County Records
The Kansas Historical Society has thousands of reels of microfilm of Kansas county and city government records. Most of this film came to the Historical Society during a cooperative project with the Genealogical Society of Utah and the records primarily date from before 1920. We only have microfilm for the counties listed below; not digitized versions.
Some of this information is restricted. The Historical Society sends this film on interlibrary loan to Kansas libraries.
- Allen
- Anderson
- Atchison
- Barton
- Bourbon
- Brown
- Butler
- Chase
- Chautauqua
- Cherokee
- Clark
- Clay
- Cloud
- Coffey
- Comanche
- Crawford
- Decatur
- Dickinson
- Doniphan
- Douglas
- Edwards
- Elk
- Ellis
- Ellsworth
- Ford
- Franklin
- Geary
- Gove
- Greenwood
- Hamilton
- Harvey
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Jewell
- Johnson
- Labette
- Leavenworth
- Linn
- Logan
- Lyon
- Marion
- Marshall
- McPherson
- Miami
- Mitchell
- Montgomery
- Morris
- Nemaha
- Neosho
- Norton
- Osage
- Osborne
- Pawnee
- Phillips
- Pottawatomie
- Pratt
- Reno
- Republic
- Rice
- Riley
- Rush
- Russell
- Saline
- Scott
- Sedgwick
- Seward
- Shawnee
- Sheridan
- Stafford
- Stevens
- Sumner
- Thomas
- Wabaunsee
- Wallace
- Washington
- Wilson
- Woodson
- Wyandotte
Access restrictions: The Genealogical Society of Utah microfilmed military discharge records that have been restricted by the Kansas Legislature under the Kansas Open Records Act, Kansas Statutes Annotated, no. 45-221(A)(46) which reads:
- 45-221. Certain records not required to be open; separation of open and closed information required; statistics and records over 70 years old open. (a) Except to the extent disclosure is otherwise required by law, a public agency shall not be required to disclose:
- . . . (46) Any information or material received by the register of deeds of a county from military discharge papers (DD Form 214). Such papers shall be disclosed: To the military dischargee; to such dischargee's immediate family members and lineal descendants; to such dischargee's heirs, agents or assigns; to the licensed funeral director who has custody of the body of the deceased dischargee; when required by a department or agency of the federal or state government or a political subdivision thereof; when the form is required to perfect the claim of military service or honorable discharge or a claim of a dependent of the dischargee; and upon the written approval of the commissioner of veterans affairs, to a person conducting research.
- If, according to this law, you are eligible to request copies of these military discharge records, please contact the the Historical Society at 785-272-8681, ext. 117; or through the ask a research question online form.