List
• Your Family.com
  
• LibWeb Libraries on the Web

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