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Birth and death records are available from 1883-1887 only at the Lewis County Clerk’s Office.  Birth and death records from 1910 and on are available at the state level.  Apparently, there was a fire at the courthouse that destroyed records from the intervening years.  Marriage, land, naturalization and Circuit Court records are all available from 1833 and on at the Circuit Clerk & Recorder of Deeds Office.  Probate records from 1833 on are available at the Probate Division Office. 

If you have a tip and want to share it, Contact Me! Preserving Newspaper Clippings For many people, newspaper clippings are a significant part oftheir personal heritage. There are several approaches you cantake. One premise to...

To add your surname just comment below! ADAMS Candice Dahlstet ALLEN Rose Ann Tompkins Chris & Jacque McCurdy ALTMAN Bettyann ANDERSON Jim & Barbara Wolfmeyer BAILEY J. Gilker BAKER Rose Ann Tompkins BAXTER Connie Baxter...

Relationship Chart On the top row, find the relationship of oneperson to the common ancestor and follow the column straightdown. Find the other persons relationship to the common ancestoron the left hand column and follow that...

ACATER – supplied food provisions, e.g. a ships chandler ACCIPITRARY – falconer ACCOMPTANT – accountant ACCOUCHEUR / ACCOUCHEUS – assisted women in childbirth ACCOUTREMENT MAKER / ACCOUTRE –...

  Ablepsy – Blindness Ague – Malarial Fever American plague – Yellow fever Anasarca – Generalized massive edema Aphonia – Laryngitis Aphtha – The infant disease “thrush”...

Historical and Genealogical Societies Lewis County Historical Society 112 North Fourth Street Canton, MO 63435 Phone: (573) 288-5713 Center for Living History Preservation Route 2, Box 226A Canton, MO 63435 Phone: (573) 288-3995...

1st son — father’s father 2nd son — mother’s father 3rd son — father 4th son — father’s eldest brother 1st daughter — mother’s mother 2nd daughter — father’s...

In German society there was a first name and a calling name, so John Jacob would have that name on church records, deeds, etc., but for anything else, he would be known as Jacob. There was a naming order for families. This was...

  The following are many of the abbreviationsthat may be found on Census Records. A -Aunt GGM-Great Grandmother R -Roomer AdD-Adopted Daughter GGGF-Great Great Grandfather S-Son AdS-Adopted Son GGGM-Great Great Grandmother...

Bibliography History of Lewis, Clark, Knox and Scotland Counties, Missouri, from the Earliest Time to the Present…  St. Louis: Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1887.  1,229 pp. (Repr. Marceline: Missouri Hist. Pr., 1982. 1100pp.) Lewis...