Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center

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Contact Information
Address:


 * 3440 S. Lee's Summit Road
 * Independence, MO 64055-1923

Telephone: 816-252-7228

Hours: Mon - Thurs 9-9; Fri 9-6; Sat 9-5; Sun 1-5


 * Holiday closings

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Internet sites and databases:


 * Midwest Genealogy Center Internet Site
 * MCPL Catalog Online
 * MGC Genealogy Databases
 * MGC History Databases

Collection Description
The Midwest Genealogy Center opened in 2008 with 52,000 square feet on two floors. The collection includes over 80,000 family history books, 100,000 local history items, 565,000 microfilms and microfiches, and 7,000 maps. The center also has an extensive newspaper clipping file and thousands of family name files. Their collection has been built up with donations from the Daughters of the American Revolution, Independence Library's Missouri county histories, American Family Records Association (AFRA), Missouri State Genealogical Association, Heart of America Genealogical Society, Gann Family Association, and a former Family History Center. The Midwest Genealogy Center averages about 200 patrons a day.

Significant holdings include all federal censuses 1790-1930 and many indexes, federal land sales in Missouri 1818-1903, the Draper Manuscripts, Kentucky tax records, Missouri State Penitentiary Records 1836-1931, papers of the St. Louis fur trade, indexes and Compiled Service Records of MO Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers, selected passenger arrival lists, Native American sources, partial state vital records for AL, AR, CA, GA, IL, IN, KY, OR, TX, WA, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations, Independence Examiner, and Kansas City Star and Times, American Biographical Archives, Black Biographical Dictionaries, Civil War unit histories, Massachusetts original town records, UMI Genealogy and Local History Series, and the United States Serial Set.

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