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E-mail:[1] https://www.jocolibrary.org/contact
Address:[2]
- Central Resource Library
9875 W 87th St.
Overland Park, KS 66212
Telephone:[2] 913-826-4600
Hours:[2] Mon-Thu: 9-8; Fri: 9-6; Sat: 9-5; Sun: 1-5.
Map and public transportation:
Internet sites and databases:
Search by keyword, title, author, or subject. Also available in WorldCat.
- Obituary Index from local newspapers dating from the late 19th century to the present.
They have both Kansas and genealogy collections, and are a mostly a book and periodicals library with additional good coverage for Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky. They also have microfilms and family folders as well.[3]
Online resources include JoCoHistory Collections including an obituary index, Olathe Memorial Cemetery index, Johnson County marriage index 1857-1907. Access to AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS), Ancestry Library Edition, FamilySearch, Fold3, Genealogy Connect, HeritageHub, and HeritageQuest Online, regional newspapers, and other favorite web resources.[4] Some can be accessed remotely with a library card, others are only available from within a library building.
If you cannot visit or find a source at the Johnson County 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.
- Southeast Kansas Genealogical Society, Iola, quarterly publication, queries, cemetery transcripts, obituary and newspaper indexes.
- Lenexa Kansas FamilySearch Center can offer research suggestions, and can order genealogical microfilms from the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City.
Similar Collections
- Iola Public Library, for all Kansas including family folders, special indexes, and published records for many counties of Kansas.</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 Historical Society, Topeka, clearly the best place to start researching Kansas ancestors including newspapers, county records, biographies, genealogies, land records, and railroads.[8] Statewide births and deaths prior to 1894; City of Topeka births and deaths 1885-1912.[9]
- 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>
Neighboring Collections
- Overland Park City Clerk has some municipal records.
- Johnson County Clerk of the District Court, Olathe, marriages since 1857; civil, criminal, domestic, and probate records since 1857.[10]
- Johnson County Archives and Records Management, Olathe, combines the Register of Deeds, County Clerk, and Archives. Land records since 1857, county school records, and military discharge papers.[10]
- U.S. District Court District of Kansas, Kansas City, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy cases.
- Lenexa Historical Society includes a local historical research library.
- Overland Park Historical Society identifying and preserving the history of Overland Park.
- Johnson County Genealogical Society has their collection at the Johnson County Library Central Resource Library.
- Repositories in surrounding counties in Kansas: Douglas, Franklin, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte, in Missouri: Cass, and Jackson.
- Fort Hays State University Forsyth Library, Hays, western Kansas history, oral histories, genealogical and historical societies, Hutterites, Mennonites, Catholics, and Lutherans.</ref>
- Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge City, cowboys, oral history, Fort Dodge history, & the Old West.</ref>
- Riley County Genealogical Society Library, Manhattan, pre-Civil War records are excellent for Kansas. Early settlers are documented by obituaries, family folders, and some good indexes.</ref>
- Topeka Genealogical Society Library, 12,000 books, 700 periodicals strong on Shawnee County and northeast Kansas. Also includes almost every U.S. state, and many foreign nations.[11]
- 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.[12]
- 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.
- 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> [13]
- 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.[14] [15]
- ↑ Contact Us in Johnson County Library (accessed 25 June 2024).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Central Resource Library in Johnson County Library (accessed 18 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.
- ↑ Genealogy in Johnson County Library (accessed 10 March 2023).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 2.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 67.
- ↑ Research Library in American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (accessed 3 February 2016).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 47.
- ↑ Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Shawnee County (accessed 8 February 2016).
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Alice Eichholz, ed., Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 235. Ancestry digital copy ($); WorldCat 55947869; FS Library Book 973 D27rb 2004.
- ↑ Topeka Genealogical Society Library in Topeka Genealogical Society (accessed 4 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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