Sedgwick County, Kansas Genealogy

United States Kansas  Sedgwick County

Sedgwick County, Kansas genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, 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
Sedgwick County Courthouse 525 N Main Street Wichita, KS 67203 Phone: 316.383.7666 District Probate Court has marriage and probate records from 1870. District Civil Court has court records. County Clerk has land records from 1887. Community Health Deppartment (1900 E. 9th, Wichita, KS 67214) has birth and death records.

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
 * Township Map of 1887 Sedgwick County, Kansas with enlarged views of each township (My Genealogy Hound)

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 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.  Closed Sundays from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Closed major holidays. Contains over 21,000 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 Wichita Eagle and the Wichita 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)