Welcome to Douglas County Kansas

This is the Douglas County Ks Genweb site.

Douglas County, Kansas, Genealogical Society

About The KSGenWeb Project

• Douglas County Links
• Douglas County Historical Society    
  
• Vital Records
• Libraries
• Mail List
• Maps
• History
• Lookups
• Cemeteries 
• Military
• Queries
• Surnames
• Other Kansas Links
• Territorial Kansas Online 1854-1861     
  

• Douglas County, Kansas, Genealogical Society

• KSGenWeb Archives   Douglas County Records online!
• 1883 Pensioners on the Roll
• Douglas Co. KS on the Net
• Baldwin City
• Eudora
• City of Lawrence .from the Kansas Community Network, includes interesting historical links
• Lawrence CyberVillage by the City of Lawrence and the Lawrence Public Library.
• KU History New
• The University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence.
•  US Newspapers Project  New
• Kansas School and Education Information For Genealogists     NEW
• General Sources in Douglas County pdf
  

Vital Records

County Clerk has land records. Probate Judge has marriage records before 1913, wills, probate records and Civil Court records. Divorces before 1951 are in the office of the Clerk of the District Court. Many of the original records have been transferred to Spencer Library at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Birth and death records since July 1911, marriages since May 1913, and divorces since July 1951 are found at the
KS Dept. of Health
Office of Vital Statistics
900 SW Jackson
Topeka, KS 66612-1290
913.296.1400

• KS Office of Vital Statistics 

Libraries

• Lawrence Public Library
• KS Libraries

• Maps

• Census Bureau Data Map
• Douglas County Map (352k, takes a while to load)

History

•  Community Connections History    

•  Historic Lecompton and Territorial Capital Museum

• Cutler's History of Kansas: Douglas County
• Cyndislist of Civil War Burials -Cemeteries
  
• Lecompton Historical Marker
• Battle of Blackjack, Historical Marker, east of Baldwin
• 1918 KS & Kansans Biography Index

Cemeteries

•  Find A Grave Site
•  List of Cemeteries in Douglas County by Township
• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
  
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Military

• KS in the Civil War
• 20th Kansas Volunteers Co. H  Members of 20th Kansas Volunteers Co. H , Home towns.
• Kansas Causulties In WW I
• KS Union Regimental Histories 
• 1883 Pensioners on the Roll
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet U.S. - Civil War
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System 
• US Civil War Center


• Members of 12th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company K

Other Kansas Links

• KSGenWeb
• KSGenWeb Archives
• USGenWeb Archives: Kansas
• Kansas Genealogy Links
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: Kansas
• Everton's Genealogical Helper, Kansas Resour
• Kansas State Historical Society
• Kansas Museums
• Kansas Pioneers Project 
• University of Kansas History

Welcome to The KSGenWeb Project 

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This site was originally hosted by Rebecca Chaky. Thanks! Rebecca for all your work.

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