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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR IRON COUNTY, MISSOURI

The following titles in the collection of the St. Louis Public Library contain genealogical or historical information about Iron County, Missouri, or relate the history of one or more Iron County families.

Title: 1876 census of the county of Iron, state of Missouri .
Author: Preissle, Edward. Preissle, Millie.
Local Call Number: 929.3778 IRON [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 1984
Format: Books

Title: Deguire dit La Rose and Allied families: the French ancestry of Emma Deguire of Iron County, Missouri.
Author: Jackson, Belford Darrell, 1938-
Local Call Number: 929.2 [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 2011
Format: Books

Title: History of southeast Missouri : Embracing an historical account of the counties of Ste. Genevieve, St. Francois, Perry, Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Madison, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Dunklin, Scott, Mississippi, Stoddard, Butler, Wayne, and Iron, and including a department devoted to the preservation of personal, professional and private records.
Author: Goodspeed Publishing Co.
Local Call Number: 977.8 [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 1955
Format: Books

Title: Inman families of Barron Hollow, Iron and Madison County, Missouri.
Author: McClure, Jeanette Henson.
Local Call Number: 929.2 [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 2009
Format: Books

Title: Iron County, Missouri marriages.
Author: McClure, Jeanette Henson. Camden, Eugene.
Local Call Number: 929.3778 IRON Vol [9 & 10] [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 1999
Format: Books

Title: Iron County, Missouri memories.
Author: McClure, Jeanette Henson.
Local Call Number: 929.3778 IRON Vol [1 & 2] [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 2000
Format: Books

Title: Iron County, Missouri, the index of the Record of Wills, book A, 1857-1888, book B, 1889-1907, and the death records, 1883-1886.
Author: McClure, Jeanette Henson.
Local Call Number: 929.3778 IRON [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 2009
Format: Books

Title: Listings of Iron County, Missouri, cemeteries.
Author: McClure, Jeanette Henson.
Local Call Number: 929.3778 IRON [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 1982
Format: Books

Title: Missouri Bible and cemetery records : Crawford, Franklin, Iron, Jefferson and Washington Counties.
Local Call Number: 929.3778 [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 1972
Format: Manuscript

Title: Missouri DAR Genealogical Records Committee report, 1988: cemeteries of St. Francois and Iron counties, Missouri .
Author: Murdick, (Mrs.) William G., Daughters of the American Revolution. Missouri Society.
Local Call Number: 929.3778 [GENEALOGY RM]
Publication Date: 1988
Format: Books

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ROOTS: DISCOVERING YOUR AFRICAN ORIGINS, PT. III

PART III

IV. MAJOR SLAVE-TRADING REGIONS OF AFRICA AND THE MAJOR TRIBES OF THOSE REGIONS

Major slave-trading regions are in bold face type.

1. Angola: Bakongo, Luba, Lunda, & Ovimbundu
2. Bight of Benin: Ewe, Yoruba
3. Bight of Biafra: Hausa, Yorba
4. Congo: Bakongo, Malinke, Teke
5. Gold Coast: Ashanti, Fante, Ga, Lobi
6. Senegambia: Dyola, Wolof
7. Sierra Leone: Malinke, Temne
8. Windward Coast: Gola, Kru, Mende

V. MAJOR SLAVE-TRADING REGIONS OF AFRICA RANKED IN TERMS OF OVERALL NUMBERS OF SLAVES FURNISHED TO THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA / UNITED STATES MARKET

Major slave-trading regions are in bold face type.

1. Angola
2. Senegambia
3. Bight of Biafra
4. Gold Coast
5. Windward Coast
6. Sierra Leone
7. Bight of Benin
8. Congo
9. Madagascar-Mozambique (some slaves were brought from here to New Netherlands in early 18th century)

Note: These can only be rough estimates based on tribal size numbers and relative popularity of an African slave trading region: no exact numbers are available, nor are they ever likely to be.

Compiled by Thomas A. Pearson, Reference Librarian
Special Collections Department
St. Louis Public Library
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