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Ancestry Library Edition
Census records and indexes, vital, church, military, and many other types of records. (in library use only)

Fold3 History & Genealogy Archives
Census records, state records, city directories and historical primary source documents from pre-U.S. Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War.

HeritageQuest Online

A great resource for census data, family records, local histories and Revolutionary War pension records.

PERSI from HeritageQuest
An index of over 1.6 million genealogy and local history articles.

Springfield News-Leader

Index and full-text of the Springfield News-Leader since 2002.

Worldcat

Search for family and local history books owned by libraries worldwide.

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Community and Conflict
The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks. Photographs, journals, business and personal letters and other artifacts, 1850-1875.

O'Reilly General (Army) Hospital of Springfield, Missouri
A collection of 194 photographs, a map, and history of this wartime facility.

Greene County Records
Abstracts and indexes of a number of court and other records.

Black Families of the Ozarks
A genealogy guide to Southwest Missouri's black families from the 1820s to the 1950s.

Moser's Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets Past and Present of Missouri
An annotated gazetteer of place names of populated places.

Missouri Digital Heritage
Digitized collections for other Missouri areas.

Historical Markers of Springfield and Greene County
Photos, text and related information for 21 historical markers. A Project of the University Club.

The Frisco
A Look Back at the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. Photographs, postcards, employee magazines and more.

Historical Postcards of Springfield, Missouri
113 postcards display a variety of themes and periods.

The Turnbo Manuscripts
800 tales of life in the early days of the Ozarks.

Greene County History
Histories of Greene County, Missouri, available in full text.

Regional Periodicals
Full text of three Ozarks periodicals: OzarksWatch, Bittersweet, and White River Valley Historical Quarterly.

The Max Hunter Collection
An archive of more than 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs. This site is a joint project of the Missouri State University Department of Music and The Library.

The Ethnic Life Stories Project
Giving the Springfield community a window to its diversity through the life stories of more than 30 ethnic elders.

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Cyndi's List
A categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet.
FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
Maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon Church). Provides access to catalog of the Family History library, the Ancestral File (database of family trees submitted by hundreds of thousands of people), and most of the International Genealogical Index.
Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1956
Complete index for 1910 - 1956. Images of certificates are available for 1910-1932 and 1945-1956.
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
The "oldest and largest free genealogy site," with invaluable links and archives searchable by surname, location or subject.
Social Security Death Index
Name index to deaths recorded by the Social Security Administration beginning in 1962.

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