Daviess County, Kentucky:
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Projects

• Daviess County, Kentucky      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Daviess County, KY Genealogy      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Hancock County, KY  to the northeast
• Henderson County, KY  to the west
• McLean County, KY  to the south
• Ohio County, KY  to the southeast
• Spencer County, IN  to the north
• Warrick County, IN  to the northwest

Bible Records

• Kentucky Bibles      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)

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

• Daviess Co, Kentucky, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Daviess County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Daviess County Biography Index      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)
• Daviess County GEDCOM Index 
• History of Daviess County, Kentucky  1883     (Source: Internet Archive)
• History of Daviess County, Kentucky, 1883  Together with sketches of its cities, villages, and townships, educational religious, civil military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, biographies of representative citizens, and an outline history of Kentucky     (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)
• Kentucky Biographies      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Daviess County      (Source: Interment.net)
• Daviess County      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Daviess County  Kentucky Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Daviess County Cemeteries      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Daviess County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Daviess County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Daviess County, Kentucky Cemeteries Project 
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (30)

Court and Legal Records

• 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)     ($)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Daviess County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Directories

• Ohio River Directory, 1871-72  includes Owensboro     (Source: Google Books)
• Owensboro City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Estate Records

• Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories  includes Daviess County, Book A     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories  includes Daviess County     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Kentucky Probate Records  1792-1977     (Source: Family History Library)

Ethnic

• Daviess 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 0126, includes Mt. Sterling and Owensboro     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872  Reel 0127, includes Owensboro     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Records of the field offices for the State of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872  Reel 0128, includes Owensboro and Paducah     (Source: Internet Archive)

History (20)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (11)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Daviess County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Daviess County Queries      (Source: Kentuckiana Genealogy - Genealogy in Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky)
• Daviess County, KY Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)
• This list is for research in the Daviess County Kentucky area      (Source: Kentuckiana Genealogy - Genealogy in Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky)

• KY-COALMINERS-L For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the coal miners of eastern Kentucky

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

• KYDAVIES-L Daviess County genealogy

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

• WEST-CENTRAL-KY-L West Central Kentucky genealogy, for the counties derived in large part from Old Hardin County as it was created in 1792

  • WEST-CENTRAL-KY-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • WEST-CENTRAL-KY-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • WEST-CENTRAL-KY-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Daviess County      (Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas)
• Daviess County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Daviess County Post Offices 
• Daviess County Post Offices  1846     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Daviess County Postal Covers      ($)
• Daviess County Topo Maps and Aerial Photos      (Source: Trails.com)
• Daviess County, Kentucky      (Source: Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer)
• Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer  Daviess County
• Tiger Map Server Browser 

Military Records and Histories

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

• World War I

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

• World War II

  • Daviess County, Kentucky  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Daviess County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Daviess County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Kentucky Court and Other Records  Volume I     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Kentucky Genealogical Records & Abstracts, Volume 1  1781-1839     (Source: Heritage Books)     ($)
• Migrations through Daviess County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Daviess County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Daviess County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Kentucky Reporter, Owensboro  1902     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• Kentucky reporter, Owensboro, Ky.  1902
• The Kentucky Vindicator  1901     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)
• The Kentucky vindicator, Owenboro, Ky.  1901
• Reporter  Owensboro, Ky. 1 issue, 1902     (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)
• Vindicator  Owensboro, Ky. 1 issue, 1901     (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Daviess County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)
• Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Owensboro, Kentucky Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Rosehill-Elmwood Cemetery  Owensboro, Kentucky

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection  Daviess Co.     (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)
• Daviess County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Daviess County Images  Kentuckiana Digital Library     (Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library)
• Daviess County Ky.  Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections
• Historical Postcards of Daviess County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kentucky--Owensboro.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Owensboro  Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories

• Daviess County Kentucky School Photos and Yearbooks      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Kentucky Wesleyan College History 
• Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro  Historic Campus Architecture Project
• Owensborg School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Owensboro School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

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

Societies

• General Evan Shelby Chapter, Owensboro      (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• West-Central Kentucky Family Research Association 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (101)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry

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

Vital Records

• 1870 Mortality Index      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Daviess County Death Records      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Daviess County Marriage Index      (Source: USGenWeb Kentucky Archives)
• Daviess County Marriages  1815-1820
• Daviess County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Daviess County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Kentucky Birth Records  includes Daviess County, 1853-1857, 1859, 1861, 1874 (search or browse)     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Kentucky Marriage Records  includes Daviess County, 1852-1857, 1859, 1861-1862, 1874 (search or browse)     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Daviess County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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