Kansas Room

The Kansas Room of the Atchison Library is a virtual treasure chest for anyone wanting to know more about Atchison County and/or City. The shelves contain biographies of many of Atchison’s founders and developers as well as geographic and family histories. Past volumes of The Atchison Globe and other newspapers are available on microfilm making searches easy and fast. Other reference resources include school yearbooks, pictures and obituaries, just to name a few.

We’re digitizing our historic photo collection! See our Flickr page for the latest updates.

The Atchison County Online Cemetery Files:  You will need Adobe Reader 9.0, or above, to open the files.   Just click on the appropriate letter/s below to load the file. Use the “Ctrl-F” key combination and type in the keyword to search the database. When finished click on the back arrow in the upper left corner to return to this page.

 

A-B C-D E-G H-I J-K L-M N-P Q-R S-T U-W Y-Z

For a pictorial guide to the headstones in Cummings cemetery, click here

Online Genealogy Sites:

Heritage Quest Online

Searchable Death Indexes and Records

Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites

Family Search

Genealogy Resources

National Genealogical Society

US GenWeb Project

Kansas State Historical Society

The Kansas Collection

Find A Grave

Roots Web

Troy Kansas Library

Ancestry.com

Mid-Continent Library Genealogy Branch

For other family search help or information, email the Atchison County Kansas Genealogical Society at ackgs2@yahoo.com or write ACKGS,P.O. Box 303, Atchison, KS  66002

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