Henry County, Missouri, MOGenWeb, USGenWeb

Welcome:

This Site is part of The MOGenWeb and The USGenWeb

Henry County is available for adoption.

If you have a local connection to Henry County or an interest in Missouri in general,

Please consider joining the MOGenWeb as a County Coordinator.
Requirements are simple, peruse them here.

MOGenWeb Policies and Procedures
Contact the State Coordinator if you are interested.
In addition:, we would appreciate any contribution that you would like to make to
this site: biographies, obituaries, birth, marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc

"With Thanks to all of the former Henry County Coordinators"

There is a huge collection of Records and Resources left by former Coordinators.

Biographies ~ History

National Historical Company
The biographies contained in this book can be found indexed in the BIOGRAPHIES section.

The Clinton Eye, Clinton, Missouri, Saturday, June 28, 1890 [Source]
BROWNINGTON: Her Superb Location, Material Wealth and Undeveloped Resources -
Facts and Figures that Challenge the Attention of Capitalists and Manufacturers
"Moving Tebo" Baptist Church Awaits Flood
William Martin Parker: License to Preach

Henry County Communities

Cemeteries ~ Burial Records

There is a huge collection of Cemetery Transcriptions, most of which are over 20 years old.
There are also records from these Funeral Homes and Mortuaries:
Brownington Burial Records
Cook and Ward Funeral Home
Charles Rickett Undertaker Ledger

The Cemeteries of Mississippi County [Online Resources]
F~A~G ~ LDS, MO Genealogical Resources
American Cemeteries ~ Missouri Cemetery Registry
MO Gravestone Project
People Legacy, Cemeteries, Memorials

Vital Records ~ Births ~ Marriages ~ Deaths ~ Obituaries
A collection of 3094 Henry County, Missouri Birthsrecorded from 1883 to 1890,
transcribed from the official courthouse books.
A collection of Marriage Information, currently numbering 3590, from sources listed on the index.
Transcribed Death Certificates: Includes the Death Certficate Image [Missouri Digital Archives]
A collection of obituaries from 1848 to 2023, currently numbering 15369 from
Henry County newspapers, online funeral homes and other sources concerning Henry County people.

New Henry County Resosurces

Family Search: Catalog Records for Henry County: - 51 Films & Books
Please use this link for access after you login.

Archives and libraries - Inventories, registers, catalogs (2)
Biography (5) ~ Biography - Indexes (2) ~ Business records and commerce (1)
Cemeteries (4) ~ Census - 1840 (2) ~ Census - 1850 (3) ~ Census - 1860 (2)
Church history (1) ~ Church records (1)
Court records (1) ~ Genealogy (2) ~ Guardianship (1)
History (8) ~ History - Civil War, 1861-1865 (1) ~ History - Indexes (1)

History - World War, 1939-1945 (1)
Land and property (3) ~ Maps (2) ~ Probate records (3) ~ Probate records - Indexes (1)
Statistics (1) ~ Taxation (2) ~ Vital records (1)

Family Search: Historical Images: 171 Films
Please use this link for access after you login

Locations
Alberta:15 ~ Clinton:1 ~ Coal:1 ~ Gaies:1 ~ Germantown:1
Harvey:2 ~ Leesville:1 ~ Lucas:2 ~ Montrose:2 ~ Piper:2
Types of Resources: Spreadsheet
Census Records ~ Land ~ Court Deeds ~ Probates ~ Wills
Military ~ Enlistment and Draft Registrations
Parish records ~ Obituaries ~ Vitals - Birth ~ Marriage ~ Death

Military ~ Medical Journals & Directories ~

Histories: Bench & Bar ~ Crime and Punishment

Here is a pdf that contains all of the above data: Data is Missouri 'Specific'

Maps ~ Newspapers
Historical Landmarks ~ ILGenWeb Project ~ Maps from the MO Historical Society
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps [Scroll Down] ~ USGS Maps for Missouri
Maps from the MO Historical Society
The American Civil War in Missouri
Digitized Newspapers from the Civil War Era
Plat Maps ~ Digital Library of Missouri
Interactive Atlas ~ David Rumsey Collection
USGS Historical Topo's ~ Missouri State and Regional Maps ~ "Route 66"
"Map Geeks" State and Township Maps ~ Getty Geographical Thesaurus ~
Bureau of Land Management
USGS Maps for Missouri ~ Missouri State and Regional Maps
Historical Maps ~ Perry Castaneda ~ Quadrangles ~ Surveyor's Base Maps
Library of Congress: Miscellaneous Maps ~ MapGoose

Newspapers, Odds: Online Lookup Services

'Ask an Archivist'
National Archives
New Reference Service

Remember: Vital Records can be found in Newspapers
This is the link for the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
Free Digital Newspapers:
Chronicling America ~ Google Archives

California Digital Newspapers [There are Articles for MO]

Online Lookup Services
Search for Living People: Zaba Search
RAOGK
Local Historical, Museum, and Genealogical

Agencies and [Research Requests]
The above list has local resources, web pages and information

"What's New"

Here is a web page with 'What's New" items for all of the Counties I host

"Full-Text Search"
FamilySearch Function which will search multiple filmed images on their servers.
People ~ Places ~ Events: Almost any topic imagined! Especially great are the Newspaper Articles.
The results can be saved as images or pdf files along with the Citation.
When the results come up, there is a OCR generated panel of text which can be copied to a file or your Gen Software.
Here is the link

The Historical Images Section of FS is perfect for the 'Full Text Search System' Here is the link for the images.
I was able to find a decent tutorial: Please use this link.

"The Fine Print"

The MOGenWeb Admin Team

State Coordinator	Bob Jenkins
Asst. State Coordinator	Tim Stowell
Asst. State Coordinator	Lynda Peach