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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives in Frankfort

 Site includes ordering forms for birth, marriage, divorce, death, military, tax, civil, and estate records seen listed at right, along with interlibrary loan.  There is a small fee associated with these orders.

Notice:  Some years do exist and are available for Louisville, which are prior to the 1911 date most associated with modern record keeping in Kentucky.

Louisville Birth Index: 1898 -1910

Louisville Births: 1898 -1910

Louisville Death Index: 1866 -1910

Louisville Register of Deaths: 1866 -1910

  Family History and Jefferson County Research Resources

County Clerk Records, General cross indexes to deeds 1783 -1932, General indexes to deeds - grantee 1783 -1892, General indexes to deeds - grantor 1783 - 1869, Deeds (loose) 1783 - 1892, deed books 1783 - 1965, Reports of commissioner's of division of land 1797 - 1916, Record of the board of election commissioners 1921 - 1984, General index to inventories and settlements 1800 - 1910,  Circuit Court Records, Civil Case files 1795 - 1949, Marriage books 1780 - 1931, Marriage licenses 1930 -1984, Marriage registers 1784 - 1911, Order books 1780 - 1901, General indexes to wills 1784 - 1972, Wills (loose) 1901 - 1977, Will books 1784 - 1966.

Confederate Pension Applications - Passed by the Kentucky General Assembly on 04 Mar 1912, the Confederate Pension Act provided aid to indigent and disabled Confederate veterans and their widows.  In some cases, the application and supporting documents are the only surviving records of a soldier's service.  Generally, each application contains the veteran's date and place of birth, his unit designation, and terms of service.  Some files may also contain marriage and death records.  The Index of Confederate Pension Applications, published by KDLA in 1978, provides access to this material.

The Kentucky Confederate Home - The Confederate Veteran's Home was located at Pewee Valley in Oldham County, was established by an Act of the Kentucky General Assembly in 1902.  This collection of material remains largely unprocessed.  A list of inmates dated 1912 is among the records available to researchers on microfilm.  Unprocessed material includes applications for admission by Confederate veterans on microfiche as well as Reference Book B, and a roster of applicants dated 1903 - 1909.

Louisville City Directories
1832-1930-MICROFILM
1931-present-PAPER

Louisville Suburban Directories, 1957 to the present. PAPER

Tax Records

       
Real Property Tax Rolls for Jefferson County, Kentucky,
               1789-1892, hard copy.
           Property Tax Rolls for Jefferson County, Kentucky 1956-1968,
               hard copy, 1969-74, microfilm.
            Real Property Tax Rolls for the city of Louisville, 1835-1885,
 microfilm.

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