Missouri

I really don’t do much research in the state of Missouri, although I wish I had more relatives to research because records are pretty accessible.  In preparation of this post, I checked my database to see what families were associated with Missouri, and as I suspected, not many.  However, I did find the family of my husband’s great-grandaunt, Sarah Frances (Orendorff) Jonagan, who moved from Fulton County, Illinois, to Gentry County, Missouri, sometime between 1870 and 1880.

I knew there were actual vital records online, but I didn’t know exactly what, where, or the time periods of coverage.  It appeared from my research that I had previously exhausted everything on Ancestry, finding a few birth and marriage records.  But where were the death records…I could have sworn they were online somewhere.

So off to my Diigo bookmarks for Missouri I went.  I spotted a resource I had added back in 2010, Missouri Digital Heritage, and by the description I had added, I was pretty certain I would find the death records.  And there they were, Missouri Death Certificates!  Digital images of Missouri death certificates are currently available for 1910 to 1962.

A surname-only search produced a handful of death certificates related to the family.  I love when records are online and accessible!  Makes my research so much easier!!

Genealogy By the States is a theme created by Jim Sanders over at the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets blog.