Fond Farewells and a New Atlas on our Website

In this season of rebirth and awakening, it is with a heavy heart that we share sorrowful news. During the past few weeks our society and the St. Louis genealogy community have lost three of our longtime members and volunteers. Please join us in remembering Judy Doyle, Carol Kohnen, and Bob Moody, all of whom shared their knowledge, friendship, and dedication to many of us. Then, as a special treat, we hope you will enjoy another new atlas recently uploaded to our website.

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!