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Email:[1] info@rileycgs.com
Address:[2]
- 2005 Claflin Road
Manhattan, Kansas 66502-3415
Telephone:[2] 785-565-6495
Hours and holidays: ?
Map and public transportation
Internet sites and databases:
- Riley County Genealogical Society who we are, events, newsletter, catalog, membership, surname search, personalized research, Platt House Blog, family stories, cemeteries, links, and tips.
- Library Holdings genealogy, local history, cemeteries, census, probate, books, and periodicals.
- Library Card Catalog online. Search by subject, location, title, author, call number, county, or surname.
The Riley County Genealogical Society Library has pre-Civil War records that are excellent for Kansas. Early settlers are documented by obituaries, family folders, and some good indexes.[3]
The RCGS Library has 1175 genealogies especially for Riley County, county-city-town-church and other local histories, computer and microfilm censuses including the KS agricultural schedules, and 1855 territorial census, county probate records 1856-1939, newspaper abstracts for Riley and surrounding counties, and material for nearly all Kansas counties, most states, and many foreign countries.[4]
RCGS members also hold meetings, classes, and other events, make research suggestions, maintain surname and cemetery lists, and serve at the Manhattan Public Library.[1]
If you cannot visit or find a source at the Riley County Genealogical Society Library, 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.[5]
- National Archives at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, vital records, land, and Indian records.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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.
- Manhattan Kansas FamilySearch Center can offer research suggestions, and can order genealogical microfilms from the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City.
Similar Collections
Neighboring Collections
- Manhattan City Clerk births and deaths from 1910.[9]
- Riley County Clerk, Manhattan, births and deaths 1885-1886, 1892-1909.[9]
- Riley County Clerk of the District Court, Manhattan, has marriages from 1856; probate from 1857, and court records from 1859.[9] [10] Note: births/deaths 1892-1909 are at the Kansas Historical Society.[10]
- Riley County Register of Deeds, Manhattan, land records since 1857, county school records, and military discharge papers.[9] [10]
- U.S. District Court District of Kansas, Topeka, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy cases.
- Manhattan Public Library includes access to Ancestry.com (Library edition).
- Riley County Historical Society, Manhattan, 4,500 monographs, 300 periodicals, 5,000 cubic feet of manuscripts and archival materials, and 7,000 photos.
- Repositories in surrounding counties: Clay, Geary, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Washington, and Wabaunsee.
- Fort Hays State University Forsyth Library, Hays, western Kansas history, oral histories, genealogical and historical societies, Hutterites, Mennonites, Catholics, and Lutherans.</ref>
- Iola Public Library, for all Kansas including family folders, special indexes, and published records for many counties of Kansas.</ref>
- Johnson County Library, Overland Park, both a Kansas and a genealogy collection, mostly books, and periodicals with family folders. Also covers Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky.</ref>
- Kansas Genealogical Society, Dodge City, has the best set of family folders and genealogical periodicals in Kansas.</ref>. Also, clippings, obituaries, and an online catalog.
- Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge City, cowboys, oral history, Fort Dodge history, & the Old West.</ref>
- Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, clearly the best place to start researching Kansas ancestors including newspapers, county records, biographies, genealogies, land records, and railroads.[11] Statewide births and deaths prior to 1894; City of Topeka births and deaths 1885-1912.[12]
- Kansas State Library, Topeka, largest book library in Kansas with county histories, ethnic sources, guides, inventories, and family genealogies.</ref> This is a main depository of historical documents about Kansas residents.
- Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka, since 1911 births, stillbirths, deaths; since 1913 marriages; and since 1951 divorce records issued for a fee only to immediate family members or representatives.[13]
- University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, manuscripts, photographs, maps, histories, newspapers, periodicals, film and videotapes that document the "Kansas Experience" of pioneers, railroads, and American Indians.</ref> A depository for publications of Kansas and Douglas County.
- Wichita Public Library Genealogy Center, has many genealogies with an emphasis mostly on books, periodicals, and special publications for southeast KS, and corners of MO, AR, and OK.</ref>
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas Archives baptism, confirmations, marriages, deaths, parish records.
- Kansas United Methodist Archives, Baker University, Baldwin City, church records, newspapers, manuscripts, memoirs, obituaries, archives, reports.
- Mennonite Library and Archives, Bethel College, Newton, Mennonite-related books, periodicals, and genealogical materials.
- Repositories in surrounding states: Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.
- 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.</ref> [14]
- 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.[15] [16]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Home in Riley County Genealogical Society (accessed 19 February 2016).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Contact Us in Riley County Genealogical Society (accessed 19 February 2016).
- ↑ William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 47. WorldCat 39493985; FS Library Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ Library Holdings in Riley County Genealogical Society (accessed 19 February 2016).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 2.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 67.
- ↑ Research Library in American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (accessed 3 February 2016).
- ↑ Topeka Genealogical Society Library in Topeka Genealogical Society (accessed 4 February 2016).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 9th ed. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), 148. WorldCat 812163213; FS Library Book 973 D27e 1999.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Alice Eichholz, ed., Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 237. Ancestry digital copy ($); WorldCat 55947869; FS Library Book 973 D27rb 2004.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 47.
- ↑ Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Shawnee County (accessed 8 February 2016).
- ↑ KDHE Office of Vital Statistics in Kansas Department of Health and Environment (accessed 4 February 2016).
- ↑ Midwest Genealogy Center in Mid-Continent Public Library (accessed 7 March 2014).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 47 and 67.
- ↑ Special Collections in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 7 March 2014).
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