SUMMER 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS
Historical and Genealogical Happenings In and Around
Bracken County
Charles Wesley Smith invites you to visit his STAFA Website where you'll find references to many Bracken County surnames and family connections including Smith, West, Clos, Clark, Ruf, Faul, Haley, McClanahan, Hargett, Jett, Peed, and more.
Pyle, Edmonson, Ensor, Family Research, contributed by Nikki Nickell. Files include descendant charts, land owner maps to help find the Felix Baptist Church, census and land records. There is even a chart showing destructive tornadoes that touched down near Felix Church. Many thanks to Nikki for this contribution!
Marsh Family Records, contributed by Rodney Marsh. One file includes headstone transcriptions with a locator map to help find the family graveyard. The other file contains images of the 1936 Milford High School Program and Memory Book with signatures of graduates. The file is in pdf format. Thank you, Rodney!
Patricia Taylor Bader just put a new family file, "A Branch of the Teel Family," in the Bracken County KYGenWeb Attic. A big 'thank you' to Patricia for this generous contribution.
Regular features of this website were just updated. Many additional name references have been added to the "Tabitha's Tidbits" index, 2006 obituaries, old obituaries "From Our Files" and articles of interest from the Bracken County News.
An update from KYGenWeb's Kentucky Vital Records Project: We are working diligently to index and put 1914 and 1915 Kentucky Death Certificates on-line for free use at the KVRP website. This project features fully-indexed images of all Kentucky death certificates beginning in 1911, the year the Commonwealth took over responsibility of vital records from the counties. Visit the
Kentucky Vital Record Project and explore this wonderful new resource, brought to you through the hard work of new coordinator Sherri Hall and 'an army' of KVRP volunteers.
Did your family spill over into Harrison County? Not sure? Phillip Naff would like you to know about his Harrison County website. He had done a complete transcription of Harrison County marriage entries on file at the Harrison County Court Clerk's Office. Check out this valuable research tool for this sister county of Bracken.
Something fun and useful for your family research. Figure out the value of your ancestor's property in its own time with this historical dollar value converter, a free tool courtesy of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Northern Kentucky Views is a nice website with many historic photos and references of Bracken County. It includes a transcription of the 1876 Business Directory listing, 19th and 20th Century photos and postcards, 1847 county officials, World War II war dead, an 1833 unclaimed mail list, a 1798 to 1834 convict list, and several links back to our own Bracken County KYGenWeb site! They like us and we like them!
Did your Kentucky ancestor move to Illinois, then participate in the Civil War? Find out at the Illinois State Archives website.
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War has a National Grave Registration Database website with information on more than 367,405 Union soldiers.
Visit Territorial Kansas 1854-1861 to find the names of ancestors who may have moved west to Kansas.
Did you know...?
that your membership in the Kentucky Historical Society gives you access from your home PC to these important databases only available to libraries, not to individuals:
- America's Obituaries & Death Notices-a large and comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States. Each obituary or death notice is indexed by the name of the deceased person, to make searching easier and more precise. In addition, the text of each obituary or death notice is searchable, making it easier to find just what you're looking for using a place of residence, occupation, names of family members, or other personal information.
- Heritage Quest Online-Digitized from the popular UMI: Genealogy and Local History collection on microfiche, this online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical hobbyists and professionals. Includes online census images and over 7.5 million pages from digitized texts.
- Sanborn Maps for Kentucky, 1867-1970-No maps are consulted more in academic and public libraries than Sanborn fire insurance maps; the detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in dozens of Kentucky towns and cities across a century of change. Now these maps are as close as your keyboard with the Digital Sanborn Maps collection.
To learn more about joining the Kentucky Historical Society, check the Membership Page at the KHS Website.
Scot Stout, KYGenWeb Coordinator for Fleming County, would like you to know that he has updated his website in the obits, photos and cemetery transcription sections.
Access America's Obituaries & Death Notices - Members of the Kentucky Historical Society and visitors to the Society's library have access to this large and comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States. Call the KHS to learn about membership and this great resource
The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA) has several
research services available for those doing general research, family history research, judicial/governmental research or property research. These services are available to citizens within Kentucky, as well as to those residing outside the Commonwealth.
NARA is the National Archives and Records Administration. NARA's Prologue magazine for Winter 2006 spotlights
'Voices of Emancipation: Union Pension Files Giving Voice to Former Slaves,'
© 2005 by Donald R. Shaffer and Elizabeth Regosin (Winter 2005, Vol. 37, No. 4)
The Spring 2005 issue of Prologue featured 'First in the Path of the Firemen: The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, Part 1,' By Kellee Blake (Spring 1996, Vol. 28, No. 1)
Visit NARA's website to read more, or to Subscribe to this very special magazine.
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Monday, 14-Jul-2008 01:48:54 MDT
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