Midwest Genealogy Center Building

The Midwest Genealogy Center opened in June 2008. The largest free-standing public genealogy library in the United States boasts 52,000 square feet of resources for family history researchers.

Indentured Servitude

Interested in how many of our early colonial settlers came to this country? Learn more about colonial America through the stirring tale of Anna Mary Kersallen, an indentured servant who moved from England to America and became an American revolutionary figure.

Who Would Have Known?

You go to an auction and buy a box of old letters. Curiosity sets in. You start reading, and some of the names sound familiar! It happened to Jack Bender. Come hear this fantastic tale on June 27 at 7 p.m.

FamilySearch Family Trees

Available from FamilySearch.org, Family Tree is a new way to organize and record your genealogy online. Learn what others have found about your ancestors, how to add or correct information, and how to add sources. Classes offered on July 16th at 10:00 a.m. and August 20th at 7:00 p.m.

Genealogy Blogs

The Tiny Little Kansas Town of Pilsen

The tiny little Kansas town of Pilsen, which never numbered more than 100 citizens, is planning a huge celebration honoring one of their own on June 2, 2013. They expect thousands of people to crowd their town and fill the local church to capacity and beyond. This town is filled with pride at the long delayed honor awarded to the descendant of one of the town’s founding families.

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My Paperless Trip

Recently, I took a trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. When I travel, I never have a lot of extra room to pack my genealogy, so I set a goal to go paperless. I began by putting all my research notes, some scanned items, some web clippings, and a list of all the microfilm I wanted to look at into a cloud storage website, which allowed me to access my notes from any computer or mobile device with Internet access.

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Finding Aids Find Their Way to MGC’s Archives!

The Midwest Genealogy Center recently created a new Archival Collections page. This webpage has a wealth of new resources for genealogy researchers to access and use. One of these resources is finding Aids to MGC’s Archival Collections. What are finding aids, you may be asking? Finding aids are the library catalog equivalent in the archival world. These tools help researchers understand the scope of an archival collection as well as exactly what types of information are contained in each collection. 

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When It Is Summer in Missouri...

When it’s almost summer in Missouri…it’s time to plan a road trip! And what better destination than the Midwest Genealogy Center? By previous arrangement, two bus tours contacted us for dates in April to visit. One bus tour was a genealogical society located in the central part of Kansas. This group has been here several times before, so they know the riches of our resources and collection. They came for three days. Side trips to the National Archives in Kansas City are usually arranged for them also.

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Come Celebrate With Us!

Do you often drive by the Midwest Genealogy Center building and say, "Someday I’m going to go in there and see what MGC is all about." If you’ve never visited us, now is the best time to come by. Saturday, June 8th, MGC celebrates its fifth anniversary in our current facility, and we have a day-long celebration planned.

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