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United States Kansas Sedgwick County

Guide to Sedgwick County, Kansas ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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County Courthouse
Sedgwick County Courthouse' 525 N. Main Street Wichita, Kansas 67203-3703 Phone: 316.383.7666 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.

Sedgwick County, Kansas Record Dates

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 * width="13%" bgcolor="#e4d8e5" align="center" | Court
 * width="13%" bgcolor="#e4d8e5" align="center" | Land
 * width="13%" bgcolor="#e4d8e5" align="center" | Probate
 * width="13%" bgcolor="#e4d8e5" align="center" | Census
 * width="13%" align="center" |1884
 * width="13%" align="center" |1870
 * width="13%" align="center" |1884
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 * width="13%" align="center" |1870
 * width="13%" align="center" |1870
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Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Boundary Changes
1867--Sedgwick County was created 26 February 1867 from Butler and Marion Counties. County seat: Wichita

Populated Places

 * Wichita

Townships


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History Timeline
Additional Information Sedgwick County, Kansas Genealogy

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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

Local Histories
Photographs

The Wichita Photo Archives contains over 1,000 photographs of Wichita and Sedgwick County.

Maps and Gazetteers



 * 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)

Atlas

[1882] Historical Atlas of Sedgwick County, Kansas, published by John P. Edwards, 1882. The 1982 reprint has a 17 page index of names. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224001

[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. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209421

Military Records

 * For information about Civil War records see Butler and Marion counties.

Newspapers
Tihen Notes http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/local_history/tihen/

Dr. Edward N. Tihen read and took notes from nearly every issue of Wichita's newspapers dating from 1872 to 1982. Presented as PDF documents are nearly 6000 transcribed pages of the "Tihen Notes," as they have become known. Dr. Tihen's notes reflect the people, places and events that have shaped Wichita's history.

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 2014.
 * Obituaries from the Catholic Advance for 1999.
 * Miscellaneous obituaries which they have indexed.

Probate Records
'''Online Records


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

Birth

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

Marriage

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

Death

 * 1885 - 1930 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1885 - 1930 Kansas, Deaths and Burials, Index, 1885-1930 at Ancestry.com — index $
 * 1887 - 1910 Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, Death Index, 1887-1910. Alphabetical index giving name and certificate number.

Family History Centers

 * Wichita Kansas Family History Center

Websites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county.
 * The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records
 * Sedgwick County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)