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Adoption and
Apprenticeship Records
Adoption and
Apprenticeship books-Religious Institutions and Index,
c.1879-1945, (Louisville Baptist Orphans Home, Christian Church
Widows and Orphans Home, Methodist Episcopal Church South Widows
and Orphans Home, German Baptist Orphans Home), hard copy.
Adoption papers
filed in the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court, 1875-1904,
and Index, hard copy,
Adoption Case
Files-Jefferson County Court, and index, #1-#580,
1940-1946, hard copy. (restricted).
Before 1940, adoption case files are included in the civil
division case files of Jefferson Circuit Court. The case
number may be found in the Plaintiff Index under the name of
the petitioner. Post 1946 files are also in the Circuit Court,
but they are restricted.
Citizenship Records
Index to
Naturalizations, 1811-1913, hard copy.
Naturalization Books-Jefferson Circuit Court, 1892-1913, hard copy
and microfilm.
Coroner's Records
Inquest Books,
1878-1914, #1-#8, hard copy
Inquest Papers, 1898-1899, 1902-1908,1916-1919, hard copy
Inquest Files, 1926-present, hard copy and Jefferson County
Coroner's Office (1975-present)
Deputy Coroner's Memo Books, hard copy,
1918-1921,1934-present, and Jefferson County Coroner's Office
(1976-present)
Land Ownership and
Division
Grantor Index to Deeds,
microfilm, 1783-1937.,
Division Books and Index, 1797-1916, hard copy.
Jefferson County Court-Division Case Papers, 1852-1950, hard copy
Commissioner's Deed Books and Index -Circuit Court, 1812-1847,
hard copy
Commissioner's Deed Books and Index-Louisville Chancery Court,
1835-1871, hard copy.
Entry Books,
1779-1835, hard copy. Indexed in Willard Rouse Jillson, Old
Kentucky Entries and Deeds, Ch. IV, "Jefferson Entries."
Name Change Records
Name Change
papers-Jefferson County Court, #1-#7, 745, 1886-1977, hard
copy. Index kept in Jefferson County Clerk-Probate Department.
Pension Records
Old Age Pension
Applications-Jefferson County Court, 1930-1932, A-G only, hard
copy, not indexed.
Confederate Soldiers
Pension Applications-Commonwealth of Kentucky and Index,
1912-1920, hard copy.
Probate Records
Original Wills,
1784-1902, hard copy.
Probate Records
Representatives'
Bond Books, c.1863-1977, (Administrator,
Assignee, Committee, Curator, Executor, Guardian,
Trustee),
hard copy, indexed after 1893 in the Index to Wards
and
Estates, Jefferson County Clerk-Probate Department.
Tax Records
Real Property Tax
Rolls for Jefferson County, Kentucky.
1789-1892, microfilm, Jefferson County Department
for Historic
Preservation and Archives.
Vital Records
Death Register-City
of Louisville, 1866-1910, mocrofilm.
Birth Register-City of Louisville, 1898-1910,
microfilm.
Death Returns-Jefferson County,
1852-1859,1893-1894,1900-1901,
1903-1906,1909, microfilm.
Birth Records-Jefferson County,
1852,1854-1859,1900-1906,
1908-1909, microfilm.
Marriage registers and Indexes,1784-1911, microfilm.
Marriage Bonds, c.1855-present; c. 1855-1916, hard
copy.
Other Resources:
Research
Files-Jefferson County Historic Resources Inventory,
1977-present, (files maintained on all the historic
sites in
Jefferson County, KY, outside the City of
Louisville, identified by the staff of the
Jefferson County
Department of Historic Preservation and Archives).
Louisville City Directories, 1832-1983, microfilm and
hand
copy.
1858 Bergmann Map of Jefferson County
1879 Beers and Lanagan Atlas of Jefferson County
1913 Louisville Title Company Atlas of Jefferson
County
1927 A.W. Hardin Company Atlas of Jefferson County
Jefferson County Department for Historic Preservation
and
Archives, November 1987 (revised August 1995). |
