User:DiltsGD/Sandbox 2

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * Children's Aid Society, NYC, archives searches ($) for adoptions, and orphan train riders.
 * New York Foundling Hospital, can do records research for close relatives only of placed-out children.
 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, bounty land, homesteads, ethnic sources, prisons, fed employees.
 * National Archives at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, vital records, land, and Indian records.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 2.5 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, censuses, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records.

Neighboring Collections


 * Cloud County Genealogical Society newspapers, church records, censuses, plat maps, vital records, family histories, local histories at the Frank Carlson Library.
 * Cloud County Historical Society Museum has a small research collection.
 * Cloud County Clerk has births, marriages, and deaths 1885-1910.
 * Cloud County Register of Deeds, land records since 1867, and military discharges.
 * District Court Clerk has divorce, probate, and court records since 1865.
 * Frank Carlson Library, Concordia, houses the Cloud County Genealogical Society collection.
 * U.S. District Court District of Kansas, Kansas City, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy cases.
 * Concordia Kansas Family History Center offers research suggestions, and can order genealogical microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.


 * Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, has indexes, photos, letters, diaries, newspapers, maps, censuses, vital records, family histories, land records, railroads, and county place information.
 * Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment, Topeka, births/deaths since 1911; marriages since 1913.
 * Kansas Genealogical Society, Dodge City, 15,000 books, vital records, cemeteries, censuses, and computer databases focused mostly on Kansas.
 * Topeka Genealogical Society Library, 10,000 books, 700 periodicals, strongest for NE Kansas and Shawnee County.
 * American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, NE, has Russian geography info, church records, civil records, maps, family histories, photos, and surname charts, newspapers, U.S. arrival lists.
 * University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, government records, maps, newspapers, periodicals, Kansas and Douglas County history especially 1854-1861, and overland trails.
 * Iola Public Library, Iola, Kansas, 4000 genealogy books, 12,500 microfilms, help from genealogist volunteers, and access to HeritageQuest Online.