Sedgwick County, Kansas Genealogy

United States &gt; Kansas &gt; Sedgwick County

County Courthouse
Sedgwick County; 525 N Main St; Wichita, KS 67203; Ph. 316.383.7666 Details: (Dis Pro Ct has m &amp; pro rec from 1870; Dis Civ Ct has ct rec; Co Clk has land rec from 1887; Community Hlth Dept (1900 E. 9th, Wichita, KS 67214) has b &amp; d rec)

Parent County
1867--Sedgwick County was created 26 February 1867 from Butler and Marion Counties. County seat: Wichita

Populated Places
Wichita

Townships
Current townships include: Afton, Attica, Delano, Eagle, Erie, Garden Plain, Grand River, Grant, Greeley, Gypsum, Illinois, Kechi, Lincoln, Minneha, Morton, Ninnescah, Ohio, Park, Payne, Riverside, Rockford, Salem, Sherman, Union, Valley Center, Viola, Waco, and Wichita.

Neighboring Counties

 * Butler
 * Cowley
 * Harvey
 * Kingman
 * Reno
 * Sumner

Atlas
[1882] Historical Atlas of Sedgwick County, Kansas, published by John P. Edwards, 1882. The 1982 reprint has a 17 page index of names.

[1905] Standard Atlas of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County, published by George A. Ogle and Company.

Cemeteries
BillionGraves: Each page has Google map, and searchable database of photographed headstones.


 * Cheney Cemetery, Cheney
 * Eldridge Cemetery, Union
 * Harrington Cemetery, Conway Springs
 * Highland Cemetery, Wichita
 * Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Goddard
 * Ressurection Cemetery, Wichita
 * Viola Cemetery, Viola

Maps
Early Township maps of Sedgwick County http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/wcf/townships/index.asp

Military

 * For information about Civil War records see Butler and Marion counties.

Obituaries
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society Library has three Indexes of the obituaries in scrapbooks in their library.


 * Index of obituaries from The Wichita Eagle and Beacon for the period 1955 to 2008.
 * Obituaries from the Catholic Advance for 1999.
 * Miscellaneous obituaries which they have indexed.

Photographs
The Wichita Photo Archives www.wichitaphotos.org contains over 1,000 photographs of Wichita and Sedgwick County.

Vital Records
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, Death Index, 1887-1910. Alphabetical index giving name and certificate number.

Societies and Libraries
Lawrence &amp; Lucile Wulfmeyer Genealogy / Special Collections Center at the Wichita Public Library, 223 South Main Street, Wichita, Kansas, 67202. 316-261-8509. Open Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.  Closed major holidays. Contains over 18,000 genealogy books and magazines covering Kansas, the Great Plains, the Midwest, the South, and the Colonial States. Other major collections include: Dawes Rolls Applications, Draper Manuscripts, Germans to America, Italians to America, and microfilm of the city's newspapers the Eagle and the Beacon.

Wichita Public Library

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Wichita Kansas Family History Center

Web Sites

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