by Lynn B Groh | 9 Mar 2025 | Family Research, Learn Kentucky History
Searching for the identity of an unnamed Kentucky Civil War soldier in a cherished family album led to surprising results. A handsome Union Army Captain looks out from the 1860s-era photo album passed down from Nina Rich Tomlin in Northern Kentucky. The soldier was...
by KY Genealogical Society | 24 Jun 2024 | Family Research, Kentucky Surnames
Society Co-President Susan Court recently met with Peter Ehrmann, the Archivar at the Stadtarchiv und Museen in Rottenburg a.N., Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the birthplace of her paternal great-grandfather, Bernhard Vollmer (1829-1919). (Bernhard moved to Kenton...
by Betty Ann Bowles | 7 Dec 2022 | Free Kentucky Resources
Getting Started with Vital Records Cannot find an ancestor’s birth, marriage, or death record? Are you sure the vital record even exists? KYGS member Betty Ann Bowles shares an overview of Kentucky vital statistics records law. Each state differs on when it began...
