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USGenWeb Archives
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You can help further Kansas Genealogy by offering
your census information, wills and other public domain documents to the
USGenWeb Archives!
The donation of Census
images for permanent, free display
in the USGenWeb Archives was made possible through
the generosity of the donors
[listed beside the link to their donation] and the
permission of:
S-KPublications
PO Box 8173
Wichita KS 67208-0173
genie@skpub.com
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is maintained by:
Volunteer Needed
KS USGenWeb Archives File Manager
Kansas
Tombstone Project
USGenWeb
Archives File Submissions
It is the USGenWeb policy to provide this
FREE information to help everyone with their research. You may rest assured
that anything you donate to these archives will remain FREE to the general
public. To insure that folks viewing your donations can contact you, please
let us know if your email address changes or feel free to include your
snail mail address in the files you donate.
If you have public-domain documents that would
help other researchers, please submit them to the Kansas USGenWeb Archives Manager Volunteer Needed. These archives depend fully on donations
of files and volunteers to transcribe items for us. Contributions by folks
like you, are what makes this project grow.
Examples of Public Domain Information would
be:
Federal Census (free, slave, mortality, agriculture,
veterans... schedules)
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State Census Vital Records
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1.marriage
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2.birth
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3.death
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4.divorce (or under court?)
Court records (county, federal, civil, circuit,
probate....) Church records (members lists, baptisms...) Bible Records
Diary/Journal Transcripts Newspapers (obits, marriage & birth announcements,
local events...) Prison Records
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Military Records (rosters, muster rolls, service
records, pension applications...)
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1.Revolutionary
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2.Civil War
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3.Indian Wars
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4.Mexican
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5.Spanish-American
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6.War of 1812
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7.WWI
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8.WWII
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9.Korean
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10.Viet Nam
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11.Persian Gulf
Land Records (deeds, land transfers, federal
land grants, surveyor's records...) Tax Records (land, property, state,
federal, local....) Local Histories Local Directories (phone books, old
county and city directories....) Occupational (?) (Mining inspector's reports,
Accident reports, railroad reports, company newsletters....) Educational
(?) (school histories, newsletters, school census', yearbooks?) Cemeteries
- (Headstone transcriptions, caretakers records, burial records) Deeds/grants
Misc* Newspapers/obits Ship Lists Tax lists Wills
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR SUBMITTING FILES
1. Only virus-checked files will be accepted.
2. Text is preferred and depending on the
size, we may zip it. Also, no tables. Please use spaces and not tabs in
the text. Tabs cause everything to go loopy when I post it. Non-text may
be converted to text before storing. Large files may be split. We may,
at our discretion, store the same data in several formats. Scanned documents
will be considered, depending on their content. For some other tips on
the text files check out The
USGenWeb Time-To-Do
3. All data is free to the public, the USGenWeb
Archives project will not pay royalties on any submissions.
4. Data is provided for downloading "as is"
-- no guarantees of anything
5. File contributors must use their own discretion
regarding the inclusion of data on living people.
6. We will "not accept gedcoms" due to space
considerations.
7. No executable files will be accepted.
8. Do not send copyrighted material, unless
it is your own, and you include a statement of permission to use in the
document.
Note: Public domain records cannot be copyrighted.
9. No anonymous submissions.
10. We cannot guarantee permanency, in the
event data is lost.
11. Any obviously false, malicious, libelous,
or copyrighted data will be erased. We do not guarantee the validity of
any files.
12. These guidelines are subject to change.
13. Once submitted, the data can't be retracted
by submitter.
14. We retain the right to refuse any submission.
15. State archive coordinators must follow
the rules established for the archives. The archive committee will have
"owner" access to all state directories.
16. Files in the USGenWeb Archives may
not be copied for selling in any format.
AOL
Members Please Read:
There is
no password required to read USGenWeb Archives files online or to download
them. If you use AOL's built-in web browser, it might ask you for a user
name and password. To work around this, do the following:
1. Enter
keyword FTP
2. Click
on "Go to FTP"
3. Click
on "Other site"
4. Enter
the address of the archives and Do NOT check the box "Ask for login and
password."
5. Click
on "Connect"
The above
will put you in the main directory of the USGenWeb Archives. From here
you can click on any state directory, which will take you to a directory
listing the counties. You can choose the county of your choice, then go
to other sub-directories which will be identifiable by subject, such as
"census", "vitals", "cemeteries", etc.
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