More Cemetery Maps Now on our Website!

For the past year, our resident map guru, Jim Bellenger, has been working tirelessly to find lost St. Louis City and County cemeteries, acquire maps of existing cemeteries, and use Google maps to locate and georeference as many of these sites as he can. He finished his first set of maps in August 2024 and his second set in January of this year. This has been an extremely time-consuming project for Jim and his resident StLGS editor, but we are delighted that he is finished (for now) and we can share the last batch of maps with you today. If you missed the post about the first set of cemetery maps, you can read it here. The post announcing the second set is here.

Welcome to the Digitized Georeferenced Pitzman's 1878 Atlas of St. Louis City and County!

Happy Labor Day! St. Louis Genealogical Society’s volunteers want to help you celebrate this holiday weekend with a special gift to everyone, regardless of your StLGS membership status. Our amazing map guru, Jim Bellenger, has been laboring for months on an indexed, digitized version of one of the classic and beloved resources for twentieth-century St. Louis city and county residents, the 1878 Pitzman atlas. Pitzman’s New Atlas of the City and County of Saint Louis contains pages of detailed maps showing locations of specific landowners and many of the structures on their properties, as well as other landmarks, such as schools, houses of worship, cemeteries, and some businesses. For many years, StLGS was able to reproduce this atlas in book form for sale, but we have had to discontinue that option due to skyrocketing publication costs. The atlas was digitized many years ago and offered for sale by our society as a CD (and StLGS continues to sell those CDs in our secure online store.) However, never before has anyone been able to connect you directly to the page and location of everyone mentioned in the atlas . . . until now!