Old Jamestown Association 

The onlne sources below continue to be used by the Old Jamestown Association History Project Committee.   We've found useful, credible information in almost all of them.  Most are searchable.  If you have corrections or suggestions for additions, please e-mail prautes@aol.com.

Missouri Historical Society Research Library

Home Page:   http://www.mohistory.org/lrc-home/ -- searches can be conducted to identify books and documents before visiting the research library on Skinker Blvd.

St. Louis County Library Online Research

Newspaper archives:  http://www.slcl.org/research/subject/670

Research Guidelines:  http://www.slcl.org/research/guidelines

Microfilm image of St. Louis County Watchman-Advocate articles available by request from St. Louis County Library -- reference@slcl.org  There is no charge if the image can be e-mailed.   Need to know date and topic.

Missouri State Archives – Secretary of State web site

Links to Collections: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/ordb.asp

Guide to Researching the History of a House

https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/a-guide-to-researching-the-history-of-a-house/

Digitized Books

These books are free and can be read online or downloaded to your mobile device or downloaded as a pdf file, sometimes as a Word file.   With the google versions, click on ‘Read on Your Device’ for options.

A history of Missouri from the earliest explorations and settlements until the admission of the state into the union (Louis Houck, 1908), Volumes 1, 2, and 3

http://www.archive.org/details/historyofmissour01houc 

http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZB5AAAAMAAJ&dq=A+history+of+Missouri+from+the+earliest+explorations

http://books.google.com/books?id=nmcOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:"Louis+Houck"&hl=en&ei=ODq4TuGCBMXq0gHkZy_BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Spanish Regime in Missouri -- a collection of papers and documents relating to upper Louisiana principally within the present limits of Missouri during the dominion of Spain, from the Archives of the Indies at Seville, etc., translated from the original Spanish into English -  (Louis Houck, 1909), Volumes 1 and 2

http://www.archive.org/details/spanishregimeinm01houc

http://www.archive.org/details/spanishregimeinm02houc

A History of the Missouri River -- Talk given by Phil Chappell at the Kansas State Historical Society in 1904.  The link below is to the whole report of the Historical Society.   The Missouri River portion begins on page 237,     His list of about 700 steamboats begins on page 295.  (Note:  If you would like three files (talk, footnotes, steamboats) that have been converted to Word with the formatting ‘cleaned up,’ send your request to prautes@aol.com.  These files are much easier to read.)

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14045930M/Transactions_of_the_Kansas_State_Historical_Society.

St. Louis County Web Site

Real Estate Parcel information, includes more recent ownership transfers. http://revenue.stlouisco.com/IAS/

Interactive Property Maps:  http://maps.stlouisco.com/propertyview/

Downloadable Maps:  Choose "Maps and GIS" from list
http://stlouisco.com/PropertyandRoads/MapsandGIS/DownloadMaps.aspx 

Lewis & Clark:

Home page:  http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/index.html

Lewis & Clark 101: http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/101.htm