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Welcome to Douglas County KSGenWeb! We offer
free genealogy resources to help you find your ancestors. As you research
your family history we hope our site helps you fill in branches of your family
tree! We also accept your research and post it here on these pages for
other genealogists to utilize. Please email me your biographies, family
histories and more!
We are always looking for volunteers to manage our county pages, do lookups at
libraries and courthouses, transcribe cemeteries and more! Feel free to
contact me to sign up!
Rebecca Maloney
I just received a
generous donation of genealogy books about Douglas County KS from Joe Curtiss!
There is a wide variety and I am willing to look up information for you in any
of these: 1875 Douglas County KS Census, Douglas County KS Marriages 1854-1884,
A Souvenir History of Lawrence KS 1898, Tombstone Inscriptions Weld County CO
Volume I, Tombstone Inscriptions Weld County CO Volume II, Rural Schools and
Schoolhouses of Douglas County Kansas and more!
Located in northeast Kansas, Douglas County was one of
the original 33 counties created by the First Territorial Legislature in July,
1855. The county was named in honor of Stephen A. Douglas, a United States
Senator from Illinois who had supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
Before the area was opened to white settlement on May
15, 1854, the region was held by the Shawnee Indians as part of their
reservation under a treaty that had been made in 1825. This treaty allotted the
Shawnee some 200,000 acres, most in adjacent Johnson County, but, also embraced
much of the land in Eudora Township, in the northeastern part of Douglas County.
As soon as the territory was thrown open to settlement, "squatters" ignored the
treaty with the Shawnee, arriving from Missouri and other states to secure
claims, as the region had been long known as a desirable location.
Temporary Coordinator: Rebecca Maloney
State Coordinators: Tom & Carolyn Ward
National Coordinator: Linda K Lewis
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County Clerk has land records. 785-832-5147 Probate Judge has marriage records before 1913, wills, probate records and Civil Court records.785-832-5251
Records Division of the Clerk of the District Court's Office is 785-832-5141
Divorces before 1951 are in the office of the Clerk of the District Court. 785-832-5141 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
Wouldn't you like to " adopt " a Kansas County, in need of a home?? Please contact our
Orphan County Coordinator.
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