Genealogy Resources
Kentucky
Genealogy Resources
Kentucky was
closely linked to its "parent" Virginia and was established by many
soldiers with land grants. Kentucky's rivers provided a migration
path settlers moving west. The Commonwealth has records starting in
the late 1700s.
- Allen, William B. A History of Kentucky: Embracing
Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities,
Statistics, and Biographical Sketches of Pioneers, Soldiers,
Jurists, Lawyers, Statesmen, Divines, Mechanics, Farmers,
Merchants, and Other Leading Men, of All Occupations and
Pursuits. Louisville, Ky: Bradley & Gilbert, 1872.
- Andrusko, Samuel M. Der Deutsche Pionier: membership
lists (1869-1887) of the Deutschen Pionier-Verein ofCincinnati
and branches in Dayton and Toledo (Ohio) and Covington and
Newport (Kentucky)with selected additional biographical
information from obituaries and biographhies [sic] in
theDeutschen Pionier / abstracted, translated, and edited by
Samuel M. Andrusko. Washington,D.C. : S.M. Andrusko,
c1989.Information includes date and place of birth, year of
immigration.
- Battle, J. H., William Henry Perrin, and G. C. Kniffin.
Kentucky, a History of the State, Embracing a Concise Account of
the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony. Easley,
S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Bullitt
County History Museum. A service of the Bullitt County
Genealogical Society.
- Collins, Lewis, and Richard H. Collins. History of
Kentucky: Embracing Pre-Historic, Annals for 331 Years, Outline,
and by Counties, Statistics Antiquities and Natural Curiosities,
Geographical and Geological Descriptions, Sketches of the Court
of Appeals ... ; Collin's Historical Sketches of Kentucky. 2.
Louisville, Ky: Morton, 1924.
- Early Kentucky Tax Records from the Register of the
Kentucky Historical Society. Reprinted Baltimore, Maryland:
Clearfield Co., 2004, 1984.
- East Kentucky
Genealogy.
- Ely, William. The Big Sandy Valley, History of the People
and Country, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time.
Reprinted Westminster, Maryland: Heritage, 2004, 1887.
- Felldin, Jeanne Robey and Gloria Kay Vandiver Inman.
Index to the 1820 Census of Kentucky. Baltimore, Maryland:
Clearfield Company, Inc., 2007, 1981.
- Genealogy
and Kentucky History. Kenton County Public Library.
- Green, Karen Mauer. The Kentucky Gazette: Genealogical
and Historical Abstracts. Galveston, Texas: The Frontier
Press, 1983-
- Hardin
County, Kentucky - County Clerk. Simply login as guest and
then click on the "Indexed Records Search" link on the
page. This takes you to a menu of search options. This search
engine covers historical all the way through to present day
records for all sorts of records but includes all marriages and
wills back to the year "dot".
-
Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960 – Name index to
birth, baptism and christening records from the state of
Kentucky. FamilySearch.
- Kentuckiana Digital Library.
The Kentuckiana Digital Library is your gateway to rare and
unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. These
digital collections are built to enhance scholarship, research
and lifelong learning.
- Kentuckiana
Genealogy. This site covers all Southern Indiana and
Northern Kentucky Counties.
-
Kentucky Bible Archives. Kentucky GenWeb.
-
Kentucky Cemetery Records Database. Kentucky Historical
Society.
- Kentucky Death
Index For 1911-1986.
- Kentucky Death
Index for 1987-1992.
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives: Genealogy Links.
- Kentucky Divorce
Index for 1973-1993.
- Kentucky GenWeb Project.
- Kentucky Historical Society.
- Kentucky Historical Society. Kentucky Historical Society
Index to Tax List. Prepared by Microfilm Department,
Kentucky Historical Society. Lexington, Kentucky: The Society,
1973. FHL film #1036831.
- Kentucky Land Office.
The Secretary of State's Office is the place to start when
researching Kentucky land acquisitions. All chain of title in
the Commonwealth traces back to Virginia land patents and
Kentucky land patents. In fact, all Kentucky deeds eventually
trace back to an original patent recorded in the Kentucky Land
Office.
- Kentucky Marriage
Index For 1973-1993.
-
Kentucky Marriages 1785-1979 - Name index to
marriage records from the state of Kentucky - 1,532,718 records
as of 27 April, 2010. FamilySearch.org.
- Kentucky
Secretary of State Land Office: Revolutionary War Warrants.
Virginia granted land in Kentucky to Revolutionary War veterans,
and this database indexes the 4,748 bounty land warrants.
- Kentucky Vital
Records Index.
- King, E.J. Estelle Stewart. Abstract of Early Kentucky
Wills and Inventories. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Co.,
Inc., 2006, 1933.
- McAdams, Mrs. Harry Kennett, compiler. Kentucky Pioneer
and Court Records, Abstracts of Early Wills, Deeds and Marriages
from Court Houses and Records of Old Bibles, Churches,
Graveyards, and Cemeteries Copied by American War Mothers,
Genealogical Material Collected from Authentic Sources: Records
from Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Garard,
Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Montgomery,
Nicholas and Woodford Counties. Lexington, Kentucky:
Keystone, 1929. FHL film #459632.
-
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.
- Rothert, Otto Arthur. Local history in Kentucky
literature, a manuscript read before the Louisville Literary
Club, September 27, 1915. Louisville, KY : Press of J.P.
Morton & Co., 1915.
- 1792-1830 Index, Old Kentucky Survey and Grants; Index
for Tellico Surveys and Grants. Frankfort, Kentucky:
Kentucky Historical Society, 1975. FHL film #1492856.
- Southeastern Kentucky Roots.
- The Surnames of Kentucky
Network.
- Sutherland, James Franklin. Early Kentucky Householders,
1787-1811. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1986.
- Western Kentucky
History and Genealogy.