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...
by TheEventsCal | 16 Feb 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources
What You Will Learn Have you heard stories about your kinfolk who may have operated a makeshift moonshine? Have you ever wondered if there were records to help you verify those stories? June brings us National Moonshine Day. This talk will help you piece together the...
by TheEventsCal | 14 Feb 2023 | Uncategorized
What You Will Learn The U.S. government has been overseeing travel from outside its borders since 1813 and over time has developed a changing protocol for what information needs to be recorded on ship passenger lists. The lists from the peak years of immigration are...
by TheEventsCal | 9 Feb 2023 | Free Kentucky Resources
What You Will Learn The National Register of Historic Places and the Historical Marker Database are familiar sites across the United States, and even the world. How can they be used for genealogical research? A few years ago two genealogists met over lunch to discuss...
by TheEventsCal | 31 Jan 2023 | Uncategorized
What You Will Learn Genealogists with ancestral ties to the early British Colonies in North America often encounter major challenges tracing their ancestors’ movements during the westward expansion from Tidewater, the area of river navigation, to the interior or...
by Landon Willis | 1 Dec 2022 | Genealogy Tips
Could a baby really die from teething, a woman die from old age, a young lady die from irregular menstruation, or a man die from jaundice? In the 1800s, it was a likelihood. In the Spring 1986 edition of Bluegrass Roots, Dr. David B. Davis, a family researcher...
by TheEventsCal | 28 Oct 2022 | Learn Kentucky History
What You Will Learn The past year has shown the work impacts much more than Kentucky U.S. Colored Troops soldiers and their possible descendants. The soldiers researched had relationships with enslavers prior to enlistment, and the research has uncovered interesting...
by Christopher Padgett | 4 Oct 2022 | Genealogy Tips
Perfection: A Library and a Week to Research Founded in 1845, the New England Historical Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is a treasure trove of resources for Kentucky researchers with a northeast bloodline. In the autumn of 2019, I spent a few days in the Boston area,...
