Statewide resources, Kentucky:
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Projects

• Kentucky      (Source: Open Genealogy)
• Kentucky AHPG      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Kentucky American Local History Network      (Source: American Local History Network)
• Kentucky Footsteps Archives 
• Kentucky History and Genealogy      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Kentucky Trails History & Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Kentucky Trails to the Past      (Source: Trails to the Past)
• KyGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• The Surnames of Kentucky Network 

Bible Records

• Kentucky Bible Archives      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence (39)

Blogs

• Kentucky Family Tree Blog 

Cemeteries

• Grave Locations Of Restoration Movement Leaders In Kentucky      (Source: The Restoration Movement)
• Kentucky African American Cemeteries      (Source: African American Cemeteries Online)
• Kentucky Cemeteries      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Kentucky Cemeteries Project 
• Kentucky Cemetery Directory  D'Addezio.com
• Kentucky Cemetery Photos      (Source: Cemetery Photo Volunteers Project)
• Kentucky Cemetery Records Database 
• Kentucky Taphophile  Cemetery history, news, & folklore, funeral & interment records (burial, mausoleum, cremation, and other memorials), necrologies (death certificates, obituaries, autopsy notes), graveyard photography and gothic poetry, tombstone inscriptions & symbology, cemetery & gravestone preservation, thanatology and taphonomy - all things taphophile, with some focus on Kentucky

• KY-INDIAN-CEMETERIES-L Native American Cemeteries in Kentucky

  • KY-INDIAN-CEMETERIES-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • KY-INDIAN-CEMETERIES-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • KY-INDIAN-CEMETERIES-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Census Records and Indexes (54)

Court and Legal Records

• Black Sheep Ancestors  Directory of Links for Prison and Convict Records, Court Records, Executions, Famous Outlaws, Criminals & Bandits
• A Complete Index to the Names of Persons, Places and Subjects Mentioned in Littell's Laws of Kentucky  A Genealogical and Historical Guide     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• A Complete Index to the Names of Persons, Places and Subjects Mentioned in Littell's Laws of Kentucky      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kentucky Court and Other Records      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kentucky directory for the use of courts, state and county officials and General Assembly of the State of Kentucky  1922     (Source: Google Books)
• Law Library Collection  University of Louisville University Libraries Digital Collections
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Statewide Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• A Report on the History and Mode of Management of the Kentucky Penitentiary  1798-1860     (Source: Google Books)

Directories

• Kentucky City Directories      (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• Kentucky City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kentucky City, County and Rural Directories      (Source: Online Historical Directories)
• Kentucky Directory for the Use of Courts, State and County Officials  1920     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory  1881-1882, Volume 3     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Kentucky state register, for the year 1847  Containing the names and residences of all the judges and clerks of courts, commonwealth attorneys, justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, notaries public, commissioners of tax, attorneys at law, physicians, and principal merchants     (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)
• Kentucky's Elected Officials  1792 to Present Day

Estate Records

• Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories      (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories, Copied from Original and Recorded Wills and Inventories      (Source: Heritage Books)     ($)
• Kentucky Counties Will Testators Indexes      (Source: SAMPUBCO)
• Kentucky Probate Records  1792-1977     (Source: Family History Library)

Ethnic (112)

History (120)

Immigration and Naturalization Records (13)

Introduction and Guides (14)

Land Records (10)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (10)

Lookups

• Kentucky Family History Research      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)
• Kentucky Free Genealogy Look Ups      (Source: GeneaSearch)
• Obituary Lookup Volunteers 
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness 

Mailing Lists and Message Boards (25)

Maps and Gazetteers (71)

Military Records and Histories (101)

Miscellaneous Data (14)

Newspaper Records

• Centennial newspaper exhibition, 1876  List of Kentucky newspapers     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives  Kentucky     (Source: GenDisasters)
• Historical Kentucky Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)
• Kentucky Online Historical Newspapers 
• Old Kentucky Genealogy, History & News      (Source: The Olden Times - Historic Newspapers Online)
• Personal...But Polite  Newspaper Extracts of Personal Columns
• Search Kentucky Historical Newspapers  Free search     (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (13)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (12)

School Records and Histories

• History of Higher Education in Kentucky  1899     (Source: Google Books)
• History of higher education in Kentucky  1899     (Source: Internet Archive)
• History of higher education in Kentucky  1899     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Looking Back  includes the Founding and Beginning of the K. H. S. A. A.     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Public education in Kentucky  a report by the Kentucky Educational Commission     (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)

Search Engines and Searchable Databases (10)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• Kentucky Plantations      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• Slavery in Kentucky      (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Slavery in Kentucky      (Source: Internet Archive)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850      (Source: Family History Library)
• The USF Africana Heritage Project 

Societies

• Great Lakes Chapter  Association of Professional Genealogists
• Kentuckiana Society      (Source: The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America)
• The Kentucky Genealogical Society 
• Kentucky Historical Society 
• Kentucky Society      (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Kentucky Society  Children of the American Revolution
• Kentucky State Society      (Source: United States Daughters of 1812)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (22)

Tax Lists

• "First Census" of Kentucky, 1790      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)

• 1800

  • "Second Census" of Kentucky, 1800      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)

Transportation and Industry (15)

Vital Records (33)

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