Wayne County, Missouri

Genealogical and Historical Portal

     

 

This Site is part of The MOGenWeb and The USGenWeb

Welcome:

   This Site is part of the MOGenWeb and The USGenWeb

Wayne County is available for adoption.

If you have a local connection to Scott  County or an interest in Missouri in general,

Please consider joining the MOGenWeb as a County Coordinator.
Requirements are simple, peruse them here.

MOGenWeb Policies and Procedures
Contact Bob Jenkins if you are interested.
In addition:, we would appreciate any contribution that you would like to make to
this site: biographies, obituaries, birth, marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc

History ~  Communities ~ Cemeteries ~ Maps ~  Lookups

Memoirs: By Albion Daniel [Thank you Genealogy Trails!]
History of Wayne County: Wiki

Wayne County, Missouri - Book
Creator: Cramer, Rose Fulton, 1909-

Pages listed below may be of interest

Notable Citizens: Pgs 571-579
Baker, Samuel A ~ McGhee, John S ~ Raney, John Henry
Hay, Charles Martin ~ MacFadden, Bernarr
TOC - Index ~ Towns and Villages: 581 - 630 ~ Ghost Towns: 631 - 640

Family Book

Lost family--lost cause : a story of the McGee family in Wayne County,

Missouri during the Civil War years

 by Ivan N. McKee
Publication Date: c1978

Wayne County Communities

 

Historical Maps ~ Military ~ Newspapers ~ Crime and Punishment
Historical Landmarks ~ ILGenWeb Project ~ Maps from the MO Historical Society
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps [Scroll Down] ~ USGS Maps for Missouri
Maps from the MO Historical Society
The American Civil War in Missouri
Digitized Newspapers from the Civil War Era
Plat Maps ~ Digital Library of Missouri
Interactive Atlas ~ David Rumsey Collection
USGS Historical Topo's ~ Missouri State and Regional Maps ~ "Route 66"
"Map Geeks" State and Township Maps ~ Getty Geographical Thesaurus

Bureau of Land Management
USGS Maps for Missouri ~ Missouri State and Regional Maps
Historical Maps ~ Perry Castaneda ~ Quadrangles ~ Surveyor's Base Maps
Library of Congress: Miscellaneous Maps ~ MapGoose

 "The History of Plat Books"

Until a new County Coordinator adopts Wayne County,
Military Resources have been gleaned from Family Search
and formatted into Searchable PDf files:
There are two sets of pages:Link 1 ~ Link 2

Here is the link for the National Archives: A Great Resource

Newspapers, Miscellaneous Historical Resources History Hub
Magazines, Books-Fiction & Non Fiction, Articles
History, Newspapers, Biographies, Collections, And More

Digital Newspaper Project [MO Digital newspapers]
Free Digital Newspapers:
Chronicling America ~ Google Archives 

California Digital Newspapers [There are Articles for MO]

MO Digital Heritage: Genealogical Collections

Categorical Resources ~ Lookups
Below are Searchable & Linked PDF Resource Pages
 DAR Collections
Crime and Punishment [Scroll]
"Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association"

Lookups:

Until a new County Coordinator takes over, there are no Lookup Volunteers.

If, in the meantime, you wish to become a Volunteer, Please Contact Bob for particulars


'Ask an Archivist'
National Archives ~ New Reference Service

 Search for Living People:
Zaba Search ~ RAOGK
Local Historical, Museum, and Genealogical Agencies and [Research Requests]
The above list has local resources, web pages and information that may help with research.