Kansas, United States Genealogy

Guide to Kansas ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Kansas Information
Kansas became the thirty-fourth state admitted to the United States on January 29, 1861. Kansas was created from Kansas Territory and is located in the Midwestern region of the United States. The Capital city of Kansas is Topeka.

Kansas Clickable Map
Many genealogy records are kept on the county level in the United States. Click on a county below to go to the county Wiki article listing more information.

Counties
 Allen Anderson Atchison Barber Barton Bourbon Brown Butler</li> Chase</li> Chautauqua</li> Cherokee</li> Cheyenne</li> Clark</li> Clay</li> Cloud</li> Coffey</li> Comanche</li> Cowley</li> Crawford</li> Decatur</li> Dickinson</li> Doniphan</li> Douglas</li> Edwards</li> <li>Elk</li> <li>Ellis</li> <li>Ellsworth</li> <li>Finney</li> <li>Ford</li> <li>Franklin</li> <li>Geary</li> <li>Gove</li> <li>Graham</li> <li>Grant</li> <li>Gray</li> <li>Greeley</li> <li>Greenwood</li> <li>Hamilton</li> <li>Harper</li> <li>Harvey</li> <li>Haskell</li> <li>Hodgeman</li> <li>Jackson</li> <li>Jefferson</li> <li>Jewell</li> <li>Johnson</li> <li>Kearny</li> <li>Kingman</li> <li>Kiowa</li> <li>Labette</li> <li>Lane</li> <li>Leavenworth</li> <li>Lincoln</li> <li>Linn</li> <li>Logan</li> <li>Lyon</li> <li>Marion</li> <li>Marshall</li> <li>McPherson</li> <li>Meade</li> <li>Miami</li> <li>Mitchell</li> <li>Montgomery</li> <li>Morris</li> <li>Morton</li> <li>Nemaha</li> <li>Neosho</li> <li>Ness</li> <li>Norton</li> <li>Osage</li> <li>Osborne</li> <li>Ottawa</li> <li>Pawnee</li> <li>Phillips</li> <li>Pottawatomie</li> <li>Pratt</li> <li>Rawlins</li> <li>Reno</li> <li>Republic</li> <li>Rice</li> <li>Riley</li> <li>Rooks</li> <li>Rush</li> <li>Russell</li> <li>Saline</li> <li>Scott</li> <li>Sedgwick</li> <li>Seward</li> <li>Shawnee</li> <li>Sheridan</li> <li>Sherman</li> <li>Smith</li> <li>Stafford</li> <li>Stanton</li> <li>Stevens</li> <li>Sumner</li> <li>Thomas</li> <li>Trego</li> <li>Wabaunsee</li> <li>Wallace</li> <li>Washington</li> <li>Wichita</li> <li>Wilson</li> <li>Woodson</li> <li>Wyandotte</li>

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Extinct, Renamed, or Ceded Counties: Arapahoe (1855) | Arapahoe (1883) | Billings | Breckenridge | Broderick | Buffalo | Calhoun | Davis | Dorn | El Paso | Foote | Fremont | Garfield | Godfrey | Howard | Hunter | Kansas | Lykins | Madison | McGee | Montana | Oro | Otoe | Peketon | Richardson | Sequoyah | Seward (old) | Shirley | St. John | Washington (old) | Weller | Wise

Kansas Migration Routes
<ul class="column-spacing-halfscreen" style="padding-right:5px;"> <li>Abilene Trail</li> <li>Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway</li> <li>California Trail</li> <li>Cherokee Trail</li> <li>Chisholm Trail</li> <li>Great Western Cattle Trail</li> <li>Jones and Plummer Trail</li> <li>Leavenworth Pike's Peak Express</li> <li>Mormon Trail</li> <li>Oregon Trail</li> <li>Santa Fe Trail</li> <li>Smoky Hill Trail</li> <li>Solomon River Trail</li> <li>Texas Road or Shawnee Trail </li> </ul>

FamilySearch Resources
Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in researching your family.


 * Facebook Communities - Facebook groups discussing genealogy research
 * Learning Center - Online genealogy courses
 * Historical Records - databases and record images on FamilySearch
 * Family History Center locator map

Additional Resources

 * 2001-2014 – Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014 at FamilySearch – Index
 * Cyndi's List – Kansas genealogy sites on the internet
 * Kansas Genealogy Trails – Collection of transcribed data for the state of Kansas
 * Access Genealogy – Genealogy guide for Kansas
 * Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness – Guide to Ancestry and Family Tree Records for Kansas
 * Kansas Research Outline – Original Family History Library research outline; contains many out of date links
 * The Kansas review St. Joseph, Missouri : Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, 1980- FHL 978.1 D25k
 * Every Name Index