Kearny County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Kearny County

Guide to Kearny County, Kansas ancestry, family history and genealogy and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse
Kearny County Courthouse 305 N Main Street Lakin, KS 67860 Phone: 316.355.6422 County Clerk has birth, marriage and death records 1900-1910. Clerk district court has divorce and court records 1894 and probate records from 1895. Register of Deeds has land records from 1894. County Clerk and County Historical Society have newspapers. County Appraiser has local census from 1913.

Parent County
1873--Kearny County was created 6 March 1873 from unorganized territory. County seat: Lakin

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Neighboring Counties



 * Finney
 * Grant
 * Hamilton
 * Haskell
 * Scott
 * Stanton
 * Wichita

Military

 * Kearny County was not organized until after the Civil War. See Marion County for records.

Probate
Online Records


 * 1803 – 1987 Kansas Wills and Probate Records 1803-1987 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Birth Records

 * 1818 - 1936 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1911 Kansas, Births and Christenings Index, 1885-1911 at Ancestry.com — index $

Death Records

 * 1885 - 1930 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1930 Kansas, Deaths and Burials, Index, 1885-1930 at Ancestry.com — index $

Marriage Records

 * 1811 - 1911 at | FamilySearch — index
 * 1840 - 1935 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1855 - 1911 Kansas, County Marriages, 1855-1911 at Ancestry.com — images $

Societies and Libraries
Kearny County Historical Society 101 South Buffalo Street, Box 32 Lakin 67860

Kearny County, Kansas Historical Society 111 South Buffalo St. Lakin, KS Telephone Number:620-355-7448 E-mail[mailto:kchs@pld.com] Website

Web Sites

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