Cooper County Specific Web Sites

• Cooper County Courthouse - This has Cooper County information but is basic. 

• Genealogy Trails - Genealogy Trails History Group – Cooper County

• The Library - History of towns, villages, and hamlets in Cooper Co.

• Cooper County Origins - This is a state/county genweb site and has a lot of excellent information if one really searches, and reads on the site. It was maintained by James Thoma, and he did a wonderful job of listing Cooper County history. There are cemetery lists and burials, churches, schools, marriage, census, wills and probate records, maps, information on Cooper County communities, and much more. Several ways to access the information.

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General Genealogy FREE Websites

• Find a Grave

• ObitTree - North American obituaries

• Missouri State Archives - (Secretary of State) To request an appointment email archives@sos.mo.gov or call (573)751-3280

• Library of Congress

• WikiTree - Free research

• Genealogy - Free research

• State of Historical Society of Missouri - Historic Missourians, Newspaper collections, general research

• Family Search - This is a free Mormon web site of information, and can be very helpful, but one needs to verify information taken from them as they are known to have a lot of errors and inaccuracies on family information

• Missouri Birth & Death Records

 

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Fee-Based Genealogy Sites

There are several fee-based sites. Some have a free trial or guest period.

• Ancestry.com - This is a huge data base of family tree information as well as other historical records. Indicate your interest and they often have ½ price specials for 6 months.

• My Heritage - Same as with Ancestry.com

• Genealogy Bank - This is a data base with old newspapers