LINCOLN COUNTY
KANSAS
History & Genealogy

Tracee Hamilton, Bill and Diana Sowers
Website Coordinators

This website was last updated 10 May 2012.

Welcome to your Lincoln County, Kansas, genealogy and history site, a part of the KSGenWeb Project. You can look through this site and other genealogy sites using the table of contents links below. We have also provided a local search engine which will enable you to look for pages containing names or key words within the Lincoln County websites. If you have questions, comments or contributions feel free to contact us. Thank you!
Tracee Hamilton and Bill & Diana Sowers, County Coordinators.

TRACEE WILL NOT ANSWER LOOKUPS UNTIL AFTER JUNE 1. PLEASE HOLD ALL REQUESTS UNTIL THEN. THANKS!

New to the Site!

Forsyth Scout and Beecher Island Newsletters

Read all of county historian Mike Day's research into the families of these scouts and pioneers. Just posted: The first issue of 2011, about Jack Peate.

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INFORMATION ON LINCOLN COUNTY

Agriculture	Biographical information	Books and articles
Businesses	Cemeteries	Census Data
Churches	Courthouse History	Crimes and criminals
Directories and indexes of names	Disasters	Education & schools
Lincoln County EMAIL LIST Join others researching Lincoln County	Ethnic sources	Lincoln County families online
General Lincoln County links	Geography, maps, locations	Geology
Government & Politics	Humor	Libraries & Associations
Lookups	Medicine	Military information
Newspapers	Newspaper gleanings names and information from Lincoln County newspapers	Obituaries and death notices
Lincoln County photographs	Queries and Surnames	Lincoln County research guide
Lincoln County stories	Towns and townships	Vital records

KANSAS HISTORY AND GENEALOGY SITES ON THE INTERNET

Neighboring KSGenWeb County Sites:

Ellsworth -- Mitchell -- Osborne -- Ottawa -- Russell -- Saline

Kansas State Historical Society	Gateway to The Kansas Heritage Group's community of web sites	EKIS (Early Kansas Imprint Scanners)	1895 Kansas Census Index (An online index for part of the state. Includes all of Lincoln County)	Kansas in The Civil War (KSGenWeb Project site)
Digital Library and Archives KSGenWeb Project	U.S. GenWeb Archives Kansas Page	Kansas Post Offices 1828-1961	Swedish Immigrants in Kansas	Kansas Interactive Genealogy
Kansas Pioneer Project	1918 Standard History of Kansas and Kansans Biography Section	1919 Standard History of Kansas and Kansans Biography Section	Kansas Genealogy Links (KSGenWeb Project)	Rootsweb.com Kansas links
Orphan Trains of Kansas	ATLAS online catalog (Topeka area libraries, including the Kansas State Historical Society	Kansas vital records information	The Kansas Collection (Online books and articles)	A Kansas Timeline
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies	Kansas links on Cyndi's List	Kansas online census links	Kansas obituary links	Interlibrary loan info for the Kansas State Historical Society
Kansas Library Catalog (Search the catalogs of many Kansas libraries. Click on the BEGIN button)	World War II Remembered (Maintained by Spring Hill KS School Dist.)	Kansas Genealogy Links (From GenealogyLink.net)	Kansas Korean War Casualties	Scottish Connection in Kansas
Kansas Book Transcriptions On-Line (state and local historical books transcribed online by KSGenWeb members)	Images of Kansas Cities and Towns (Online old photos of Kansas towns and scenes)	Digitized Kansas Maps (325 digitized Kansas maps, dating from 1556 to 1900)	Kansas Sod Buildings (Online photo collection)	Obituary Depot - Kansas (Search for Kansas obits)
Genealogical and Biographical Record of North-Eastern Kansas (Nemaha, Brown, Doniphan and Atchison County information)	KansasEducation and School Information for Genealogists and Local Historians (school, college and special school information)	Information on graduates, Kansas State Agricultural College: classes of 1867, 1871-1913) ((K.S.A.C. is now Kansas State University, Manhattan)	Establishment of Kansas Counties (Historical article on how Kansas counties came to be)	Kansas Native American Genealogy

REGIONAL & U.S. HISTORY AND GENEALOGY SITES ON THE INTERNET

Santa Fe Trail history	Interactive Santa Fe Trail Homepage	Commerce of the Prairie (Online 1844 book on the Santa Fe Trail)	U.S. GenWeb Census Project	U.S. GenWeb Archives Census Project
American Local History Network	Social Security Death Index (Click on the link to Social Security Death index on left menu)	ShadCat's Genealogy Links	The Obituary Links Page	Cyndi's List of genealogy sites on the Internet
Familysearch L.D.S. Church site	Tombstone Transcription Project		USGenWeb Archives	Date Calendar (figure out birth dates here)

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