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United States 
Kansas Comanche County
Comanche County, Kansas genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.
| Comanche County, Kansas | |
| Map | |
 Location in the state of Kansas | |
 Location of Kansas in the U.S. | |
| Facts | |
| Founded | February 26, 1867 |
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| County Seat | Coldwater |
| Courthouse | |
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| Address | Comanche County Courthouse 201 S. New York Coldwater, Kansas 67029-0397 Phone: 620.582.2182 |
County Courthouse[edit | edit source]
Comanche County Courthouse
201 S New York;
PO Box 397;
Coldwater, KS 67029-0397
Phone: 620.582.2182
County Clerk has birth and death records 1891-1911.
Magistrate Judge has marriage records 1891-1912,
probate and court records.
Clerk District Court has divorce records.
Register of Deeds has land records. [1]
History[edit | edit source]
Parent County[edit | edit source]
Boundary Changes[edit | edit source]
Record Loss[edit | edit source]
Places/Localities[edit | edit source]
Populated Places[edit | edit source]
Neighboring Counties[edit | edit source]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
Church[edit | edit source]
Most church records are held by individual churches. For contact information, check a phone directory, such as SearchBug or Dex Knows. Some denominations are gathering their records into a central repository. For more information about these major repositories, see Kansas Church Records.
Court[edit | edit source]
Land[edit | edit source]
Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.
See Kansas Land and Property for additional information about early Kansas land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse, where records are currently housed.
Local Histories[edit | edit source]
Maps[edit | edit source]
Military[edit | edit source]
- For information about Civil War records see Marion County.
Newspapers[edit | edit source]
Template:KS Newspaper abstracts
Probate[edit | edit source]
In most counties in Kansas, probate records have been kept by the county judge. They include wills, inventories, claim registers, legacy records, inheritance records, and dockets. The records are available at the county courthouse.
The FamilySearch Catalog lists films of probate records. To find the records for this county, use the Place Search for Kansas, Comanche and click Probate records.
Taxation[edit | edit source]
Kansas tax records complement land records and can be used to supplement the years between censuses. Tax lists were usually made every year, however, there may be gaps of several years. For more information, see the wiki page Kansas Taxation.
Vital Records[edit | edit source]
Societies and Libraries[edit | edit source]
Family History Centers
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Web Sites[edit | edit source]
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- Family History Library Catalog
- Comanche County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Comanche County, Kansas 249 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).