Many archival and library collections are now preserving, digitizing, and providing access to significant primary historical resources.

Since non-profit sites do not have the advertising or public relations budgets available to commercial sites, researchers are often unaware of them.


States K - M

Kansas

Kanasas State Historical Society  This link will take you to the main page where you can choose from several databases, including those below.  http://www.kshs.org/

  Territorial Kansas Explore the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas." Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery.http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php

Individuals - Biographies

This is a list of sources in the Center for Historical Research's collections that are useful for filling in the histories of individuals and their families. It includes many online indexes and databases.http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/individuals/index.htm

Kansas Collection 
Digitized collection of books, articles and images both primary and secondary. Includes sites such as Orphan Trains of Kansas and a newsletter Voices.  http://www.kancoll.org/

History of the State of Kansas, first published in 1883 http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/

Kansas Archives, Libraries and Historical Societies A long list of local archives and databases.http://www.kansasgenealogy.com/archives.htm-

 Kansas Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/kansas/index.html

Kentucky

The Kentuckiana Digital Library is your gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. These digital collections are built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning. http://kdl.kyvl.org/

Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections 

For over one hundred years the Kentucky Historical Society has been collecting, preserving, and sharing information, memories, and materials from Kentucky's past. The KHS collections of cultural and historical artifacts, oral history, and library and archival materials represent an overview of Kentucky and Kentuckians from prehistory to the present. The KHS Digital Collections database provides Web access to thousands of items from all KHS collections areas http://205.204.134.47:2005/

Centre College Special Collections Digital Archives includes documents   http://www.centre.edu/web/library/sc/digital.html

 Kentucky Land Office. This page provides instant access to all Kentucky Land Office databases. To learn more of the structure and history of the databases included on this site visit the individual pages for each database.  http://sos.ky.gov/land/search/

The Kentucky Cities database includes information on city filings submitted to the Kentucky Secretary of State's Office.  This database also includes various listings of Kentucky cities, population information, and contact information for city and county government, if available. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/cities/

Access information on 4748 Revolutionary War Warrants issued to Virginia veterans or their assigns prior to 1792 on the Revolutionary War Warrants database. View color images from the Warrants Register and all Kentucky patent files authorized by Revolutionary War Warrants.http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/military/revwar/

Research and view color images of 242 patents in the Jackson Purchase authorized by warrants issued to Virginia Revolutionary War veterans or their assigns on the West of Tennessee River Military Patents database.  http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/military/tnriver/

Access information regarding Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants issued to Kentucky's earliest settlers on the Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants database. View color images of patent files as they are linked to the "Authorized Patents" field on a daily basis. Digitized images of the Certificates of Settlement and Commissioners' Authorizations for Preemption Warrants may be available by clicking the Preemption Warrant Number field. With the permission of The Library of Virginia, the Kentucky Department for Libraries & Archives is digitizing microfilm of the Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrant Approvals. Records are added to the "Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants database" on a regular basis. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/settlements/

Access over 23,200 entries in the Virginia Treasury Warrants Register, Volumes I & II, for information regarding early Kentucky land patents. This database includes the names of persons who purchased Treasury Warrants, immediate assignees, warrant number, acreage authorized for patenting under the warrant number, amount of money paid, and the date the warrant was issued. The "Authorized" field on the Virginia Treasury Warrants Database, identifies patent numbers associated with the usage of the Treasury Warrants. Many link to colorscanned images of patent files in the Virginia Series and Old Kentucky Series of Kentucky land patents housed in the Kentucky Secretary of State's Land Office. This database includes warrant information for 300 Treasury Warrants issued to George Rogers Clark for recruiting his battalions in lieu of a bounty of $750.  http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/LandOfficeVTW/

Research 4763 Entries filed with the Lincoln County Surveyor's Office when Lincoln County comprised one-third of Kentucky on the Lincoln Entries database. (Military Entries in southwestern Kentucky are not included on this database.) Link to scanned images of each Entry.http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/lincoln/

Research 70239 patents filed with the County Court Order Series dating from 1835 to the present on the County Court Order Patents database. Search by patent number, grant book & page, or perform an advanced search to access information by grantee, survey name, county, watercourse, survey year or grant year. Images of all documents filed with patent numbers 0001 - 08241 are linked to the database. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/patentseries/cocourtorders/

Jackson Purchase , the only area in Kentucky mapped by the public land system mapping method used by the federal government. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/jacksonpurchase/

Research the complete text of all Acts establishing Kentucky's 120 counties on the County Formations database. Acts pertaining to Kentucky County, Virginia, Fincastle County, Virginia, and Beckham County, Kentucky are also included. Acts regarding boundary changes are added as they are identified. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/coformations/

Online Kentucky Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/kentucky/index.html

 

Louisiana

 LSU Digital Library  The LOUISiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of over 84,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Louisiana's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories in the state electronically accessible to Louisiana residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries. The LOUISiana Digital Library contains photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document Louisiana's history and culture. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/

Louisiana State Museum’s Digital Collections  
The Louisiana State Museum has partnered with the LOUISiana Digital Library to produce a digital collection of more than 3,400 photographs of Louisiana cities, culture, people, landscape, and waterways. These historical photographs date from mid 1800 to early 1900 and were taken by many of the well known photographers of the day.http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/digitallibrary.htm

Louisiana Digital Maps   Many early maps are included on this RootsWeb site, including a 1743 French map of the Mississippi River Valley from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico and as far east as Mobile. It includes interior streams, routes, European communities, and Native American settlements, nations, and  fortifications. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/louisiana/

 Louisiana State Land Office Online Documents : Land Grants; all severance documents of U.S. and State public lands - which lists the first private owner; all U.S. Official Township Survey plats and field notes; the U.S. and State Tract Books - which are an index of all the other documents mentioned; Section 16 School Lands; State Patents. http://1webfn.doa.la.gov/slodocs/SLO/home.asp


Online Louisiana Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/louisiana/index.html

Maine

The Maine Memory Network is a statewide digital museum that provides access to over 12,000 historical items from over 180 museums, historical societies, libraries, and other organizations from every corner of Maine. http://www.mainememory.net/    Link to a page with all collections: http://www.mainememory.net/exhibits_archive.shtml

The Maine Gateway to Digital Collections provides online access to thousands of selected, digitized materials in all formats ---- full text, image, sound, video,and finding aids. The materials are among the special collections made available by the UMS Libraries, in collaboration with other campus units, and in partnership with other cultural institutions in Maine.http://libraries.maine.edu/gateway/

ETD Electronic Theses and Dissertations 
A database of University of Maine doctoral dissertations (1964+) and masters’ theses (1876+). Many of the records also provide abstracts and link to the full-text documents. Access to a limited number of full-text documents may be restricted. Fogler Library Special Collections. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/index.htm

Maine Music Box 
Consists of approximately 22,000 peices of historical and popular sheet music published and widely played from the mid-19th century until around 1990. Selected scores may have an associated computer-generated sound file. Other scores, based on faculty request, may have associated “Scorch” files.The database is produced by The University of Maine's Fogler Library in partnership with the Bagaduce Music Lending Library. 
http://mainemusicbox.library.umaine.edu/

William P. Palmer III Collection 
The Hudson Museum's pre-eminent collection of archaeological material from Mexico and Central America, and ethnographic holdings from the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada. The Palmer collection features an internationally significant assemblage of 2,828 Precolumbian ceramics, lithics and gold work dating from 2000 BC to the Spanish Conquest, and also includes over 200 objects that date to the heyday of Northwest Coast collecting, 1875-1930. Hudson Museum, University of Maine. 
http://library.umaine.edu/hudson/palmer/default.asp

Robert Venn Carr, Jr. Collection 
 The Carr Online Gallery contains digital surrogates of the nearly 300 modern and contemporary prints that comprise the collection, including works by Pablo Picasso, Josef Albers, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Joan Miro and Robert Delaunay, as well as a fine collection of 90 paintings and World War II political cartoons by William Gropper. University of Maine Museum of Art. 
http://www.library.umaine.edu/Carr/search.asp

Windows on Maine 
An online service offering streaming video programs and clips, and other primary and secondary digital resources, via broadband and wireless connections. It features a searchable database of complete programs and video clips from Maine Public Broadcasting Network's award winning historical series, HOME, the Story of Maine and its signature science series, Quest, Investigating Our World.The video resources are complemented by a broader range of other digitally converted materials: images of artifacts, text resources, audio files, maps, data sets, satellite and radar images, sonar and other seafloor images that document Maine's history and the Gulf of Maine ecology. UMS Libraries.http://windowsonmaine.library.umaine.edu

William S. Cohen Papers 
The William S. Cohen papers consist of the records created by Cohen and his staff in the course of Cohen's duties as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 and as a U.S. Senator from 1979 to 1997.http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/portaldb/cohen.htm

Manuscript Finding Aids 
Searchable database of 115 finding aids (and more topics are continually being added). Fogler Library Special Collections. 
http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/Portaldb/search.htm

Maine Government Documents 
Publications in the collection date from 1820 to the present and include information on all aspects of Maine history, culture, natural resources and commerce. This collection of 12,568 titles contains about 71,000 documents. 
http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/Portaldb/statedocs.htm

Listening Center Online 
Provides access to over 6,000 jazz and classical tracks that support the music curriculum of the University of Maine. Music included in the database is selected from the Compact Disc collection in the library Media Resource Center and converted to MP3 format for online access. 
http://www.library.umaine.edu/lco/default.htm

Online Maine Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/maine/index.html

Maryland

The Maryland State Archives is the historical agency for Maryland and serves as the central depository for government records of permanent value. Records date from the founding of the colony in 1634 to the present. Included in the Archives' holdings are colonial and state executive, legislative, and judicial records; county probate, land and court records; church records; business records; publications and reports of state, county and municipal governments; and special collections of private papers, maps, photographs, and newspapers. http://www.msa.md.gov/

The ongoing Maryland State Archives publication series, Archives of Maryland Online, currently provides access to over 471,000 historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government. http://aomol.net/html/index.html

Maryland State Archives Vital Records Indexing Project. The first group of indexes encompasses all twenty-three counties for 1898-1944. Indexes for later years are scheduled for in the future. (Baltimore City is a separate entity, with indexes to be available in the future.) http://mdvitalrec.net/cfm/index.cfm

The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland Program seeks to preserve and promote the vast universe of experiences that have shaped the lives of Maryland's African American population. From the day that Mathias de Sousa and Francisco landed in St. Mary's county aboard the Ark and the Dove in 1634, Black Marylanders have made significant contributions to both the state and nation in the political, economic, agricultural, legal, and domestic arenas. http://www.mdslavery.net/

Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage is a collaborative, statewide digitization program headquartered at the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center in downtown Baltimore.  This program brings together the stories of Maryland's cultural heritage by providing free access to such artifacts and records of history as paintings, letters, photographs and books left behind by previous generations. http://www.mdch.org/

Sailor - Maryland's Public Information Network Sailor is a project of Maryland Public Libraries that leverages Internet technology to facilitate Maryland resident access to information anywhere, anytime at no charge.http://www.sailor.lib.md.us/MD_topics/sci/_dig.html

Online Maryland Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/maryland/index.html

Massachusetts

Women Working 1800 - 1930   focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images. From Harvard University Libraries

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/index.html

New England Ancestors  http://www.newenglandancestors.org/libraries/manuscripts/ 

Center for Lowell History  http://library.uml.edu/clh/

Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives http://dca.tufts.edu/

Boston Streets http://dca.tufts.edu/features/bostonstreets/ 

 Search city directories http://bcd.lib.tufts.edu/

A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of the American Republic.http://dca.tufts.edu/features/aas/

State Library of Massachusetts has a small but growing collection of digitized items, including broadsides from 1763 and the HMS Bounty manuscripts  http://www.mass.gov/lib/collections.htm - digital

Massachusetts Historical Society Online Exhibits

As part of its mission to communicate and share its collections, the Massachusetts Historical Society makes selected manuscripts and artifacts available for online viewing: African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts, The Battle of Bunker Hill, Maps of the French and Indian War, Thomas Jefferson Papers:  John Quincy Adams: One President's Adolescence , Adams Family Papers: Archive, The Diaries of John Quincy Adams:    http://www.masshist.org/online/

Witchcraft in Salem Village 
Created by the Danvers Archibal Center, this site includes an electronic version of Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1693 and other primary sources.http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

The Northeast Massachusetts Digital Library or "NMDL" is a project to enhance access to an ever-growing digital collection of items located in or items related to northeast Massachusetts, defined as the 54 towns within the service area of the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS).  http://www.nmrls.org/nmdl/

Primary Research

The aim of this website is to serve the research community by providing free access to original source documents and databases, as well as to provide a vehicle for the publication of original primary research by high school students. Collections of local history documents such as the Beverly Educational Archives, and Historic Postcards of Beverly are presented on this website free of charge.   http://www.primaryresearch.org/

Online Massachusetts Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/massachusetts/index.html

Michigan

The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and much more.

http://mmm.lib.msu.edu/search/index.cfm

Archives of Michigan digital collections  The Archives of Michigan has close to 1,400 Civil War photographs in its collections. The majority of the images are of soldiers taken during the years of the Civil War. Also included are reproductions of sheet music, broadsides and group photographs.  http://haldigitalcollections.cdmhost.com/

Archives of Michigan Naturalization Record Indexes http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17449_18635_20684---,00.html

University of Michigan Brown vs Board of Education Archives http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/

Michigan Death Index 1867-1897 at the Michigan Dept of Health http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/gendisx/search2.htm

Online Michigan Death Indexes from Joel Beine  http://www.deathindexes.com/michigan/index.html

Minnesota

Minnesota Historical Society  Death Certificate index  http://people.mnhs.org/dci/

Minnesota Historical Society Birth Certificate index   http://people.mnhs.org/bci/

Minnesota Historical Society Photograph Database 
Searchable collection of more than 80,000 photographs detailing "Minnesotans, their lives, landscapes, leisure and occupations from 1850 to the present." Currently only 15% include images. http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/

 Minnesota Maps Online 
A Collection of land survey maps, plat books and atlases, dating from 1848 to 2001."http://www.mnhs.org/collections/digitalmaps

Minnesota Reflections is the first online project of the Minnesota Digital Library Coalition. It is a collection of nearly 20,000 images and documents depicting the history of Minnesota prior to 1950. More than 75 institutions including historical societies, public libraries, special archives, universities and colleges have shared their original materials with the Minnesota Digital Library. You can search, or browse by collection, topic, or region. http://reflections.mndigital.org/

University of Minnesota Digital collections - Most of the following collections are searchable but not browseable. This link takes you to the main page where you may choose several databases.   http://digital.lib.umn.edu/

Online Minnesota Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/minnesota/index.html

Mississippi

Mississippi Department of Archives and History

http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/index.html

Jefferson Davis Estate Papers

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was the only president of the Confederate States of America. He spent most of his life in Mississippi and lived his final eleven years in Harrison County on the Gulf Coast. The complete Jefferson Davis will and probate file is available here in forty-eight scans of the original documents. The files may also be searched by category or personal name. http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/jeffdavis/index.php

Moncrief Photograph Collection

Winfred Moncrief, an award-winning newspaper photographer from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, donated his collection of photographs to MDAH in 1994. The collection of nearly 900 black-and-white photographs made between 1952 and 1968 features significant people – civil rights activists Charles Evers and Aaron Henry, Mississippi governors Ross Barnett and Paul B. Johnson Jr., and Alabama governor George Wallace, among others – and events – such as the 1953 Vicksburg tornado, nuclear testing in Lamar County, Mississippi, voter registration, a Ku Klux Klan rally, and the murder of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer. The images in this online collection are scans from Mr. Moncrief's original negatives. The collection may be browsed by thumbnails or searched by subject. http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/moncrief/

Oral History Interviews with Sam H. Bowers, Jr.

Audio recordings and transcripts of three MDAH interviews with Samuel Holloway Bowers, Jr., recorded October 1983-November 1984. Also included is a handwritten manuscript in which Bowers clarifies and supplements answers given in the third interview. Bowers died November 6, 2006 in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, where he was serving a life sentence received in 1998 for his role in the 1966 murder of Mississippi civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer.http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/bowers/

Sovereignty Commission Online

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was the state's official counter civil rights agency from 1956-1973. The files in this online collection comprise the scanned originals with court-approved redactions requested by individuals named in the records along with additional information submitted by individuals named in the records who chose to file a rebuttal. The collection also includes the court-specified personal name index and links between rebuttal records and Commission records in which rebuttal submitters are mentioned. The files may be searched by personal name, folder title and number, or rebuttal respondent. http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/sovcom/

Mississippi Digital Library  http://www.msdiglib.net/

Mississippi Digital Map Library http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/mississippi/

Online Mississippi Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/mississippi/index.html

Missouri

Missouri State Archives http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/

This link will take you to a list of all the online resources and databases listed below.http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/ordb.asp

  • Civil War Provost Marshal Index Database
    The online database is an index of the Missouri portion of the War Department Collection of Confederate Records in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The collection contains thousands of pages of documents detailing the way the provost marshal affected the lives of Missouri citizens who came into contact with the Union Army. The search box is at the bottom of the page. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/provost/
  • Coroner's Inquest Database
    The Coroner's Inquest Database is an abstract of records containing unique information about the men and women who died in Missouri. The database can provide specific information about an ancestor’s death, as well as interesting insights into Missouri's past. Researchers can also use the database to locate original records for the study of such topics as public health, social violence, ethnic communities, and urban development.http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/coroners/
  • Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1956   
    Death certificates contain valuable information for family historians and researchers. The Missouri Death Certificate Database, containing death records created after 1910 and over 50 years old, makes that information available online through a searchable index that links to a digitized image of the original death certificate. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/
  • http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/
  • Land Patents Database
    The Land Patents Project at the Missouri State Archives is an ongoing project to transcribe information from the state-issued land patents to create a database of patent information, useful in placing an individual in a specific location at a specific time. The information contained in the land patent database includes name of purchaser, county, date of purchase, legal land description, and microfilm location for copy of full entry (reel number, volume and page number).http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/land/
  • Soldiers Database: War of 1812 - World War I
    The Soldiers Database is a comprehensive database abstracted from the individual service cards and listing more than 576,000 Missourians who served in the military from territorial times through World War I. It includes entries for twelve wars and military engagements in which Missouri soldiers took part. These range from well-known wars, such as the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I, to the battles that were peculiarly Missourian, including the Heatherly War of 1836, the Mormon War of 1838, and the Iowa (Honey) War of 1839. The bulk of the service cards, over 380,000 of them, record the fractured history of Missouri during the bloodiest of all American wars - the Civil War. The database is searchable by name or unit and searches can also be limited to a particular war. Images of the original service records are linked to most database records.http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/soldiers/

Missouri Digital Heritage The purpose of the Missouri Digitization Planning Project (MDPP) is to coordinate access to digital collections and exhibits created by the cultural and scientific heritage institutions of Missouri. The project brings together representatives from the archives, historical society, library, and museum communities to achieve this goal. This is a rich site with many pages of links to digitized collections.  http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/

 Founded in 2001, the University of Missouri Digital Library provides a repository for digitized items on behalf of the UM Libraries. Over 20 text collections, and 23 image collections, have been added, including collections from 15 libraries around the state of Missouri. UM provides negotiated free storage for digital objects and metadata, as well as a search interface, at no charge to any Missouri library, museum, or historical society. This link will take you to the home page, where you may choose any of the following collections.  http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/

Text Collections

Image Collections

Other University of Missouri Digital Collections may be accessed from this page:http://lso.umsystem.edu/digital.library/other_collections/umsystem

Univesity of Missouri at Kansas City - This link will take you to the main page - http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/diglib/dex

Missouri's County Courthouses: Photographs and History   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mogeneal/court/courthouses.htm

Springfield-Greene County Library Digital Collections  Twelve distinct collections including Greene County Records, Full text Ozarks Periodicals, Black families of the Ozarks, and much more.http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/collections.cfm

Missouri Valley Special Collections Digital Gallery is a great source for images and information about Kansas City. Other subjects here include African Americans, border warfare and the Civil War, cowboys and Indians, explorers and the Western expansion, the Mormons, outlaws and lawmen, and railroads.  http://www.kchistory.org/

St. Louis County Public Library Special Collections

Index to Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865. The 5,500+ entries can be browsed either by recruits’ names or by slave owners’ names.http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/jkh/usctmo/usctmosoldiers.htm

St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records  

 As of February 2006, over 9300 images from 292 freedom suits, 70 cases relating to the St. Louis fur trade, 32 cases involving references to Native Americans, and 98 cases relating to Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, or members of the Corps of Discovery, all previously unknown to history, are available online through the St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project website. http://www.stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/index.php

Online Missouri Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/missouri/index.html

Montana


The "Montana Memory Project" is a collection of digital collections and items relating to Montana's cultural heritage. In part, these collections and items will document the Montana experience. Many of these items are digitized copies of historic material, some items are contemporary. Many Montana libraries, museums, archives, and cultural institutions have added and are in the process of adding materials to this collection.Over time, contents may include digital newspapers, maps, copies of photographs, rare books, historic documents, diaries, oral histories, audio and video clips, paintings, illustrations, art, etc.   http://digcoll.mt.gov/

Montana Historical Society Online http://montanahistoricalsociety.org/research/library/onlineexhibits.asp

Montana Library Network Newspaper Index - This is an index with brief abstracts only - no images are available online. .http://montanalibraries.org/MKIndexPublic/MKFrameSetPublic.asp

Montana Digital Atlas http://maps2.nris.state.mt.us/mapper/

The University of Montana Libraries—Missoula 

http://www.lib.umt.edu/research/digitalcollections/

Digital photos of Montana history http://www.lib.umt.edu/research/digitalcollections/digital_photo.htm

Online Montana Death Indexes from Joel Beine

http://www.deathindexes.com/montana/index.html





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