Boone County Missouri - General Links

In an attempt to reduce the size of the main entry page, the links to outside Boone County resources have been moved to this page.

Our neighboring counties:

Howard County to our northwest, the county from which Boone was formed!
Randolph County to our northwest, a great site to visit!
Audrain County to our northeast.
Callaway County to our east.
Cole County to our south including the State Capitol.
Moniteau County to our west.
Cooper County to our west.

Please visit them and see what they have to offer! (you can click on the county in the image to jump there).

Sister counties:

If your research materials just said Boone County, you might also check the other counties that are named Boone:

Boone County, Arkansas. Formed in 1869 from Carrol and Madison counties.
Boone County, Illinois. Formed in 1837 from Winnebago county.
Boone County, Indiana. Formed in 1830 from Hendricks and Marion counties.
Boone County, Iowa. Created 1846, organized 1849.
Boone County, Kentucky. Formed in 1799 from Campbell County.
Boone County, Nebraska. Formed in 1871 from Platte County.
Boone County, West Virginia. Formed in 1847 from Kanawha, Cabell and Logan counties.

Local Central Missouri resources:

Please check the on-line links for current address, phone and hours of operation. I have included a short list of available materials to give a quick overview of their holdings.

Wilson-Wulff Boone County History and Genealogical Library, located within the Walters-Boone County Historical Society Museum - Columbia - A small library staffed by GSCM volunteers. Check here for a listing of the publications and serials available from the Genealogical Society of Central Missouri. Holdings include: Boone County records & history, MO family histories, genealogy reference books.
Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Columbia - "Missouri's most comprehensive repository of primary historical documents" - a great resource in Columbia!
State Historical Society of Missouri - Columbia - Another excellent resource on the UMC campus in Columbia. Holdings include: Extensive MO newspaper collection on microfilm, census records, county atlases, family histories.
UMC Ellis library - Columbia - In addition to physically housing the two libraries above, Ellis library also has historical documents in the 4th floor archives.
Daniel Boone Regional Library, Columbia - contains some historical materials. Holdings include: MO county & city histories, cemetery records, reference materials.
Family History Center, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints contains a variety of information. Holdings include: International indexes and records on microfilm and microfiche, Family registery, Ancestral file, social security death index. Some other information on the center can be found here. Of course you can visit the main LDS site as well.
Local Governmental sites including :
County of Boone
City of Columbia
If you are from out-of-town and visiting the Columbia area, check out the Columbia Online Information Network (Coin) page for local information.

Other libraries/resources in Missouri:

Missouri State Archives are located in Jefferson City. Holdings include: Land records, county & court records on microfilm, military records through 1898, federal census for Missouri 1830-1910.
National Archives Central Plains Region, are located in Kansas City. Additional information on the library and its contents are listed here. Holdings include: Federal census for all states, military service records & pensions, bounty land warrant applications, court cases, territorial history, Native American files.
The Mid-Continent Public Library is located in Independence MO. Holdings include: Passenger lists, census of all states; KC newspapers through 1910, military records, city directories, reference books.
Heart of America Genealogy Society Library is in the Kansas City Public Library, 311 East 12th St, Kansas City MO. Holdings include: extensive KC newspapers on microfilm, Jackson county records.
The St. Louis County Public Library System is on-line. Holdings include: Family history collections, area county/city records and histories, and State Genealogical Society materials.
Missouri Historical Society Library is located in St. Louis. Holdings include: Persi index to family & place names in periodicals, information on St. Louis city and county, computerized access to resources in MO Historical Society and St. Louis Public Library. The Missouri Historical Society was founded in 1866 and has been continuously collecting publications, documents, images and objects related to St. Louis, M0, and the Louisiana Purchase Territory. The library and research center was constructed in 1925-27 and purchased by the society in 1989. The structure was recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tel.: 314-746-4500
The Bizelli-Fleming Local History Collection is a special of collection of materials dealing with St. Charles, St. Louis and Missouri, and with genealogy.

Boone County genealogical and historical organizations:

Genealogical Society of Central Missouri (GSCM), P.O. Box 26 Columbia, MO 65205-0026

Missouri State Genealogical Association ("MoSGA") in Columbia : Missouri State Genealogical Association, P. O. Box 833, Columbia, Missouri 65205-0833

State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry, Columbia, MO 65201

Boone County Historical Society, 3801 Ponderosa Street, Columbia, MO 65201

Books / Publishers Links:

New/Reprint:

These vendors either publish new or reprint editions, or major distributors of books. You want ten copies, then you got ten. There are many many publishers/distributors out there. This is just a small sample that I deal with.

A wonderful place to find photographic reprints of original books and materials, I highly recommend the Higginson Book Company of Salem Massachusetts.
A small publisher, Mountain Press is dedicated to genealogy.
What can you say about Amazon.com? They loose money on each sale but make it up in volume.
The "biggest" bookseller, but they were slow out of the internet gate: Barnes & Noble.com.
We must mention the home town publisher, University of Missouri Press in Columbia Missouri.
Check and see what the government , National Archives and Records Administration publications pages has for you.
If the links I have here don't help, you can always search the links and links of book vendors at Cyndi's List and Genealogy.com.

Used book dealers:

These vendors are used book dealers. They only can sell what they have on hand. There are two major network sites, most dealers have gravitated to one of these two. This is a great way of find an original copy of something (genealogical or not).

Bookfinder.com has many dealers in their network.
Alibris is another good network with many used book dealers.
For hardcore original edition collectors, there is the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.

Other Interesting Links:

Genealogical:

The Family History Library has a very nice page on sources for Boone County Missouri records. Especially if you are just starting, this can tell you many available sources.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet. Over 100,000 links!!
National Genealogical Society (NGS) home page.
Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) home page.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Everton's Genealogical Helper, "The Magazine Dedicated To Helping Genealogists Since 1947"
Charlotte's Web has a nice page of "Dictionary of Genealogy & Archaic Terms".
Don't know where that town is located or almost any other item, then visit the USGS feature look up page or start at the USGS main page if you would rather.
Competitors to these USGenWeb pages, there are also Boone County Missouri pages at RootsWeb and GenExchange. Personally I think our pages are better, but that is just my opinion.

Maps:

U.S. Census maps.
U.S. Census Gazetteer (name locator).
A web site with historical map information: The Gold Bug.
Some interesting maps of Missouri by Ray Sterner.

History:

Not much on genealogy, but a specialty page on Kansas City history.

Personal history links:

A friend of mine researching is Lowary ancestors and variant spellings of the name. "This page is dedicated to the Lowary, Lowery, Lowrey, Lowry, Loughry names, and any other spelling variations that might be out there." Anyone interested in surname LOWARY or derivatives is encouraged to visit and join in.
A bragging page about some of my Sights ancestors.

Other links:

What is a web site without a search engine link. I recommend Goggle because it is the fastest best search site around. It also allows you to find a locate images on the web, something usually very difficult to search for.

Links to the USGenWeb Project pages above this one:

Jump to the Missouri County Links page
Jump to The Tombstone Transcription Project for Missouri
Jump to The USGenWeb Archives, Missouri Table of Contents
Jump to The USGenWeb Archive Census Project for Missouri

Jump to MOGenWeb, The Missouri Site of USGenWeb
Jump to The USGenWeb Project home page
Jump to The WorldGenWeb Project home page

If you have the interest, ability and time, please check the pages above for areas where you can volunteer your services. This is a growing project and every helping hand is extremely welcome! Thanks.

Return to main Boone County USGenWeb page

Last updated 3 March 2002