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The Kentucky Historical Society’s microfilm
collections include—
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U.S. Censuses: Kentucky 1810 - 1880,
and 1900 - 1930 on microfilm with Soundex index for 1880, 1900,
1910, 1920, and 1930 (partial) available; indexes for 1810 -
1870 censuses available in printed form
- Tax lists, by county, dating
from the formation of the county until 1875, and 1890, on
microfilm
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Kentucky vital records on
microfilm: births, marriages, deaths (1852 - 1861). Also, 1874
- 1878 on film. Indexes for births (1911 - 1988) and deaths
(1911 - 1993) are on microfiche, or
online. Uncertified death records, 1911 - 1950, on
microfilm
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County court records on
microfilm, including wills and marriages, from the formation of
the counties to 1910, when available
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Newspapers on microfilm,
nearly complete for nineteenth century Frankfort and early
Lexington; scattered issues for other localities in Kentucky
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Microfilm of many KHS
manuscript collections, as well as the Draper Manuscript
Collection
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Selected city directories
for Kentucky, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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Land records; some
of these records are available online through the
Revolutionary War Database of the Kentucky Secretary of State's
Land Office .
The Kentucky Historical Society’s collection of
published works includes—
- Kentucky state and county
histories
- Church records
- Bible records
- Published genealogies
- Kentucky biographies and
biographical histories
- Historical and genealogical
resources covering all fifty states
- Indexed rosters of Kentucky
soldiers through World War I
- Land records, including
photocopies of original records housed in the Kentucky
Secretary of State’s Office, in the Library’s extensive
Reference Collection; these records are also available on
microfilm; some of these records are available online through
the
Revolutionary War Database of the Kentucky Secretary of State's
Land Office
- Historical and genealogical
periodicals
- Dozens of genealogical resources
on CD-ROM, including the entire 1880 United States census.
The Kentucky Historical Society Library’s
vertical files include—
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Surname files with collected and
contributed research, arranged alphabetically by family name
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Abstracts of some wills,
marriages, deeds, pensions, and cemetery records, alphabetically
by county
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Files including Biography,
Churches, Architecture and Historic Buildings, Kentucky Subject,
General Subject, Kentucky County, etc.
The Kentucky Historical Society Library also houses
a unique card file of vital records information compiled by
the Works Progress Administration, covering 1852 to 1861, and
existing statistics for the 1890s and early 1900s. |
