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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
They have the best set of family folders and genealogical periodicals in Kansas.<ref>William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 47. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp= | They have the best set of family folders and genealogical periodicals in Kansas.<ref>William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 47. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 J54d}}.</ref>. KGS subscribes to many periodicals and exchanges periodicals with over fifty societies. Also, clippings, obituaries, and an online catalog. | ||
'''Mission: ''' KGS has established and maintains an extensive library holding more than 15,000 books and manuscripts; family genealogies, thousands of vital records, cemetery records and census records on hard copy, military, immigration, and Bible records, as well as microfilm, microfiche and computer databases. Our primary focus is on records of the State of Kansas, however, records, books and manuscripts of national and international interest are included.<ref name="Wel">[http://www.kgs-genlibrary.com/index.html Welcome to our online library] in ''Kansas Genealogical Society'' (accessed 12 February 2016).</ref> | '''Mission: ''' KGS has established and maintains an extensive library holding more than 15,000 books and manuscripts; family genealogies, thousands of vital records, cemetery records and census records on hard copy, military, immigration, and Bible records, as well as microfilm, microfiche and computer databases. Our primary focus is on records of the State of Kansas, however, records, books and manuscripts of national and international interest are included.<ref name="Wel">[http://www.kgs-genlibrary.com/index.html Welcome to our online library] in ''Kansas Genealogical Society'' (accessed 12 February 2016).</ref> | ||
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'''''Overlapping Collections'''''<br> | '''''Overlapping Collections'''''<br> | ||
*[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives I]], Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service {{amp}} pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, bounty land, homesteads, ethnic sources, prisons, fed employees.<ref name="DB2">William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 2. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp= | *[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives I]], Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service {{amp}} pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, bounty land, homesteads, ethnic sources, prisons, fed employees.<ref name="DB2">William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 2. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 J54d}}.</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> | *[[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> | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library], Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 2.5 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, censuses, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 1 and 109.</ref><br> | *[https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library], Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 2.5 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, censuses, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 1 and 109.</ref><br> | ||
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'''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | '''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | ||
*[http://www.dodgecity.org/index.aspx?nid=86 Dodge City Clerk], incomplete births and deaths 1892-1904 (births and deaths 1905-1911 at [[Kansas Historical Society]]).<ref>''Handybook for Genealogists : United States of America'' (Draper, Utah : Everton Publishers, 1981), 104. {{WorldCat|866190599}}.</ref> <ref name="rdb235">Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed''. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 235. [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3249 Ancestry digital copy ($)]; {{WorldCat|55947869}}; {{FHL|1185723|item|disp= | *[http://www.dodgecity.org/index.aspx?nid=86 Dodge City Clerk], incomplete births and deaths 1892-1904 (births and deaths 1905-1911 at [[Kansas Historical Society]]).<ref>''Handybook for Genealogists : United States of America'' (Draper, Utah : Everton Publishers, 1981), 104. {{WorldCat|866190599}}.</ref> <ref name="rdb235">Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed''. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 235. [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3249 Ancestry digital copy ($)]; {{WorldCat|55947869}}; {{FHL|1185723|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27rb 2004}}.</ref> | ||
*[http://www.kscourts.org/dstcts/16dstct.htm Ford County Clerk of the District Court], Dodge City, marriages since 1874; divorces, probate, and court records since 1873.</ref> <ref name="rdb235"/> | *[http://www.kscourts.org/dstcts/16dstct.htm Ford County Clerk of the District Court], Dodge City, marriages since 1874; divorces, probate, and court records since 1873.</ref> <ref name="rdb235"/> | ||
*[http://www.fordcounty.net/263/Register-of-Deeds Ford County Register of Deeds] land records since 1873.</ref> <ref name="rdb235" /> | *[http://www.fordcounty.net/263/Register-of-Deeds Ford County Register of Deeds] land records since 1873.</ref> <ref name="rdb235" /> | ||
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