Wichita Public Library Genealogy Center: Difference between revisions

The '''Genealogy / Special Collections Center''' contains over 45,000 genealogy books and magazines covering every state in the nation with heavy coverage on Kansas, the Great Plains, the Midwest, the South, and the American colonies. There is an emphasis on states that have had a heavy emigration to Kansas, especially New England and Midwestern states. The Edward & Elizabeth Burns Historical Research Pavilion also has a large Native American collection, mainly covering the Great Plains tribes, and a large military collection with over 2,300 volumes on the Civil War. Other major collections include: state and federal censuses, vital records indexes, probate records, immigration lists, land records, tax lists, cemetery records, church records, town histories, ethnic histories, [[Dawes Commission Enrollment Records]], [[Draper Manuscript Collection]], ''{{WorldCat|528690906|item|disp=Germans to America}}'', ''{{WorldCat|26161103|item|disp=Italians to America}}'', and the [[Barbour Collection]]. Over 20,000 rolls of microfilm cover the city's major newspapers, the ''Wichita Eagle'' and the ''Wichita Beacon'' and other local topics such as city directories, tax rolls, funeral home records and telephone books.<ref>[http://www.wichitalibrary.org/Services/LocalHistory/Pages/genealogy.aspx Genealogy] in ''Wichita Public Library'' (accessed 15 February 2016).</ref>