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=== Contact Information === | === Contact Information === | ||
''' | '''Email:''' [https://www.wichitalibrary.org/About/Pages/contact-us.aspx Contact Us] <br> | ||
'''Address:'''<br> | '''Address:'''<br> | ||
{{Block indent|711 West Second Street }} | |||
{{Block indent|Wichita, KS 67203 <br><br>}} | |||
'''Telephone:''' 316-261-8509; '''Fax:''' 316-262-4540<br> | '''Telephone:''' 316-261-8509; '''Fax:''' 316-262-4540<br> | ||
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'''Directions, map, parking, and public transportation:'''<br> | '''Directions, map, parking, and public transportation:'''<br> | ||
{{Block indent|*'''''Driving directions: ''''' From US 400 / US 54 / Kellogg Avenue take the Seneca Street exit. Turn north onto Seneca Street. Turn east on Second Street. '''WPL''' is located on the right at the corner of Second and McLean Boulevard. }} | |||
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{{Block indent|*'''''Parking: ''''' No parking fee for the library lot.<br> }} | |||
'''Internet sites and databases:''' | '''Internet sites and databases:''' | ||
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*[[National Archives at Kansas City]] federal censuses 1790–1930; military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, vital records, land, and Indian records.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 67.</ref><br> | *[[National Archives at Kansas City]] federal censuses 1790–1930; military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, vital records, land, and Indian records.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 67.</ref><br> | ||
*[[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.<ref>[http://www.ahsgr.org/?page=Library Research Library] in ''American Historical Society of Germans from Russia'' (accessed 3 February 2016).</ref><br> | *[[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.<ref>[http://www.ahsgr.org/?page=Library Research Library] in ''American Historical Society of Germans from Russia'' (accessed 3 February 2016).</ref><br> | ||
*[[National Orphan Train Complex]], Concordia, | *[[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. | ||
*[https://locations.familysearch.org/en/us/ks/derby/1409-s.-rock-rd. Derby Kansas FamilySearch Center] offers research suggestions, and may have copies of genealogical microfilms from the [https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/ FamilySearch Library] in Salt Lake City. | *[https://locations.familysearch.org/en/us/ks/derby/1409-s.-rock-rd. Derby Kansas FamilySearch Center] offers research suggestions, and may have copies of genealogical microfilms from the [https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/ FamilySearch Library] in Salt Lake City. | ||
Latest revision as of 11:14, 20 August 2025
Contact InformationEmail: Contact Us Address: Telephone: 316-261-8509; Fax: 316-262-4540 Holidays: Use the events calendar to find holiday closings. Directions, map, parking, and public transportation: Internet sites and databases:
Collection DescriptionThe Genealogy / Special Collections Center contains over 46,000 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, Germans to America, 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.[1]
TipSearch the collections on the Wichita Public Library Online Catalog before visiting. Alternate RepositoriesIf you cannot visit or find a source at the Wichita Public Library Genealogy Center, a similar source may be available at one of the following. Overlapping Collections
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