Helpful links for central Kentucky researchers
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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)
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