by kathykeyser ADMIN | 29 Mar 2024 | Genealogy Tips
What You Will Learn Thousands of women volunteered their time serving the sick and wounded during the hostilities of the Civil War, yet most were never recorded on official rosters. Women doctors, nurses, matrons, cooks, and laundresses served on both sides of the...
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 | 3 Mar 2024 | Family Research, Genealogy Tips
What You Will Learn Civil War soldiers often left a rich genealogical paper trail. Many of these records are tucked away at the National Archives in Washington DC. Learn what records are available for your ancestors only at the National Archives, what records are...
by kathykeyser ADMIN | 30 Jan 2024 | Occupations
What You Will Learn An estimated one-half of early immigrants came to America against their own will; some as indentured servants. Our ancestors arrived in many different ways as their lives touched the early colonies. Some voyages were planned, many were not. Speaker...
by KY Genealogical Society | 20 May 2023 | Learn Kentucky History
A mortality study tells genealogists and historians much about the past. Death statistics not only reveal the average age of demise during a certain historical period, but these invaluable records also give us causation, which provides an enormous collection of...
by Landon Willis | 8 Mar 2023 | Learn Kentucky History
Many Early Kentucky Settlers Passed Through Eastern Tennessee In your family research, you may have seen references to the state of Franklin. The story of Franklin is an intriguing one, although genealogical references to it may be few. Even before pioneers Boone,...
by Deborah Oliver | 8 Mar 2023 | Kentucky Surnames, Learn Kentucky History
As family researchers, we are sometimes amazed at the paths our family stories take. After chronicling her ancestors’ lives, Deborah Oliver shared their fascinating lives in a book for her family and now she has a chapter to share with us. In this post, we learn some...
by Allen James Horn | 8 Mar 2023 | Kentucky Surnames, Learn Kentucky History
One of the First Forts in Kentucky Our ancestors often leave multiple mysteries when they pass. As family researchers, part of the fun is unraveling these mysteries. Al Horn has been working on the mystery surrounding one of his great-grandfathers who was an early...
by TheEventsCal | 22 Feb 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources
What You Will Learn West Virginia has had more fun poked at it than nearly any other state. But, there are some vast resources in the history of this, the “restored government of Virginia.” Having been part of Virginia since the beginning, the fifty counties of West...
by Melissa Barker | 18 Feb 2023 | Quick Tips from Our Speakers
Finding the Moonshiners Making moonshine was a common activity for many ancestors with Scots Irish lineage. In Kentucky’s mountainous counties, they had been making corn mash liquor for decades. As early as 1880, the term bootlegging referred to people who would...
