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Welcome to Kansas Trails' Atchison County. Our goal is helping you find your ancestors by placing data online for the Free use of all researchers.  We are proud to expand Kansas with Atchison County, providing our "experience" gained from years of researching our ancestors and website hosting.  We want to hear about you and the history of your ancestors from this beautiful State. We also need contributions of your data, history and stories to make this a great place to research.  Everything is helpful: Obituaries, Biographies, Photos and County History, to name a few.   As data becomes available, we will put it online.  Information for the County of Atchison will be posted as fast as we can find, type and/or receive it.  We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions.   You are welcome to browse the information here to gather the data needed in your research. Please remember that this data represents hours of painstaking research by the State Coordinator, County Host, Volunteers, and Contributors, who donate to this site. Show your respect for these efforts by not using it on other websites or publications without written permission of the host and/or Contributors nor claim as your own. If you wish to submit data of any type to this site, it will be graciously accepted and added to this site. Remember: Submitted data will always be YOURS. CONTROL of any submitted data is yours. At any time you can choose to remove it or keep it online - from any site - wherever on the web. your Temporary Atchison County host, Peggy Thompson EMAIL ME

This County is available for adoption! We're looking for people to put genealogical and historical data online for the free use of all researchers, visit our Volunteer Information page and then email Kim

Townships Benton Center Grasshopper Kapioma Lancaster Mount Pleasant Shannon Walnut   Cities Atchison Effingham Lancaster Muscotah Huron

Named after a Missouri senator, David R. Atchison, this county was one of the original thirty-three created by the first Territorial legislature, in 1855. Famous flyer, Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchison. Atchison is the largest population center and the county seat; besides the incorporated cities listed on the left, other communities include: Arrington, Cummings, Dalbey, Farmington, Good Intent, Hawthorne, Kennekuk, Larkinburg, Monrovia, Oak Mills, Pardee, Parnell, Port Williams, Potter, St. Pats and Shannon Search this site powered by FreeFind Join Our Mailing Lists Genealogy Trails Mailing Lists This Month's Featured Data Obituaries  Historic School Districts 1887 Patrons' Reference Directory Jesse Moren Bader, Evangelist bio Post Offices Newspaper Items - Pickett Murder-Suicide Site Last Updated September 1, 2008

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