Genealogy Projects tagged with Kentucky on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Hancock County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hancock County, Kentucky. Official Website Hancock County was formed in 1829 and was named for John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adjacent Counties Breckinridge County Perry County, Indiana Ohio County Daviess County Spencer County, Indiana ...

  • Breckinridge County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. History The area presently bounded by Kentucky state lines was a part of the U.S. State of Virginia, known as Kentucky County when the British colonies separated themselves in the American Revolutionary War. In 1780, the Virginia legislature divided the previous Kentucky County into three smaller uni...

  • Haddix-Stamper Branch Cemetery, Lee City, Kentucky

    This cemetery is located on 289 Stamper Branch Road, Lee City, Wolfe County, Kentucky. Find a Grave

  • Floyd County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Floyd County, Kentucky. The county was named for James John Floyd, a pioneer surveyor who helped lay out the city of Louisville. The first court house burned down on April 8, 1808, destroying all the early records, so the earliest records of government activity do not date prior to 1808. Prestonsburg was used as a Confederate strongh...

  • Pendleton County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pendleton County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was founded December 13, 1798. It was named after Edmund Pendleton, a longtime member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Continental Congress and chief justice of Virginia. During the American Civil War, the county sent men to both armies. A Union Army recruiting camp was...

  • Grove Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville, Kentucky

    This cemetery is located on 458 Mount Eden Road, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky. Find a Grave Grove Hill Cemetery Website

  • Greenwood Cemetery, Adairville, Kentucky

    From Hwy 431, head west on Hwy 591, the cemetery is on the left, in Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky. It's also known as Adairville City Cemetery . Find a Grave

  • Greenup County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greenup County, Kentucky. Official Website Greenup County was organized by an act of the General Assembly of Kentucky on December 12, 1803 and named in honor of Christopher Greenup, a U.S. politician, and Kentucky governor. Adjacent Counties Boyd County Lawrence County, Ohio Carter County Lewis County Scioto County, O...

  • Green County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Green County, Kentucky. Official Website History Green County was formed in 1792. The county is named for Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene, but the reason why the final E is missing is unknown. The country's first known serial killers, Big Harpe and Little Harpe, murdered a twelve-year-old Green County boy in 1799....

  • Grayson County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grayson County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was formed in 1810 and named for William Grayson (1740-1790), a Revolutionary War colonel and a prominent Virginia political figure. Adjacent Counties Breckinridge County Hardin County Ohio County Butler County Edmonson County Hart County Cities & Communities

  • Graves County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Graves County, Kentucky. History Graves County was named for Capt. Benjamin Franklin Graves, who was one of numerous Kentucky officers killed after being taken as a prisoner in the disastrous 1813 Battle of Raisin River in Michigan Territory during the War of 1812. He disappeared while being forced by the Potawatomi, allies of th...

  • Grant County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grant County, Kentucky. Official Website Grant County was established in 1820 and named for Colonel John Grant, who led a party of settlers in 1779 to establish Grant's Station, in today's Bourbon County, Kentucky. Adjacent Counties Boone County Kenton County Gallatin County Owen County Harrison County Pendleton County

  • Hopkins County, Kentucky

    This project is part of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Hopkins County, Kentucky. You can add profiles for:* People born in Hopkins County, Kentucky* People who lived in Hopkins County, Kentucky* People who died in Hopkins County, KentuckyWhen you find helpful resources for research, ple...

  • Golden Oaks Memorial Gardens, Ashland, Kentucky

    This cemetery is located on 422 55th Street, Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky. It's also known as East Ashland Memorial Gardens and Williams Cemetery . Find a Grave

  • Glasgow Municipal Cemetery, Glasgow, Kentucky

    The Glasgow Municipal Cemetery is situated on what was originally farmland on the outskirts of town, owned by the Depp and Lynn families. This cemetery is Glagow's third public burying ground. Glasgow's first graveyard was located behind the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of East Washington Street and Broadway; that burial ground was moved in the late 1920's. The second graveyard was l...

  • Gillum Cemetery, Carter County, Kentucky

    This cemetery is located on Gillum Cemetery Road - Mile Branch, Carter County, Kentucky. Find a Grave

  • Gallatin County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gallatin County, Kentucky. Official Website Overview The county was formed on December 14, 1798 and named for Albert Gallatin, the Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson. During the Civil War, several skirmishes occurred in the county and the Union Army arrested a number of men for treason for supporting the C...

  • Fulton County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fulton County, Kentucky. History The rural county was organized in 1845. It was named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. The county was developed for agriculture, which was originally dependent on slave labor. Area farmers had ties to Tennessee planters, and shipped produce down the Mississippi River, which formed the...

  • Fort Campbell

    Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astride the Kentucky–Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee (post address is located in Kentucky). Fort Campbell is home to the 101st Airborne Division and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The fort is named in honor of Union Army Brigadier General William Bowen Campbell, the last Whig G...

  • Fort Knox

    Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated. The 109,000-acre (170 square mile) base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin and Meade counties. It currently holds...

  • Bullitt County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bullitt County, Kentucky. Official Website History Both France and Britain had traders and colonists who encountered the Shawnee. European colonization of the Americas led to competing claims between those nations to the lands west of the Appalachians and east of the Mississippi River. After suffering defeat by Great Britain in th...

  • Meade County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meade County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was founded December 17, 1823, and named for Captain James M. Meade, who was killed in action at the Battle of River Raisin during the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties Hardin County Breckinridge County Perry County, Ind. Harrison County, Ind. Crawford County, Ind. ...

  • Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Paducah, Kentucky

    This project is for those buried in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. Find a Grave

  • Bellarmine University

    Wikipedia =Bellarmine University is an independent, private, Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky. The liberal arts institution opened on October 3, 1950, as Bellarmine College, established by Archbishop John A. Floersh of the Archdiocese of Louisville and named after the Cardinal Saint Robert Bellarmine. The name was changed by the Board of Trustees in 2000 to Bellarmine University. The...

  • Cave Hill National Cemetery

    Cave Hill National Cemetery, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is comprised of six burial sections at the northwest corner of the privately owned Cave Hill Cemetery , (a separate project on Geni), a grand Victorian-era cemetery that provided a proper resting place for the dead within a beautiful park setting. The national cemetery features rows of marble headstones following the curvilinear path...

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