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Kentucky Resources
Land and Property
- The Kentucky Land Office
- Kentucky Land and Property at FamilySearch
- Kentucky Records from STRICTLY BY NAME
Kentucky Sources
Kentucky Regional and Statewide
- Revolutionary Soldiers in Kentucky
- Kentucky Land Grants 1782 - 1924
- Kleber, John E., editor-in-chief; and Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, James C. Klotter, associate editors. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
- The_Kentucky_Land_Grants_1782-1924 (processing)
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
- Covers the Big Sandy Valley region in Eastern Kentucky, with several counties included.
- Smith, Zachariah Frederick. "The History of Kentucky: From Its Earliest Discovery and Settlement" (Historic Record Company, 1886 Louisville, Kentucky)
- Kozee, William C., Pioneer Families Of Eastern And Southeastern Kentucky, (Standard Printing and Publishing, Huntington, West Virginia 1957). (Counties: Carter, Clay, Elliott, Fleming, Floyd, Greenup, Harlan, Johnson, Knox, Lawrence, Letcher, Mason, Morgan, Perry, Pike, and Whitley)
Kentucky Military
Kentucky Congressional District 4
- Note: Counties mentioned in this document are Adair, Boyle, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Pulaski, Russell, Taylor, and Wayne
Unreliable Sources
Examples of Sources that Provide Uncertain Information
Region Neutral
- The following sources should not be cited and are subject to removal from project-managed profiles if found. If these are the only sources on a profile, please replace it with something better prior to removal.
- Yates' US and International Marriages Index. See this discussion for why.
- Millennium File: "created by the Institute of Family Research to track the records of its clients and the results of its professional research. It contains more than 880,000 linked family records, with lineages from throughout the world, including colonial America, the British Isles, Switzerland, and Germany. Many of these lineages extend back to nobility and renowned historical figures. In fact, one of the things the Millennium File focuses on is linking to European nobility and royalty."
- Edmund West Family Data collections, per their own description, "should be used to find primary sources."
- UNSOURCED user-contributed family trees, including (but not limited to):
- Pedigree Resource Files on familysearch.org
- Public or any other family trees from Ancestry.com
- Geni.com - World Family Tree - RootsWeb / If the tree cites reliable proofs, find the proofs and cite them instead.
- Geneanet Community Trees Index - If the tree cites reliable proofs, find the proofs and cite them instead.
- A personal family tree.
- Find-A-Grave. Find-A-Grave profiles rarely cite reliable proofs. When they do, find the proofs and cite them.
- Transcriptions of documents (wills, etc.) found online that are not published.
- A discussion in a genealogy forum. If the discussion cites reliable proofs, find the proofs and cite them.
- Books with family trees/family histories that do not cite reliable sources. These books are secondary sources and should be seen as a starting point. Further research is needed to confirm those relationships.
Additionally, it was very popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s to publish family genealogies. These are much like the online trees of today-- their quality varies depending on the extent to which they cite their sources. Some contain accurate information-- especially about the people living within the last 50 years prior to the publication date; but many have been subsequently proven to be incomplete, inaccurate, or in a few rare cases, downright fraudulent. Absent better sources, these old published genealogies can be cited or included under "See also:". A goal of the project, however, is to find more original documentation, closer to the time of the event being cited.
- Find-a-Grave is a user-contributed site, and as such is generally excluded from the list of reliable sources. Please do not make changes to a profile's vitals, including identification of relations, based solely on information transcribed on a Find-a-Grave profile. The exception is that if the Find-a-Grave profile contains a photo of a contemporaneous gravestone (i.e., a gravestone created and placed at the time of the person's death) and includes information about the person's death, you can cite the Find-a-Grave profile for the death information, and for other information that appears on the gravestone. Please understand, though, that even gravestones may contain erroneous information.
- Lineage Society Applications. Lineage societies such as Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Society for Colonials Wars, and others, vary with regard to the proofs that they require for membership. And some, like DAR, have changed their rules over time. Therefore, such applications should be used more as finding aids than actual sources. When looking at a lineage society application, please check what sources they cite, and then seek to find those actual sources.
- Links to sources on paid subscription sites such as Ancestry, FindMyPast, and MyHeritage can be frustrating for WikiTree members and visitors without access to these sites. We recommend searching for a freely available copy of the source document on sites such as FamilySearch, Google Books, USGenWeb, Archive.org, or HathiTrust.
- If the source record is only available to paid subscribers, when providing the URL please also extract as much information as possible, such as relevant names, dates, and the source of the original data.
Counties
Adair County
Allen County
Anderson County
Ballard County
Barren County
Bath County
Bell County
Boone County
Bourbon County
- Perrin, William Henry "History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas counties, Kentucky", Chicago : O.L. Baskin & co., 1882. Archive.org(https://archive.org/details/cu31924081311676/page/n16/mode/2up : 21 May 2021)
Boyd County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Boyle County
Bracken County
Breathitt County
Breckinridge County
Bullitt County
Butler County
Caldwell County
Calloway County
Campbell County
Carlisle County
Carroll County
Carter County
Casey County
Christian County
Clark County
Clay County
Clinton County
- Second Session of the Forty-Fifth Congress Executive Documents (1877 - 1878)
- HR; Executive Documents, United States. Congress. House, 45th Congress, 2nd_session (processing)
Crittenden County
Cumberland County
Daviess County
Edmonson County
Elliott County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Estill County
Fayette County
Fleming County
Floyd County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Franklin County
Fulton County
Gallatin County
Garrard County
Grant County
Graves County
Grayson County
Green County
Greenup County
Hancock County
Hardin County
Harlan County
Harrison County
- Perrin, William Henry "History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas counties, Kentucky", Chicago : O.L. Baskin & co., 1882. Archive.org(https://archive.org/details/cu31924081311676/page/n16/mode/2up : 21 May 2021)
Hart County
Henderson County
Henry County
Hickman County
Hopkins County
Jackson County
Jefferson County
- Williams, L.A. History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties (L. A. Williams & Co., Cleveland, Ohio., 1882)
Jessamine County
Johnson County
- Hall, Mitchel. Johnson County, Kentucky; History of the County, and Genealogy of Its People Up to the Year 1927 (Louisville, KY; Standard Press, 1928)
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Kenton County
Knott County
Knox County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Larue County
Laurel County
Lawrence County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Lee County
Leslie County
Letcher County
Lewis County
- Ragan, O.G.,'History of Lewis County, Kentucky (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1912)
Lincoln County
Livingston County
Logan County
Lyon County
McCracken County
McCreary County
McLean County
Madison County
Magoffin County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Marion County
Marshall County
Martin County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Mason County
Meade County
Menifee County
Mercer County
Metcalfe County
Monroe County
Montgomery County
Morgan County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Muhlenberg County
Nelson County
Nicholas County
- Perrin, William Henry "History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas counties, Kentucky", Chicago : O.L. Baskin & co., 1882. Archive.org(https://archive.org/details/cu31924081311676/page/n16/mode/2up : 21 May 2021)
Ohio County
Oldham County
Owen County
Owsley County
Pendleton County
Perry County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
Pike County
- Ely, William, The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. (Catlettsburg, Ky., Central Methodist, 1887.)
- Pike County Historical Society: 150 Years - Pike County Kentucky (1822-1972) (PCHS,Pikeville, Kentucy, 1987)
Powell County
Pulaski County
Robertson County
Rockcastle County
Rowan County
Russell County
Scott County
- Perrin, William Henry "History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas counties, Kentucky", Chicago : O.L. Baskin & co., 1882. Archive.org(https://archive.org/details/cu31924081311676/page/n16/mode/2up : 21 May 2021)
Shelby County
Simpson County
Spencer County
Taylor County
Todd County
Trigg County
Trimble County
Union County
Warren County
Washington County
Wayne County
- A Century of Wayne County Kentucky, 1800-1900 (processing)
- HR; Miscellaneous Documents, United States. Congress. House, 36th Congress, 1st session, no. 3 (processing)
- Congressional Serial Set Kentucky District 4 1858 Contested Election
- Copy of poll-book for district No. 1, Wayne county, Kentucky, August election, 1859.
- Copy of poll-book for district No. 2, Wayne county, Kentucky, August election, 1859.
- Copy of poll-book for district No. 3, Wayne county, Kentucky, August election, 1859.
- Copy of poll-book for district No. 4, Wayne county, Kentucky, August election, 1859.
- Copy of poll-book for district No. 5, Wayne county, Kentucky, August election, 1859.
- Copy of pott-book for district No. 6, Wayne county, Kentucky, August election, 1859.
- Copy of poll-book for district No. 7, Wayne county, Kentucky, August election, 1859.
- Wayne County Marriages 1862
- Wayne County Court Records: Vol. 1, B, A 1802-1907
- Wayne County Land Records Vol. B: 1811-1822
- Wayne County Land Records Vol. A: 1800-1811
Webster County
Whitley County
Wolfe County
Woodford County
Misc Resources
- from Team Missouri's Source-a-Thon page:
- from others:
- Does any one wish to add to Kentucky Sources? Mar 8, 2017.
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Is this strictly going to be a source page? inquiring so we do not have a conflict in duplicating information in the already established Kentucky Project that is a sub project of the US History Project. Each County has been separated by US History Project and sources will be available there as we obtain a Profile Manager for each one. I see you have ties with Wayne County, we still do not have a Profile Manager to head this County for the Kentucky Project. WikiTree is all about Collaboration and working with each other and that is what the Kentucky Project is all about, Same as the other State Sub projects under US History Project. Best Regards, Cheryl