The Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society has opened Melinda’s Corner, a free public service made possible through funding from the estate of Melinda Fultz. Located at 1203 N. Main in Wichita, volunteers help individuals transfer, digitize, and preserve personal data and family memories from a wide range of older media formats — before those formats become unreadable forever.

Melinda’s Corner is open Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. No appointment is necessary, though visitors are asked to call ahead at 316-264-3611. Bring a USB drive to take your files home. All services are free of charge.

Services currently available

Data transfer: 3.5” floppy disks, CDs and DVDs, most memory card types.

Video digitizing: VHS tapes, DVDs, 8mm and Super 8 film.

Scanning: Slides, negatives, prints, and oversize items such as scrapbooks and ledgers (via camera stand).

Genealogy file format conversion: PAF, GEDCOM, Ancestral Quest, GRAMPS, Legacy, The Master Genealogist, etc.

Volunteers are also working to expand capabilities to include 5.25” floppy disks and Zip drives, and to add audio formats such as cassette tapes, micro-cassettes, and vinyl records. Betamax and Blu-ray support are also under consideration. Updates will be announced as those services become available.

Genealogists and family historians are especially encouraged to visit — volunteers can assist with converting files between all major genealogy software formats, making it easy to share or migrate your research.

“I’m so thankful for Melinda Fultz’s bequest, which has allowed us to get the equipment to put the Digital Preservation Center together. I know people will find this free station useful to upgrade old-format items to more easily viewed digital formats.”

— Ann Boll, President, Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society

Call Number	Title	Info	Author	Date
VF 001 Lembke	Surname Files: L	Lembke
VF 001 Lecmanis	Surname Files: L	Lecmanis
VF 001 Laessig	Surname Files: L	Laessig
VB Hucker 01-13	Linda Wright Hucker Collection		Hucker, Linda Wright
R-669 090	The War in the Desert		Collier, Richard	1977
R-669 089	Guderian: Creator of the Blitzkrieg		Macksey, Kenneth	1976
R-669 088	Alpine Elite: German Mountain Troops of World War II		Lucas, James	1980
R-669 018 WB 38	Wellington Bomber		Bishop, Edward	1974
R-669 018 WB 30	Lancaster Bomber		Tubbs, D. B	1972
R-669 018 PB 07	Night of the Long Knives		Tolstoy, Nikolai	1972
R-669 018 BB 30	Ploesti Oil Strike		Sweetman, John	1974
R-669 018 BB 13	The Defense of Moscow		Jukes, Geoffrey	1970
R-665 084	Illustrated Catalog of Civil War Military Goods		Schuyler, Hartley & Graham	1985
R-665 083	Southern Loyalists in the Civil War: The Southern Claims Commission		Mills, Gary B.	1994
R-662 032	Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War		Clark, Murtie June	1981
R-660 023	Wings for the Navy: A History of the Naval Aircraft Factory, 1917-1956		Trimble, William F.	1990
R-660 022	The Rise of the Luftwaffe: Forging the Secret German Air Weapon		Mason, Herbert Molloy Jr.	1973
R-630 079	Indians of the Americas		Stirling, Matthew W.	1955
R-210 SG 359 1931	Atlas of Sedgwick County, Kansas	1931	Mueller & Coe
R-210 SA 21 1964	The Oriole	1964	Kipp High School
R-210 SA 13 1968	The Coyote	1968	Kansas Wesleyan University
R-210 RN 23 1931	Atlas of Reno County, Kansas	1931	Mueller & Coe
R-210 DK 07	The Gorilla	1965-67	Solomon High School
R-210 195	Kansas Gold: Historical Notes and Heritage Recipes from the First Fifty Years of the Kansas Wheat Commission		Boswell, Marsha	2007
R-210 193	Trails of the Smoky Hill		Lee, Wayne C.	2008
R-210 192	Wild, Wooly & Wicked: The History of the Kansas Cow Towns and the Texas Cattle Trade		Drago, Harry Sinclair	1960
I-300 045	Digitizing Your Family History		McClure, Rhonda	2004
G-R 078	Rowlett: The First 225 Years		Rowlett, Darrell	1994
G-M 141	Almost Born on the 4th of July		Moore, Mack	2025
G-M 140	The Ancestors and Descendants of Oliver W. Macy		Brandon, John	1986
G-J 035	Picture Maker of the Old West: William H. Jackson		Jackson, Clarence S.
G-H 180	Our Ancestral Heritage		Brown, Charlotte F.	1993
G-Gen 016	Colonial Americans of Royal and Noble Descent Alleged, Proven and Disproven		Scherzinger, Patricia Ann	1996

Call Number	Title	Info	Author	Date
VF 003 Wollman’s Addition (719 S Ida)	Place Files	Wollman’ Addition, Lot 2 (719 S Ida)
VF 003 Owsley Place Addition (c 318 N Kansas)	Place Files	Owsley Place Addition, Lots 20, 21, 22 (c 318 N Kansas)
VF 003 Owsley Place Addition (320 N Kansas)	Place Files	Owsley Place Addition, Lots 17, 18, 19, 20 (320 N Kansas)
VF 003 N A English’s 7th Addition (1833 S Broadway)	Place Files	N A English’s 7th Addition, Lots 128, 130 (1833 S Broadway)
VF 003 Moorings Neighborhood	Place Files	Moorings Neighborhood
VF 003 Lawrence’s Addition (506 S Osage)	Place Files	Lawrence’s Addition, Block 4, Lot 2 (506 S Osage)
VF 003 Lawrence’s Addition (504 S Osage)	Place Files	Lawrence’s Addition, Block 4, Lot 2 (504 S Osage)
VF 003 Lakepoint/Vickridge Neighborhood	Place Files	Lakepoint & Vickridge Neighborhood
VF 003 Hunter’s 2nd Addition (424 S Washington)	Place Files	Hunter’s 2nd Addition, Lots 142, 144 (424 S Washington)
VF 003 Hunter’s 2nd Addition (412-420 S Washington)	Place Files	Hunter’s 2nd Addition, Lots 134, 136, 138, 140 (412-420 S Washington)
VF 003 Hunter’s 2nd Addition (401 S Ida)	Place Files	Hunter’s 2nd Addition, Lots 129, 131, 133 (401 S Ida)
VF 003 Fairmount Neighborhood 2	Place Files	Fairmount Neighborhood
VF 003 Fairmount Neighborhood	Place Files	Fairmount Neighborhood
VF 003 Detwiler’s Addition (1813 E McFarland)	Place Files	Detwiler’s Addition, Block 5, Lot 3 (1813 E McFarland)
VF 003 Coop’s Grove Addition (1425 Maple)	Place Files	Coop’s Grove Addition, Lots 2,4 (1425 Maple)
R-669 087	Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan		Blair, Clay Jr.	1975
R-669 086	The U-Boat Wars		Hoyt, Edwin P.	1984
R-669 085	U-Boats Offshore: When Hitler Struck America		Hoyt, Edwin P.	1978
R-667 016	The Killing Time: The U-Boat War 1914-1918		Gray, Edwyn A.	1972
R-660 021	I ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars		Lombardi, Chris	2020
R-210 SN 23 N 47	Bulletin of the Shawnee County Historical Society	N 47 (1970): Topeka Public Library
R-210 SN 23 N 46	Bulletin of the Shawnee County Historical Society	N 46 (1969): Shawnee County Street Transit
R-210 SN 23 N 45	Bulletin of the Shawnee County Historical Society	N 45 (1968): Potwin Place
R-210 SN 23 N 42	Bulletin of the Shawnee County Historical Society	N 42 (1965): Courthouses of Shawnee County
R-210 SN 23 N 41	Bulletin of the Shawnee County Historical Society	N 41 (1964): Souvenir Album of Topeka
R-210 SN 23 N 34	Bulletin of the Shawnee County Historical Society	N 34
R-210 SG 358	Wichita West Class of 1964 1994 Directory & Memory Book			1994
R-210 SG 357	Wichita Architecture 1874-1947: Historic, Commercial, and Public Buildings		Davis, Gordon A.	1979
R-210 SG 207 1960	The Trail	1960	Wichita High School West
R-210 151 V 40	Kansas Review	V  40 (2015 – 2016)
R-190 235	A Hoosier Regimnent in Dixie: A History of the Thirty-Eight Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment		Funk, Arville L.	1978
R-070 049 V 01-18	The Quarterly	V 01 – 18 (1990 – 2007)
R-065 006 V 45	Eswau Huppeday	V 44 (2025)
R-060 158	An Attempt to Reconstruct the Lost Minutes of Centre Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina		Reynolds, Mary Louise	1991
R-060 157 V1	Seaside Spectres: North Carolina’s Haunted Hundred		Barefoot, Daniel W.	2002
R-060 154	Wake County North Carolina County Court Minutes 1777 Thru 1784 Book I		Haun, Weynette Parks	1977
R-060 153	Marriages of Wake County, North Carolina 1770-1868		Holcomb, Brent H.	1983
R-060 152	Marriages of Rutherford County, North Carolina 1779-1868		Holcomb, Brent H.	1986
R-060 151	Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Abstracts of Early Wills 1763-1790 [1749-1790]		Holcomb, Brent H.	1980
R-060 141 V 36 & 37	The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal	2010 & 2011
R-050 034 V2	Pomona Cemeteries		Swank, Mary C.	1973
R-050 034 V1	Pomona Cemeteries		Swank, Mary C.	1973
R-040 073 V4	An Eastern Arkansas Remembrancer		Sayger, Bill	2002
R-040 072	Early Days of Marion County, Arkansas		Burnes, Marian	1992
R-040 071	The Fourteenth Arkansas Confederate Infantry		Allen, Desmond Walls	1988
R-040 070	Index to the Tract Books for Izard and Stone Counties in Arkansas		Allen, Desmond Walls	1985
R-040 069	Marion County, Arkansas Tax Records 1841-1866		Allen, Desmond Walls	1988
R-040 068	Arkansas Land Patents: Marion County (Granted Through 30 June 1908)		Allen, Desmond Walls	1991
I-400 016	The Palliser’s Late Victorian Architecture		Palliser, George	1978
I-400 015	Victorian Exterior Decoration: How to Paint Your Ninetheenth-Century House Historically		Moss, Roger W.	1987
I-400 014	The Gingerbread Age: A View of Victorian America		Maass, John	1958
I-400 013	Daughters of Painted Ladies: America’s Resplendent Victorians		Pomada, Elizabeth	1987
I-400 012	The Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture		Longstreth, Richard	2000
I-300 044	Care and Identification of 19th-Century Photographic Prints		Reilly, James M.	1986
I-200 079	Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social History		Sturdevant, Katherine Scott	2000
I-200 078	A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors		Smith, Franklin Carter	2003
I-100 009	How to Do Everything Genealogy		Morgan, George G.	2009
G-V 025	The Vanguard	V 01 – 6 (1998 – 2003)
G-S 176 V 01-10	Strickland Scene	V 01 – 3 (1980 – 2003)
G-S 175 V1-4	Strickland Research Notes		Strickland, David N.	1989
G-N 029	Nicolay: A Preliminary Study of the Descendants of John Jacob Nicolay		Sellers, Kay F.	1987
G-M 139	Laddie: My Four-Legged Protector		Marler, Don	2017
G-M 138	The Marshalls and Warrens		McCormack, Frances	1991
G-H 096 V 14-20	The Hull Family Association Journal	V 14 – 16 (2003 – 2010)
G-Gen 012 V1-7	Colonial Families of the United States of America		MacKenzie, George Norbury	1966
G-D 088	The Dorland Enigma Solved: A Revision of the Dorland Genealogy		Barth, Barbara A.	2007

Call number	Title	Info	Author	Date
G-C 151	Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud		Ramirez, Renya K.	2018
G-H 179	Newspaper Accounts of the Murder of Tom Hoffman, Santa Fe Brakeman		Huffman, Gary	2026
R-060 104	Marriages of Surry County, North Carolina 1779-1868		Holcomb, Brent H.	1982
R-070 044	Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina		Houston, Martha Lou	1970
R-070 045 V7	South Carolina Marriages	V 7: 1794-1877 Implied in the Miscellaneous Records and Marriage Settlements of South Carolina	Langdon, Barbara R.	1999
R-070 046	7,500 Marriages from Ninety-Six and Abbeville District, S.C. 1774-1890		Pursley, Larry E.	1980
R-070 047	The Jury Lists of South Carolina 1778-1779		Hendrix, Ge Lee Corley	1980
R-070 048	Some Cemetery Records of Abbeville County, South Carolina		Works Project Administration	1982
R-090 048	History of Cheshire, Connecticut from 1694-1840		Beach, Joseph Perkins	1912
R-150 052	Early Georgia Wills and Settlements of Estates: Wilkes County		Smith, Sarah Quinn	1976
R-150 053	Authentic List of All Land Lottery Grants Made to Veterans of the Revolutionary War by the State of Georgia		Hitz, Alex M.	1966
R-210 047 V4	Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas		Fitzgerald, Daniel C.	1994
R-210 179 2024	The Real Yellow Pages — Mid Kansas Area	2024
R-210 HV 25	Halstead: The Early Years		Mayfield, Lydia	1987
R-210 HV 26 2024	Harvey County & Surrounding Area Resource Guide	2024-2025
R-210 HV 27 2025	The Real Yellow Pages	2025	YP.com
R-210 SG 165 2023	The Real Yellow Pages	2023	YP.com
R-210 SG 356 2004	Wichita High School East Class of 1954 Reunion	2004: 50 Years An Antique road Show of Life & Memories	Wichita High School East Class of 1954
R-600 130	Rand McNally’s Pioneer Atlas of the American West		Morgan, Dale L.	1956
R-605 019	New England Historical and Genealogical Register	V 168, 171, 178, 179
R-660 020 1942	Scott Field	1942
R-662 031	Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic		Resch, John	1999
R-665 079 V1	The Civil War on the Border	V 01: 1861 – 1862	Britton, Wiley	1994
R-665 079 V2	The Civil War on the Border	V 02: 1863 – 1865	Britton, Wiley	1994
R-665 080	The Union Indian Brigade in the Civil War		Britton, Wiley
R-665 081	Francis A. Kiene’s Journal Taken White in the Service of the United States		Kiene, Francis	1974
R-669 084	The 9th Air Force in World War II		Rust, Kenn C.	1970
	History of the Colony of New Haven		Lambert, Edward R.	1838

It’s TOOOOOO COOOLD! The library is closed Saturday, Jan 24. We hope to reopen on Tuesday, which will depend on how much snow and ice is left on the parking lot and how tall a mountain the snow plows build across the driveway as they clear Main Street. Stay warm and label some photos!