Resources, Links, Etc.
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Chat, Message Boards, and the like
- The Family History Show
- Genealogy Bulletin Board
- Carter County list on yahoo.com
- The Carter County Mail List Hosted by Rootsweb. It's a great way to post queries and contact other Carter County researchers
- Historic Carter County History - a brief history of the county, from an 1800's point of view
- Carter County Biographies at the Kygenweb project - Fully searchable.
- Boyd County Library On-line card catalog
- Deliverance Farm - history, genealogy and antiques
- The East Kentuckian - a quarterly journal of Eastern KY genealogy and history
- The Eastern Kentucky Railway
- Kentucky Genealogical & Historical Societies - A link to a listing of addresses of many historical and genealogical societies throughout Kentucky.
- City Directories of Kentucky - a very valuable, if little known about resource
- Everton's Sources of Genealogical Information in Kentucky
- Kentucky Department for Libraries & Archives
- The Kentucky Migrations Project
General
- National Association of Counties (county official contact names, addresses and telephone numbers)
- Family Workings
- Genealogy On- and Offline
- International Internet Genealogical Society
- National Archives Home Page
- Naturalization Papers - Examples
- Passenger Lists on the Internet
- The Poorhouse Story - Everything you ever wanted to know about "The Poorhouse"
- Primitive Baptist Churches of KY, TN & IN
- Time and Date Calendar - Calendars for any year, just input the year
On-line Records
Kentucky
Resources to Purchase
Kentucky
- Kentucky Explorer Magazine
- Carter County Books to order
- Carter County Cemetery CD. "550 cemeteries listed"
- "The Carter Caves & Olive Hill Railroad" by Neal Salyers
- LDS Microfilms Available - A listing of Carter County microfilms that the researcher can order from the LDS library.
General
- Global Genealogy Supply
- Ancestor Search On-Line - aka FamilySearch.org, the official LDS genealogy site
- DAR Library
- I Found It! Archives
- VitalSearch - Kentucky
- Kentucky Vital Records Project
- Social Security Death Index
- Southern State Searchable Records
- USGenWeb Archives Search
- US Vital Records
- Kentucky State Vital Records Page
- Kentucky Vital Records Indexes
- Searchable Revolutionary War Land Warrants
- Kentucky Vital Records Project
- Google Newspaper Articles Search <--- Most articles are for a fee, but very comprehensive
- Babelfish - translator
- Online & Downloadable Relationship "Cousin Calculator"
- On-Line Soundex Generator
- Gedpage A GEDCOM-to-HTML converter program that takes a GEDCOM file & converts it to a Family Group Sheet style web page.
- Personal Ancestral File (PAF) from the LDS "Highly recommended"
International
Link Collections
Miscellaneous
Carter County History
Eastern Kentucky
Kentucky
Online Utilities and Shareware
Old Document Interpretation
P.O. Box 1128
Grayson, KY 41143-5128
Carter County Clerk
Mike D. Johnston
Room 232
Courthouse
Grayson, KY 41143-1274
Phone: (606) 474-5188
FAX: (606) 474-5180
Kentucky GenWeb project