Resources

There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.

Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, Edwards County.  Excellent reference to the early history in Edwards County.

Edwards County Map (circ 1880) This is a sectional map in B&W of Edwards County, scanned from the Cutler's History of the State of Kansas.

Edwards County Map (circ 1878) This is a sectional map in color of Edwards County, scanned from the Kansas State Board of Agriculture's First Biennial Report.

Edwards County Historical Newspapers  Microfilmed newspapers stored at the Kansas State Historical Society. 

Edwards County Digital Library  Obituaries, Census Records and Indexes, Biographies, Local Histories, Cemetery Records, Military information, Vital Records.

The KSGenWeb Digital Library Table of Contents   Links to the other counties with resources stored in the KSGenWeb Digital Library/Archives

The USGenWeb Digital Library Table of Contents

 

  
The Tombstone Transcription Project A very worthwhile project to support!!

 

Kansas State Map circa.1910   (This image may take awhile to open on slower systems)

The Kansas Collection  : Letting The Voices Of The Past Be Heard...

The Plain and Emigrant Tribes of Kansas

The Prairie Traveler :  (A hand-book for Overland Expeditions)

The Kansas Pioneer Project :  An excellent project to support!!

The KSGenWeb Project  : Another excellent project to support!!

Kansas State Historical Society  : Home Page

Kansas One Room School House Project

USGenWeb Obituary Project


USGenWeb - KS Family Group Sheets site 

 

• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• FindAGrave
• Internet Archive
• 1912 Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence, by Frank W. Blackmar
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Kansas Secretary of State
• Maps of US - provides an interactive map of boundary changes
• HistoricMapWorks - many maps, including township plats, are available to view at no cost
• Sanborn Maps
• National Register of Historic Places
• KSGenWeb Digital Library
• GenealogyTrails

Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the websites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project.

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