Some Resources for Genealogists

University Catalogs include lists of students, faculty, and staff, 1879-1923.

Campus Directories include names and Emporia addresses and telephone numbers of students, faculty, and staff, 1930-current.

Commencement programs include lists of graduates with course of study and type of degree or certification. The archives holdings include programs from 1882, 1889, 1890, 1894, 1897, 1899-1911, and 1914-current. Some programs from the 1920s did not list the graduates.

Alumni News Periodicals. The Alumni Office has published periodicals with news of alumni since 1905.

Alumni Lists and Directories. The Record of Certificates, Diplomas, and Degrees, 1865-1931 is a list of all graduates through 1931, with the 1931 address of the graduate when available. More recent directories were published in 1981, 1987, 1993, 1998, and 2002, which include the name and current address of living alumni and, when available, their employer.

College Yearbooks . Yearbooks are a particularly good source for photographs. The Archives yearbook holdings go back to 1898.

Campus Newspapers . Students and faculty have published newspapers under various titles since 1882. Archives has an incomplete name and subject card file index of the papers through 1988.

College Athletics Collection. This collection includes programs for athletic events, schedules, newspaper clippings and various photographs.

Photographs. Archives holdings include assorted photos of graduating classes, alumni, students, faculty, staff, Roosevelt High School, sororities, fraternities, and campus views.

Books. Our High School 1865-1970 is a history of Roosevelt High School. This history contains lists of faculty and graduates of the school. Student Soldiers of 1898, the story of Company H, 22 nd Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment. This masters thesis includes a roster of the 22 nd. Kansas State Normal Graduates 1867-1922 is a listing of all students who graduated from KSN. We also have an incomplete collection of sorority, fraternity, and department histories.

Walter M. Andersen Photo Collection. Historical photos of Emporia and other Kansas towns. This collection also includes numerous photos of railroad related subjects.

William Allen White Collection. This collection contains correspondence, articles, books and records belonging to the White family.

Emporia newspaper indexes and death notices . Archives holdings include indexes of early Emporia newspapers prepared by Robert Hodge, along with Mr. Hodge's index of death notices appearing in The Emporia Gazette from 1892 through 2002.

Flint Hills Oral History Project. Interviews with 83 residents of the Flint Hills area were conducted and transcribed between 1972 and 1986. The interviewees can be searched by name in the online catalog of the William Allen White Library at ESU (http://whitelib.emporia.edu).

Newspapers on Microfilm. Archives holdings include microfilm copies of Emporia newspapers going back to 1892.

Last Updated April 25, 2007