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Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies
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Information compiled by Helen E. Bortz
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Cheney Library
First and Main
Cheney, KS 67025
(316) 542-3331
Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thurs 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Sat 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Clearwater Historical Society Museum 149 North 4th Clearwater, KS 67026 (620) 584-2444 Clearwater Public Library 109 East Ross Clearwater, KS 67026 (620) 584-6474
Colwich Library 432 West Colwich Avenue Colwich, KS 67030 (316) 796-1521
Derby Public Library
611 North Mulberry Rd
Derby, KS 67037
(316) 788-0760 E-mail: judy@derbylibrary.com
Winter Hours: Mon-Thurs 9-8, Fri-Sat 9-6, Sun 1-5
Summer Hours: Mon-Thurs 9-8, Fri-Sat 9-6, Sun CLOSED
Microfilm of Derby Newspapers Oct 26, 1889 - May 1892
Oct 15, 1959 - current
Microfilm of Kansas Territorial Census 1855 - 1859
Microfilm of Kansas Federal Census 1860 - 1870
Microfilm Kansas State Census - Sedgwick Co. 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, 1925
Derby Senior High School Yearbooks 1954-1955, 1973-1986, 1988
Derby Middle School Yearbooks 1993-current
ElPaso Cemetery Records
Sedgwick Co. Cemetery Records
History of Derby
Family Histories
Garden Plain Community Library
502 North Main
Garden Plain, KS 67050
(316) 535-2990 E-mail: Gpcomlib@hit.net
Hours: M T W 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
F Sat 10:00 a.m. - noon
Local History
Area Parish Centennial Books
Garden Plain High School Yearbooks and The Echo
Family Videos
Goddard Public Library 315 South Main Goddard, KS 67052 (316) 794-2051
Haysville Library
130 West Grand
Haysville, KS 67060
(316) 524-5242 E-mail: haylib@yahoo.com
Hours: Mon-Thurs 9 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Fri-Sat 10 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Mount Hope Public Library 109 South Ohio Mt. Hope, KS 67108 (620) 667-2665
Coummity Public Library 1530 East 61st Street North Park City, KS 67219 (316) 744-6318
Lillian Tear Library
501 North Commercial
Sedgwick, KS 67135
(316)772-5727
Hours: Mon - Thurs 10 a.m. - noon and 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Fri 10:00 a.m. - noo and 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Closed Sat and Sun
Edna Buschow Memorial Library
3231 West 1st
Valley Center, KS 67147
(316) 755-7350 E-mail: ebml@onemain.com
Hours: Mon - Tus & Thurs - Fri 10:00 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Wed 10:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m.
Sat 10:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.
Sun CLOSED
Microfilm newspapers:
Ark Valley News 1885-1998
Maize This Week 1965-1986
Magazines:
The Genealogical Helper March 1966-Nov/Dec 1991
Heritage Quest July/Aug 2000
Kanhistique 1976-1992
Kansas Hist. Quarterly 1950-1977
Kansas History 1980-1996
Kansas Quarterly 1968-1975
Daughters of the American Revolution March, April, May 1971, Sept 1970
Journal of the American Society of Germans from Russia 1978-1986
Books and phamplets:
Who do you think you are? Suzane Hilton, 1976
Angus Baxter's do's and don'ts for ancestor hunter, Angus Baxter, 1988
Handy Book for Genealogists, 1967
Sources for Vital Records before 1900, 1974
A History of Kansas, Anna E. Arnold, 1914
History of Kansas, A. T. Andreas, Vol. 1 & 2, 1976
Kansas and Kansans, William E. Connelley, Vol. 1, 2, 4, 5, 1918
Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of Rebellion,
Series II, Vol. 1 & 3, 1922
Family History for Fun and Profit, Vincent L. Jones
Further Udertakings of a Dead Realative Collector, Laverne Galeener-Moore, 1989
Tracing You Ancestry, F. Wilbur Helmbold, 1976
Who's Who Among American High School Students, 1980-1999
Alumni Directory Guthrie County Highg School, Panoram, Iowa, 1879-1930
Bern Church REcords, Bern Township, Berks Co., PA, Baptisms 1739-1835; tombstone
inscriptions of burial grounds at Berenville, PA
Original records First United Methodist Church, Valley Center, KS 1881-1957
Banner and Eagle School Census, Sedgwick Co., KS 1903-1941, 1903-1945
Grant School Census, District #43, Sedgwick Co., KS 1903-1945
Bates School Census, District #131, Sedgwick Co., KS 1903-1946
Private records of Rev. Johannes Heinrich Helfrich, 1790 - 1810, PA
Trinity Lutheran Church of Reading, Berks Co., PA, Part 3, Marriages 1754-1812
1820 PA Revolutionary Pension List
New Ancestor Records, Daughtes of the American Revolution Magazine
Park School Census, District #32, Sedgwick Co., KS 1903 - 1945
Parallel School Census, District #99, Sedgwick Co., KS 1903-1945
Prairie Queen School Census, District #9, Sedgwick Co., KS 1903 - 1945
Valley Center, KS Obitiuaries, Vol. 1, 1927-1972; Vol. 2, 1897- 1919;
Vol. 3, 1902-1996
Immigration Digest 2, March 1987
Finding English Ancetors, 1979
Hoss-Maple Grove Cemetery
Hoss School Census, Distrit #36, Sedgwick Co.., KS 1903-1945
Maple Grove Cemetery, Valley Center, KS
Viola Tombstone Readings, Sedgwick Co., KS
Park City: How it Lived and Why it Died, Sandra Swanson Wiechert, 1960
Pleasant Grove School Census, District #11, Sedgwick Co., KS 1904-1921
Biggs School Census, District #17, Sedgwick Co., KS 1903-1922
Valley Cener School Census, District #46, Sedgwick Co., KS 1903-1958
Valley Center, Its Founding, Frank Hutchings, 1989
Valley Center High School Hornet yearbooks, 1997; 2000
Leaves of Lineage, Osborne Co., KSHS, Book I, 1977-1982; Book II, 1982-1988
The Prairie Gleaner, West Central Missouri Genealogical Society and Library,
Dec. 1984; March, June, Sept 1985
We Inter-library loan
Viola Township Library 200 South Grice Viola, KS 67149 (620) 584-6679
Ablah Library
Wichita State University
1845 Fairmount
Wichita, KS 67260-0068
(316) 978-3590 Special Collections
(316) 978-3584 E-mail: mnelson@twsu.uc.twsu.edu
Hours: Mon - Thurs 7:30 a.m. - 10:45 p.m.
Fri 7:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sat 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sun 1:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Complete set of Wichita Beacon/Wichita Eagle on microfilm
Excellent collection of Kansas Maps
Collection of Kansas Photos
Edmund Stanley Library
Friends University
2100 West University
Wichita, KS 67213
(316) 295-5880 E-mail: mburson@friends.edu
Hours: Mon-Thurs 7:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Fri 7:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.,
Sat 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Sun 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Summer hours change every summer
APPOINTMENTS ARE NECESSARY FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Quaker Records - some on microfilm, some in minute books 1856-19+
Friends University Yearbooks 1991-current
Books, magazines clippings and other University publications 1898-current
Kansas African American Museum
601 North Water
Wichita, KS 67203
(316) 262-7651
Kansas Aviation Museum
3350 George Washington Blvd
Wichita, KS 67210
(316) 683-9242 e-mail: kam3350@juno.com
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tues thru Fri
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sat
Closed Sun and Mon
History of the Aviation Industry in Kansas
Books, periodicals, manuscripts
Photographs and slides
Kansas Fire Fighters Museum
1300 South Broadway
Wichita, KS 67211 e-mail: dale9@cox.net
Hours: Sat 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
History of Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Departments
Photographs, manuals, etc.
A memorial park in tribute to those who have lost their lives in the
line of duty
LDS Family History Center
7011 East 13th
Wichita, KS
(316) 683-2951
Hours: Tues and Wed 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thurs 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Fri 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Mid-America All Indian Center
650 South Seneca
Wichita, KS 67203
(316) 264-5311
Hours: Mon through Sat 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sun 1:00 p.m. through 5:00 p.m.
Closed Monday Jan through March
The museum maintains a limited research library for public use during regular
museum hours.
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society
1203 North Main
P.O. Box 1121
Wichita, KS 67201-1121
(316) 264-3611
Hours: Tuesday and Saturday 9-4
We DO NOT Inter-library loan
Library holdings include over 20,000 volumes covering the entire world
Kansas genealogical materials are available for most counties
Sedgwick County State and Federal Census complete set
Sedgwick County Marriage Affidavit Applications 1879 - 1922
Sedgwick County Naturalizations 1870 - September 26, 1906
Wichita City Directories
Tombstone inscriptions and cemetery records
Wichita Death Index 1887-1911
Obituaries from The Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon 1955 - present
Wichita Children's Home Records
Sedgwick County Probate Records - from the beginning to 1910
Large collection of family histories
Old Cowtown Museum
1871 West Simm Park Drive
Wichita, KS 67203
(316) 264-0671 E-mail: cowtown@southwind.net
Hours: April 1 through October 31 Mon through Sat 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sun 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Memorial Day through Labor Day museum is open until
8:00 on Thursday)
1865-1880 Living History Museum
Ryan Library
Newman University
3100 McCormick Avenue
Wichita, KS 67213
(316) 942-4291 ext 108 E-mail: popee@newmanu.edu
Hours: Mon - Thur 8:00 a.m. 10:00 p.m.
Fri 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sat 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Summer Hours: Mon - Thur 8:00 a.m. 9:00 p.m.
Fri 8:00 a.m. - 5:oo p.m.
Sat 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Sedgwick County Courthouse
525 North Main
Wichita, KS 67203
County Clerk Phone (316) 660-9222
Register of Deeds (316) 660-9400
County Treasurer (316) 660-9110
District Court 18th Judicial District (316) 660-9050
Many of the older Sedgwick County records are in storage and not readily
available to the public.
Wichita Public Library
Genealogy Department
223 South Main
Wichita, KS 67202
(316) 261-8509
Hours: Mon - Thurs 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Fri - Sat 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sun 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wichita Beacon newspaper on microfilm Oct 18, 1872 - Sept 30, 1980
(some early years incomplete)
Wichita Eagle newspaper on microfilm April 12, 1872 - current
Wichita Vidette newspaper on microfilm August 13, 1870 - March 11, 1871
Wichita Tribune newspaper on microfilm March 15, 1871 - Nov 16, 1871
Negro Star, Wichita, KS newspaper on microfilm May 7, 1920 - January 16, 1953
Daily Record, Wichita, KS newspaper on microfilm Jan 21, 1947 - Mar 17, 1994 &
May 23, 1995 - July 28, 1998
U.S. Census microfilm Kansas 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
Kansas State Census microfilm 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, 1925
Index to Kansas State Census for City of Wichita on microfilm 1905 and 1915
City of Wichita death certificates on microfilm 1887-1910 (incomplete)
Gill Mortuary Records, Wichita, KS on microfilm 1890-1980
Mueller Mortuary Records on microfilm
Colwich 1889-1898
Wichita 1898-1936
Sedgwick County Jail Calendar on microfilm 1886-1907
Wichita City Directories on microfilm 1877 - present (some years missing)
Sedgwick Co. Suburban Directories on microfilm 1957 - present (some years missing)
Sedgwick Co. atlases and plat maps 1882 and 1905
Highland Cemetery Records, Wichita, KS
Wichita Telephone Directories 1915 - present (some missing)
Newspaper Clippings on various Wichita, Sedgwick Co., & Kansas topics 1920 - 1986
Wichita Eagle Obituary Indexes (books) July 1986 - Dec. 1993
Many published books on Wichita & Sedgwick Co. history, biography & genealogies
Wichita Genealogical Society Ancestor Charts and Surname files
Local History vertical file 1870's - present
biographical, historical and other info
Personal scrapbooks, ledgers (not many) 1900 - present
Sedgwick County Farmer's Directory 1920
Wichita Negro Directories 1922-23; 1927-28
Wichita & Sedgwick County Maps 1880 - present
Wichita Sedgwick County Historical Museum
204 South Main
Wichita, KS 67202-3796
(316) 265-9314 E-mail: wschm@wichitahistory.org
LIBRARY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
(As a rule, we do not collect genealogical material, but we will check our archives
by request. When calling ask for Jami Tracy.)
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