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Welcome to
Riley County Where Your Journey Begins
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Pardon Our Dust - This site is being re-organized Welcome to Kansas Trails' Riley 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 Riley 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 Riley 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. Asked about joining the "Friends of Free Genealogy" your Temporary Riley County host, Sara Hemp
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The area that now comprises Riley County was formerly the home of the Kansa Indian tribe. By 1854, however, when the lands in that part of Kansas were opened to white settlers, the Kansa had already left. The government felt that a military reservation was necessary to keep order when the settlers started arriving, and Camp Center was opened in 1853. The name was changed to Fort Riley, named after Major General Bennet C. Riley, former Commander of Ft. Leavenworth, Mexican War Veteran, and last territorial Governor of California. |
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