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| Harvey County Homepage | |||
| Newton Area Chamber of Commerce | |||
| 2-1-1 Kansas Online Find services | |||
| Newton Medical Center | |||
| Newton Recreation Commission | |||
| Bethel College | |||
| Harvey County Economic Development Council | Career Coalition | ||
| Newton Lions Clubs | |||
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Jackie Knee Great site with lots of photographs of Newton and Newton High School Yearbooks |
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| Wichita Public Library | |||
| Territorial Kansas Online | |||
| Wichita State University | Kansas State Historical Society | ||
| Biographical dictionary of Kansas artists active before 1945 | Kansas Day Links | ||
| myhuey.com Job listings in Wichita | kansasjoblink.com Search jobs in Kansas by area | ||
| Kansas Department of Labor Unemployment Claims, Worker's Comp, Kansas job links, etc. | Kansas Statistical Abstracts | ||
| Library Spot | |||
| Get Net Wise: safer surfing for children | |||
| Librarians' Internet Index | |||
| CareerBuilder.com | Resumes from About.com | Monster.com | |
| AnnualReports.com | |||
| Kansas Gen Web: Kansas Gen Web Project contains email lists, query links, county histories and more. This is an excellent site for KS genealogy. | |||
| Kansas Collection: This site has excerpts for old books, letters, diaries, photographs, plus links. | |||
| Wichita Genealogical Society | |||
| Harvey County Historical Museum | |||
| Kansas State Historical Society | |||
| Harvey County Genealogical Society | |||
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HeritageQuest Online is available to Kansas Library Card Holders. You can get a free Kansas Library Card at NPL. This database is an excellent place to view census data. |
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| Family Search Site of the LDS church. It contains a very large database with over 400 million names. It also lists the collection of their library in Salt Lake City, which is the largest genealogical collection. You may access the Social Security Death Index from here as well. It also has a section on beginning genealogy. Search published family histories, city and county histories, historic city directories, and related records www.familyhistoryarchive.byu.edu | |||
| RootsWeb This database allows genealogists to share surname information with other genealogists. It too has a good section on beginning genealogy | |||
| USGenWeb This is a huge database where volunteers work together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the U.S. | |||
| Ellis Island Records Find the records of passengers and ship crew members who passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. | |||
| Immigrant Ships This excellent database lets you search passenger lists by name, date of arrival and ship name. | |||
| Civil War Rosters This database provides rosters of both sides of Civil War soldiers by state and regiment. | |||
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www.ancestry.com Some sections free, some require paid membership |
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Genealogy Indexes |
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Cyndi's List This is a good list of genealogy sites on the internet. If someone is looking for something specific, i.e. Latvian genealogy, refer them to CyndisList where they can look for any relevant websites. |
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| www.deathindexes.com Death indexes by state. | |||
| Ancestor Roots Information OneSource genealogy and family history searchable databases. | |||
| www.linkpendium.com Links to localities in the U.S. and surnames worldwide. | |||
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Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana is the second largest genealogy collection in the U.S. |
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| Kansas Library Catalog Search for books in libraries across the state. | |||
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Mid Continent Public Library of Independence, MO has a good sized genealogical collection. They also Interlibrary Loan materials. |
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The National Archives and Records Administration (also www.archives.gov) provides info on how to obtain federal records. It also has an excellent section giving advice on: beginning genealogy research |
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National Center for Health Statistics This site tells you where to write for vital records. |
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| WorldCat Search 1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. | |||
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E-transcriptum Free transcription services related to genealogy. |
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| Babelfish Free translation service | |||
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Afrigeneas African ancestors genealogy |
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| African American Genealogy | |||
| Findagrave.com | |||
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Family Tree Magazine offers free downloadable forms, a good collection of links, and access points to searching several databases. |
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Family Treemaker Genealogy software |
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Genforum This website will locate genealogy forums. |
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| National Genealogical Society | |||
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Ebscohost Databases: |
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| Novel List: your guide to fiction. Find titles, series and authors. | |||
| Kansas Library Card provides free remote access to a variety of databases. Come to Newton Public Library with proof of your Kansas residency to receive a Kansas Library Card. | |||
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Last updated: 10/22/07 Webmaster: Susan Bartel sbartel at newtonplks.org Copyright 2007, Newton Public Library |
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