Finding Aid for the Kansas City Cemetery Collection
The collection contains copies of sexton records including interment records, burial records, and lot records from various cemeteries in Kansas City, Kansas and one cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. The information collected was used by Joan Kusek to publish books containing indexes of burials in those cemeteries. Other records include handwritten cemetery transcriptions done during the 1980s or 1990s. The collection includes digital images of Index cards transcribed from funeral home records. The records were transcribed around 1980s or 1990s. Some of the funeral homes no longer exist. The project to publish the funeral home index was not completed.
Files
Reference
Jolene Clark, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center, Finding Aid for the Kansas City Cemetery Collection, Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri, 2018
Cite As
Jolene Clark, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center, “Finding Aid for the Kansas City Cemetery Collection,” Genealogy Gallery, accessed November 22, 2024, https://content.mymcpl.org/items/show/8928.
Title
Finding Aid for the Kansas City Cemetery Collection
Subject
Genealogy
Family history
Family history
Description
The collection contains copies of sexton records including interment records, burial records, and lot records from various cemeteries in Kansas City, Kansas and one cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. The information collected was used by Joan Kusek to publish books containing indexes of burials in those cemeteries. Other records include handwritten cemetery transcriptions done during the 1980s or 1990s. The collection includes digital images of Index cards transcribed from funeral home records. The records were transcribed around 1980s or 1990s. Some of the funeral homes no longer exist. The project to publish the funeral home index was not completed.
Creator
Jolene Clark, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center
Publisher
Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri
Date
2018
Rights
Format
Portable Document File Format; 503 KB; 5 pages.
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
kansas city cemetery collection.pdf