Genealogy & Local History

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Welcome to the Genealogy & Local History page!

Here you will find reference materials for use in the Library, resources to check out, and databases for genealogy and history research.

Online Genealogy Resources

Ancestry

Access to Ancestry.com Library Edition. This is only accessible at the Mulvane Public Library (in-house).

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Fold3

Military genealogy search with information from USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom records.

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Genealogy Connect

Wide range of references and authoritative information from Genealogical.com, a genealogy publishing company.

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HeritageQuest

Genealogical sources with primary sources, local and family histories and finding aids.

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History Reference Source

Interface to search history specific content.

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Kansas Historical Society

Allows access to archives including ancestry, newspapers, and records.

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Kansas History Books

A selection of ebooks focused on Kansas history from Arcadia Publishing. Titles are always available.

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Kansas History, 1854-1865

Access a variety of documents about a pivotal period in history, Kansas as a territory through the Civil War.

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Newspaper Source Plus

Includes full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles; features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.

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United States Census Bureau

WorldGen Web

Mulvane Historical Museum

This museum, located in the former Mulvane Santa Fe Depot, houses many photographs portraying life in Mulvane throughout its history. It also is home to many displays of collections and treasured pieces of Mulvane, Kansas, history.

300 W Main St, Mulvane, KS 67110

(316) 777-0506

Mulvane Historical Museum

Local History Titles

Kansas Past Pieces of the 34th Star

KANSAS PAST is a compilation of 28 historical vignettes, all true, some tragic, some comic, illustrating the lesser-known people, places, and events that were shaped by or helped to shape the state known as Kansas.

Pioneers of the Flint Hills: From earliest of times to 1900

Nothing But The Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town

In this work of creative nonfiction, Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture. Her narrative shows how macro-level issues, from rising tariffs and operation costs to sinking commodity prices and infusions of federal farm subsidies affect these Americans' daily lives, and how their love of their community continues their collective efforts to keep Main Street open for business and Courtland on the map.