Records that survive
These are the record series from Gentry County that the Missouri State Archives has on microfilm, with the office that kept each and the earliest and latest years filmed. A span can include gaps.
Marriages, births and deaths
- Permanent Record of Deaths · County Clerk1883–1893
- Register of Births And Stillbirths · County Clerk1883–1893
- Register of Deaths · County Clerk1883–1893
- Index to Marriages · Recorder of Deeds1885–2006
- Marriages · Recorder of Deeds1885–1934
- Permanent Record of Births · County Clerk1886–1893
Deeds and land
- Surveyor Records · Surveyor1843–1931
- Deeds · Recorder of Deeds1849–1969
- Deeds · City Clerk1857–1981
- Cemetery Deeds · City Clerk1873–1936
- Abstract and Index to Deeds · Recorder of Deeds1885–1992
- Abstract and Index to Mortgages · Recorder of Deeds1885–1989
- Patent Records · Recorder of Deeds1885–1963
- Plats · City Clerk1947–1960
- Index to Deeds · Recorder of Deeds1985–1992
Wills and estates
- Probate Docket · Probate Court1907
Military and pensions
- Soldier and Sailor Records · County Clerk1917–1919
- Discharge Index · Recorder of Deeds1919
- Military Service Records · County Clerk1919
- Discharges · Recorder of Deeds1943
Court records
- County Court Minutes · County Clerk1845–1995
- County Court Records · County Clerk1845–1956
- Minutes · County Clerk1855–1875
- Minutes · City Clerk1877–1997
- County Court Record Index · County Clerk1879–1948
- Minutes - Board of Directors · County Clerk1904–1908
- Minutes - Library Board · County Clerk1917–1959
- R-2 School District Minutes · Superintendent Of Schools1931–1999
- R-1 School Minutes · Superintendent Of Schools1952
Other records
- Abstracts · City Clerk1857–1981
- Easements · City Clerk1857–1981
- Right of Way Records · County Clerk1876–1895
- Register of Health · County Clerk1878–1906
- State Board of Health · County Clerk1878–1981
- Ordinances · City Clerk1884–1997
- State Board of Pharmarcy · County Clerk1893–1909
- Register of Dental · County Clerk1897–1966
- Road Records · County Clerk1905–1931
- Cemetery Ledger · County Clerk1916–1982
- Selective Service Records · County Clerk1917–1919
- Register of Druggist and · County Clerk1921–1970
- Register of Nurses and · County Clerk1921–1972
- Public Works · City Clerk1937–1986
- and 2 more series in the full listing
Open the full roll-by-roll listing (PDF)
Source: Missouri State Archives, Guide to County and Municipal Records on Microfilm. Recorder of deeds records dated 1970 or later must be requested from the county. Counties kept birth and death registers under an 1883 law until its repeal in 1893, with coverage varying by county; statewide registration began in 1910.
Where to find the records
- Find Gentry County's official website
We haven't checked this county's website yet, so this opens a web search. Look for an address ending in .gov, then find the recorder of deeds, the probate court and the circuit clerk.
- The recorder of deeds
Deeds and mortgages, and marriage records, usually from the county's beginning. Licenses were required from 1881; earlier books record the marriages themselves.
- The probate court
Wills, estates, guardianships and curatorships. Since 1979 it has been the probate division of the circuit court.
- The circuit clerk
Civil and criminal cases, divorces and, in many counties, naturalizations.
- The Missouri State Archives
In Jefferson City: microfilm of county records from Missouri's counties and the City of St. Louis, and free online databases, including death certificates from 1910 that are more than 50 years old.
- Missouri State Archives: Gentry County records on microfilm (PDF)free
Every roll the state archives holds for this county, with the office, title, dates and reel number.
- Missouri Death Certificates, 1910–1975free
Search the Missouri State Archives' death certificate index by name and view the certificates.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "Missouri, Gentry" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Land not yet in any county
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1841, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
Missouri's probate files often hold far more than a will: inventories, sale bills listing the buyers (often relatives and neighbors) and the receipts of heirs. Check the circuit court too, where heirs went to divide land.