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Guide to Polk County Missouri genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Polk County, Missouri
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Location of Missouri in the U.S.
Facts
Founded information needed
County Seat Bolivar
Courthouse
Address Polk County Courthouse
102 East Broadway Street
Bolivar, Mo 65613
Phone: 417-326-4031
Polk County Website

Contents

County Courthouse




County Recorder hasa marriage from 1835 and land records
from 1836 Clerk Circuit Court has divorce and court records
from 1857; Probate Judge has probate records from 1947[1]



Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

Resources

Cemeteries

BillionGraves:

Church

LDS Ward and Branch Records

City Directories

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Migration

Military

Civil War
Civil War Battles

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Births
Marriages
  • 1836-1874 - Polk County Marriage Index 1836-1874. Batch M515621 at FamilySearch - free.[2]
  • 1874-1885 - Polk County Marriage Index 1874-1885. Batch M515622 at FamilySearch - free.[2]
Deaths
  • 1883 - Polk County Death Index, Volume 1, 1883. Batch B582479 at FamilySearch - free.[2]

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

Websites

  • Biographies from The History of Polk County, Missouri (1889) published by Goodspeed are available free on the My Genealogy Hound website.

References

  1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Polk County, Missouri. Page 404 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Genealogical Society of Utah, Parish and Vital Records List (July 1998). Microfiche. Digital version at https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/d/d8/Igimissourij.pdf.
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