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Midwest
Historical and Genealogical Society began in 1966 when
concerned citizens of the community recognized the need for a genealogical
organization to collect, preserve and disseminate genealogical and related
historical data, with special emphasis on the preservation of Sedgwick County
history and heritage. The society is conducted as a non-profit
educational organization under Internal Revenue Code, Section 501 (c) (3),
operating as a corporation,
with current bylaws and standing rules.
MHGS is a non profit organization with no ethnic, age or racial restrictions.
The library is
operated by an all volunteer staff. If you have a few hours a month that you
could volunteer please contact us and we
will match your skills and talents to our needs. Because our staff is limited
when requesting copies of any of our material please allow
four weeks for MHGS to receive and process your request.
For further
information on the Society or membership please call (316) 264-3611 (during
business hours) or send SASE to: Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society,
P.O. Box 1121, Wichita, KS 67201-1121 or stop by the library at 1203 North
Main, Wichita, KS. E-mail: mhgs1121@aol.com
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You have, no doubt, heard by now that the 1940 Federal Census were released by
the NARA on April 2, 2012. The digitized images of Kansas districts were indexed
in less than two weeks after the state images are put up. Kansas Council of
Genealogical Societies had agreed to coordinate the indexing efforts of all
Kansas enumeration districts and we are very pleased at the tremendous response
of our member societies and the individuals who helped accomplish the task.
How many times in your research have you used "Random Acts of Genealogical
Kindness" or ask that a photo be taken by a "Find-A-Grave" volunteer?
Now is your chance to help out other researchers. You can sign up to help by
visiting https://www.familysearch.org/1940census
and entering your name and e-mail and by selecting Kansas Council of
Genealogical Societies as the choice in “Group”, under additional information
in your profile. There are still many images of other states to be indexed so
please consider helping.
Maintained by Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society as
part of the KSGenWeb Project.
Material on this page is the property of the Society and all rights are
reserved.
Should you find a link that does not work properly please notify Helen Bortz.
