Grant County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Grant County

Guide to Grant 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
Grant County Courthouse 108 S Glenn Ulysses, KS 67880-2551 Phone: 316.356.1335 Probate Judge has marriage records. Clerk Disrict Court divorce, probate, and court records. Register of Deeds has land records. City Clerk has cemetery records; local census taken every year.

Parent County
1873--Grant County was created 6 March 1873 from unorganized territory. County seat: Ulysses

Neighboring Counties



 * Finney
 * Hamilton
 * Haskell
 * Kearny
 * Stanton
 * Stevens

Military

 * Grant County was not organized until after the Civil War.

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

 * 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. Select the state, then the county.
 * Grant County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Grant County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)