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Garden City, Kansas --
county seat of Finney County -- ca 1909
from the special images collections at Wichita State University
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A little bit of history . . . |
About Garden City the county seat
Histories, Genealogies
and Pictures
15 November 1959 Holcomb, Finney County, Kansas In Cold Blood: The Clutter Murders
Some Finney County Marriage Records and Enemy Alien Registrations
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Finney County Historical
Museum If you are interested in history and
genealogy of this area,
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Garden City Public Library
605 East Walnut Garden City, KS 67846
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Contact the Finney County Genealogical Society (address
below) for
Finney County Genealogical Society |
Finney County, Kansas Genealogical Records
County records: Land and probate records date from 1873; court records from
1885; birth records 1885-1910; marriage records from 1884; and death records 1886-1910. Another link: Kansas Vital Records
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Finney County Online Connections
Mailing List |
Current obituaries in the Garden City Telegram (newspaper) Kansas Links at Cyndi's List
Kansas State Historical Society
Kansas and the West Photograph Collection
Some publications
pertaining to Finney County families include:
100
Years Finney County, Kansas Cemetery Inscriptions, 1879-1979. Centennial
Saga of First United Methodist Church, Garden City, Kansas, 1882-1892. Finney
County Kansas Obituary Abstracts and Death Notices, 1879-1911. Finney
County, Kansas Will Abstracts, 1885-1922: Will Books A-D.
Kansas Gunsmoke: A History of the
Garden City Police Department (see below).
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Were any of your ancestors involved in law enforcement
in Garden City or Finney County?
Kansas Gunsmoke: A History of the Garden City Police Department
By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG. Softcover (2009), 122 pp., illus., indexed.
Gun fights, jail breaks, bank robbers, bootleggers and murderers
Kansas Gunsmoke is local history at its best. From the early days of Newton Earp (older half-brother of Wyatt Earp), the city's first marshal in 1883 who had to deal with loose stock, potholes, collecting taxes, enforcing the dog ordinance, and watering the city's precious trees, to a bleak night in November of 1959 when the grisly murder of four members of the Clutter family took place, the Garden City Police Department protected people and property and along the way created a rich history.
Available at Finney County (Kansas) Historical Society and online at Genealogymagazine.com
Webmaster: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist
I do not live in Finney County, Kansas, but went to high school in Garden City.
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