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Cape Girardeau County Archive Links

Historical Societies

  • Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society
  • Missouri State Archives
  • Kent Library Special Collections and Archive Cape Girardeau, MO
  • St. Louis Genealogical Society
  • Village of Berel, Germany
  • National Archives and Records Administration
  • Perry County, Missouri
  • The Foundation for Historic Preservation Fredericktown, Missouri
  • State of Missouri Historical Society
  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution;  Nancy Hunter Chapter, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
  • Bollinger County Archive
  • Scott County Historical and Genealogy Society
  • Sons of the American Revolution
  • Children of the American Revolution
  • Civil War Round Table

Land Search

  • Government Land Office Records in Wash, DC.
  • Sanborn Maps for Missouri Online (1880-1920)
  • Cape Girardeau County Map of Property Owners
  • Southeast Missouri Geographical Information Systems
  • Historic County Boundary Maps of the US

Historic Buildings and Places

  • National Register of Historic Places
  • Missouri National Register Listings
  • James Baughn’s Blog on semissourian.com
  • Cape Girardeau History at capecentralhigh.com
  • Built in America: HABS/HAER collections online
  • Cape Girardeau, MO Chamber of Commerce
  • Jackson, MO Chamber of Commerce
  • Cape Girardeau, MO Area Attractions

Cemeteries

  • Old Lorimier Cemetery
  • New Lorimier Cemetery
  • Fairmount Cemetery
  • The Association for Gravestone Studies
  • Find A Grave 
  • American Revolutionary War Veteran Graves

Information on Conservation/Preservation

  • Creating an Archival Center: Tips and Strategies
  • Missouri State Archive Publications
  • Preserving Photographs
  • Preserving Newspaper Clippings and Old Documents
  • Care and Storage of Old Books

Genealogical Research

  • 1940 Census Free from Ancestry.com
  • German Immigrants 1850s
  • Basic Genealogy: A Guide to Researching Your Family Tree
  • Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Web Page
  • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
  • Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1958
  • Missouri Vital Records: Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Information
  • Missouri Soldiers’ Records: War of 1812 – World War I
  • Census Finder: A Directory of Free Census Records
  • Rootsweb.com
  • Family Search
  • Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
  • National Personnel Records Center, Military Personnel Records
  • Index to Revolutionary Soldiers in Missouri
  • Enter Family names to see the percentage of them listed in different Countries
  • Missouri State Courts Automated Case Management System
  • Swedish Immigrants
  • Search for how many people in the U.S. have a certain surname.
  • Robert Lewis’s Genealogy
  • Ireland Reaching Out
  • Cape County Death Register 1883 – 1898 FamilySearch – free username required
  • Other Cape County books at FamilySearch – free username required
  • FamilySearch Catalog: Deed records, 1805-1910; indexes, 1805-1904 — FamilySearch.org
  • FamilySearch Catalog: Marriage records, 1805-1950; index to marriage records, 1805-1952 — FamilySearch.org
  • FamilySearch Catalog: Missouri, Cape Girardeau County, marriage records, 1877-1921 — FamilySearch.org

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