Regional Archives in Jackson County

The Kansas City area has several local history resources! If you hit a road block in your research with us, check out these great organizations!

Midwest Genealogy Center

3440 S. Lee's Summit Road Independence, MO 64055

816.252.7228

mgc@mymcpl.org

Missouri Valley Special Collections Room at the Kansas City Library

14 W. 10th Street Kansas City, MO 64105

816.701.3427

lhistory@kclibrary.org

Lee's Summit History Museum

220 SW Main St.

Lee's Summit, MO 64063

Phone: 816.287.4477

Raytown Historical Society

9705 E. 63rd St. Raytown, MO 64133

816.353.5033 (Call ahead for appointment)

raytownhistorical@sbcglobal.net

Lone Jack Historical Society and Battlefield Museum

301 S. Bynum Rd. Lone Jack, MO 64070

816.697.8833

president@historiclonejack.org

Grain Valley Historical Society

506 S Main St, Grain Valley, MO 64029

(816) 686-7582

Blue Springs Historical Society

PO Box 762 Blue Springs, MO 64013

816.224.8979

National Frontier Trails Museum

Currently Closed

318 W. Pacific Independence, MO 64050

Other valuable links

Missouri Digital Heritage

The Missouri Birth and Death Records Database is an abstract of the birth, stillbirth, and death records recorded before 1909 and that are available on microfilm at the Missouri State Archives.

The Bureau of Vital Records has certificates of Missouri births from 1910 to the present. The Bureau also maintains certificates of Missouri deaths that are less than fifty years old. House Bill 1634 (2004) transferred all death records over fifty years old to the Missouri State Archives.

The database currently contains over 185,000 records from 87 counties. Information found in this database includes:

Births and Stillbirths: name of child, date and place of birth, sex, and race; nationality, residence, and ages of parents, occupation and full name of father, maiden name of mother, name and address of medical or other attendant making return; in case of stillbirth, name of undertaker and place of burial.

Deaths: date of report, name, sex, color, age, occupation, marital status, nationality, birthplace; date, place, and cause of death; date and place of burial, addresses of undertaker, physician returning certificate. (Taken from the Missouri State Archives webpage.)

Jackson County Recorder of Deeds

The Recorder of Deeds Department maintains land, recorded documents, Marriage Licenses and other Executive, Legislative and Judicial Records dating back to the beginning of Jackson County in 1826. Paper, digital and microfilm records are preserved for timely access and retrieval at either our recording offices or underground Records Center. The records are searchable online through the Recorder of Deeds website.