by kathykeyser ADMIN | 3 Mar 2024 | Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn This presentation will focus on the protection, preservation, and reuse of Kentucky’s significant collection of historic and pre-historic resources statewide. As the State Historic Preservation Office, the Kentucky Heritage Council is tasked...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 30 Jan 2024 | Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn Beginning in May 1864, Camp Nelson Kentucky received a flood of escaped enslaved people looking to join the US Army and be emancipated. Through this “stampede” of people Camp Nelson became Kentucky’s largest enlistment and...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 20 Jan 2024 | Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn The speaker will provide insight into our society’s history and our efforts over the past 46+ years to elevate and preserve African American genealogy and history with our educational programs, special projects, and public programs. The...
by Christopher Padgett | 20 Jan 2024 | Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn This talk will focus on how archaeology is used to learn about Black history in Kentucky, featuring information from various archaeological sites excavated in Kentucky. There will be a brief introduction to historical archaeology and its role in...
by Renate Yarborough Sanders | 27 Jun 2023 | Genealogy Tips
Funeral programs are a unique artifact of an ancestor’s life. Produced at death, these programs record biographical details along with family names, dates, and locations. All the data that we family researchers love to have in our own collections. In June 2022, Renate...
by TheEventsCal | 29 Mar 2023 | Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn This webinar covers: things to consider before and during research, general information regarding antebellum African Americans in Kentucky and a dozen different records from the mid-1860s back to 1840 which hold genealogically significant...
by Shelley Viola Murphy | 7 Mar 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources, Quick Tips from Our Speakers
Overview of the Freedman’s Bureau The US Government established the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865 to manage the transition of formerly enslaved people to citizenship. Despite its name, Dr. Shelley Murphy reminds us this collection contains records for more...
by TheEventsCal | 22 Feb 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources, Genealogy Tips
What You Will Learn Funeral programs are biographical documents that preserve the history of a deceased person. The presenter will dissect the parts of commonly used funeral programs, modeling how to extract important genealogical information and clues from these...
by TheEventsCal | 16 Feb 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources
What You Will Learn Program Links 1. Dr. Shelley Murphy Website 2. Midwest African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI) 3. Finding Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia 4. Descendants of Enslaved Community at the Library of Virginia 5. FamilySearch Speaker...
by TheEventsCal | 7 Feb 2023 | Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn The most difficult part of genealogical research for African Americans is finding and identifying slave ancestors and their owners, but as difficult as this might seem, it is not impossible. For many people of African descent, the experience can...