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United States Missouri Holt County

	Missouri Online Records

County Courthouse

Holt County Courthouse
100 W Nodaway Street
Oregon, MO 64473
Phone: 660.446.3303 

County Clerk has incomplete birth and death records 1883-1893,
marriage, divorce, land records from 1841; Clerk Circuit Court
has court records 1841; Probate  Judge has probate records from 1849^[1]

History

Parent County

1841--Holt County was created 29 January 1841 from the Platte Purchase. County seat: Oregon ^[2]

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Holt County border changes at N2Genealogy.

Record Loss

Places/Localities

• The State Historical Society of Missouri has information on historical Missouri place names for all 114 Missouri Counties.
  

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Andrew
• Atchison
• Doniphan County, Kansas
• Nemaha County, Nebraska
• Nodaway
• Richardson County, Nebraska

Resources

Cemeteries

• Mount Hope Cemetery, Mound City BillionGraves

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

• Map of Holt County townships (Histopolis)
  

• The University of Missouri Digital Library has digital copies of Missouri county plat books (ca. 1930) for all Missouri counties including Holt County.
  

Migration

Early migration routes to and from Holt County, Missouri for European settlers included:

• Missouri River
• Oregon Trail 1830s from western Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon^[3]
• California Trail 1846 from western Missouri to northern California^[4]

Military

Newspapers

The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) Nearly 2,000 issues between 1880 and 1921 have been digitized and are fully searchable online at the Library of Congress, Chronicling America website.

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Births

Marriages

Deaths

• Missouri State Archives provides on-line access to Missouri Death Certificates more than 50 yrs old starting in 1910.
  

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Holt County, Missouri. Page 401 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
3. ↑ National Park Service, "(Auto Tour Route) Maps" in Oregon National Historic Trail at http://www.nps.gov/oreg/planyourvisit/maps.htm (accessed 18 July 2011).
4. ↑ National Park Service, "(Auto Tour Route) Maps" in California National Historic Trail at http://www.nps.gov/cali/planyourvisit/maps.htm (accessed 18 July 2011).