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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was founded in December 1798 from land given by Lincoln and Green Counties and named for Polish patriot Count Casimir Pulaski. Adjacent Counties Lincoln County Rockcastle County Casey County Russell County Laurel County McCreary County Wayne County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Casey County, Kentucky. The county was formed in 1806 from the western part of Lincoln County and named for Colonel William Casey, a pioneer settler who moved his family to Kentucky in 1779. It is the only Kentucky county entirely in the Knobs region. Casey County is home to annual Casey County Apple Festival, and is a prohibition o...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Adair County, Kentucky. Official Website History Adair County was formed on December 11, 1801, from sections of Green County . Columbia was chosen as the county seat the following year and the first courthouse was built in 1806. The county was named in honor of John Adair , a veteran of the Revolutionary War and Northwest Indian...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Kentucky. Overview Fayette County—originally Fayette County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, when it abolished and subdivided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln. Together, these counties and those set off from them later in that decade separa...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Barnes families, from earliest origins to near modern times. How to Participate Send a request to collaborate on this project and I'll add you as a collaborator. If the profile is a public profile you have edit rights to, then navigate to the profile and under "More Actions" choose "Add to project" or cl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knott County, Kentucky. Official Website Knott County was established in 1884 and was named for James Proctor Knott, Governor of Kentucky (1883-1887). Adjacent Counties Floyd County Magoffin County Pike County Breathitt County Perry County Letcher County Cities & Communities Anco | Bath | Bearville | Betty | ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knox County, Kentucky. Official Website Knox County was formed on December 19, 1799. It is usually assumed to be named for Henry Knox of Massachusetts, a Revolutionary War general and the first United States Secretary of War. However, there is strong evidence that it was actually named for James Knox. Knox was a pre-war explorer and...
Grace Episcopal Memorial Garden Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, USA:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Official Website Jefferson County—originally Jefferson County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, when it abolished and partitioned Kentucky County into three counties. In 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, George Rogers Clark's militia and 60 civilian settl...
Wikipedia The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky, a member of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Taylor County, Kentucky. Official Website Settled by people from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina after the American Revolutionary War, the county was organized in 1848 in the Highland Rim region. It is named for United States Army General Zachary Taylor, later President of the United States. Adjacent Counties ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Rowan County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was created in 1856 and named after John Rowan, who represented Kentucky in the House of Representatives and the Senate. In summer 2015, Rowan County attracted national attention when County Clerk Kim Davis refused, on grounds of religion, to follow a court order requiring her to...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Martin County, Kentucky.= Official Website = The county was founded in 1870 and is named for Congressman John Preston Martin. Adjacent Counties * Lawrence County * Wayne County, WV * Johnson County * Floyd County * Pike County * Mingo County, WV Communities *Beauty*Inez (County Seat)*Job*Laura*Lovely*Pilgrim*Tomahawk*Warfield
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Johnson County, Kentucky. Official Website History Johnson County was formed on February 24, 1843 by the Kentucky General Assembly. At that time, its county seat of Paintsville had already been a chartered city for nine years. Homes had been built in Paintsville as early as the 1810s. Many of the families at the beginning of Johnso...
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...
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 Kentucky. You can add profiles for: People born in Kentucky People who lived in Kentucky People who died in Kentucky When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit....
This project is to trace the Hatfield and McCoy families back to their earliest known roots, focusing on the descendants involved in the famous feud, and notable descendants up to the present. Notables: * Earliest known ancestors: Ephraim Hatfield b. c.1765; William McCoy b. c.1750* Heads of clans: William Anderson Devil Anse Hatfield; Randolph Ole Ran'l McCoy Sources: * Reading: *
This project is for all those ancestors from the Kentuckiana area. The area surrounding Louisville, Ky, on both sides of the river.
Persons of note who were born, raised, or spent portions of their lives in the American Commonwealth of Kentucky. Additions to the list welcome.===notables===* John Adair pioneer and political leader;* Muhammad Ali , boxer* Alben W. Barkley vice president;* Louis D. Brandeis jurist;* John Mason Brown critic;* Kit Carson scout;* Champ Clark politician;* George Clooney actor;* Rosemary Clooney si...
St. Stephen Church, begun in 1854, was located at Ninth and Saratoga Streets in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky. With the establishment of the parish, eleven acres were also purchased about four miles from Newport on the Alexandria Pike, in Fort Thomas, to serve as a parish cemetery. The cemetery was blessed by Bishop Carrell on Sunday, May 20, 1868. In 1908, an additional 19 acres were purc...
Wikipedia =Mill Springs National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the town of Nancy, eight miles west of the city of Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Find a Grave
Paris Cemetery Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA The Paris Cemetery in Bourbon County, Kentucky was founded in 1847. The cemetery gatehouse is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. There are numerous war memorials in the cemetery that honor those who fought in the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bourbon County, Kentucky. History Bourbon County was established in 1785 from a portion of Fayette County, Virginia, and named after the French House of Bourbon, in gratitude for Louis XVI of France's assistance during the American Revolutionary War. Bourbon County, Virginia, originally comprised 34 of Kentucky's 120 current ones...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mercer County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1785 and is named for Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer, who was killed at the Battle of Princeton in 1777. Harrodsburg was the first city formally chartered in Kentucky County, the Virginia district that later became the 15th state...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lewis County, Kentucky.The county was created in 1806 and named for Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Adjacent Counties * Adams County, Ohio * Scioto County, Ohio * Mason County * Greenup County * Carter County * Rowan County * Fleming County List of Communities