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Finding Aid for the Midwest Genealogy Center Military Collection

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The following wars are included in this collection:Civil War (1861-1865)Spanish-American War (1898)World War I (1914-1918)World War II (1939-1945)The…

Finding Aid for the Lorraine Hopkins Owens Collection

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The collection consists of genealogy charts, land grants, photographs, correspondence, wills, newspaper articles, autobiographies, family newsletters,…

Finding Aid for the Johnson Family Bible

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This collection consists of the family Bible for the Joseph A. Johnson family. This Bible contains the family records for births, marriages, and…

Finding Aid for the Gutenberg Bible (facsimile)

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This collection contains a two volume facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible.

Finding Aid for the Fannie Mae Turner Collection

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This collection mainly contains correspondence received by Fannie Mae from her family and friends. The correspondence begins when she is a teenager in…

Finding Aid for the D.F. Bone Diary

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This collection is digital images only. The owner of the original diary and family Bible loaned the items to the library to be digitized. The…

Finding Aid for the Christian County Missouri Indexes and Transcribed Records

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Beginning in 1987, the Christian County Library created indexes and transcribed records pertaining to the residents of Christian County Missouri. The…

Finding Aid for the Leavenworth County, Kansas Funeral Programs

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The collection mainly consists of funeral programs and obituaries. The dates on the documents range from the late 1960s through 2017 and some contain…

Finding Aid for the Gentry County, Missouri Collection

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This collection contains three items from Gentry County, Missouri. The first is an index to court records. The index book to court records is titled…

Finding Aid for the Westport Bank Collection

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This collection contains photographs and other items related to the Westport Bank in Kansas City, Missouri. Black and white photographs from the…

Finding Aid for the Brackenbury Family History Collection

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As I Live and Breathe and Okuna and the Kabuki Dance are both hand printed autobiography of Robert Brackenbury telling of his family history as well…

Finding Aid for the Akes Family Bible

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The first page of records states, “Peter Akes his Bible May 2nd 1830.” The family Bible contains names and dates of births, marriages, and deaths of…

Finding Aid for the Herbert C Roy Photograph Collection

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This collection mainly contains photographs of the Roy and Cook families. Other photographs include ones taken by Herbert C Roy, a professional…

Finding Aid for the Julian Family History

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The collection includes research covering the genealogy of the Julian, Beach, Humphrey, and Marshall Families as well as Beatrice Julian Snapp’s photo…

Finding Aid for the Rodgers Family Collection

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This collection contains genealogical charts and research relating to the Rodgers and allied families. Many of the items are photocopies of…

Finding Aid for the Elliott Family Collection

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This collection contains a pedigree chart, family group sheets and documentation related to the Elliott family of Holmes and Jefferson counties in…

Finding Aid for the Mary (McKim) Ray Collection

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The collection consists of letters written back and forth between Mary McKim and Bill Ray while they were dating during World War II. The letters were…

Finding Aid for the Lois Allen Collection

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This items in the collection belonged to Lois Turner. Some items relate to her family while others are photographs collected by her. It is unclear as…

Finding Aid for the Savage Family Photos

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The photographs pertain to the ancestors of Kenneth Savage. Family names include Chandler, LeRay, Gunsolley, Savage, and Tyrrell. The photographs date…

Finding Aid for the Antle Cemetery Collection

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The collection consists headstone photographs taken by Bethel 29, Independence International Order of Job’s Daughters (Independence, MO) in 1992. The…