This site is dedicated to assisting all of those in pursuit of their African American ancestry in Kentucky by being a central depository for African American records of

historical proportion such as Emancipation Orders, Deeds, Wills, Family Records, etc. through out the state of Kentucky.  Our goal is to provide free genealogical

research data pertaining to African American's for all to share in. 

     Organization of data is by county and special databases.  Data that contains information from more than one county can be found on the Kentucky page.    Anyone wishing to

submit data  please contact us. 

African American Research Resources, Guides and More

• African-American Genealogy: Putting Together the Pieces of Your Past A Five-Part Series with Traci L. Wilson-Kleekamp

• Ancestry.com - Black Roots: A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree

• Center for African American Research

• Genealogy.com - Building Blocks of African American Genealogy

• Princeton Public Library - African American Genealogy on the Web/ Beginners Guide and How-tos

• Access Genealogy - African American Genealogy

• African American Griots - (see below)

• Afrigeneas - African Ancestored Genealogy

• Christine's Genealogy Website - Who are your people?

• Cindi's List - African-American

• Freedmen's Bureau - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,

• Genealinks - African American Genealogy

• Liberia - Roll of Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1843

• Sankofagen Wiki - data pertaining to plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor

Kentucky & National Online Resources

• Civil War Slave Compensation Claims: 5^th and 6^th US Colored Calvary - Includes names of slaves who served from several KY counties, along with the names of their owners.

• Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

• KY Vital Records Project

• KYGenWeb

• KY in the USGenWeb Archives

• KY Death Record Index 1911-2000

• KY Historical Society

• KY Department of Libraries and Archives

• Camp Nelson Union Army and Supply Depot

• Kentucky - African American Message Board

• Slaves in Kentucky Message Board

• Social Security Death Index

• A History of Black Horseman in the Twentieth Century

• Sandi Gorin's Kentucky Research Board

• Sandi Gorin's Kentucky Biography Board

• Kentucky in the 1873 Cholera Epidemic

• Sankofagen Wiki

• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

   

  Griot: In early Africa, there were tribal members, called Griots (gree-oh),  whose role was to pass on their tribes historyfrom one generation

  to the next.  They were the storytellers of the time and their role was to preserve the genealogies and traditions of the tribe.  

  Today in America, we have those that we can call Griots as well. To learn more about Griots.....

   

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What's New!!!

• 05/21/2010 The Sale and Separation of George William Warfield

• 05/21/2010 The Trace of Private Lewis Smith Sr.

• 05/17/2010 Sarah Anne (Posey) Beverley-female slave-owner

• 05/17/2010 Henderson County Births

• 04/21/2010 Daviess County Military

• 2/11/2009: Joseph L. Wilson Ancestors

• 1/2/2009: Benjamin Grant Hamilton Biorgrahy

• 12/7/2008: Archer (a man of color) v. James Dunlap & Joseph Collins; Trespass for Freedom

• 11/1/2008: Fayette - Mortgage of a slave woman

• 10/28/2008: Providence Baptist Church Records Clark County 1786-1875

• 10/6/2008: Ohio County Marriages

• 10/6/2008:  Daviess County Marriages

• 10/6/2008: Butler County Marriages

• 9/16/2008: Descendants of Noah Hollowell

• 8/27/2008: New Query posted

• 7/16/2008: Allen County Indenture of Apprenticeships

• 7/14/2008: Bourbon Co. Prescott Pike Cemetery, new info added

• 5/4/2008: Clark County Deeds Naming Slaves

• 4/30/2008: New Marriages in Vital Records

• 4/28/2008: Madison Co. Deeds & Civil Cases

• 4/24/2008: Wilkerson Family Group Sheet

• 4/16/2008: The Colored Brethren - Nicholas Co.

• 4/16/2008: Bourbon Co.; 1796 Marriage Cromwell/Buchannon

• 4/9/2008: Daniel Goff Revolutionary War Pension

• 3/15/2008: Jim Boy Proctor