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RELEVANT
LINKS
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McAlear Family
Tree site with genealogical information of several Blue Mound families
including: Morris, Good, Maberry and McAlear.
http://homepage.mac.com/robmcalear/Family_File/
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Jim Stout of
Kansas City, Missouri provides this website which has a multitude of
links to, and information about, genealogical and historical records and
indexes for Caldwell, Daviess and Livingston Counties, Missouri.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~livcomo/index.html
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This is a
MoGenWeb website where you can view early history, cemeteries,
Genealogical Society, links, Missouri land records, library, Years To
Remember, lookups, townships, Livingston County queries, Missouri Census
on line, CemPhoto WorkShop, Abandoned Cemetery Care Association,
obituaries and Caldwell, Daviess and Livingston Counties in Missouri.
http://ghlin2.greenhills.net/~fwoods/
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The Livingston
County Library website in Chillicothe, Missouri has, among other
offerings, links to Livingston County history, communities, people, and
places. http://www.livcolibrary.org/
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The CemPhoto
WorkShop has cemeteries and land atlases on CD-ROM for Carroll,
Caldwell, and Livingston counties, Missouri. The CDs have a photo of
each tombstone and a complete name index. They also offer similar
information on many other cemeteries in Livingston County as well as a
surname index in soft cover book format. You may contact the CemPhoto
Workshop on the Internet or at P.O. Box 1222, Chillicothe, MO 64601. You
can also do a free surname search at this website.
http://www.cemphoto.com/
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Most of us from
Livingston County, Missouri know of only one Blue Mound. There are,
however, 14 of them listed for Missouri on the U. S. Geological
Survey’’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) website: GNIS
developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic
Names (BGN), contains information about almost 2 million physical and
cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories.
The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base
is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State,
county, and geographic coordinates. The GNIS is our Nation's official
repository of domestic geographic names information.
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form
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A website by Russ
Haynes with the names of people buried in the Mound Cemetery Livingston
County, Missouri - Located South of Chillicothe, Missouri. There is a
link to the Original Cemetery Transcription as submitted. Mr. Haynes
suggests using the table list as a guideline only and recommends that if
you find any information that you wish to save for your family records,
take if from the original transcription to make sure the information you
are saving is the most accurate.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/livingston/bluemound.html
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From this U. S.
Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management’s website you can view
the original land transfers from the Federal Government. Land patents
document the transfer of land ownership from the federal government to
individuals and include the information recorded when ownership was
transferred. In the early 1800's people could buy public land for $1.25
an acre, up to 640 acres. You can find out who got the patent and also
view an image of the original patent at this website. You will want to
use Township 56N and either (or both) Range 24W or 23W in Livingston
County. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
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This book,
entitled “Not Much of Anything - A History of My Life” by J. M. Hoyt, is
62 pages and was self-published in 1975 jsut after his death. Contents
include: Meet My Family, Early Area History, My Banking Years, Farm
Life, Growing Up, Just Thinking, and My Poems - Through the Years. Mr.
Hoyt lived for many years just east of Blue Mound and has lots of
memories about incidents and events in the everyday life of Blue Mound.
http://www.livingstoncountylibrary.org/History/People/Hoyt_JM.htm
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