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To 

McCracken County 

Genealogy And Historical Site  

Project
 

Kentucky State Coordinator: Sherri Hall

McCracken County Coordinator Charles McClure:
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My name is Charles McClure and I am your coordinator for McCracken County.
I look forward to working with each of you.  

If you have anything to contribute to the McCracken County
pages please email me and I will add it. Happy Hunting!

Anyone interested in adopting a Kentucky county, please contact Sherri Hall, KYGenWeb State Coordinator.


In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy  Database Project. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and
cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index. At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. 
Required elements of a county page included offering queries and lookups.

This project became known as
KyGenWeb.



Early McCracken County History      

McCracken County, located in the extreme western part of the state, was one of the earliest counties of the territory known as Jackson's Purchase.  It was established out of part of Hickman County in 1824, and named in honor of Captain Virgil McCracken. Before the white man made claim to the land known as the Jackson Purchase it was owned by the Chickasaw Indian Nation. This area was part of the Chickasaw Nations vast hunting grounds.

    McCracken, the 78th county formed in the state, was organized January 17, 1825
and contained 237 square miles.  It is bounded on the north by the Ohio River, in the north east by the Tennessee River, which separates it from Livingston County, in the south east by Marshall County for 8 miles, in the south by Graves County for 18 miles, and in the west by Ballard County.

It was incorporated as a town on January 11, 1830, and as a city on March 10, 1856. 
 

 


McCRACKEN COUNTY RESEARCH

 
Birth Records Biographies Cemeteries
Census Census Online Church Records
Death Notices  Deeds History of McCracken County
Homepages with McCracken County Connections Look up Volunteers McCracken County Marriages
Military Mortuary Notices Mystery Page
Obituaries Pensions Photographs   New Picture
Pictures of Tombstones  Tax Lists Wills
Land Grants Interesting Letters  The Battle of Paducah
 Classmates  ZIP Codes  Tales Of McCracken County
 ~~  McCracken County Towns
Past & Present
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Find a County for a Specific City

Links to interesting sites


McCracken County Vital Records Office
McCracken County Clerk
P.O. Box 609
Paducah, KY 42002
(270) 444-4700

McCracken County Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 7651
Paducah, KY 42002-7651


What's Available at McCracken County Library?

Directions to McCracken County Courthouse & Library



McCRACKEN COUNTY QUERIES

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NEIGHBORING COUNTIES

Ballard County

Carlisle County

Graves County

Marshall County

Livingston County

Massac County, Illinois



NOTICE: Should anything happen that I am no longer Coordinator of McCracken Co. KyGenWeb, I want it known that all of my contributions to this website (anything not specifically marked as contributed by someone else) Are to stay on the page for the new CC for the County and becomes the responsibility of the KyGenWeb Project, as part of the USGenWeb Project. Other persons who have contributed material to this website shall retain their rights to withdraw any such material should they choose to do so.
Charles McClure, 
McCracken County KyGenWeb CC



Submissions Always Welcome

 

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Many thanks to all the folks who contribute material to share with other researchers!



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This page was last modified Friday, 13-Apr-2007 21:54:46 MDT /cdm

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  Charles McClure

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