Sedgwick County, Kansas Genealogy

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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
Eldridge Cemetery, Union BillionGraves Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Goddard BillionGraves

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

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)