Midwest Genealogy Center

We came south via Kansas City in order to visit what used to be the Mid-Continent Library. The new facility is now called the Midwest Genealogy Center and is located in Independence, Missouri.

 



 

We spent a day and a half using the second floor books, concentrating on names in our files with a connection to Missouri. Dick had used our GenSmarts program for this specific library to generate a printout of possible books to search. He also produced several custom lists from Family Tree Maker: those born in Missouri, married in Missouri, etc. I also found many books from counties in Iowa and Minnesota, and there are volumes available from all states.

 

The photo below shows the part of the library containing shelves of books dealing with Missouri counties.