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Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, bounty land, homesteads, ethnic sources, prisons, fed employees.
 * National Archives at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, vital records, land, and Indian records.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 2.5 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, censuses, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records.
 * American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln NE, AHSGR ancestor lists, cemeteries, homesteads, an AHSGR German hometowns list, passenger lists, obituaries, surname charts, and Russian village files.
 * National Orphan Train Complex, Concordia, museum, history, rider registry, research, and events. 66 v. (20,000 records) of orphan train riders, photos, 9,700 name computer database.

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Neighboring Collections


 * Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, clearly the best place to start researching Kansas ancestors including newspapers, county records, biographies, genealogies, land records, and railroads.
 * Kansas State Library, Topeka, largest book library in Kansas with county histories, ethnic sources, guides, inventories, and family genealogies. This is a main depository of historical documents about Kansas residents.
 * Kansas Genealogical Society, Dodge City,.
 * Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka,.


 * Fort Hays State University Forsyth Library, Hays,.
 * Iola Public Library,.
 * Johnson County Library, Overland Park,.
 * Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge City,.
 * Riley County Genealogical Society Library, Manhattan,.
 * Topeka Genealogical Society,.
 * University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence,.
 * Wichita Public Library Genealogy Center,.


 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence MO, one of America's best genealogical centers: censuses and indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers. Surrounding states are well represented.
 * Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections, The Missouri Valley Room has a great genealogy collection for Missouri and Kansas with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of the Kansas City area.


 * County Vital Records Office
 * City Vital Records Office
 * County Archives
 * County Orphan's Court
 * County Probate Court
 * County Recorder
 * County Coroner
 * U.S. District Court
 * County and local historical societies
 * County and local genealogical societies
 * Public Libraries
 * Museums and heritage societies
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Chattam, Durham, and Franklin
 * State Vital Records Office
 * State Historical Society
 * State Genealogical Society
 * University Libraries
 * Church archives
 * Repositories in surrounding states: Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.