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Anyone researching Missouri ancestors will quickly find himself tangled in the history of the region, which changed hands between France, Spain, and the United States, and whose boundaries often included the neighboring territories of Orleans and Indiana. Straying ancestors also tended to spill over into Arkansas, Louisiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The author has simplified the search by including many useful records from these areas. There is not a complete Federal census extant for Missouri until 1830, and many of the records included in this series were obtained from the Missouri State Archives' "Capitol Fire Documents," which were the only State Auditor's Office records to survive the devastating Capitol fire in 1911. The researcher will find here the usual birth, marriage, and death records as well as tax lists, wills, jury lists, and other information. Some of the specific county sections included: Jefferson County original land entries and deed taxes; Madison County Deed Books A and B; list of names from the Waverly Cemetery in Lafayette County; St. Louis County Military, 1780, Cuban Papers/Churchill Collection; Private Land Claims in the Arkansas District; and licenses, public monies, and mortality schedules from the fifty-two counties included here. All names appear as they were written on the records, including abbreviations of given names. French "dit" names (aliases) are included in the vast surname index. This volume covers the following counties: Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Barry, Bates, Benton, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Carroll, Carter, Chariton, Clay, Clinton, Cole, Cooper, Crawford, Gasconade, Henry and Rivers, Hickory, Howard, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Miller, Montgomery, Perry, Pettis, Pike, Polk, Ralls, Randolph, Ray, Ripley, Scott, Shelby, St. Charles, St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve, Taney, Warren, Washington, Webster.

The author's fourth book on Harford County, Maryland, marriages covers 1861 through 1870. Marriage and family relationships have been gleaned from a number of sources including license books, marriage certificates, probate records, court records, divorce cases, newspaper articles, tombstone inscriptions, church registers, Bible records, census records, obituaries, death certificates, military records, some family histories and secondary sources, plus information researched by others whose names have been credited and cited within the text. This book is much more than just a listing of names and dates. In many instances, the readers will find complete dates of birth and death, full names of parents, children, siblings, other relationships, ministers, places of residence and migration, occupations, military ranks, subsequent marriages, children's marriages, nicknames, and more. Marriages have also been noted for some persons who resided in other states and counties, and even other countries, that had a connection to Harford County. In many cases there is ample information about family relationships to enable researchers to establish family lineages for three generations, thus carrying the members of some branches well into the 20th century.