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? Statehood: 1792
? First available federal census: 1810
? Statewide birth and death records begin: 1911
? Statewide marriage records begin: 1958
? Counties: 120
? State-land state, with a section of public land
? Contact for vital records:
Web Sites
Books
? Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia by Brian D. McKnight (University Press of Kentucky)
? The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750 — 1792 by Ted Franklin Belue (Stackpole Books)
? Index to the 1810 Census of Kentucky by Ann T. Wagstaff (Clearfield Co.)
? Kentucky Ancestry: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research by Roseann Reinemuth Hogan (Ancestry)
? The Life of Daniel Boone by Lyman Copeland Draper (Stackpole Books)
? New History of Kentucky by Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter (University Press of Kentucky)
? Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky by William C. Kozee (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
Organizations
? The Filson Historical Society
? Harrodsburg Historical Society
? Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
? Kentucky Genealogical Society
? Kentucky Historical Society
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