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These | These repositories house sources, lists, and indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in Kentucky. | ||
=== Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in Kentucky === | === Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in Kentucky === | ||
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= | *[http://kdl.kyvl.org/?f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=archival+material Kentucky Digital Library]—daybooks, journals, letters, and manuscripts. | ||
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| [[Image:NARA Atlanta.jpg|right|280px|NARA Atlanta.jpg]]'''[[National Archives at Atlanta]]'''<br>5780 Jonesboro Road<br>Morrow, Georgia 30260 USA<br>Phone: 770-968-2100<br>Fax: 770-968-2547<br>E-mail: [mailto:atlanta.archives@nara.gov atlanta.archives@nara.gov]<br>Internet: [http://www.archives.gov/southeast/ National Archives at Atlanta] <br><br> | |||
:Records from over 100 federal agencies and courts in '''Kentucky''', Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Also includes Vice Admiralty Courts of SC, evolution of federal courts, Constitutional rights, Revolutionary War, Civil War, reconstruction, World Wars I and II, and space exploration. Microfilms for censuses, diplomatic missions, military service records, bounty-land applications, passenger arrival lists, naturalizations, American Indians, and African Americans.<ref name="DB127">Dollarhide and Bremer, 127-28.</ref><br><br> | |||
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=== Statewide Repositories === | |||
==== | ==== Department for Libraries and Archives ==== | ||
Department for Libraries and Archives<br>Public Records Division<br>300 Coffee Tree Road (P.O. Box 537)<br>Frankfort, KY 40601-0537<br>Toll Free Phone: 800-928-7000<br>Telephone: 502-564-8300<br>Fax: 502-564-5773<br>E-mail: [mailto:kdla.archives@ky.gov kdla.archives@ky.gov]<br>Internet: [http://www.kdla.ky.gov/ Kentuchy Department for Libraries and Archives] <br><br> | |||
*The state library has printed materials. | :The Department for Libraries and Archives is the central repository for original city-, county-, and state-level records.<ref name="DB49">William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, ''America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers'' (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 49. {{WorldCat|39493985}}; {{FHL|728550|item|disp=FHL Book 973 J54d}}.</ref> It has two facilities of particular interest to genealogists.<br> | ||
*The state archives maintains original Kentucky government records and other historical documents. Many of these repositories’ records are being microfilmed, and copies are being sent to the Family History Library. | :*The state '''library''' has printed materials. <br> | ||
:*The state '''archives''' maintains original Kentucky government records and other historical documents. Many of these repositories’ records are being microfilmed, and copies are being sent to the Family History Library.<br> | |||
:The Department of Libraries and Archives responds to genealogical requests but prefers that requests be sent on a form available on its Internet site or through the mail.<br><br> | |||
==== Filson Historical Society Library ==== | |||
'''Filson Historical Society Library'''<br>1310 S. Third Street<br>Louisville, KY 40208<br>Telephone: 502-635-5083<br>E-mail: [mailto:research@filsonhistorical.org research@filsonhistorical.org]<br>Internet: [http://filsonhistorical.org/ The Filson Historical Society]<br> | |||
:Formerly known as the '''Filson Club''', they have a good collection of early Kentucky history and genealogy manuscripts. Their specialty is migration, especially via Ohio River traffic and steamboats.<ref name="DB49" /><br><br> | |||
[ | ==== Kentucky Genealogical Society Library ==== | ||
'''[http://www.kygs.org/ Kentucky Genealogical Society Library]'''<br>P.O. Box 153<br>Frankfort, KY 40602 <br>Telephone: 502-875-4452<br>Internet: [http://www.kygs.org/ http://www.kygs.org/] | |||
: | :KGS has a great collection of statewide records, guides, censuses, cemeteries, biographies, family folders and indexes.<ref name="DB49" /> The Kentucky Genealogical Society promotes research of Kentucky families. They also publish items of genealogical interest, including the quarterly periodical ''Bluegrass Roots''.<br><br> | ||
==== Kentucky Historical Society ==== | ==== Kentucky Historical Society ==== | ||
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:They have more family folders than any other library in Kentucky, as well as all known printed genealogies and histories for Kentucky. They have the state's best genealogical collection including newspapers, maps, and city directories.<ref name="DB49" /> | :They have more family folders than any other library in Kentucky, as well as all known printed genealogies and histories for Kentucky. They have the state's best genealogical collection including newspapers, maps, and city directories.<ref name="DB49" /> | ||
:Located on the second floor of the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History. The library is a FamilySearch Affiliate, and as such, library patrons may order microforms from the vast collection held by the Salt Lake City-based Family History Library for temporary use at the Kentucky Historical Society. The library is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public.<br>The card catalog for the Martin F. Schmidt library is available on-line, as is the Society's [http://205.204.134.47:2005/ digital collections database], which includes images of manuscripts, maps, photographs and finding aids for the collections at Kentucky Historical Society. The Society also hosts an on-line [http://205.204.134.47/cemetery.asp database of cemetery records] that contains over 150,000 names transcribed by volunteers from gravestones across Kentucky.<br><br> | |||
=== Regional Repositories === | |||
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==== Daviess County Public Library ==== | |||
'''Daviess County Public Library'''<br>2020 Frederica Street<br> Owensboro, KY 42301<br>Telephone: 270-684-0211<br>Internet: [http://www.dcplibrary.org/genealogy Genealogy] | '''Daviess County Public Library'''<br>2020 Frederica Street<br> Owensboro, KY 42301<br>Telephone: 270-684-0211<br>Internet: [http://www.dcplibrary.org/genealogy Genealogy] | ||
:They have one of the best genealogy collections in Kentucky.<ref name="DB49" /><br><br> | :They have one of the best genealogy collections in Kentucky.<ref name="DB49" /><br><br> | ||
==== Eastern Kentucky University Library ==== | |||
: | [http://www.library.eku.edu/ Eastern Kentucky University Library]<br>Crabbe Library<br>Special Collections and Archives<br>521 Lancaster Ave.<br>Richmond, KY 40475<br>Telephone: 1-859-622-1790<br>Fax: 1-859-622-1174<br>TTY: 1-859-622-6594<br>E-mail: [mailto:archives.library@eku.edu?subject=From University Archives Website archives.library@eku.edu]<br>Internet: [http://www.library.eku.edu/ http://www.library.eku.edu/] | ||
:This university library has many records about Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina, with an emphasis on Kentucky records.<br><br> | |||
==== Kenton County Public Library ==== | |||
: | [http://www.kenton.lib.ky.us Kenton County Public Library]<br>502 Scott Blvd<br>Covington, KY 41011<br>Telephone: 859-962-4070<br>Internet: [http://www.kenton.lib.ky.us http://www.kenton.lib.ky.us] | ||
:The Kenton County Public Library has extensive statewide, local, and family history materials and in-depth collections for northern Kentucky. It has a local newspaper index for the years 1835 to 1931 and 1984 to the present. This includes an obituary index. The catalog of the Kenton library is available on its web site. You can also access the Kenton County Historical Society from the Library’s web site.<br><br> | |||
==== Lexington Public Library ==== | ==== Lexington Public Library ==== | ||
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:The Pogue library has records on all areas of Kentucky, with an emphasis on the western portion of the state.<br><br> | :The Pogue library has records on all areas of Kentucky, with an emphasis on the western portion of the state.<br><br> | ||
==== | ==== University of Kentucky ==== | ||
[http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/lib.php?lib_id=13 Margaret I. King Library]<br>Department of Special Collections and Archives<br>University of Kentucky<br>179 Funkhouser Dr.<br>Lexington, KY 40506-0039<br>Telephone: 859-257-8611 <br>Fax: 859-257-6311<br>Internet: [http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/lib.php?lib_id=13 http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/lib.php?lib_id=13] | |||
:While the Margaret I. King Library does not specialize in genealogical records, the Department of Special Collections and Archives maintains many items that lend themselves to the study of family and local history. The materials include an Appalachian collection, newspapers, church records; genealogical collections; historical manuscript collections; the Draper manuscripts, described in [[Kentucky History]]; county and local histories; county, state, and federal records; and a biographical file.<ref name="DB49" /><br><br> | |||
==== Western Kentucky University Library ==== | |||
[http://www.wku.edu/library/ Western Kentucky University Library]<br>1906 College Heights Blvd., #11067<br>Bowling Green, KY. 42101-1067<br>Phone (270) 745-6125. <br>Fax' (270) 745-6422<br>E-Mail [mailto:library.web@wku.edu library.web@wku.edu]<br>Internet: [http://www.wku.edu/library http://www.wku.edu/library] | |||
:The Kentucky Library has significant genealogical records, church histories, oral histories, and biographical files relating to south central Kentucky, early settlers, and Shakers.<ref name="DB49" /><br><br> | |||
=== Other Repositories Outside Kentucky === | |||
==== Bristol Public Libary ==== | ==== Bristol Public Libary ==== | ||
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:They have a relatively small family folder collection. Nevertheless, it is an important resource for settlers coming from '''''Pennsylvania, Maryland''''', and northern '''''Virginia''''' along the [[Great Valley Road]] into '''''Tennessee, Kentucky''''', and '''''North Carolina'''''.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 105.</ref><br><br> | :They have a relatively small family folder collection. Nevertheless, it is an important resource for settlers coming from '''''Pennsylvania, Maryland''''', and northern '''''Virginia''''' along the [[Great Valley Road]] into '''''Tennessee, Kentucky''''', and '''''North Carolina'''''.<ref>Dollarhide and Bremer, 105.</ref><br><br> | ||
==== Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library ==== | |||
[[Image:Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.jpg|right|280px|Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.jpg]]'''Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library'''<br> 8346 Mary Ball Road<br> Lancaster, Virginia 22503<br> Telehone: 804-462-7280<br> Fax: 804-462-6107<br> E-mail: [mailto:nfo@mbwm.org nfo@mbwm.org]<br>Internet: http://www.mbwm.org/genealogy.asp<br><br> | |||
:A small library with a good name index to nearly every history book published in '''''Virginia ''''' or '''''Kentucky''''', including court records from 1651, indexes and abstracts, Virginia vital records, census records, county histories, biographies, church and cemetery records, family histories, newspapers, obituaries, vertical files, militia records, and fraternal organizations.<ref name="DB113" /> <ref>[http://www.mbwm.org/genealogy.asp Genealogy and History Library] in ''Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | |||
==== Santa Cruz Public Library ==== | ==== Santa Cruz Public Library ==== | ||
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:Holds the Genealogial Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' which is equivalent to the ''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]] '' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of '''''Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia''''', and '''''West Virginia ''''' families.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> <ref>[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ The Tina Brayton Collection] in ''Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County'' (accessed 3 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | :Holds the Genealogial Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' which is equivalent to the ''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]] '' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of '''''Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia''''', and '''''West Virginia ''''' families.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> <ref>[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ The Tina Brayton Collection] in ''Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County'' (accessed 3 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | ||
[[Image: | ==== University of Chicago Library ==== | ||
[[Image:Regenstein Library entrance2.jpg|right|280px|Regenstein Library entrance2.jpg]][[University of Chicago Library]]<br>'''Durrett Collection'''<br>Regenstein Library<br>University of Chicago<br>1100 East 57th Street<br>Chicago Illinois 60637<br>Telephone: 773-702-4685<br>Fax: 773-702-6623 <br>E-mail: [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/ask/RBICask.html Ask a Librarian] form.<br>Internet: [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/index.html University of Chicago Library]<br><br> | |||
: | :The '''Durrett Collection ''' consists of historical '''Kentucky''' and Ohio River Valley manuscripts. The size and content of this collection is comparable to the '''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]]'''. It includes the earliest people in the Ohio Valley.<ref name="DB39">Dollarhide and Bremer, 39 and 49.</ref><br><br> | ||
[[Image: | ==== Virginia Historical Society ==== | ||
[[Image:Virginia Historical Society.jpg|right|280px|Virginia Historical Society.jpg]]'''[[Virginia Historical Society]]'''<br>428 North Blvd<br> Richmond, VA 23221-0311<br>Telephone: 804-358-4901<br>E-mail: [http://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/ask-curator-or-librarian/ask-librarian-about Ask a Librarian]] form<br>Internet: [http://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/looking-people Looking for People] <br><br> | |||
: | :County records such as marriages, county court records, wills, censuses, land, militia lists, bounty lands, passenger lists, tax lists, poll lists, genealogies, newspapers, family Bibles, and African American genealogy. They have a card index to 10 million documents of the Old Dominion, that is '''''Virginia, West Virginia''''', and '''''Kentucky'''''. <ref name="DB97">Dollarhide and Bremer, 97.</ref> <ref>[http://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/looking-people Looking for People] in ''Virginia Historical Society'' (accessed 7 January 2014).</ref><br><br> | ||
[[Image:Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg|right| | ==== Wisconsin Historical Society ==== | ||
[[Image:Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg|right|280px|Wisconsin Historical Society.jpg]]'''[[Draper Manuscript Collection|Draper Manuscript Collection]]'''<br>[[Wisconsin Historical Society]]<br>816 State Street<br>Madison, WI 53706<br>E-mail: [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1220 Ask a librarian] form <br>Internet: [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ Wisconsin Historical Society]<br><br> | |||
:The '''Draper Collection''', consists of 491 volumes of manuscripts, papers, and books collected by '''''Lyman Copeland Draper ''''' about the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830. This includes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, '''Kentucky''', Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin.<br><br> | :The '''Draper Collection''', consists of 491 volumes of manuscripts, papers, and books collected by '''''Lyman Copeland Draper ''''' about the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830. This includes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, '''Kentucky''', Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin.<br><br> | ||
=== Guide === | |||
: | *''Archives in Appalachia: A Directory''. Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985. {{WorldCat|12712710}}; {{FHL|497048|item|disp=FHL book 975 A3a}}. The record covers the states of Georgia, '''Kentucky''', North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The record is arranged alphabetically by state, then by the name of the repository. Each entry lists the archive, its address, phone number, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, what subjects are covered by the collection, and the size of the collection. There are two indexes: Record type, and Subject, with reference numbers corresponding to the repository. Also included is a list, under “Coming Attractions,” of agencies that do not currently collect manuscript materials but plan to do so in the future. <br><br> | ||
=== References === | === References === | ||