Another “nonpopulation” schedule, the 1880 Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent schedule, enumerates both whites and nonwhites. People from prisons, jails, mental hospitals, or orphanages, for example, were enumerated like others in 1880 population schedule. The enumeration may contain the person’s home residence, as well as other data which varied from class to class. (This enumeration may be found on Ancestry.com.) Here is an example from Mobile County, Alabama.
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Information in St. Louis city marriage records varies over time. Here is a sample record showing names of bride and groom as well as the person who married them. If it was a religious ceremony, church records should be examined for additional information.
Are you searching records of orphans in St. Louis? Here is a sample page from the German Protestant Orphan’s Home records.
St. Louis coroner’s records are another type of record useful in determining, for example, date and cause of death. Here is an example showing partial testimony at the inquest on the body of an African American.
Here is a sample page from the records of the St. Louis House of Refuge. It shows, for example, the name and age of the person committed, date of release, reason for the commitment, and disposition. Microfilm copies of these records are at the St. Louis County Library.
Are you searching for information about your family or friends who lived or worked in south St. Louis? The Neighborhood News, a south St. Louis community newspaper, is a great source of information about the people and businesses, for example, of that area during the period 1922-1970. The “Society News” is a sample of the type of data about local residents published in the newspaper.
St. Louis city officials maintained registers in which they recorded a person’s date of birth, along with place of birth, racial status, names of parents and their places of birth, and name of informant. Separate registers for the races were not kept – names of whites and blacks appear together in the same books. These registers were used prior to state-wide requirements for filing such records. Have you found similar records?
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