Missouri Historical Society's Recently Digitized Atlases and Guides

The StLGS monthly meeting on Saturday, 8 June 2024 featured Emily Jaycox, librarian at the Missouri Historical Society (MHS), and what a treat she brought us! Emily has given us permission to share some of what she presented to the group, which we are delighted to do, and we are sure that once you dig in to the items now posted on the Missouri Historical Society's website, you will be hard-pressed to leave your computer! Read on for all the exciting details.

StLGS June Meetings and Classes

Happy Memorial Day! On this special day of remembering those who have sacrificed for our country, we also look forward to the start of summer. We hope you are ready to join us for our June monthly meeting as well as some Special Interest Group meetings and an upcoming class. Please read on for details . . .

StLGS Trading Post Offers Atlases and Maps for Genealogists

Do you know where your family lived in relation to other family members or to the people who signed as witnesses on baptisms, deeds, wills or other documents? Maps help provide answers to where a family lived. And historic maps may include the names of landowners in a place and time. These maps may even help you locate the exact plot of ground where your family lived, so you can stand at their old homestead or even find a family burial ground.

Migrating Westward: Federal Land

Many of our ancestors depended on the land for their livelihoods. Land provided food, shelter, and wealth. In the early days of the United States, land was used as payment for military service and as an inducement for westward migration. The land seemed limitless, and its resources lured settlers, explorers, and speculators ever onward through hazards and hardship.