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Big Book of St. Louis Nostalgia (SOLD OUT) Irish St. Louis St. Louis Casa Loma Ballroom St. Louis - Then & (LIMITED SUPPLY AVAILABLE) 1840 St. Louis Index to 1875 St. Louis Click here to PURCHASE. index sitemap advanced Find anything within all 300+ websites that make up "Genealogy in St. Louis" site search by freefind Send comments to Dave Lossos at [email protected] Subscribe to "Genealogy in St. Louis" e-Mail Group - a place to post comments and queries to fellow St. Louis researchers. Presently 1025 people. Email: Browse Archives at groups.google.com St. Louis Memories (Updated 11/10/2021) As many of you know, on April 4, 2001, I posted a few memories I had of growing up in St. Louis. I received so many great replies that I thought I’d post some of them here. (Newest ones are posted at the bottom). This is by far the most viewed website of all the 300+ websites that make up "Genealogy in St. Louis". Early St. Louis Photographers (Updated 7/13/2021) A list of over 1500 early St. Louis photography studios (with their varying addresses and dates of operation) that might help date some of your family portraits. A major portion of this information comes from Tracy Lewis in Anchorage, Alaska. Thanks Tracy. Almost all the information in this list comes from City Directories or actual dated photographs. One of the latest additions is an excerpt from the 1899 Encyclopedia of St. Louis by Hyde concerning the photography industry in St. Louis at that time. Surnames being researched with St. Louis roots (Updated 6/8/2021) Contains both personal Web site links and E-Mail addresses of people with a St. Louis connection. By the way, newest entries are added at the bottom. Early (pre 1900) St. Louis Places of Worship (Updated 5/8/2021) A little background on more than 450 pre-1900 churches, synagogues, chapels, and missions in the St. Louis metro area. Current update concerns Eight Street Methodist Episcopal Church The German word collocations by Mikhail Bragin (Updated 7/21/2020) A while back I received a marvelous tool for anyone that has ever had to translate German documents. His approach is unique in that he uses German phrases that are commonly used in German records. He offers this document free of charge (but he does have a way to thank him for his 3 year effort via PayPal (which I used)). Give it a try. Obits in St. Louis during the month of April 2020 (Updated 4/21/2020) Intake records from 1876 for the Social Evil/Female Hospital (Updated 10/27/2019) Link to the Jefferson County Missouri Heritage & Historical Society website (Updated 10/7/2018) This is the new URL that the Jefferson County Missouri Heritage & Historical Society recently unveiled. "Genealogy in St. Louis" Database (Updated 8/11/2018) One of my pet projects the last few years is the creation of a genealogical database in which everyone included is somehow related to St. Louis. In addition to my own personal and professional research I’ve entered data into a Legacy 9 database from the following sources: (A) "St. Louis: The Fourth City, 1764 -1909" Volume II and III by Walter B. Stevens (2,145 pages) (B) "The Book of St. Louisans" by John W. Leonard in 1906 (603 pages) (C) "Edwards’s Great West and Her Commercial Metropolis" by Richard Edwards and M. Hopewell in 1860 (605 pages) (D) "Annals of St. Louis in its Territorial Days from 1804 to 1821" by Frederic L. Billon in 1888 (428+ pages) (E) "Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis" William Hyde and Howard L. Conard in 1899 (2572 pages (F) "Final Resting Place" by Kevin Amsler (220 pages) (F) "Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery" by Carol Ferring Shepley in 2008 (372 pages). In the above website I’ve listed all birth, marriage, and deaths of those known to have occurred mostly in the St. Louis Metro area (Missouri and Illinois). Find someone of interest and contact me for possibly more info - Dave Lossos at [email protected] 14,600 Births in "Genealogy in St. Louis" Database (Updated 8/5/2018) 9600 Marriages in "Genealogy in St. Louis" Database (Updated 8/8/2018) 12,400 Deaths in "Genealogy in St. Louis" Database (Updated 8/11/2018) Link to St. Louis Archdiocesan (Catholic) cemetery burial records (Updated 8/1/2018) This is the new URL that the Archdiocese changed on 8/1/2018. Link to the Offical St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar Website (Updated 6/8/2018) Contains all the information available from Archives Department, Genealogy and Historical Research 1968 Death Certificates Free Online (Updated 2019) The 1968 death certificates are online (they join those from 1910 thru 1967)! Gaslight Square - barely a blip on the radar (Updated 2/14/2017) Many of us remember Gaslight Square, if you were lucky enough to live in St. Louis in the narrow period of time that it flourished. To give a feel for how brief it was, I compared the addresses in 1963 (it’s peak populaity) with what was there roughly ten years before, and even more dramatic, what was there ten years later. Surnames being researched with St. Louis roots (Updated 3/9/2019) Contains both personal Web site links and E-Mail addresses of people with a St. Louis connection. By the way, newest entries are added at the bottom. St. Louis High School Senior Class Lists (Updated 2/5/2016) So far we have 332 Senior Classes listed with 45,413 names transcribed. Send your list in today. "Genealogy in St. Louis" and George WALKER Bush (Updated 11/7/2015) No, this is not a political statement. Regardless of your sentiment on the President, I think you will find these treatises both well written and fascinating. Wonder what the connection is? George Herbert Walker and Lucretia Wear (great grandparents of the current President) were both born in St. Louis in 1874, and married here in 1899. Lucretia Wear parents, James Hutchinson Wear and Nancy Eliza Holliday were married in St. Louis in 1866. They both died in St. Louis (1893 and 1942 respectively). David Davis Walker, father of George Herbert Walker, was born in Bloomington in 1840, and married his wife, Martha Adela Beaky, in St. Louis in 1862. They had six children born in St. Louis. Information on St. Louis Area Undertakers and Cemeteries St. Louis, Missouri Cemetery Inscription Sources and Information .Update 8/7/2015 Newspaper articles about destruction of headstones Fascinating articles from 1951-61 about wholesale destruction of headstones at Calvary and Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemeteries. Articles were submitted by Mary Ann Molner of Kansas. Franklin County, Missouri Cemetery Inscription Sources and Information Update 7/12/2009 Gasconade County, Missouri Cemetery Inscription Sources and Information Jefferson County, Missouri Cemetery Inscription Sources and Information (Updated 10/7/2018) St. Charles County, Missouri Cemetery Inscription Sources and Information (Updated 8/7/2015) Washington County, Missouri Cemetery Inscription Sources and Information History of the Bellevue Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Caledonia, Missouri List of Persons buried in the Methodist Church Cemetery at Caledonia, Missouri Bellefontaine Cemetery Transcriptions for FIRST METHODIST CHURCH SOUTH BURIAL LOT, provided by "S. Wilkins". (March 25, 2003) St. Louis Landmarks (Updated 10/21/2014) In researching a St. Louisian’s genealogical past I’ve found that invariably I link those people to places around the city. This site lists "famous" St. Louis places and show when they first showed up on the St. Louis scene (and, regrettably, when they ceased to exist (like the St. Louis Arena)). I’ve also added a number of linked photos. Illinois Archival Databases (Updated 6/10/2014) Deaths, Marriages, and a whole lot more St. Louis Volunteer Look-ups (Updated 2/27/2014) Please submit single name at one time. Bobbie Verstraete for St Louis Marriages 1776-1880 (updated 2/27/2014) Bobbie Verstraetefor St Louis Death Records 1850-1908 (updated 2/27/2014) Bobbie Verstraete for St Louis Burials Vol 2 - includes Friedens, Salem Methodist, Trinity...