Welcome to Campbell
County Kentucky!
My name is Shirlene Jensen
and I am
the host of the Campbell County KYGenWeb
site.
Please welcome my new co-host
Herman "Buck" Seibert, a Campbell County
native and long time researcher.
Buck has contributed many items to this
site over the years and has been actively researching and preserving data from
our old cemeteries. Feel
free to contact him if you need information.
We
are proud to be participants in the
USGenWeb and
KYGenWeb
projects. A great group of volunteers who are working together to provide
a way for you to trace your ancestors. The Kentucky State
Coordinator is
Sherri Bradley. If you wish to volunteer please contact her.
Information on this site comes from research done by several Campbell County Historians. To learn more about these valuable researchers, please see our Special Tribute Page.
African
American Records
Bible
Records
Bridges
Cemeteries
Census
Records
Churches
Cities
and Towns
City
Directories
Crimes
Deeds and
Court
Records
Early
Kentucky
Families
Fires
Germans
Immigration
Land
Grants &
Surveys
Libraries
Marriages
Military
Miscellaneous
Naturalization
Records
Neighboring
Counties
Newspaper
Articles
Obituaries
Oral
History and Veterans Project
Orphans
Physicians
and Early Medicine
Pieces of
the Past
Pioneers
Politicians
Postcards
from the
Past
Professional
Researchers
Queries
Research
Links
Schools
Steamboats
and Ferries
Surnames
Tax
Lists
Unknown
Photos
Vital
Records
What's
New!
Who's
Who in Campbell Co
Wills
This Website has also posted information on the Unbound Libraries site at:
http://kyunbound.lib.overdrive.com/
FYI: Free Find does not soundex, so you may have to try different spellings of your family name. And because Free Find is free, it does not index all the pages.
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Visit Campbell County's Wonderful Historical & Genealogical Society
The Campbell
County
Historical
& Genealogical Society is at
8352 East Main
Street in
Alexandria and is open Be sure to visit their Archives, it is filled with great information! While there, please consider becoming a member. For only $12.00 per year you will receive a newsletter filled with information. You will also be able to contact other members and share research. 
Campbell County was founded December 17, 1794, two years after the creation of the Commonwealth of Kentucky becoming the state's 19th county. Campbell County was carved out of Scott, Harrison and Mason counties. The original county included all of present day Boone, Kenton, Pendleton, and most of Grant and Bracken counties. It is part of the Outer Bluegrass region and the elevation in the county ranges from 455 to 920 feet above sea level. Campbell County is named in honor of John Campbell an Irish immigrant who was a soldier, explorer, statesman and one of the drafters of the first Kentucky Constitution. Newport was founded by James Taylor from Virginia and named by his brother Hubbard after Christopher Newport, a famous (at least to them) sailing captain. Newport was named the county seat in 1796. In 1840 when Kenton County was carved from Campbell County, Alexandria was chosen as the geographic center of the new Campbell County. Since the greater amount of business was still done in Newport, the county determined to accept two county seats, Alexandria and Newport. Campbell and Kenton Counties are the only counties in the state that boast two seats of government. In 2010 the county population was 90,336 in a land area of 151 square miles. 
 This site generously contributed by Roots Web COPYRIGHT © 2017 Shirlene Jensen & Herman "Buck" Seibert No part of this
web site may be reproduced in any form without written This site was last updated 1 November 2017
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