Category: Kentucky Research

Some Kentuckians Move West: Creekmores, Blakeleys, and Related Families

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: fhc2022

A collection of family histories and biographical sketches about the Creekmores, Blakelys, and other related families. The primary reason for this publication is the genealogical record. 105 pages, full name index. Names include: Breeden, Dolson, Hockensmith, Mague, Parshall, Whisnon,
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NGS Research In The States Series Kentucky

By: Bettie Cummings Cook

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Arlington, Virginia, NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500KY

ISBN-13: 9781935815044

Binding: saddle stitch

Condition: like new

Once part of Virginia, Kentucky became a state in 1792. In its earliest days, it offered one of the primary passageways for settlers traveling west. Though Daniel Boone did not discover the Cumberland Gap through the Appalachian Mountains, he is credited with blazing the Wilderness Road to Boonesborough. Settlers bound for lands farther west took the Wilderness Road to where it joined Warrior's Path, which led to Louisville and the Ohio River. Most of those who settled in Kentucky were English, German, Irish, Scots, Scots-Irish, and Swiss. African Americans also number among the state's larges...
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Ballard County, KY
Medical Account Book of Dr. W.A. Moffitt of Kevil, KY

By: Don Simmons

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: mckyb1800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This book is a transcription of two of Dr. W.A. Moffitt's medical account books - these two span the period 1905-1907.Dr. Moffitt lived in Kevil, KY, and treated many patients in the area. He kept a running account of the names of his patients, dates of patient visits, the charges fro the visits, and often the reason for treatment. In some cases he listed the names and relationships of family members. It is also interesting to note the dates he attended women during their labor and childbirth. It may come as a surprise that Dr. Moffitt received many forms of payment besides cash - some patient...
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Simpson County, Kentucky Area
Pre-1911 Obituaries

By: Dorothy Donnell Steers

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: mckys1901

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

This is a compilation of all pre-1911 newspaper obituaries which the compiler has had access to. Many of these obituaries do not contain the given names of the people who died, especially the women. 199 pages, full name index.

Names include: Collier, Galloway, Isbell, Montague, Oatey, Swearingen
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"Second Census" of Kentucky 1800

By: G. Glenn Clift

Price: ~~$33.00~~ $18.00

Seller ID: gp1060

ISBN-13: 9780806300771

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

This "second census" of Kentucky is an alphabetical list of 32,000 taxpayers and is based on original tax lists on file in the Kentucky Historical Society. Information given includes the county of residence and the date of the tax list in which the individual is listed. The genealogist finding a name of interest can then refer to the tax list (all are on microfilm), where he will find such information as the amount of land owned and its location, the number of individuals in various categories attached to the household, and other background information. 333 pages.Names include: Carnehan, Elems...
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Notes On Kentucky Veterans Of The War 1812

By: G. Glenn Clift

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1964

Seller ID: mcmi2102

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Moderately Used, some markings

58 pages. These random notes were gathered in the course of research and reading for a planned volume concerning The Battles and massacre on River Raisin, January 18-23, 1813. Sources generally were newspaper files owned by the Society, county pension lists, county histories and contributed cemetery and other local records.
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Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings"

By: George C. Wright

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: mcky1800

ISBN-13: 9780807115367

Binding: Library

Condition: Very Good

In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war. In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentucky's proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial oppression every bit as severe and prolonged as that found farther south. His examination of the causes and extent of racial violence, and of ...
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Kentucky Cavaliers In Dixie or The Reminiscences of. Confederate Cavalryman

By: George Dallas Mosgrove

Price: $35.00

Publisher: : 1991

Seller ID: mcky2100

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Like New

281 pages, including index, This is an odd sort of book. No other personal narrative on either side in the Civil War. bears close resemblance to it. It has a character and flavor all it's own.
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The Sullivans and Allied Families

By: George W. Sullivan

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Wolfe City, Texas, Henington : 1995

Seller ID: fhs1200

Binding: Blue Cloth

Condition: NEW

610 indexed pages of Sullivan family history, covering 230 years of Sullivan history in America.
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Seedtime on the Cumberland

By: Harriette Simpson Arnow

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: mcky2010

ISBN-13: 9780803259263

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Like New

The settling of southern Kentucky and middle Tennessee from pre-Revolutionary times to the beginning of the nineteenth century is described in everyday detail by Harriette Arnow, the author of The Dollmaker. "It is the art of pioneering rather than the acts of individuals in the westward movement that gives backbone to this book," wrote historian Thomas D. Clark in the New York Times Book Review. "The author takes her reader along the early trails, onto the land, into the cabins, and even into the private lives of the people." 449 pages, indexed.
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The Kentucky Encyclopedia

By: John E. Kleber

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: mcky2003

ISBN-13: 9780813117720

Binding: Library

Condition: Good

The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis...
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Gentlemen Farmers To City Folks A Study of Wallace Woods, Covington, Kentucky

By: Joseph F. Gastright

Price: $20.00

Publisher: : 1980

Seller ID: mcky2008

Binding: soft cover

Condition: Like New, page 30 is detached from binding

The early history of the Wallace Woods neighborhood is largely the story of three merchants from Cincinnati, Ohio. These merchants, who had intermingled backgrounds and shared interest, were the first to settle the area. All three men: Robert Wallace, Daniel Holmes, and Eugene Levassor, were successful in their business ventures, and were able to get away from commercial life and play the role of gentlemen farmers on their lands two miles south of the Ohio River. 64 pages
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Logan County, Kentucky Deed Abstracts 1792-1813 Abstracts Of Deed Books Volumes AI, A, B, C

By: Joyce Martin Murray

Price: $50.00

Publisher: : 1993

Seller ID: mckyl2000

Condition: Used, Ex-Library

176 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. Logan County, Kentucky Deed Abstracts 1792-1813 Abstracts Of Deed Books Volumes AI, A, B, C
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The Kentucky Gazette, 1787-1800: Genealogical and Historical Abstracts

By: Karen Mauer Green

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: mcky2006

ISBN-13: 9780932231000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A collection of genealogical and historical abstracts from the Kentucky Gazette newspaper, dated between 1787-1800. 330 pages, indexed. Names include: Alderson, Chinn, Frazer, Mansell, Seitz, Worthy
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The Kentucky Gazette, 1801-1820: Genealogical and Historical Abstracts

By: Karen Mauer Green

Price: $55.00

Seller ID: mcky2007

ISBN-13: 9780932231017

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A collection of genealogical and historical abstracts from the Kentucky Gazette newspaper, dated between 1801-1820. 370 pages, indexed. Names include: Boswell, Davenport, Jouitt, Meigs, Robards, Usher
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Old Graveyards of Clark County, Kentucky

By: Kathryn Owen

Price: $60.00

Publisher: : 1975

Seller ID: mckyc2000

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

A collection of cemetery records from old graveyards in Clark County, Kentucky; includes black and white photographs. 146 pages, surname index.

Names include: Caskey, Gravett, Hisle, Linvill, Rupard, Thacker
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Early Louisville, Kentucky Newspaper Abstracts 1806-1828

By: Lola Frazer Crowder

Price: $45.00

Publisher: : 1995

Seller ID: mcky2001

ISBN-13: 9780932231109

Binding: Library

Condition: New

In the following book are genealogical and historical abstracts from five early Louisville, Kentucky, newspapers. Included are the "Western American", 1806; the "Louisville Gazette and Western Advertiser", 1807-1809; the "Western Courier", 1813-1816; the "Louisville Correspondent", 1813-1817; and the "Louisville Public Advertiser", 1818-1828. When using this book as a research tool, please keep in mind that the people of this time period sometimes spelled words phonetically. 283 pages, full name index.

Names include: Amiss, Davy, Goodnough, Joyes, Moffitt, Quetermos,
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The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America

By: N. Brent Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan Kennedy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Mercer University Press : 1996

Seller ID: mcr1624

ISBN: 978-0865545168

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

As early as 1654, English and French explorers in the southern Appalachians reported seeing dark-skinned, brown- and blue-eyed, and European-featured people speaking broken Elizabethan English, living in cabins, tilling the land, smelting silver, practicing Christianity, and, most perplexing of all, claiming to be Portyghee. Declared free persons of color in the late 1700s by the English and Scottish-Irish immigrants, the Melungeons, as they were known, were driven off their lands and denied voting rights, education, and the right to judicial process.

Index. 180 p. &
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The Rowan Story: From Federal Hill to My Old Kentucky Home

By: Randall Capps

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: fhr1800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Within these pages Professor Randall Capps has captured that striking Kentucky physiognomy in the Rowan family history, an engrossing narrative stretching from the pioneer period until 1920. In their first generation on Kentucky soil, the Rowans went from buckskin to broadcloth, from log cabin to mansion. Through succeeding generations they provide flesh and blood examples of the characteristics that Flint describes in the abstract: courage, frankness, generosity, individualism, and family pride. 110 pages, indexed. Names include: Adair, Buchannan, Crittenden, Grundy, Lytle, Sharp,
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Descendants of John Michael Kreider of Montgomery County Pennsylvania

By: Rebecca L Blackwell

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Heritage Books : 2007

Seller ID: fhk1700

ISBN-13: 9780788410918

Binding: perfect

Condition: very good

Descendants of John Michael Kreider of Montgomery County Pennsylvania-Crider Families of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee This book follows the descendants of John Michael Kreider (1712-1761), who sailed from Germany to Philadelphia in 1732, The author traces nine generations as the families settle in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The surname changed from Krider/Kreider/Krauter to Crider. Allied families include Bennett, Green, Holladay, as well as others. 180 pages, indexed.
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Kentucky Ancestry: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research

By: Roseann Reinemuth Hogan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ancestry.com : 1992

Seller ID: mcky2106

ISBN-13: 9780916489496

Binding: Soft cover

Kentucky Ancestry is the most extensive available guide for Kentucky genealogical and historical research. This genealogical gem outlines the holdings of the Kentucky State Archives and Kentucky's libraries, courthouses, universities, and historical organizations. Author Dr. Roseann Hogan's experience and knowledge will help you achieve efficient and successful research in Kentucky—a state that played a key role in the United States' western expansion.

Index. 388 p. &
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Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds

By: Willard Rouse Jillson, Sc.D.

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: mcky2005

ISBN-13: 9780806301938

Binding: Library

Condition: Used Library, Fair

A complete index to all of the earliest land entries, military warrants, deeds, and wills of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 571 pages. Names include: Dougherty, Fleet, Halley, Kircheval, Montague, Shackleford,
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Kentucky Censuses & Substitute Name Lists, 1773 - 2000 Second Edition

By: William Dollarhide

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Family Roots Publishing Co.

Seller ID: fra0243

ISBN-13: 9781628591880

Binding: soft cover

Condition: like new

Name lists are key to success in any genealogical endeavor. Name lists, be they national, state, county, or even city or town in scope, can help nail down the precise place where one's ancestor may have lived. And if that can be done, further records, usually found on a local level, will now be accessible to research. But success depends on knowing where the ancestor resided. This is where Dollarhide's Name List guides can make the difference. Not only does this volume give a detailed bibliography of Name Lists available for the state, but links to websites, FHL books or microfilm numbers,...
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Big Sandy Valley History of the People and Country From The Earliest Settlement To The Present Time

By: William Ely

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1993

Seller ID: mcky2011

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Like New

500 pages, including index, free shipping media mail. As the readier progresses along in this volume, the doings of those pioneers will be chronicled. The majority of the early settlers belonged to the best families of the older States.
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The Big Sandy Valley: A History of the People and Country from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

By: William Ely

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: mcky2002

Binding: Library

Condition: Very Good

This book follows the families and single individuals from their entrance into the Sandy Valley to the end of their career, and tell what they have added to the history of the country. The annuals of almost every family noticed in this book have been furnished to us by a member of the family whose deeds we chronicle. 500 pages, indexed. Names include: Barbee, Castle, Endicott, Meek, O'Brian, Ulen,
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Category: Kentucky Research