Coming Very Soon!
6th Annual Conference – "A Day With Ancestry"
October 14, 2017
JOIN us for this unique day with the world leader in Genealogy information and research tools. Ancestry will present a day-long series of classes that may give you new ideas to help your research and answer questions you have. Don't miss this chance to spend a full day with the leader in genealogy research. Breakfast and lunch included with registration. RESERVE your seat now!.
Wichita Library Hosts Big Read
|
The City of Wichita is proud to announce Big Read Wichita will return for its tenth consecutive year. Big Read Wichita is a program providing residents opportunities to experience quality literary and arts programming throughout the community that is focused around one book and its themes.
The title of this year's book is The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang. Published in 2008, this book is the City's first non-fiction title selected for this literary program and represents both the local and national efforts to provide modern books with current themes for the community to discuss.. Read all about it here: Big Read
|
|
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and bring the transformative power of literature into the lives of citizens. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment, NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
|
Wichita "Who's Who" Indexed
We continue adding more records and indexes to our collection of online historical data from the Wichita. The 1929 and 1980
Who's Who in Wichita index have been posted in the
Area Research section.
CLICK HERE to see over 2,000 names in the 1929 volume and more than 1,000 in the 1980 book. These books with the named biographies can then be viewed in the Wulfmeyer Genealogy Center in the downtown library.
NEW! Obituary Indexes 1939, 1941-45 & 1954
The Wichta Genealogical team led by Rosie Wiley has completed indexing all
obituaries that appeared in the 1939, 1941 through 1945 & 1954 Wichita Morning Eagle. The index gives a date and page number in the paper where an obituary is found. Members, login and
Click Here to see the indexes and discover how you can get a copy of the obituary. More years are being indexed and will be available soon.
NEW! Early Wichita Death Certificates
The WGS has recently completed the index and transcription of death certificates issued by the city of Wichita from
1887 to 1911. This information is free to all visitors to this web site.
Click Here to see the wonderful new data available for your genealogy and family history research.
13,000 Names Indexed for You
The WGS has completed a massive project of indexing over 60 books of Wichita history listing more than 13,000 name entries. The complete index is available to WGS members to help them find ancestors and family members that may have appeared in one of these books.
The index gives the book title, the page number of the entry, and the library call number to help find the book. It is sorted by surname and available in nine volumes as PDFs. Members, log in and
CLICK here to see this fabulous resource.
Wichita & Sedgwick County History Book
We have recently
discovered a great history resource in our own Wichita Public Library. It is the
Wichita and Sedgwick County History Book. Now it was not lost, hidden, or is it new. Most of us just didn't know it existed. Michelle Enke, our Local History Librarian, brought this interesting book to our attention recently. Learn about area history from a two-volume collection of published articles from the 1880s to 1932. The WGS has indexed the book and includes that index online for WGS Members. You may find your ancestors in it.
Learn about it here – FOR WGS MEMBERS ONLY.
Monthly Activity Updates
|
Stay informed about Wichita Genealogical Society activities. Sign up for a monthly email of current and upcoming events. Click on the green Sign Up button.
|
 |
