Category: Kentucky

Family Fact or Fiction: Two Sides to Every Love Story

When it comes to family stories and oral histories, sometimes how the tales are told is just as revealing about our ancestors as the facts within.

Using an Index to Get the Original Genealogy Record

How do you go from your ancestor’s name in a printed or online index to the original record? Just follow this seven-step system.

Tracking Down Southern Ancestors After the Civil War

Did your Southern ancestors vanish in the social and economic upheaval that followed the Civil War? We’ll show you the best records to track them down.

Southerners’ Migrations: Where Did They Go?

Looking for Southern US ancestors who disappeared after the Civil War? Start your search in these common destinations of Southerners who left the South postwar.

Louisville City Guide

Your guide to researching ancestral records in Louisville.

Q. I’m having a difficult time finding family records in Kentucky. Where’s the best place to start? A. The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives in Frankfort is the main depository for records in the Bluegrass State. Its holdings include birth and death records...