Bourbon County, Kentucky:
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Projects

• Bourbon County Kentucky Genealogy      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Bourbon County, Kentucky      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Bourbon County, Kentucky, history and genealogy web site      (Source: Root & Branch)
• History and genealogy of Bourbon County, Kentucky 
• Ruddell's & Martin's Forts      (Source: Root & Branch)

Adjacent counties

• Bath County, KY  to the east
• Clark County, KY  to the south
• Fayette County, KY  to the southwest
• Harrison County, KY  to the north
• Montgomery County, KY  to the southeast
• Nicholas County, KY  to the northeast
• Scott County, KY  to the west

Bible Records

• Kentucky Bibles      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Bourbon Co, Kentucky, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Bourbon County Biographies      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)
• Bourbon County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Bourbon County GEDCOM Index 
• Bourbon County, Kentucky Genealogy  List of published Bourbon County, Kentucky family histories     (Source: Family History Library)
• Early Families of Bourbon County, Kentucky      (Source: Root & Branch)
• Family Record Collection      (Source: Bourbon County, KY Genealogical Society)
• Kentucky Biographies      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Kentucky Pioneers and Their Descendants      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)

Cemeteries (10)

Census Records and Indexes (32)

Church Records

• Silas Run Baptist Church Register      (Source: Bourbon County, KY Genealogical Society)

Court and Legal Records

• Kentucky Court and Other Records  includes Bourbon County Orders and Suits     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kentucky Court and Other Records  Abstracts of courthouse records for the Kentucky counties of Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Davies, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Kentucky Court and Other Records, Volume II  Abstracted are the records of the following counties: Fayette, Jefferson, Lincoln, Bath, Bourbon, Bracken, Clark, Fleming, Harrison, Hardin, Jessamine, Mason, Madison, Montgomery, Nicholas, Oldham, Scott, Woodford, and Warren     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Bourbon County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Estate Records

• Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories  includes Bourbon County, Book A     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories  includes Bourbon County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Bourbon County Probate Records, 1786-1805  index     (Source: Strictly by Name)
• Bourbon County Wills      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)
• Kentucky Court and Other Records  includes Bourbon County Estates     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kentucky Court and Other Records, Vol. I  includes Bourbon County Estates     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kentucky Probate Records  1792-1977     (Source: Family History Library)
• Will & Estate Records      (Source: Bourbon County, KY Genealogical Society)

Ethnic

• Bourbon County, KY Data Collection  Kentucky African American Griots
• Records of the field offices for the State of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872  Reel 0133, includes Paris, Russellville, Smithland, Stanford, Versailles and Winchester     (Source: Internet Archive)

History (25)

Introduction and Guides (13)

Land Records

• Land Records and Deed Index      (Source: Bourbon County, KY Genealogical Society)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (12)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Bourbon County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Bourbon County, KY Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• KYBOURBO-L Bourbon County genealogy

  • KYBOURBO-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • KYBOURBO-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • KYBOURBO-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• NORTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-L North central Kentucky genealogy

  • NORTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • NORTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • NORTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• RUDDLESFORT-L For interested historians, genealogists, and descendants of the survivors of the destruction of Ruddle's and Martin's Forts in pre-Bourbon County, Kentucky (Virginia) during the Revolutionary War

  • RUDDLESFORT-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • RUDDLESFORT-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • RUDDLESFORT-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (23)

Military Records and Histories

• Bourbon County Military Records      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Bourbon County Military Records      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)
• Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services, 1841  Bourbon County     (Source: Internet Archive)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Bourbon County, Kentucky     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Bourbon County     (Source: Family History Library)

• Revolutionary War

  • Revolutionary War Soldiers      (Source: Bourbon County, KY Genealogical Society)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Bourbon County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Bourbon County men and women who served in World War Two      (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)
  • Bourbon County, Kentucky  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Bourbon County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Bourbon County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Kentucky [Court and Other] Records: Volume 2  Wills, Deeds, Orders, Suits, Church Minutes, Marriages, Old Bibles and Tombstone Records     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Kentucky Court and Other Records  Volume I     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records  Abstracts of Early Wills, Deeds, and Marriages     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records      (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records  Abstracts of Early Wills, Deeds, and Marriages     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Migrations through Bourbon County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Bourbon County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• The Bourbon News  1910     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• Bourbon News  Paris, Ky. 1,086 issues, 1900-1910     (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)
• Chronicling America  includes The Bourbon News     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Chronicling America  Bourbon County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Newspaper Articles and Abstracts      (Source: Bourbon County, KY Genealogical Society)
• Search Paris Historical Newspapers  Free search     (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Semi-Weekly Bourbon News  1883     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Bourbon County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)
• Hitner-Turner Funeral Home, Paris, Kentucky  Obituaries from 2006 to current
• Lusk-McFarland Funeral Home, Paris, Kentucky  Obituaries from 2008 to current

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (10)

School Records and Histories

• Bourbon County Kentucky School Photos and Yearbooks      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Millersburg, KY Millersburg Female College Class of 1912      (Source: Old-Yearbooks.com)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Bourbon County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Bourbon County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Bourbon County     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• Bourbon County Genealogical Society 
• Jemima Johnson Chapter, Paris      (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (563)

Transportation and Industry

• Bourbon County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Bourbon County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Building histories of Bourbon County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Colville Bridge      (Source: Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Patents  Bourbon County, Kentucky     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records (14)

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