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US Black Heritage Project Kentucky Team

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The Kentucky Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of Kentucky.

Team Leader: Karen Lee
Team Members:

Contents

Goals

This team is part of the US Black Heritage Project. Our goals are the following with specific emphasis on Kentucky:

  • To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting African-American Genealogies.
  • To create the largest online public database of connected African-American families.
  • To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting African-American families to the Global Family Tree.
  • To process all types of documents from Kentucky regarding free and enslaved ancestors with the goal of creating their profiles and connecting them to their descendants.
  • To provide and maintain a logical and organized structure to help individuals identify their ancestors and celebrate their history.
  • To improve all profiles of ancestors with Black heritage in Kentucky, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.

Projects

  • Locating and documenting all African-American cemeteries in Kentucky, including developing profiles on WikiTree for persons found, as well as free space pages for the cemeteries.
    • See Kentucky, African-American Cemeteries for existing categories. The categories are broken down by county, then by cemetery, profiles and free space cemetery pages respectively, designated with the number in each area currently on WikiTree.
  • Locating and documenting all plantations in Kentucky that utilized slave labor with at least 40 slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for slave owners and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.
  • Locating and developing profiles for Freedmen in Kentucky.
  • To create a profile for every Black American enumerated on the 1880 US federal census in Kentucky. Overview: US Black Heritage 1880 Project Kentucky 1880C US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, Kentucky Current Counties stated:
    • Boyd County 0 of 523 individual profiles made.
    • Boyle County ? of 4926 individual profiles made (working on getting the Count function to work!)
    • Leslie County 0 of 113 indivdual profiles made
    • . Union County - coming soon!
  • Begin One Place Studies for African-American towns and communities in Kentucky. The following are current projects:
    • Boyle County
      • Parksville
      • Danville
      • Perryville
      • Junction City
      • Shelby City
      • Wilsonville

Dec 2023 -- Mar 2024 Project

Our current project is focused on Boyle County, Kentucky. Boyle County had 32% of the population enslaved in 1860. Though this is not the highest density for a Kentucky County, the resources available for doing African American Genealogy for Boyle County is well developed, thanks to the work of Mike Denis and his work African American Genealogies of Boyle County, KY, which documents approximately 1300 family names, relationships, citing the publicly available documents, with an estimated 23,000 individuals named and documented. Mike Denis, African American Genealogies of Boyle County, KY African American Genealogies of Boyle County, (accessed 10 December 2023)

Where to start with such a huge potential number potential profiles?

  • Wilsonville Chapel AME Church Cemetery which has 226 African Americans who lived in the once thriving, now defunct village of Wilsonville, where the emancipated African Americans gathered to build a thriving community. Many of these people were either themselves enslaved, or the descendants of enslaved people.
    • As of Jan 1 , 2023, 38 of the 226 persons have had profiles created.
    • Each profile will lead to lots of connections.
  • I hope you'll join in with this work!

Future Projects

Boyle County:

  • Make profiles for Free People of Color, starting with this resource: Registration of Free Blacks in Boyle County, Kentucky, 1852
  • Make profiles for all slave owners. Be particular in looking for County Birth Records, which from about 1852 - 1860, slave owners registered the birth of their slaves, occasionally naming the child and the mother's first name.
  • Document all African-American cemeteries in Boyle County
    • The following African American cemeteries of Boyle County need to be added, as they are listed on the Boyle County section of the Central Kentucky African American Cemetery Association, Inc. ]They are found on Find-A-Grave, but are not yet on WikiTree.
      • Christopher Burial Place
      • Clifton (Category Request made 1/1/24)
      • Hilldale (Category Request made 1/1/24 showing up in Danville, but not Boyle Co)
      • Little Needmore (aka Needmore) (Category Request made 1/1/24
      • Mitchellsburg 
      • Penman Cemetery
      • Perryville Springhill
      • Stony Point
      • Taylor-Aliceton Af Am Cem
      • Worldstown (aka Baker)
      • Zion Hill (aka Persimmon Knob)
  • Make profiles for all occupants in African-American cemeteries in Boyle County.
  • Make other profiles for all African Americans found, especially in. the 1870 census.
  • Make profiles for the men of Boyle County who enlisted at Fort Nelson and served in the US Colored Troops, who are found here: US Colored Troops Muster and Descriptive Roll, KY 7th Congressional District Boyle and Lincoln Counties There are thousands of men here, and most have registered the name of their owners, or shown that they are free.

Plantations

Resources

See African-American Resources for Kentucky.

Stickers

Along with the {{African-American Sticker}} you may also wish to add an Kentucky sticker to profiles.

Place {{Kentucky Sticker|born in Kentucky}} below the African American sticker if they were born in Kentucky.
... ... ... was born in Kentucky.
Place {{Kentucky Sticker}} below the African American sticker if they lived in Kentucky for a large part of their life, but were not born there.
... ... ... was a Kentuckian.

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