Kentucky Resource and Research Links


Family Search Research Wiki to Kentucky

ARCHIVES & GENERAL ONLINE COLLECTIONS

First American West: The Ohio River Valley 1850-1820 - over 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting  the trans-Applachian West drawn from the University of Chicago and Filson Historical Society of Louisville

Kentucky Databases at Rootsweb

Kentucky GenWeb  & Kentucky GenWeb Archives

Kentuckiana Digital Library has everything from guides to digitized records


CHURCH

History of Kentucky Baptists 1769-1885 by John H. Spencer (GoogleBooks)

History of Methodism in Kentucky (GoogleBooks)

Maryland Catholics on the Kentucky Frontier


COURT RECORDS

Hardin County KY Clerk's Office had many digitized records - choose the green link that says Record Search to get into the database

Kentucky Probate 1792-1977 - NEW from FamilySearch.  These are digitized versions of the original bond books, will books etc. and vary in content by county.  There is no general search for them but most volumes have an index at the front.  That will tell you if the person left an estate but remember your ancestor may appear in documents as witnesses, buyers, heirs etc. and not show in the index at the front

 

NEWSPAPERS

Chronicling America is the digitized newspaper project from the Library of Congress. This link takes you to the page showing what papers have been digitized.
Kentucky Newsapers Project by Kentuckiana Digital Library (this page shows clearly what counties have been digitized)