Northern Kentucky FamilySearch Center

This article describes the services and resources available at a FamilySearch Center, a branch facility of the FamilySearch Library.

Center Contacts and Hours

Location Map:

• Location Map

Address:

• 144 Buttermilk Pike Lakeside Park KY 41017-2135 United States

• Language: English & Spanish

E-mail:

• ensjen392@gmail.com

Open Hours: If you have not been vaccinated, masks are recommended for using the Family Search Center.

• Tuesdays 6-9 pm

Holiday Schedule: Closed for Thanksgiving weekend; last 2 weeks in December for Christmas

Closed all major holidays.

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16th Annual Free & Family History Conference

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Our Conference is Free in house and virtual.

Video recordings of the presentations are available to view only until November 2024. Handouts for certain presentations are also available for download. Please use the links below.

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FEATURED SPEAKER: Ari Wilkins

• Keynote Presentation: Hitting Pay-dirt in Manuscript Collections
• Closing Presentation: Mysterious Relatives; Both presentations are available by registering for a Zoom link.

9:00-9:15-Welcome by Brother David J Jensen

9:15-10:20-Keynote Speaker

10:30-11:15

Dana Palmer Striking Gold: Using Cluster Research to Identify an Unknown Father

Mickey deVise Mining Records at the Cincinnati Archives

10:30-12:30

Set up your family tree and adding names to it

11:30-12:20

Dana Palmer-Hoosier Family-Getting Started with Indiana Research

Jason French-Why Artifacts are important to Family History

Karin Page-Researching House Histories

12:30-1:15-Lunch is FREE with advance registration

1:15-2:00-Ari Wilkins-Mysterious Relatives

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Follow us on Facebook or contact us at ensjen302@gmail.com, karinnbpage@gmail.com,

If you are unable to attend the conference, register for a Zoom link that will be sent to you.

Topic: Family History Conference

Time: Oct 21, 2023 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Handouts from Previous Conference:

Brian Rhinehart - Puzzling Out Your Civil War Ancestors Sources to help find out if he was in the Civil War

1. Ask relatives
2. 1890 Veteran's Census
3. 1910 Census
4. 1930 Census
5. National Parks Service Civil War soldier database - Website
6. Obituaries - Website
7. Grave sites - Website
8. Pension index cards
9. Draft registration ledgers
10. Online family trees
11. Local Historical Societies
12. Homestead Records - Website

Contact information of Previous Presenters:

Hillary Delaney - Underground Railroad in Northern Kentucky - hdelaney@bcpl.org Campbell County Historical & Genealogical Society - Website Brian Rhinehart - RhinehartRoots.com or Brian@CivilWar Records.com

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Center Resources

Collections

'Genealogy How-To'

• Croom, Emily Anne Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books 1995): 3rd edition.
• Everton's Genealogical Helper, (Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, July/August 2005): Periodical
• Hatcher, Patricia Law, Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2003)
• Jonas, Linda & Milner Paul, A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors: How to find and record your unique heritage, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2002)
• Kenton County Public Library, Local History and Genealogy User Guide, (Covington, Kentucky)
• Tepper, Michael, American Passenger Arrival Records, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1993)

'Ireland'

• Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild Familia, (Belfast, Ireland: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1991) Volume 2 No 7.

'Norway'

• Smith, Frank, Thomsen, Finn A.Genealogical Guidebook & Atlas of Norway, (Logan Utah: The Everton Publishers, Inc., 1979)

'Scotland'

• Perceval-Maxwell, M., The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I, (New York: Humanities Press, 1990)

'United States'

Family Histories

• Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Col., Inc., 1987)
• Davis, David C., Some Ancestors and Descendants of Benjamin Jacob Davies/Davis Llangadfan, Wales and Allied Jones Families, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1996)
• Lewis, Gerald and Gloria, The Harris Family of Warrick County Indiana, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1995)
• Manchikes, Alice; Wilson, Harry McClain; Dunham, Jenna; Garbett, Jan, From Priddy's Creek to Woolper Creek: The Johnsons and Wilsons in Virginia and Kentucky, (Burlington, Kentucky: Kentucky Heritage, 2009)
• Yochim, (Mrs.) Eldred Martin, DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition 1990, (Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1994), 3 volumes.

History

• Ellis, Edward,Library of American History: A Constitutional, Biographical, Philosophical, Scientific, Geographical, Diplomatic and Military History of our Country, (Cincinnati, Ohio: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1903)
• Schafer, Joseph, History of the Pacific Northwest, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905)

Colorado

• Leckenby, Charles H., The Tread of Pioneers, (Steamboat Springs, Colorado: The Pilot Press, 1945)

Indiana

• Coplen, Daniel L., Kosciusko County: A Pictorial History, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1995)
• Tuley, Tom, editor, Green River Road: From Cornfields to Concrete, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1993) - History of Vanderburgh County

Kentucky

Wilderness Road, (Shepherdsville, Kentucky: Bullitt County Genealogical Society Quarterly Publication, March 1995). (Contents: Deeds 1798-1799; McFarland Funeral Home Death Records 1928-1934, Guardian Book C, 1895-1896, 1802 Tax List, Wills 1821-1822, McAhron Letters 1883-1900, 1857 Deaths, Blaxton Gentry's Posterity, Ancestor Charts: Raleigh, Belt, Crow, Clevidence, Sparks, Skinner).

• Manchikes, Alice; Wilson, Harry McClain; Dunham, Jenna; Garbett, Jan, From Priddy's Creek to Woolper Creek: The Johnsons and Wilsons in Virginia and Kentucky, (Burlington, Kentucky: Kentucky Heritage, 2009).
• Schmitz, Raymond A., St. John's Catholic Church Covington, Kentucky 1854-2004, (T & W Printing, 2006)

Nebraska

• Dobbs, Hugh J., History of Gage County, Nebraska, (Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1918)
• Skinner, Shirley M., Pioneer Stories of Brown, Keya Paha and Rock Counties in Nebraska, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1980) Virginia
• Maphet, Ernestine, To Climb A Mountain, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1997)

Ohio

• The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years, The Cincinnati Historical Society, (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988).
• Clermont County, Ohio Marriages 1850-1874, Clermont County Gen. Society, (Baltimore, 1989).
• The Cincinnati Post, They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati, (Cincinnati, Ohio: 1938).
• Devereux, C. A. R., Mrs. Devereux's Blue Book of Cincinnati Society for the years 1910-11, (Cincinnati, Ohio: 1910).
• McQueen, Thomas B., Cincinnati Country, (Cincinnati, Ohio: 1980).
• Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, (Columbus, Ohio: Press of Fred J. Heer 1909), Vol. XVIII. January, 1909, No. 1. (Contents: A New Serpent Mound in Ohio, The Mound Builders of Cincinnati, Symmes' Theory, Early Days in Ohio, Rutland - "The Cradle of Ohio," Morgan's Raid).

Databases and Software

• Family Search Center Portal This center has access to the FamilySearch Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.

Hardware and Equipment

• Computers
• Printer

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Resources in the Local Area

Boone County Public Library

Campbell County Historical & Genealogical Society

Kenton County Public Library: Great collection for all of Northern Kentucky Research

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Links

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FamilySearch Center (FSC); formerly called, Family History Center (FHC)