Kansas, United States Genealogy

United States Kansas

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Welcome to Kansas, The Sunflower State

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Featured Content
The at Kansas State Historical Society holds one of the largest newspaper collections in the United States. They have almost every newspaper that was printed in Kansas (well over 61,000 volumes) and more than 12,000 out-of-state-volumes. These papers are in the Newspaper and Census Division, and many are on microfilm.

Counties
Extinct or Renamed Counties: Arapahoe | Billings | Breckenridge | Buffalo | Calhoun | Davis | Dorn | Foote | Garfield | Godfrey | Howard | Hunter | Kansas | Lykins | Madison | McGee | Oro | Otoe | Richardson | Sequoyah | Shirley | St. John | Weller | Wise

Research Tools

 * Find which county a town is in, what town a cemetery is in, even where a postoffice or building is by using the United States Geographical Survey's Geographical Names Information System.
 * David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures.
 * The Kansas GenWeb Project has a wealth of information and is a part of the larger USGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb Project provides internet information on every county in every state in the United States.

Things you can do
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