Hamilton County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Hamilton County

Guide to Hamilton County, Kansas ancestry, family history and genealogy and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse
Hamilton County Courthouse 219 N Main Street Syracuse, KS 67878 Phone: 316.384.5629 Probate Judge has marriage and probate records from 1886. City Clerk has death and burial recrods. Clerk District Court has divorce records. County Clerk has land records from 1884.

Parent County
1873--Hamilton County was created 6 March 1873 from unorganized territory. County seat: Syracuse

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Neighboring Counties



 * Grant
 * Greeley
 * Kearny
 * Kiowa County, Colorado
 * Prowers County, Colorado
 * Stanton
 * Wichita

Military

 * Hamilton County was not organized until after the Civl War.

Probate
Online Records


 * 1803 – 1987 Kansas Wills and Probate Records 1803-1987 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Birth Records

 * 1818 - 1936 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1911 Kansas, Births and Christenings Index, 1885-1911 at Ancestry.com — index $

Death Records

 * 1885 - 1930 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1930 Kansas, Deaths and Burials, Index, 1885-1930 at Ancestry.com — index $

Marriage Records

 * 1811 - 1911 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1840 - 1935 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1855 - 1911 Kansas, County Marriages, 1855-1911 at Ancestry.com — images $

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
 * Hamilton County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Hamilton County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)