{"id":970,"date":"2015-08-13T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/?page_id=970"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:11:32","slug":"sedgwick-county-births","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/online-resources\/sedgwick-county-births\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedgwick County Births"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Kansas, birth records AFTER July 1, 1911 are only available through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. \u00a0There are no copies at the local level. \u00a0You can find more information at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kdhe.ks.gov\/1186\/Birth-Certificate\">https:\/\/www.kdhe.ks.gov\/1186\/Birth-Certificate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For births\u00a0between 1885 and 1911, records may have been kept at the county courthouse in ledger or register books. \u00a0Many of these books have been moved to the Kansas Historical Society and microfilmed, but they don&#8217;t have any books from Sedgwick County.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sedgwick County website, there are no birth registers at the Sedgwick County courthouse. \u00a0We do not know whether the registers still exist, or where they may be (but we&#8217;re hunting!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kansas, birth records AFTER July 1, 1911 are only available through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. \u00a0There are no copies at the local level. \u00a0You can find more information at\u00a0https:\/\/www.kdhe.ks.gov\/1186\/Birth-Certificate For births\u00a0between 1885 and 1911, records may have been kept at the county courthouse in ledger or register books. \u00a0Many of these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/online-resources\/sedgwick-county-births\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sedgwick County Births<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":74,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-970","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970\/revisions\/2846"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhgswichita.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}