Individuals
This is a list of sources in the Center for Historical Research's collections
that are useful for filling in the histories of individuals and their
families. It includes many online indexes and databases, but some of
the sources listed are only available in our reading room.
- Biography
index, Andreas' History of the State of Kansas,
1883 (part of Kansas Biographical Names Index)
- Biography
index, Connelley's Standard History of Kansas
and Kansans, 1918 ed.
- Kansas public officials
- City directories
for Kansas
- Biographical
clippings vertical files index
- Kansas
GenWeb county links
- Index
to Kansas Biographical Scrapbooks (part of Kansas Biographical
Names Index)
- This is an index to our set of 182 volumes of bound biographical
newspapers clippings on noteworthy Kansans from ca. 1860 to 1900.
The series was continued by the biographical clippings vertical
files (see above).
- Criminal Records
- Doctors
- Forgotten
Settlers of Kansas
- Fraternal Orders (Independent
Order of Odd Fellows "I.O.O.F", Rebekah's Lodge, Ancient Order of
United Workmen "A.O.U.W.", Knights of Pythias "K.P.", Masons, etc.)
- Local government records
- Medical Records
- Military Records
- Naturalization Records
- See our local
government records on microfilm page for county-level naturalization
records.
- William P. Filby's Passenger and Immigration
Index
- Cultural and ethnic groups
- DAR lineage books and patriot indexes
- Lineage books for other patriotic societies
- American Genealogical and Biographical Index
- We have approximately 70 percent of the sources indexed, including
the Boston Transcript.
- Greenlaw Index
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