Kentucky Genealogy

Kentucky Genealogy contains information and records for Kentucky ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Specifically, it provides sources for birth records, death records, marriage records, census records, tax records, court records, and military records. It also provides some historical details about different times and people in Kentucky history.

Kentucky County Genealogy

The State of Kentucky is situated between 36 degrees 30 minutes, and 39 degrees 10 minutes, north latitude; and between 81 degrees 50 minutes, and 89 degrees 26 minutes, west longitude — and includes all that portion of territory which lies south and westward of a line, beginning on the Ohio river, at the mouth of the Great Sandy river, and running up the same, and the main and north-easterly branch thereof, to the great Laurel ridge or Cumberland mountains; thence south-west along said mountains, to a line of North Carolina. It is bounded north by Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; east by Virginia; south by Tennessee; and west by the Mississippi river and State of Missouri. It is three hundred miles in length from east to west, and one hundred and fifty miles in mean breadth; and contains 42,600 square miles, or about twenty-seven million acres.

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Silas Baptist Church History and Register

In Sep 1781, the Rev. Lewis Craig led his Baptist flock out of Spotsylvania, Virginia, guided by Capt. William Ellis. Forced westward by Anglican persecution, the emigrants packed their communion service, Bible, and record book and walked the 600‑mile trace to Kentucky. High water on the Holston River stalled them for three weeks; nightly worship there persuaded many fellow travelers to join the congregation. By mid‑Dec 1781 the party reached what became Craig’s Station on Gilbert’s Creek near present‑day Lancaster and erected the first Baptist church west of the Appalachian Mountains. Twenty Craig’s Station members resettled in Bourbon County in 1796. With help from…

Will of George M. Allen, 1910

This is the will for George M. Allen of the County of Muhlenberg, written in 1910. The original was published in Book G, page 499. This transcription came from the copy published in book 5, page 550.

Robert C. Moseley Family Cemetery

This is an alphabetical listing of individuals buried in the Robert C. Moseley family cemetery. They may, or may not, still have visible gravestones.
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