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Kentucky Statewide Genealogy at Ancestry
- A Complete Index to the Names of Persons, Places and Subjects Mentioned in Littell’s Laws of Kentucky
- A Sesqui-centennial history of Kentucky : a narrative historical edition, commemorating one hundred and fifty years of statehoo
- A sketch and bibliography of the Kentucky Historical Society, 1836-1943
- A Web of family : letters from a Kentucky family, 1816-1865.
- Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories
- Annual report of the quarter-master general to the governor of the state of Kentucky for the year 1865-6
- Ante-bellum Kentucky
- Background of genealogical research in Kentucky and Indiana
- Calendar of the Kentucky papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts
- Early 19th-Century German Settlers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Other States. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4A, 4B, and 4C
- First explorations of Kentucky : Doctor Thomas Walker’s journal of an exploration of Kentucky in 1750, being the first record
- Genealogies and sketches of some old families who have taken prominent part in the development of Virginia and Kentucky especia
- Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. I
- Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. II
- Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. III
- Governors of Kentucky, 1792-1942
- History of Kentucky
- Kentucky : a guide to the Bluegrass State
- Kentucky : a history of the state, embracing [a concise] account of the origin and development of the Virginia colony, its [exp
- Kentucky : a pioneer commonwealth
- Kentucky Biographical Dictionary, 1896
- Kentucky Biographical Encyclopedia, 19th Century
- Kentucky Census, 1810-90
- Kentucky Census, Reconstructed, 1790
- Kentucky Colonization in Texas
- Kentucky Court and Other Records
- Kentucky Court and Other Records, Vol. I
- Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000
- Kentucky History, 1872
- Kentucky History, 1922
- Kentucky Land Grants
- Kentucky Marriage Records
- Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865
- Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850
- Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900
- Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854
- Kentucky Pension Roll for 1835
- Kentucky pioneer and court records
- Kentucky pioneer women : Columbian poems and prose sketches
- Kentucky Will Index, Vol. 2
- Kentucky, a pioneer commonwealth
- Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999
- Kentucky, Birth Records, 1852-1910
- Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953
- Kentucky, designs for her future
- Kentucky, Marriage Index, 1973-1999
- Kentucky, Marriage Records, 1852-1914
- Kentucky, Naturalization Records, 1906-1991
- Kentucky, Tax Lists, 1799-1801
- Nativism in Kentucky to 1860
- Northern Kentucky Marriages, 1795-1850
- Old Kentucky architecture : colonial, federal, Greek revival, Gothic, and other types erected prior to the War Between the Stat
- Petitions of Kentucky Inhabitants to the General Assembly of Virginia, 1769-1792
- Petitions of the early inhabitants of Kentucky to the General Assembly of Virginia : 1769-1792
- Pioneer life in Kentucky : a series of reminiscential letters from Daniel Drake, M.D., of Cincinnati, to his children
- Polish pioneers of Virginia and Kentucky
- Report of the adjutant general of Kentucky to His Excellency Governor McCreary for the year 1875
- Report of the adjutant general of Kentucky to His Excellency Governor McCreary for the year 1879
- Report of the adjutant general of the state of Kentucky
- Report of the adjutant general, state of Kentucky, to the commander-in-chief, for the year 1881
- Report of the adjutant-general of Kentucky, for the year ending 1889
- The anti-slavery movement in Kentucky, prior to 1850
- The centenary of Kentucky
- The glacial boundary in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky
- The history of Kentucky : from its earliest discovery and settlement, to the present date, embracing its prehistoric and aborig
- The history of Kentuck[y] : exhibiting an account of the modern discovery, settlement, progressive improvement, civil and milit
- The history of Methodism in Kentucky
- The Kentuckie country : an historical exposition of land interest in Kentucky prior to 1790, coupled with facsimile reproductio
- The Kentucky River navigation
- The life and adventures of Daniel Boone, the first settler of Kentucky : interspersed with incidents in the early annals of the
- The mountain people of Kentucky : an account of present conditions with the attitude of the people toward improvement
- The personal narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky
- The pioneer to the Kentucky emigrant : a brief topographical & historical description of the state of Kentucky : to which are a
- The political beginnings of Kentucky
- The political beginnings of Kentucky
- The Wilderness Road to Kentucky : its location and features
- Three Kentucky pioneers
- Web: Kentucky, Find A Grave Index, 1776-2012
Kentucky Military Data at Ancestry
- Abstract of pension papers of soldiers of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Indian wars, who settled in Knox County, KY
- Abstracts of pension papers, Revolutionary War, and 1812 War soldiers who settled in Hardin County, Ky. (Elizabethtown, Kentuck
- History of the 3d, 7th, 8th and l2th Kentucky C.S.A.
- History of the First Kentucky Brigade
- Kelion Franklin Peddicord of Quirk’s Scouts, Morgan’s Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A. : biographical and autobiographical : together
- Kentucky Confederate Volunteers
- Kentucky in the War of 1812
- Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812
- Kentucky, Civil War Union Volunteers, 1861-1866
- Kentucky, Confederate Pension Records, 1912-1930
- Kentucky, Soldiers of the War of 1812
- Notes on Kentucky Veterans of the War of 1812 by G. Glenn Clift
- Pension papers of soldiers of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Indian wars, who settled in Hickman County, KY.
- Pension papers of soldiers of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Indian wars, who settled in Hickman County, KY.
- Remember the Raisin: Kentucky and Kentuckians in the Battles and Massacre at Frenchtown, Michigan Territory, in the War of 1812
- Revolutionary Soldiers in Kentucky: Also a Roster of the Virginia Navy
- Revolutionary War pensions of soldiers who settled in Fayette County, Kentucky
- The Battle of New Orleans : including the previous engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians, and the Span
- The Battle of the Thames : in which Kentuckians defeated the British, French, and Indians, October 5, 1813 : with a list of the
- The Battle of Tippecanoe : read before the Filson Club, November 1, 1897
- The Black Patch War
- The Union regiments of Kentucky
- U.S., Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers, 1864
Miscellaneous Kentucky data at Ancestry
- A history of the First Presbyterian Church, Frankfort, Kentucky : together with the churches in Franklin County, in connection
- An historical sketch of St. Paul’s Church, Louisville, Ky.
- Big Sandy
- Bryant’s Station and the memorial proceedings held on its site under the auspices of the Lexington Chapter, D.A.R., August the
- Daniel Boone
- Daniel Boone
- Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
- Die ersten Amerikaner im Westen : Daniel Boone und seine Gef
- Fifty years of slavery in the United States of America
- Fighting frontiersman : the life of Daniel Boone : based on “Daniel Boone, master of the wilderness”
- Forks of Elkhorn Church
- George Michael Bedinger
- Historical records of old Crab Orchard
- In the land of Breathitt
- Journal of an exploration in the spring of the year 1750
- Life and times of Judge Caleb Wallace
- Life and times of Judge Caleb Wallace : some time a justice of the Court of Appeals of the state of Kentucky
- Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentuck
- Nurses on horseback
- Ohio Physician and Dentist Directory, 1905
- Report of the Daniel Boone Bicentennial Commission to the 1936 General Assembly of Kentucky and appendix : addresses, “Daniel B
- Reprints of Littell’s Political transactions in and concerning Kentucky : and letter of George Nicholas to his friend in Virgi
- Sesquicentennial stories
- Stage-coach days in the bluegrass : being an account of stage-coach travel and tavern days in Lexington and central Kentucky, 1
- The Big Sandy Valley
- The history of the medical department of Transylvania University
- The kidnapped and the ransomed : being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife “Vina,” after forty years of slav
- The life and writings of Rafinesque
- The life of James Francis Leonard : the first practical sound-reader of the Morse alphabet
- The old masters of the Bluegrass : Jouett, Bush, Grimes, Frazer, Morgan, Hart
- The plight of the bituminous coal miner
- The story of a poet, Madison Cawein : his intimate life as revealed by his letters and other hitherto unpublished material, inc
- The times of long ago
- The Transylvania Colony
- The Transylvania Company and the founding of Henderson, Ky.
- The Wilderness Road
- Traditions of the earliest visits of foreigners to North America : the first formed and first inhabited of the continents
- Transylvania University : its origin, rise, decline, and fall
Kentucky County Specific Genealogy at Ancestry
- A century of Wayne County, Kentucky, 1800-1900
- A glimpse at historic Madison County and Richmond, Kentucky
- A history of Anderson County
- A history of Muhlenberg County
- A History of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
- Abstracts of Sharp deeds from Mercer County, Kentucky
- Ancestry of the children of Andrew McClure of Montgomery County, Kentucky
- Barren County, Kentucky Wills, 1800-24
- Bath County, Kentucky Wills, 1811-24
- Bourbon County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1786-1800
- Caldwell County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1809-28
- Carroll County, Kentucky Marriages, 1838-1920
- Census of 1810, Jessamine County, Kentucky
- Census of 1810, Nicholas County, Kentucky
- Christian and Trigg Counties, Kentucky History and Biography
- Clark County, Kentucky Wills 1792-1826, Vol. 1-2
- Counties of Todd and Christian, Kentucky : historical and biographical
- County of Christian, Kentucky : historical and biographical
- Daviess County, Kentucky Census, 1900
- Daviess County, Kentucky Census, 1920
- Early and modern history of Wolfe County
- Early settlers in Campbell County, Ky.
- Early Taylor County history
- Early times in Meade County, Kentucky
- Fayette County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1803-14
- Fayette County, Kentucky Wills 1794-1818
- Fleming County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1798-1851
- Franklin County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1790-1815, Volume I
- Green County, Kentucky Wills 1796-1824
- Greenup County, Kentucky Will Records: 1822-1843
- Harlan County, Kentucky
- Henry County, Kentucky Will Records for 1800 to July 1821
- History of Boone County, Kentucky
- History of Daviess County, Kentucky : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civ
- History of Greenup County, Kentucky
- History of Henderson County, Kentucky
- History of Shelby County, Kentucky
- History of Union County, Kentucky : a complete account of the settlement, organization, and government of the county, together
- History of Woodford County
- Illinois miscellaneous genealogical records : from counties, Bond, Boone, Calhoun, Cook, Crawford, Du Page, Johnson, Knox, Lake
- Inventory of the county archives of Kentucky: Anderson County
- Inventory of the county archives of Kentucky: Breckinridge County
- Inventory of the county archives of Kentucky: Carlisle County
- Inventory of the county archives of Kentucky: Fayette County
- Inventory of the county archives of Kentucky: Jessamine County
- Inventory of the county archives of Kentucky: Knox County
- Inventory of the county archives of Kentucky: Laurel County
- Jessamine County, Kentucky Marriage Records 1799-1820
- Johnson County, Kentucky : a history of the county, and genealogy of its people up to the year 1927
- Lincoln County, Kentucky Marriage (1793-1800) & Will (1801-1807) Records
- Lincoln County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1781-1792
- Lincoln County, Kentucky Wills and Administrations, Vol. 1
- Madison County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1790-1843
- Marriage bonds of Bedford County, Virginia, 1755-1800 …
- Marriage records for Bourbon County, Kentucky
- Mason County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1804-60 Vol. II-VI
- Mason County, Kentucky, Cemetery Records, Volume I
- Mercer County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1800-1830 Vol. II-III
- Mercer County, Kentucky Wills 1818-1826
- Mercer County, Kentucky: Marriages (1786-1800) & Wills (1786-1801)
- Montgomery County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1817-50
- Montgomery County, Kentucky Wills: 1796-1821
- Nelson County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1785-1815
- Ohio County, Kentucky, in the olden days : a series of old newspaper sketches of fragmentary history
- Scott County, Kentucky Wills: 1794-1820
- Shelby County, Kentucky Marriage Bonds: 1792-1800
- Shelby County, Kentucky Wills: 1794-1817
- Some original land grant surveys along Green River in Lincoln and Casey Counties, Kentucky (1781-1836)
- The history of Franklin County, Ky.
- The men, women, events, institutions & lore of Casey County, Kentucky
- Third census of the United States (1810 census), Clark County, Kentucky
- Third census of the United States (1810 census), Lincoln County, Kentucky
- Union County, past and present
- Web: Boyd County, Kentucky, Ashland Daily Independent Obituary Index, 1922-1945, 1970-1973, 1998-2010
Kentucky Town Specific Genealogy at Ancestry
- A series of monographs concerning the Lincolns and Hardin County, Kentucky
- Boonesborough : its founding, pioneer struggles, Indian experiences, Transylvania days and Revolutionary annals : with full his
- Caron’s directory of the city of Louisville for 1909 : containing a list of the inhabitants, their residence and occupation, a
- Corbin Daily Tribune (Corbin, Kentucky)
- Corbin Times (Corbin, Kentucky)
- Corbin Times Tribune (Corbin, Kentucky)
- Covington, Kentucky Directories, 1890, 1892
- Danville, Kentucky, Danville National Cemetery, 1862-2003
- History of Maysville and Mason County.
- Kentucky City Directories
- Kentucky New Era (Hopkinsville, Kentucky)
- Lexington, Kentucky, Lexington National Cemetery, 1868-2010
- Louisville’s first families : a series of genealogical sketches
- Louisville, a guide to the Falls City
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Directory, 1832
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Directory, 1886
- Louisville, Kentucky Directories, 1890
- Louisville, Kentucky Directory, 1887
- Middlesboro Daily News (Middlesboro, Kentucky)
- Middletown’s days and deeds : the story of 150 years of living in an old Kentucky town
- Old capitol and Frankfort guide
- Paducah, Kentucky Directory, 1890-91
- Polk’s Lexington (Kentucky) city directory, 1927 : embracing a complete alphabetical list of business firms and private citize
- Polk’s Lexington (Kentucky) city directory, 1931-32 : vol. XVI : containing an alphabetical directory of business concerns and
- The centenary of Louisville : a paper
- The history of Louisville : from its earliest settlement till the year 1852