by kathykeyser ADMIN | 21 Jan 2024 | Genealogy Tips
What You Will Learn Prior to parish registers, estate, land, and property records are the next best record to identify generational links and family information for landowners and tenants. This session arms participants with the tools necessary to examine these...
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 KY Genealogical Society | 27 Jul 2023 | Genealogy Tips
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC, represents one of America’s essential resources for genealogy research. NARA certainly ranks with other major cultural institutions devoted to family history, such as the Library of Congress...
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 | 31 Mar 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources
What You Will Learn This talk lays out its origins, development, structure and most recent developments and in the process provides a guide to its nooks and crannies and a repertoire of tips and tricks to get the best out of the website. Speaker Among John’s...
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 KY Genealogical Society | 11 Mar 2023 | Society Updates
Society Publishes a New Book Kentucky Genealogical Society celebrates it’s 50th anniversary by publishing the Essential Guide to Kentucky Family Research. This book is the first comprehensive Kentucky genealogy guide published in over 30 years to help family...
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 Tricia P Aanderud | 8 Mar 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources, Genealogy Tips
When you live in Kentucky, it’s easier to visit counties where your ancestors lived. Traveling to the Kentucky State Archives is a day trip at most and some could even walk there. While my roots are in Kentucky, my body is over 500 miles away in the Sunshine State....
by Tricia P Aanderud | 7 Mar 2023 | Kentucky Surnames
Genealogy can be an intimidating journey, especially when faced with the daunting emptiness of a blank pedigree chart. But what if you had a roadmap to guide you? Starting your journey into family history research might seem overwhelming at first. You have a name, a...
