Kansas USGenWeb Archives - Obituaries Project

The following table of the Kansas counties has active links (underlined names) to the counties that have obituaries online in the Kansas USGenWeb Archives.

Allen Anderson Atchison Barber Barton

Bourbon Breckenridge Brown Butler Chase

Chautauqua Cherokee Cheyenne Clark Clay

Cloud Coffey Comanche Cowley Crawford

Decatur Dickinson Doniphan Douglas Edwards

Elk Ellis Ellsworth Finney Ford

Franklin Geary Gove Graham Grant

Gray Greeley Greenwood Hamilton Harper

Harvey Haskell Hodgeman Jackson Jefferson

Jewell Johnson Kearny Kingman Kiowa

Labette Lane Leavenworth Lincoln Linn

Logan Madison Lyon Marion Marshall

McGee McPherson Meade Miami Mitchell

Montgomery Morris Morton Nemaha Neosho

Osage Osborne Ottawa Pawnee Phillips

Pottawatomie Pratt Rawlins Reno Republic

Rice Riley Rooks Rush Russell

Saline Scott Sedgwick Sequoyah Seward

Shawnee Sheridan Sherman Smith Stafford

Stanton St. John Stevens Sumner Thomas

Trego Wabaunsee Wallace Washington Wichita

Wilson Woodson Wyandotte

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

Here is how you can help with the Kansas Obituary Project:

To volunteer send your name, email address, and the newspaper you will be working from, make a note if you are indexing or submitting whole obits. Once a month, you will email me your file of obit information. We will then place them online. Questions or comments, please contact me, Maggie Stewart.

Contact local newspapers to ask permission for the USGenWeb Archives Project to archive their obituaries. Here is a sample letter to send to the newspapers. Contact me with the name of the newspaper and name and title of person granting permission from the publication.

Check with state archives and genealogical societies to locate microfilm or other sources of pre-1923 (public domain) newspapers to transcribe obituaries from.

Something to think about, some newspapers offer subscriptions by mail.

Volunteer to transcribe obituaries from newspapers already granting permission (must have access to their publication or website).

Copyright Law: The Kansas Obituary Project will abide by today's copyright laws. Obituaries published after December 31, 1922, unless:

you are/were the original author of the obituary, or
the newspaper in question grants permission to reprint the obituary, or
the obituary is that of a family member (you must give the relation), or
you submit an abstract/INDEX of your obituaries. A good abstract might give the paper's name, name of deceased, age, date of death, and date that the obituary appears in the paper (in parenthesis).

Tips for Locating an Obituary can be found at this link.

To submit obituaries, either email them to me at archives@columbus.rr.com?Subject=Kansas Archives or use the automated submission forms at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/. [NOTE: Coming Soon]

Obituary Archives Project Coordinator - Linda Simpson
Asst. Obituary Project Coordinator - Maggie Stewart

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