logoSullivan County, Missouri

... a member of The MOGenWeb Project

During site update:    Page NOT in new design   |  Page still on old site   

What's New on the Site

Latest Updates

Note: During site update,
Linked page = indicates old page, not updated yet
Linked page = indicates page to be evaluated,
it may not be updated or added
22 Jun 2026 - added *new* page, Orphans, under Vital Records. It is about the Orphan Trains coming to Missouri.
added Non-Federal MO Censuses to topnav Census dropdown.
Added MOGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project link to Cemeteries dropdown.
Date Live
on Site
*NEW* pages on site Updated Pages, some rec'd new content
21 June 2026
New design completions moved live
» Cemetery Inscriptions & Epitaphs
» How to Submit Names, for cemetery page(s).
» Census, completely new page
» FAQs
» [this page]
»
Diseases, common disease on older death records
» Research Tips
» First Families
» Legal Terms of interest to genealogists
» History
» Churches. Note: Camp Ground Church info moved to this page.
» Schools
Home
» Early Settlements
» Cities & Hamlets, formerly "towns"
» Court
» Maps & Places
» Death (Records), & all pages below
» Resources, lots added to this page.
» farmjournals(1).pdf Moved to directory books/ - put on Resources pg
> » Pollock Centennial Book - Moved to directory books/ - put on Resources pg
» site_sources - moved to the homepg

Next on the List

Note: This page is updated every time the site is worked on.

Work to be doneAnd then (i.e. whenever
Next:
» vital-records/index (use what I put on Grundy) a consolidation
» military/index (See if Sullivan has stuff like Grundy. If so, utilize), includes pages for civil war, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam
>> intro part of military, rename
>> johnopel, part of military
And then:
... not necessarily in this order ...

» resources/scnewspapers - will go under a news directory
» towns/taylortwp-accountbook.html (put on townships pg & dropdown Cities
» history/meeksmurders
» firstfamilies/morrisfamily
» firstfamilies/caldwellfamily if Caldwell's are early settlers
» firstfamilies/personalsites
»: firstfamilies/family_and_ancestors.html
» scobits.html » marriages/index
»: deaths/obits (look for scobits.html)
» figure out how to use current Family & Ancestors
» orderingRENAME.html">HowTo's for Order Records
» maybe put newspapers under "History" as well as Resources

Final Changes

Work to be done
» gallery - this may work better for specific families. Unsure how to use the best way.
» ordering, may not need to rework to how to obtain records. General & specific.

» Questionable: lookups - only do if people on the current one are still willing to do them - plan to email people on old page. Meanwhile, lookups will NOT be displayed.
» Not Using: contact, thankyou, query, surnames

About the Images

It turns out AI is quite effective in creating images. It all began when I accepted the "Assistant State Coordinator (ASC)" position for The MOGenWeb Project. The State Coordinator (SC) at that time set out to update to update all the counties up for adoption since many were born in HTML1. We wanted some images for headers or the history. The first photograph taken by Thomas Easterly in 1846 was the Odd Fellows Hall in St. Louis.

Since the first settlers were in Sullivan County in the 1830s, and other counties even earlier, we turned to AI based on a summer conversaton with my grandson about using it for research. I had explored that and even broke a minor brick wall. So SC/ASC tried it. It took four additional specifications to get this image to now have a well-worn wagon path. The image depicts a first settler to the county. Wagon roads!? They did not come by wagon. When you are first, there is nothing except what you carried with you and what you make yourself. All AI generated images for this site use the <title>tag indicating it as such.

Sources of Some Images


A section of resources used by the
County Coordinator for Site Maintenance



Quick Links:

Contact Us:

Using This Content

Important: Please give Credit when it is Due.
    Note: USGenWeb & MOGenWeb Logos are Copyright Protected. The material on Sullivan County, Missouri webpages is available for the free use of individuals in furtherance of researching their personal genealogy. Any commercial use of this content where money is asked for, for any reason, is strictly prohibited.