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• 1895 U.S. Atlas - Kentucky (Wayback Machine)

  Scanned images of county and state maps, index of towns.

• American History & Genealogy Project

• American Local History Network

• Ancestry - Kentucky County Message Boards

• Ancestry.com - U.S. Federal Census Collection

  Browse by census year, state, county, township. Census images available with fee-based subscription.

  • 1820

  • 1830

  • 1840

  • 1850

  • 1850 Slave Schedules

  • 1860

  • 1860 Slave Schedules

  • 1870

  • 1880

  • 1890 Veterans Schedules

  • 1900

  • 1910

  • 1930

  • Mortality Schedules 1850-1880

• Ancestry.com Wiki - Kentucky Family History Research ^FREE

  The Ancestry.com Wiki includes helpful content from two classic genealogical publications--The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, and the Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.

• Census Online - Links to Online Census Data - Kentucky

• County Histories of Kentucky New!

  The County Histories of Kentucky consist of photocopies of historical surveys of Kentucky counties written by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1939.The collection includes typescripts, manuscripts, rare publications and oral histories on county and community histories written by regional and local authors. The surveys contain brief county histories, field reports, notes, preliminary and corrected drafts of essays, oral testimony, folklore and other miscellaneous materials. Added to the collection are county histories collected by researchers Stuart Sprague and Robert Rennick, special edition newspapers and other publications on county and community histories.

• FamilySearch - FamilySearch Center Locator: Kentucky

  From FamilySearch.org - Find a FamilySearch Center

• FamilySearch Catalog - Kentucky

• Find a Grave - Browse Cemeteries by US County - Kentucky

  Information for over 300,000 cemeteries in over 170 different countries. Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave. You can also try the Find A Grave Search Form.

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

  From the USGS. Provides cemetery location information, as well as other physical features within a county and state.

• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

• Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer - Kentucky Counties

  Provides historic information and a searchable online database of geographic features such as cemeteries.

• Kentucky County Formations - Kentucky Secretary of State Land Office

• The Political Graveyard: Index to Cemeteries in Kentucky

• USGenWeb - Kentucky

• USGenWeb Archives - Kentucky

• vitalrec.com - Vital Records Information - Kentucky

  Resources to help you obtain a birth certificate, death record, marriage license and more by mail or online.

• Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS Database - Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)