Kansas, Gove County Enumeration Books and List of Residents - FamilySearch Historical Records

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This collection contains an index and images of enumeration books and lists of residents from townships within Gove County from 1909-1950.

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 * The names of female residence and their ages
 * The names of male residence and their ages
 * A list of family members
 * The head of house hold and the number of members in the family

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * edited and compiled by Albert B. and Mary T. Tuttle, History and heritage of Gove County, Kansas. Grinnell, Kansas? : Gove County Historical Association, 1982 FS Library 978.1152 H2h
 * Gove County enumeration books and list of residents, 1909-1950
 * Gove County, birth records, 1892-1942
 * Gove County, death records, 1892-1943
 * Gove County, school records, 1885-1968
 * Gove County, civil war enrollment records, 1861-1889
 * Gove County, state census, 1905-1925

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Kansas Historical Records Survey, Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration. Inventory of the county archives of Kansas, no. 32, Gove County (Gove). Topeka, Kansas : Historical Records Survey (Kansas), 1941

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