by Deborah J Outland | 8 Mar 2023 | Learn Kentucky History
Expanding Kentucky’s Western Boundary Before 1818, the Native American tribe of the Chickasaw owned much of the land on the east bank of the Mississippi River, including 13,000 square miles they considered hunting grounds between the Tennessee and Mississippi...
by Deborah J Outland | 1 Dec 2022 | Genealogy Tips, Getting Started
My first serious foray into western Kentucky genealogy was a visit to Pogue Library at Murray State University. That was a very long time ago, in the early 1970s. I had done a few family interviews, read a book or two, and invested in a ream of printed Family Group...
