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Welcome McCracken County ~ Kentucky ~
Genealogy
And Historical Site
Kentucky State
Coordinator: Sherri Bradley McCracken County Coordinator Charles
McClure:
Submissions of anything you want to post. Be sure to sign our Classmates Registry.
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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!
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 This project became
known as
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.
KyGenWeb.
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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 It
was incorporated as a town on January 11, 1830, and as a city on March
10, 1856. |
McCRACKEN COUNTY RESEARCH
Derington Family Genealogy Researchers
Click on this link to meet the Deringtons.
McCracken County Vital Records Office
McCracken County Clerk
P.O. Box 609
Paducah, KY 42002
(270) 444-4700McCracken 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 | Marshall County |
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.
Submissions Always Welcome
No part of this web site may be reproduced in any form without written permission
from it's submitter, owner, publisher and moderator. (C) 2007/cdm Charles McClure
Charles McClure,
McCracken County KyGenWeb CC
All rights reserved.
Many thanks to all the folks who contribute material to share with
other researchers!
State
Coordinator
Sherri
Bradley
This
site is generously
Hosted
by KyKinfolk
National
Coordinator
Tina Vickery
A Single Yellow Rose
Project 