by kathykeyser ADMIN | 31 Aug 2024 | Free Kentucky Resources, Learn Kentucky History
Summer Series 2022: Researching Your Kentucky Ancestors: From the Mountains to the Mississippi What You Will Learn Though 38th in size, Kentucky has the third most counties of any state, trailing only Texas and Georgia. While this may seem like useful trivia, in...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 19 Aug 2024 | Free Kentucky Resources
Summer Series 2022: Researching Your Kentucky Ancestors: From the Mountains to the Mississippi What You Will Learn Founded in 1884, the Filson is a privately supported non-profit historical society dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing history and culture...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 3 Jun 2024 | Family Research, Free Kentucky Resources
What You Will Learn This presentation will discuss the collections available in the State Archives at the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, and in public institutions across the Commonwealth. Many records are available in their original format or on...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 26 May 2024 | Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn Kentucky’s first constitution was adopted in 1792, later to be replaced by the second constitution in 1799. A third constitution was then put into effect in 1850 only to be replaced by the fourth, and current, constitution in 1891. As a family...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 9 Apr 2024 | Family Research, Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn This is the 140th Anniversary of the Filson Historical Society. Dick will discuss some of the Filson’s history, current initiatives they are undertaking, and a glimpse where the Filson will be heading in the future. Speaker Richard...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 9 Apr 2024 | Genealogy Tips, Getting Started
What You Will Learn Yearbooks are a rich source of information when researching family history. While they are frequent tools for those who are reminiscing, researchers and genealogists can also benefit from what is between their covers. I will address the utility of...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 27 Mar 2024 | Free Kentucky Resources, Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn On June 1, 1792 Kentucky became the 15th State admitted into the new nation of the United States of America and the first West of the Alleghenies. The distinction marked the region’s official delineation from Virginia and was the culmination...
by TheEventsCal | 29 Mar 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources
What You Will Learn There are a vast number of map types that can assist us in our genealogical research and add context to our ancestral stories. This presentation examines both historical and contemporary maps (census, plat, topographic, insurance, military,...
by Rusty L Heckaman | 8 Mar 2023 | Learn Kentucky History
Doesn’t Everyone Have a Birth Certificate? It is easy to assume that everyone has a birth certificate in our modern information age, and to further apply this assumption to other vital records such as marriage or death. But vital records are a relatively modern...
by Rusty L Heckaman | 8 Mar 2023 | Genealogy Tips, Learn Kentucky History
Beckham County’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame Beckham County was formed in 1904 and disbanded in 1904. It remains the only county in Kentucky’s history with the distinction of being dissolved. At its formation, Beckham became Kentucky’s first 120th county, named...
