1. Genealogy Indexes at the St. Louis County Library
Staff and volunteers of St. Louis County Library have prepared dozens of indexes to sources of interest to genealogists, including books related to Missouri history as well as historical newspapers, plus records specific to St. Louis County such as early birth records, court records, church records, naturalizations, etc.
2. Missouri Birth & Death Records Database, pre-1910
This free online database from the Missouri State Archives contains abstracts of the birth, stillbirth, and death records recorded in Missouri before 1909 and that are available on microfilm at the Missouri State Archives.3. Missouri Coroner's Inquest Database
This free database from the Missouri State Archives includes abstracts of historical coroner's records of Andrew County, Cape Girardeau, Clinton County, Perry County, St. Francois County and Stoddard County, as well as the City of St. Louis and the St. Louis Medical Examiner. The years and available records vary by location. Abstracted information includes the name of the deceased, age or date of birth, date and cause of death, plus details necessary for obtaining the original coroner's records (there is a fee for the cos of the copies).
4. Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1958
The Missouri Digital Heritage project of the Missouri State Archives has a wonderful online collection of death records created after 1910 and over 50 years old, with a searchable index that links to a digitized image of the original death certificate. Search the index by first name, last name, county, year of death, and/or month of death.5. Missouri Deaths & Burials, 1867-1976
A free name index to about 58,000 selected death and burial records from the state of Missouri (most prior to 1930) from Familysearch Record Search.
6. Missouri Federal Land Patent Records
The Bureau of Land Management maintains a free, searchable database (index, transcriptions, images) to federal land patents issued by the State of Missouri.7. Missouri Historic Circuit Court Records
A collaborative project of the Missouri State Archives, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, and various city and county Circuit Courts. Court files from 1802 to 1900 have been indexed and are available through the online database (available years vary by city/county). Most of the court records have been digitized and images are available for online research. Free!8. Missouri Soldiers' Database (War of 1812 - World War I)
The Missouri State Archives hosts this comprehensive database of Missouri soldiers (War of 1812 - World War I) abstracted from individual service cards and listing more than 576,000 Missourians who served in the military from territorial times throuh World War I, including the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Heatherly War of 1836, the Mormon War of 1838, and others. Over half of the service cards are from soldiers who served during the Civil war.
9. Missouri Supreme Court Historical Database
Dig deep into Missouri's early history in this free database from the Missouri State Archives and the Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society. The database includes an index and abstracts of the criminal and civil court cases that were appealed to the territorial and state Supreme Court of Missouri up to 1868, and a partial listing of cases to 1883. A number of documents in the earliest cases date from the 1780s and 1790s, under the rule of French and Spanish governments, and are written in the French language.10. St. Louis Naturalization Records, 1816-1995
Volunteers from the St. Louis Genealogical Society, in a collaborative effort with the Missouri State Archives and the St. Louis City Circuit Court, have compiled information taken from three partially-complete sets of naturalization index cards into a searchable online database of 93,104 entries, representing immigrant persons who filed for naturalization in the St. Louis court system from 1816 through September 1906. The information contained in this free naturalization records database includes name, native city and/or native country, date of record, court of application (county court, circuit court, Supreme Court), and microfilm location for copy of full entry (reel number, volume and page numbers).
