VOL. 10, NO. 12 / VOL. 11, NO. 1 — DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018
FOR THE RECORDS The St. Louis Cholera Epidemic of 1849
The lack of sanitation, drugs and vaccines, and igno- rance of germ theory, combined with social factors, such as population growth, created devastating epidem- ics in cities across American by the mid-19th century. Among the most deadly was cholera, a bacterial infec- tion in the small intestine, caused by exposure to con- taminated food or water. Diarrhea, the primary symp- tom, can begin within as little as two hours after expo- sure. Dehydration and electrolyte imbalance can de- velop as a result, leading to complications and death.
Prevalent in India for centuries, the disease spread to the rest of the world in 1817 via trade routes and immi- Due to the high cost of development and rapid expan- St. Louis City gration. It first appeared in the United States in 1832, sion of the population, the city had failed to construct Hospital as it appeared in and quickly spread to cities around the country, includ- a sewer system. The city planners had chosen, rather, 1849. Illustra- ing St. Louis. Although death records were not kept at to divert waste water into a system of sink holes and tion by August Gast and Co. | that time, it is estimated about 300 St. Louisans died of caves that ran under the city. Most buildings had Source Missouri the disease between 1832 and 1834. nearby outhouses. When heavy rains came, or when History Museum
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY [ OPEN Dec. 9–10 & Jan. 13–14 ] DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 3
Excerpt and detail of St. Louis City Hospital records showing admit- death of a St. Louisian from cholera was reported. Ice on tances for and deaths from cholera in 1849. | Source: City Hospital, Registers, 1849–1900, 1927, SLH 6–19. the Mississippi halted the flow of ships from the south, however, and relatively few cases were reported in January A lack of consistent trash collection was also a prob- and February of 1849. Some people suggested the fear of lem. Refuse tended to pile up in streets and alley- cholera was overblown. By March, however, the spring ways, mixing with surface water runoff. In addition, thaws allowed more boats to arrive, bringing thousands of people often kept pigs in the city as a source of food. people from around the world to St. Louis every week. These animals would root through the garbage in search of food and wallow in the mud of back alleys. Besides St. Louis’s rapid expansion, another factor contrib- uted to the wave of people arriving in St. Louis. In 1848, Contributing to the situation was the fact that no one gold was found on a farm in northern California. Word understood what caused the disease. It wasn’t until spread rapidly across the globe. In 1849, an estimated 1854 that two researchers identified the bacteria that 300,000 people traveled to California, about half of whom caused cholera, and identified contaminated water as migrated over land on the California Trail. Many passed the primary means in which the bacteria was intro- through St. Louis, often stopping to outfit themselves for duced into humans. In 1849, physicians offered a vari- the long and dangerous journey across the plains. The ety of causes, including bad diet, night air, and alco- 49ers, as they were called, placed an even greater burden holic beverages. Early in 1849, they prescribed an on the city’s infrastructure, which had failed to keep up abstinence from vegetables. When this showed no with rapid population growth. effect, they switched to condemning meat. Fires were burned at night to clear the “miasma” from the air. In April 1849, 131 deaths from cholera were reported. Fear Some suggested that alcohol was the cause, while was beginning to grip the city. Cases of the disease coming others claimed it should be consumed to prevent chol- from outside the city began to dwindle, but those of local era. Hundreds of other remedies were conceived and origin began to rise. By May, reports of cholera were ap- promoted, with no success. Even surgical procedures pearing in the newspapers on a daily, rather than weekly were tried, including blood-letting. basis. The second week of May was particularly deadly, with a total of 181 deaths attributed to the disease. On Jan. 2, 1849, the arrival in St. Louis of two steam- boats from New Orleans included a reported 66 pas- On May 17, a fire broke out in a cabin on a steamship sengers suffering from cholera. On Jan. 5, the first docked at St. Louis. Ships lining the wharf were closely packed, facilitating the rapid spread of fire. The flames eas-
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 4
ily jumped across Front Street, setting fire to the ment of Bellefontaine Cemetery, and later Calvary wooden structures. In all, 23 steamboats and 15 city Cemetery, as a remedy for the lack burial grounds in blocks were destroyed. This destruction shifted the the city. attention of the city away from the epidemic. Coinci- dentally, cholera deaths waned over the next two By the middle of July, the number of cholera deaths weeks, leading people to hope the worst was past. had been reduced considerably. Standing water in the This would not be the case. city was being drained by the city engineer. The keep- ing of hogs within city limits was banned, and the Deaths in June began to increase rapidly. On the June committee began making provisions for the care of 13 alone, 65 people died from cholera, three fewer the large numbers of homeless children left in the than the total for the entire month of March. Whole wake of the epidemic. On July 25, the City Council families were destroyed, including two who lost seven ordered additional paving of streets and alleys and members each to the disease. On June 21, 85 people directed that the sink-hole on Biddle Street be drained. died of the disease. People began to flee the city in an effort to find safety elsewhere. By July 27, the number of deaths caused by cholera had decreased to 10. The Committee for the Public On June 27, a law was passed creating the Health held its final meeting on August 1, turning “Committee of Public Health.” Its members, drawn over the operation of the quarantine to the mayor. The from the city’s most prominent men, were given Committee issued a final report, in which it recom- $50,000 and nearly unlimited powers to combat the mended that a sewer system be constructed that would disease. They met for the first time on the day the drain every house and factory in St. Louis. committee was formed, with plans to meet daily until the epidemic was contained. The exact number of people who died from cholera in St. Louis in 1849 is unknown. Reports from the time The committee rapidly took steps to combat the dis- state that 4557 out of a total of 8603 deaths were due ease, the most effective of which was the creation of a to cholera. Many deaths went unreported at this time, quarantine station for all steamboats wanting to dock however, which suggests that both total deaths and in St. Louis. Ordinances were passed that required cholera deaths were much higher than official reports. steamboats to stop at quarantine stations and submit to An estimated 70% of cholera victims were Irish and inspection by a health officer. Passengers were al- German immigrants. lowed to depart only when the attending physicians were satisfied that the passengers were healthy. The Recorded evidence of cholera deaths station was placed on Arsenal Island in the Missis- Neither the state of Missouri, nor the city of St. Louis sippi River, which no longer exists. required the recording of deaths in 1849. Other sources do exist, however. The creation of the quarantine station began in late June 1849. While it took time to fully implement the Church Records system, it did stem the tide of fresh cases of cholera Churches often recorded the funeral services per- introduced into the city. However, the city was still formed in their sacramental records. The St. Louis battling the epidemic. By the beginning of July, more County History and Genealogy Department has mi- than 100 people were dying every day. The cemeter- crofilm copies of church records from three denomi- ies around the city swelled to capacity. Mass graves nations with a significant presence in St. Louis at that were needed to handle the volume of dead. In fact, the time: Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and German Evan- cholera epidemic of 1849 directly led to the develop- gelical. Not all Catholic CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 5
Bellefontaine Cemetery was outside of city limits when it opened in 1850. The graveyard was created to provide space for burials after cholera deaths rapidly filled city cemeteries rapidly in 1849
Early Bellefontaine Cemetery records stretch across two ledger pages (the right- hand page is on the next page).
Source: Bellefontaine Cemetery (Microfilm), Apr. 27, 1850–Jan. 16, 1891, SLCEM-82.
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 6
This page records the cause of death and shows that many graves were moved to Bellefontaine from existing cemeteries.
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 7
parishes recorded deaths, but four in St. Louis in 1849 Mortality Schedule for the 1850 did, including the Old Cathedral, Sts. Mary and Jo- Federal Census seph, St. Vincent de Paul, and St. Joseph. Nearly all of Included in the 1850–1880 Federal Censuses were the Lutheran and German Evangelical churches in St. questions regarding those who died in the preceding Louis city were recording deaths at the time. 12 months. Persons who died between June 1, 1849 and May 31, 1850 should be listed on the 1850 Mor- Probate Records tality schedule. This time period partially covers the Probate is a judicial process of administering the es- epidemic, including the months with the highest rate tate of a deceased individual. A will, if one exists, is of mortality. The History and Genealogy Department proven in court as the true last testament of the de- has the Mortality Schedules for the state of Missouri ceased. Also, an executor is assigned by the court to on microfilm, as well as print indexes to the 1850 manage the estate and distribute property and funds to Mortality Schedule for the city of St. Louis. the beneficiaries and creditors of the deceased. The History and Genealogy Department has microfilmed Hospital Records copies of probate records for the St. Louis city from The History and Genealogy Department has a copy of 1806 to 1885, and St. Louis city wills from 1816 to the St. Louis City Hospital records on microfilm be- 1965. ginning in 1846. A gap in the records between No- vember 1848 and September 1849 unfortunately cor- Cemetery Records responds almost exactly with the cholera epidemic. While many cemetery records from this time period However, some records identify numerous cases of have been lost to history, some did survive. The His- cholera. tory and Genealogy Department has St. Louis ceme- tery records on microfilm, as well as a number of Sources cemetery indexes
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 8
Shelf life SAMPLINGS FROM THE PRINT COLLECTION Book | Private Libraries in Creole Saint Louis Periodical | The Irish Genealogist
As you curl up with a book this winter, you may wonder Published as the official organ of about literacy in early St. Louis. What did people read the Irish Genealogical Research and have access to? How many were literate? And who Society, the Irish Genealogist owned books? Knowing how much one can learn from may be the answer to some of another’s bookshelf, John Francis McDermott, a your Irish research roadblocks. It professor of English turned historian at Washington is widely recognized as the University in St. Louis, developed similar questions in the premier scholarly journal of Irish 1930s when he found the topic passed over in available genealogy. histories. McDermott used records such as estate sales A typical issue might include and inventories to compile a reference work on the transcribed records, such as “Register of Cases of subject, which he titled Private Libraries in Creole Saint Successful Vaccination in the District of Ballylesson, Louis (R 977.866 M134P). Union of Lisburn, County Down” (Vol. 12:2, [2007], In a short overview of the city’s earliest years, McDermott p. 143; Vol. 12:3 (2008), p. 243; Vol. 12:4 (2009), p. 267; refutes claims by previous writers that French St. Louis and Vol. 13:1 [2010], p. 42) or “A List of Irish Emigrants was an uncivilized and isolated backwoods. The book is from Stamullen Catholic Parish, Co. Meath” (Vol. 8:2 then divided into two time periods, namely before and [1991], p. 290.) Other items might be a family history, after the Louisiana Purchase, when St. Louis became an such as “The Cavetown Mahons of County American city. Known book owners are listed Roscommon” (Vol. 9:3 [1996], p. 381). chronologically in the table of contents, and short The society maintains copies of the table of contents for biographies of each are included. Several people are each volume on its website
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 9 Happy Holidays
From the staff of the St. Louis County Library History & Genealogy Department
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 10
NEW BOOK HIGHLIGHTS
JOY NEIGHBORS the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not The Family Tree Cemetery War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's Field Guide: How to Find, "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and Record, & Preserve Your how their experiences were treated by nonveterans.— Ancestors' Graves Publisher The Family Tree Books, 2017 JOHN WHITECLAY CHAMBERS R 929.1 N397F and circulating The Tyranny of Change: copies America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 Uncover your ancestors with this Rutgers University, 2006 guide for how to find a grave, understand tombstones and use death records and other R 973.91 C444T cemetery data in your genealogy research. This book contains detailed step-by-steps for using FindAGrave and Between 1890 and 1920, the forces BillionsGraves, plus guides for understanding tombstone accompanying industrialization sent the epitaphs and symbol meanings.—Publisher familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and JAMES MARTEN family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling Sing not War: The Lives of cities. America appeared headed into an unknown future. Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age In lively, accessible prose, John Chambers incorporates the America University of North Carolina, 2014. latest scholarship about the social, cultural, political, and economic changes which produced modern America. He R 973.71 M377S illuminates the experiences of blacks, Asians, Latinos, as well as other working men and women in the cities and countryside After the Civil War, white Confederate as they struggled to improve their lives in a transformed and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter-- economy. He explores the dimensions of the new consumer society and the new information and entertainment industries: View a complete list of new newspapers, magazines, the movies. Striding these pages are many of the prominent individuals who shaped the attitudes books online and institutions of modern America: J. P. Morgan and A list of new books received during the previous month corporate reorganization; Jane Addams and the origin of is posted on the library’s website. View the list online
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 11
modern social work; Mary Pickford and the new star-oriented white Union veterans after the war, despite the shared tradition motion picture industry; and the radical labor challenge of of sacrifice among both black and white soldiers. In The Won “Big Bill” Haywood and the “Wobblies.”—Publisher Cause, however, Gannon challenges this scholarship, arguing that although black veterans still suffered under the BARBARA A. GANNON contemporary racial mores, the GAR honored its black The Won Cause: Black and members in many instances and ascribed them a greater White Comradeship in the equality than previous studies have shown. Using evidence of Grand Army of the Republic University of North Carolina, 2011 integrated posts and veterans' thoughts on their comradeship R 973.71 G198W and the cause, Gannon reveals that white veterans embraced black veterans because their membership in the In the years after the Civil War, black GAR demonstrated that their wartime suffering created a and white Union soldiers who survived transcendent bond--comradeship--that overcame even the the horrific struggle joined the Grand most pernicious social barrier--race-based separation. By Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest upholding a more inclusive memory of a war fought for veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and liberty as well as union, the GAR's "Won Cause" challenged groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and the Lost Cause version of Civil War memory.—Publisher white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the nation's first SUSAN A. MILLER interracial organization. Growing Girls: the Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations According to the conventional view, the freedoms and in America interests of African American veterans were not defended by Rutgers University, 2007.
R 369.46 M651G
PastPorts is published by History & Genealogy at In the early years of the twentieth St. Louis County Library, located on Tier 5 of the library century, Americans began to recognize headquarters. adolescence as a developmental phase distinct from both Current and past issues can be downloaded from the childhood and adulthood. This awareness, however, came web
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 12
Susan A. Miller explores these girls' organizations that sprung English up in the first half of the twentieth century from a socio- historical perspective, showing how the notions of uniform Oxfordshire identity, civic duty, “primitive domesticity,” and fitness Account Rolls of University College, Oxford. R 942.574 A172 shaped the formation of the modern girl.—Publisher A Biographical Register of St. John’s College, Oxford, 1555– 1660. R 942.574 H462B RONALD E. BUTCHART Building Accounts of All Souls College, Oxford, 1438–1443. Schooling the Freed People: R 942.574 B932 Teaching, Learning, and the Canterbury College, Oxford. R 942.574 P197C Struggle for Black Freedom, Cartulary of Oseney Abbey. R 942.574 O83C 1861–1876 University of North Carolina, 2010 The Church and Parish of St. Nicholas, Abingdon. R 942.57 P937C R 371.829 B983S The Dean’s Register of Oriel, 1446–1661. R 942.574 O69D Epistolae Academicae, 1508–1596 [Official letters of Oxford Conventional wisdom holds that University registrars]. R 942.574 U58E freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, Epistolae Academicae Oxon (Registrum F): A Collection of single white northern women motivated by evangelical Letters and Other Miscellaneous Documents Illustrative beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, of Academical Life and Studies at Oxford in the Fifteenth Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People shatters this Century. R 942.574 U58E notion. The most comprehensive quantitative study of the Memorial Inscriptions in St. John’s College, Oxford. origins of black education in freedom ever undertaken, this R 942.574 A216M definitive book on freedmen's teachers in the South is an Monumental Inscriptions in All Souls College, Oxford. outstanding contribution to social history and our R 942.574 H975M understanding of African American education.—Publisher Oxford City Apprentices, vols. for 1513–1602 and 1697–1800. R 942.574 C951O Briefly noted Oxford City Documents: Financial and Judicial, 1268–1665. R 942.574 O98 St. Louis The Oxford Deeds of Balliol College. R 942.574 B192O Carondelet Historical Society: The First Fifty Years. Oxford Quarter Sessions Order Book, 1614–1637. R 977.866 H315C R 942.574 O98 Come to the Water: The Stirring Baptismal Waters at The Register of Congregations, vols. for 1448–1463 and St. Joseph, Manchester, 1865–2015. R 977.865 C732 1505–1517 [Oxford University]. R 942.574 U58R Southampton, St. Louis: An Unconventional History. Registrum Cancellarii, 1498–1506. R 942.574 U58R R 977.866 F794S and circulating copy Registrum Cancellarii Oxoniensis, 1434–1469. R 942.574 U58R Buildings and material culture Registrum Annalium Collegii Mertonensis [Registers of The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses. Merton College, Oxford], vols. for 1483–1521, R 974.7 G976P 1521–1567, and 1603–1660. R 942.574 M575R. Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early Registrum Collegii Exoniensis: Register of the Rectors, American City, 1780–1830. R 307.336 H551T Fellows, and Other Memgers on the Foundation of Exeter College, Oxford. R 942.574 Religion Three Oxfordshire Parishes: A History of Kidlington, Yarnton Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture. and Begbroke. R 942.57 S794T R 286.4 G984S Survey of Oxford. R 942.574 S857S
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 13
The Warden’s Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford, G776 1601–1850. R 942.574 W265 Gravestone Inscriptions, County Down. R 941.656 C599G Lincolnshire Kilraughts Old Church Graveyard. R 941.61 A778K The Acta of Hugh of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, –1235. R 942.53 H892A Scottish The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1669–1719. R 942.531 G143F The People of Arbroath, 1600–1799. R 941.26 D635P Lincolnshire Church Notes made by Gervase Holles, A.D. The People of Ayr, 1600–1799. R 941.464 D635P 1634 to A.D. 1642. R 942.53 H737L The People of Montrose, 1600–1799. R 941.26 D635P Lincolnshire Parish Clergy, c. 1214–1968: A Biographical The People of Perth. R 941.28 D635P Register. R 942.53 B472L Register of Testaments: Aberdeen, Three Parts in One. Lincolnshire Parish Correspondence of John Kaye, Bishop of R 941.24 M136R London, 1827–53. R 942.53 L741 The People of the Scottish Borders, 1650–1800. Lincoln Wills, 1532–1534. R 942.534 L736 R 941.37 D635P The Medieval Lindsey Marsh: Selected Documents. Scots in Poland, Russia and the Baltic States, 1550–1850. R 942.531 M489 R 292.3 D635S Minutes of Proceedings in Quarter Sessions Held for the Parts Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America. R 841.1 D635S of Kesteven in the County of Lincoln, 1674–1695. R 942.53 G786M German Probate Inventories of Lincoln Citizens: 1661–1714. R 942.534 P962 Ortssippenbücher and similar publications Records of Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolshire, vols. (abbreviated titles) for 1360–1375 and 1381–1396. R 942.53 G786R Altenheim (Neuried), Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon, 1405–1419. R 943.462 O78 R 942.53 C363R Blies-Ébersing, Lorraine, France. R 944.385 D559B The Registers of Henry Burghersh, 1320–1342. Brenschelbach, Saarland. R 943.42 U95O R 942.53 B956R Burlafingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg (Swabia). The Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of R 943.37 T351O Lincoln. R 942.534 L736R Drabenderhöhe, North Rhine-Westphalia. Royal Writs Addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of R 943.551 S682F Lincoln, 1363–1398. R 942.53 C363R Ebingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg. R 943.46 S912F Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1517–1531. Eggenstein, Baden-Wuerttemberg. R 943.46 S318O R 942.534 C363V Föhren and Naurath, Rhineland-Palatinate. R 943.431 T666F Other English titles Folpersviller, Lorraine, France. R 944.385 F668 Testamentary Records of the English and Welsh Episcopate, Hamswehrum, Lower Saxony (Ostfriesland). 1200–1413: Wills, Executors Accounts and Inventories, R 943.5917 H288F and the Probate Process. R 942 T342 Helmighausen, Hesperinghausen, Neudorf, Kohlgrund, Hesse. R 943.41 H877R Ireland Höringhausen, Hesse. R 943.41 H811 Ballymoney Old Church Graveyard. R 941.614 A788B Irlich (Neuwied), Rhineland-Palatinate. R 943.43 E35 Derrykeighan Old Church Graveyard. R 941.61 A788D Kappel am Rhein, Baden-Wuerttemberg. R 943.462 K75D Gravestone Inscriptions, County Antrim. R 941.613 Leopoldshafen (Schröck), Baden-Wuerttemberg.
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 14
R 943.464 S318O Heimatbuch der Stadt Philippsburg: Beiträge zur Geschichte Maikammer-Alsterweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate. und Gegenwart der Stadt [History of Philippsburg, R 943.43 S296O Baden-Wuerttemberg: Contributions to the History and Marienberghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia., Present State of the City]. R 943.464 H467 R 943.551 S682F Kriegsalbum [photographs of WWI]. R 940.3 K92 Marienhagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. R 943.551 L671F Westfalen in Amerika: Von Boeing, Bruns und Boas bis Ney, Mengeringhausen, Hesse. R 943.412 V892M Niebuhr und Wewer [Westphalians in America: From Mertloch, Einig, Gerini, Kollig, Rhineland-Palatinate. Boein, Bruns and Boas to Ney, Niebuhr and Wewer]. R 943.43 R982E R 943.56 S396W Neulussheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg. R 943.464 O16O Niederehe, North Rhine-Westphalia. R 943.55 G824O Highlights from journals Niederäfflingen, Rhineland-Palatinate. R 943.43 O28F and quarterlies Olzheim, Rhineland-Palatinate. R 943.431 G312F Öttlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg. R 943.462 K92O Der Blumenbaum, Vol. 35:2 (Oct.-Dec. 2017): “The Practice Pfaffenrot (Marxzell), Baden-Wuerttemberg. of Baptism in Various Faiths,” 65; “French-Language R 943.464 S296O Entries in German Documents: A Condensation of a Piesport-Niederemmel, including Müstert, Reinsport, and Report,” 66; “The Illegitimacy Factor in the 19th Century Ferres, Rhineland-Palatinate. R 943.43 K43F in Germany.” 71; “Using DNA to Find an Unknown Rauenberg, including Rotenberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg. German Ancestral Town,” 84. R 943.464 R836F Der Maibaum: Journal of the Deutschheim Verein, Vol. 26:4 Rosbruck, Lorraine, France. R 944.4385 D559R (Fall-Winger 2017): “Ravensberg Roots: Life of the Schallbach, Baden-Wuerttemberg. R 943.462 F296O Tenant Family,” 4; “The Journey at Sea: America at Segenthau, Banat. R. 949.84 K83F Last!” 11. Théding, Lorraine, France. R 944.385 D559T Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, Vol. 90: 3 (Fall Uttum, Lower Saxony (Ostfriesland). R 943.5917 H288F 2017): “The Church’s Celebration of the Reformation at Wethen, Hesse. R 943.41 W539 100 Year Intervals,” 9. Wolfertschwenden, including Niederdorf and Dietratried, GALLUS: Journal of the Glasgow & West of Scotland Family Bavaria (Swabia). R 943.37 M217H History Society, No. 110 (Oct. 2017): “Glasgow’s Built Wiehl, North Rhine-Westphalia.R 943.551 L671F and Heritage: Tobacco, Slavery and Abolition,” 5; circulating copy “Communion Tokens and Family History Research,” 20 Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Other German titles Russia, Vol. 40:3 (Fall 2017): “The Volga German Abschied von der Heimat: Die Eifeler Auswanderung nach Republic: Agriculture, Industry and Administration,” 8. Amerika im 19. Jahrhundert [Leaving Home: Emigration Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 55:3 (Aug. 2017): from the Eifel Region to America in the 19th Century]. “Augusta County Delinquents, 1794,” 188; “Buckingham R 943.43 P895A County 1788 Personal Property Tax List,” 197; “Wills A Century of Emigration from Affoltern am Albis, Canton from the Charles City County Record Book, 1692–1700,” Zürich, Switzerland. R 949.4 B954C 207; “Virginia Militia 1794, Pay and Muster Rolls, “ 216; Deutsches Familienarchiv, Band 160 [Von Gerlach family]. “Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Insolvents, R 943 D486 1755, 1756,” 325; “Free Negro and Slave Records, Evangelische Beichtstühle in Sachsen [Protestant Alexandria County Circuit Court,” 251. Confessionals in Saxony]. R 943.21 W642E Mayflower Journal, Vol. 2:2 (Fall 2017): “Luther among the Gothaisches genealogisches Handbuch [Gotha Compendium Pilgrims?” 11. of Nobility], Band 1–5. R 943.1 G3261 Methodist History, Vol. 56:1 (Oct. 2017): “Separation,
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 15
Inclusion, and the Development of Black Leadership in donate their books to the collection will receive a free listing the Methodist Episcopal Church,” 14. of the book’s description in NGS Magazine. Books donated to Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde, Vol. 13:11 / 12: the collection by members and others are eligible for review in “Leibeigene im Eßweiler Tal vor Beginn des 30jährigen the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Books for Krieges [Property-based servitude in the the Eßweiler donation or review consideration can be mailed to: Valley before the beginning of the Thirty Years War],” 604; “Genealogische Daten zur Auswanderer-Familie NGS Book Loan Collection Christian Dully und Katharina Fröhlich aus Mosisbruch 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. bzw. Hofstätten im Pfälzerwald [Genealogical data about St. Louis, MO 63131 the family of Christian Dully and Katharina Fröhlich which emigrated from Mosisbruch (Hofstätten) in the Learn more about the National Genealogical Society
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 16
American Colonies before 1701. Boston, Mass.: New Ambrose Jones (1756-1833) in Virginia, West Virginia, England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. Kentucky, and the Pacific Northwest, 1750s-the 20th 929.7 F228P Century. Portland, Ore.: Harold E. Hinds, Jr., 2016. French, Gale L. The William French Family of Arkansas / 929.2 J76H Texas. S.l.: Gale L. French, 2016. 929.2 F877F Hollier, Mark Edwin. Hollier Ancestry of Southern Louisiana. Gable, Sharon Rea. Camden County, North Carolina Sandy, Utah: Hollier Family History Publications, 2016. Administrator Bonds and Other Records. Suffolk, Va.: 929.2 H739H Sharon Rea Gable, 2016. 975.6135 G115C Jones, Thomas W. Mastering Genealogical Documentation. ______. Camden County, North Carolina Deed Books Arlington, Va: National Genealogical Society, 2017. A–D, 1777–1790. Suffolk, Va.: Sharon Rea Gable, 2016. 929.1 J79M 975.6135 G115C Julian, Paul Rowland. The Welborn Families of the Old ______. Pasquotank County, North Carolina Marriages, Granville Region of North Carolina: A Study of the 1891–1900. Elizabeth City, N.C.: Family Research Multiple Welborns Living in the Northern North Carolina Society of Northeastern North Carolina, 2008. 975.6142 Counties before 1850. Berwyn Heights, Md.: Heritage G115P Books, 2016. 929.2 W438J ______. Ziegler Funeral Home Records, 1867–1949 Kilbourne, Elizabeth Evans. Athens, Georgia Newspaper (Extant), Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Suffolk, Va.: Clippings (Southern Banner), Vol. 9, 1855–1857; Vol. 10, S.R. Gable, 2015. 975.6142 G115Z 1858–1859; Vol. 11, 1860–1861; Vol. 12, 1862–1863; Garrett-Nelson, LaBrenda. A Guide to Researching African Vol. 13, 1864–1868. Savannah, Ga: T. Evans, 2000–. American Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina 975.818 E92A and Selected Finding Aids. Bloomington, Ind.: Xlibris, ______. Fitzgerald, Georgia Newspaper Clippings, Vol. 2, 2016. 975.731 G239G 1902. Savannah, GA: Elizabeth Evans Kilbourne, 2016–. Gates, Stephen F. Southern Planters: The Gates, Bryan, Davis 975.8852 K48F and Related Families of Virginia, North and South Krause, William J. Beyond Dakota. Columbia, Mo.: William Carolina, Georgia and Florida, 1650–2000. Charleston, J. Krause II, 2016. 929.2 K91K S.C .: Southern Planters Press, 2016. 929.2 G259G ______. Coming of Age on the Northern Plains. Columbia, Goodwin, Aaron. New York City Municipal Archives: An Mo.: William J. Krause II, 2016. 929.2 K91K Authorized Guide for Family Historians. New York: New Marion County, FL Marriages, 1844–1900, Including York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2016. Alachua County, FL, 1837–1845. Ocala, Fl.: HO/MCGS, 974.71 G656N 1993. 975.975 M341 Griffeth, Bill. The Stranger in My Genes. Boston, Mass.: New Mayo, Linda Gray, ed. Early Hyde County, North Carolina England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. 929.2 Marriage Records, 1735–1899. Engelhard, N.C.: Hyde G849S County Historical & Genealogical Society, 2016. Hain, Peter Murray. Gideon Murray (1772–1839). Reading, 975.6184 E12 Pa.: Peter Murray Hain, 2016. 929.2 M982H Miller, James R. Philatelic Genealogy. Caroga Lake, N.Y.: Hatcher, Patricia Lau. Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Philatelic Genealogy, Inc., 2016. 929.1 M648P Ancestors Using Land Records, Rev. Ed.. Baltimore, Md.: Minert, Roger P. German Census Records, 1816–1916. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 2016. R 929.1 H361L Orting, Wash.: Family Roots, 2016. 943 M664G Hatt, Doyle. Täuferwege: The Ancestors of Nora Musser. Mitchell, Brian. The People of Derry City, 1921, Extracted Morgantown, Pa.: Masthof Press, 2016. 929.2 M989H from the Derry Almanac and Directory. Baltimore, Md.: Heaton, Dean. Heaton Families II (2 vols.). Tempe, Ariz.: Clearfield Company, 2016. 941.62 M681P Graphics of Tempe, 1999. 929.2 H442H ______. The Place Names of County Derry. Baltimore, Hinds, Harold E. “They Were Thick as Fleas:” Five Md.: Clearfield Company, 2016. 941.62 M681P Generations of Jones and Allied Kin Descended from Noble, David A. and Richard P. Marsh. Patriots in Georgia
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 17
Revolutionary War Engagements, 1776–1782. Atlanta: Scott, 2016. Waynesboro, Va.: Lynn Scott, 2016. 929.2 Atlanta Chapter Sons of the American Revolution, 2016. M133S 973.3458 N748P Snowden, Ransom Grady. Memories of Grady: Ransom Pierce, Richard Andrew and Jeanne D. Segal. The Grady Snowden, Jr., 1935–2007. S.l.: s.n., 2005. Wampanoag Genealogical History of Martha's Vineyard, 929.2 S674S Massachusetts: Referenced to Banks' History of Martha's Steward, Scott C. and Chip Rowe. The Descendants of Robert Vineyard, Mass, Vol. 2, Part A and Vol. 2, Part B. Winthrop of New York. Boston: Newbury Street Press, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing., 2016. 2017. 929.2 W793S 974.494 S454W Sweaney, Deborah. Lots of Love, Daddy: The World War II Portraits of Early Sonoma County Settlers. Santa Rosa, CA: Letters of Roscoe and Gladys Yegerlehner, October 1942– Sonoma County Genealogical Society, 2016. December 1942. S.I.: Deborah Sweeney, 2016. 929.2 979.418 P853 Y43Y Ports, Michael A. Baldwin County, Georgia Lottery Drawers Symers, Ruth A. Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries. for 1820 and 1821. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2016. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword History, 2016. 975.8573 P853B 929.2 S986S ______. Jefferson County, Georgia Inferior Court Minutes, Thiel, J. Homer. Early Deaths, 1845-1870, in the Grand vols. for July 1820–Sept. 1835 and Oct. 26, 1835–May Traverse Region: Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, 20, 1868. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2015–. Kalkaska, and Leelanau Counties, Michigan. Traverse 975.8663 P853J City, Mich.: Grand Traverse Area Genealogical Society, ______. Jefferson County, Georgia Lottery Drawers for 2015. 977.464 T431E 1827 and 1832. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2016. ______. Local news, 1858 to 1865, from the Grand 975.8663 P853J Traverse Herald, Traverse City, Michigan. Traverse City, ______, Jefferson County, Georgia Tax Lists, vols. for 1796 Mich.: Grand Traverse Area Genealogical Society, 2016. –1803 and 1804–1808. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2016–. 977.464 T431L 975.8663 P853J Tyree, Dixie and Virginia Pohlman. The Dickinson Family, Pugh, William H. Twelve Generations of Pughs in America: A Kentucky-Missouri: Descendants of William Thomas Serendipitous Scanning of Three-and-a-half Centuries. Oliver Dickinson 1820–1873. Madison, Wis.: Virginia Washington, D.C.: W.H. Pugh , 2006. 929.2 P978P Pohlman, 2013. 929.2 D553P Ratliff, John Barton, III. The William Pinkney Ratliff Family Ullmann, Helen S. Descendants of Anthony Smith of Saga, 1847–1988: The Lives of William Pinkney and Cornelia Mitchell Ratliff and Their Eleven Children. North Charleston, S.C: CreateSpace, 2014. 929.2 R236R Raymond, Charles E. Scattered Records Relating to Early Craven County, South Carolina Residents from 1736 to 1786. Temecula, Cal.: [s.n.], 2015. 975.7915 R268S Rigby, David W. Family Memories as Recalled by Susan Wallace Rigby. Seattle, Wash.: David W. Rigby, 2012. 929.2 R567R Schott, Carolyn. Visiting Your Ancestral Town, 2nd ed. Sammamish, Wash.: Columbia-Capstone, 2015. 929.1 5375V Scott, Lynn. Strides of Integrity and Honor: The Life of James W. McCulloh and his Family. Waynesboro, Va.: Lynn
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 18
Classes are free and open to the public, but Library Skills for Genealogical Research registration is required. Register online at Prerequisite: Beginning a Genealogical Re- www.slcl.org or call 314-994-3300. search Project Libraries offer essential tools for genealogical re- Download the Winter / Spring 2018 class and pro- search. Learn how to search online library catalogs, gram brochure from the library website
ing aids. Before registering for classes, you should already know how to use a computer and search the Inter- Jan. 23, 2:00 p.m. Headquarters | Register net. A prerequisite is noted for some classes. Feb. 26, 2:00 p.m. Florissant Valley | Register
Census Basics for Genealogical Research Beginning a Genealogical Research Project Census records are a basic and essential source If you have little or no experience with genealogical for genealogical research in the U.S. Learn how to research, this is the class for you. Learn about the search census records effectively using Ancestry genealogical research process and the many re- Library Edition and other electronic databases. sources available in History & Genealogy at St. Louis County Library. Jan. 10, 2:00 p.m. Headquarters | Register Jan. 29, 10:00 a.m. Grant's View | Register Jan. 8, 10:00 a.m. Cliff Cave | Register Feb. 12, 10:00 a.m. Cliff Cave | Register Jan. 22, 2:00 p.m. Florissant Valley | Register Feb. 5, 2:00 p.m. Daniel Boone | Register Feb. 14, 2:00 p.m. Headquarters | Register
BRANCH LOCATIONS FOR H&G CLASSES & PROGRAMS
Bridgeton Trails Headquarters Oak Bend General information 3455 McKelvey Road 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. 842 S. Holmes Ave. Phone: 314-994-3300, Bridgeton, MO 63044 St. Louis, MO 63131 St. Louis, MO 63122 ext. 2070 Cliff Cave Indian Trails Prairie Commons Email: [email protected] 5430 Telegraph Road 8400 Delport Dr. 915 Utz Lane Website: www.slcl.org/ St. Louis, MO 63129 St. Louis, MO 63114 Hazelwood, MO 63042 genealogy Daniel Boone Jamestown Bluffs Rock Road 300 Clarkson Rd. 4153 N. Highway 67 10267 St. Charles Rock Rd. Ellisville, MO 63011 Florissant, MO 63034 St. Ann, MO 63074 Florissant Valley Lewis & Clark Samuel C. Sachs 195 New Florissant Rd, S. 9909 Lewis-Clark Blvd. 16400 Burkhardt Place Florissant, MO 63031 St. Louis, MO 63136 Chesterfield, MO 63017
Grant’s View Natural Bridge Weber Road 9700 Musick Rd. 7606 Natural Bridge Rd. 4444 Weber Rd. St. Louis, MO 63123 St. Louis, MO 63121 St. Louis, MO 63123
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 19
History and Genealogy in Newspaper Advanced Techniques for Databases African American Research Searching electronic newspaper databases is easy Prerequisite: Tracing Your African American and fun. The class will cover 19th-Century U. S. Ancestors Newspapers, NewspaperArchive, and St. Louis The usual techniques can often lead to road- Post-Dispatch databases. blocks in African American genealogical re- Feb. 21, 2:00 p.m. Headquarters | Register search. The instructor will use case studies to demonstrate how researchers can fill gaps in Finding Immigrant European Ancestors missing information. Prerequisite: Census Basics for Genealogical Research Feb. 3, 2:00 p.m. Natural Bridge | Register Discover the numerous print and online resources Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m. Florissant Valley | Register available for researching European immigrant an- cestors. This class will include an overview of infor- mation available on Ancestry Library Edition and other electronic databases.
Jan. 31, 2:00 p.m. Headquarters | Register Feb. 27, 2:00 p.m. Headquarters | Register
Identifying Ancestral Military Veterans Prerequisite: Census Basics for Genealogical Research Explore strategies for military research in the Fold3 and Ancestry Library Edition databases, as well as in print and online sources.
Feb. 8, 2:00 p.m. Headquarters | Register
Tracing Your African American Ancestors Learn basic techniques for researching African American ancestors, including how to get started, solve common road blocks, and use additional re- cords to deepen your research.
Feb. 3, 10:00 a.m. Natural Bridge | Register Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m. Florissant Valley | Register
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018| PAGE 20
Programs are free and open to the public. Registration is not required. In die Kirche Gehen Saturday, Jan. 13, 10:00 a.m. | Headquarters German Churches in Ask Your Questions St. Louis, 1830–1900 St. Louis Genealogical Society General Member- ship Meeting Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2:00 p.m. | Sachs Do you have a burning question and have not Follow the evolution of religious asked for help? Our panel of genealogists will field questions and try to help break your brick wall. denominations in Germany and their Somebody else probably has the same question. transplantation to the St. Louis area Email your question to [email protected]. beginning in the 1830s. Also learn about the
Friday, January 19, 10:00 a.m. | Cliff Cave development of German congregations Genealogy: St. Louis History within English-speaking denominations. Through Maps Follow the growth of the city from a small village to Speaker: Scott Holl PROGRAMS today’s metropolis, focusing on maps as docu- Registration is required—follow link to ments of change. Emily Troxell Jaycox, librarian and map curator, will illustrate her talk with maps register
Saturday, Feb. 10, 10:00 a.m. | Headquarters Wednesday, Jan. 24, 7:00 p.m. | Headquarters Social Media FamilySearch St. Louis Genealogical Society General Meeting StLGS German Special Interest Group More and more communications are relying on so- Learn about the FamilySearch wiki, how to navi- cial media. Learn about Facebook, blogs, and Twit- gate the catalog, how to access digitized books, ter from our experts. Speaker: Bob Goode and many more features included in this compre-
hensive website. Focus of this G-SIG session will Friday, February 16, 10:00 a.m. | Cliff Cave be on finding additional information on your Ger- Genealogy: Getting the Most Out of man ancestors. Speaker: Bob Goode FamilySearch
The FamilySearch website is much more than a Tuesday, Jan. 30, 7:00 p.m. | Headquarters catalog to search for ancestors. Bob Goode of the Irish: The Movers and the Builders St. Louis Genealogical Society will help you learn StLGS Irish Special Interest Group about the FamilySearch Wiki, how to navigate the Irish immigrants helped build this country. The catalog, how to access digitized books, and much speakers will discuss their accomplishments, from more. road builders to bricklayers to captains of industry. Speakers: Carol Hemmersmeier & Kay Weber
NEWS AND TIPS | HISTORY AND GENEALOGY AT ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY