Stoddard County Genealogy Archive
A free public archive of Stoddard County, Missouri genealogy, assembled from public records by Anthony “Aj” Jackson. It gathers the county’s newspapers from 1874 through 2021, transcribed cemetery memorials, federal census lines from 1850 through 1950, 17,664 Missouri death certificates, and Stoddard County court judgments — all indexed by name and place so that any researcher, descendant, or curious neighbor can find the people of this county again.
On this day in Stoddard County
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The collection at a glance
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Find people across newspapers, cemeteries, census records, and death certificates in the unified name index.
Search the index →Browse Cemeteries
Walk the county cemetery by cemetery — burial memorials with birth and death dates, sorted and searchable.
Browse cemeteries →Weeks Theatre Showings
Films, vaudeville, concerts, and live shows at Dexter’s Weeks Theatre, 1913–2015, drawn from a century of local newspapers.
Browse the showings →Local Sports History
Town baseball nines, high-school football and basketball, gun-club shoots, boxing, golf, fishing, and more — 1887–1931.
Browse sports history →Time Machine
Watch 126 years of Stoddard County unfold — births, deaths, and marriages from 1850 to 1975. Press play, or drag the slider.
Travel through time →Surname Atlas
Where did each family put down roots? Every surname in the archive mapped across the seven townships.
Explore the atlas →Methodology & Sources
How this archive was built, what each dataset contains, and the rules that keep the evidence honest.
Read the methodology →Featured Lives
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Narrative biographical sketches of one hundred Stoddard County lives, drawn from the archive’s newspapers, census lines, and burial records.