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Early Kentucky Settlers, 1700s-1800s CD

Genealogies of Kentucky Families CD

Kentucky Land Records, 1774-1924 CD

IL, IN, KY, OH, and TN: 1720-1926 Marriage Index CD

KY, NC, TN, VA, WV, 1728-1850 Marriage Index CD

Kentucky Vital Records: Marriages 1780-1920 (Selected Counties) CD

Kentucky, 1850 Census Records CD

 

Kentucky Genealogy & History Books: General Interest

Kentucky Ancestry: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research icon

The Scots-Irish in Pennsylvania & Kentucky icon

Kentucky Records: Early Wills and Marriages Copied from Court House Records by Regents, Historians and the State Historian Old Bible Records and Tombstone Inscriptions icon

Early Kentucky Tax Records

Kentucky Court of Appeals Deed Books icon

Kentucky Colonization in Texas: a History of the Peters Colony icon

Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky icon

The Kentucky Gazette: Genealogical and Historical Abstracts icon

Kentucky Pioneers and Their Descendants icon

Kentucky Genealogical Sources icon

Early Kentucky Householders, 1787-1811 icon

Kentucky Frontiersmen Located in Census and County Records icon

Talley's Northeastern Kentucky Papers

1890 Special Veterans Census for Eastern Kentucky

The Big Sandy Valley: A Regional History Prior to the Year 1850. Boone Day Address, 1922, Kentucky State Historical Society icon

Sold! Descendants of Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri Pioneers

Polish Pioneers of Virginia and Kentucky; With Notes on Genealogy of the SADOWSKI Family

Jenny Wiley Country: A History of the Big Sandy Valley in Kentucky's Eastern Highlands and Genealogy of the Region's People icon

Early Kentucky Landholders, 1787-1811

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky: Of the Dead & Living Men of the Nineteenth Century

More Marylanders to Kentucky, 1778-1828

Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823: Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina

The Shane Manuscript Collection: A Genealogical Guide to the Kentucky and Ohio Papers

Sold! Early Kentucky Newspapers

Kentuckians in Illinois

Kentuckians in Missouri, Including Many Who Migrated by Way of Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois

Pioneers of Eastern Kentucky; Their Feuds and Settlements

'To Shoot, Burn, and Hang:' Folk-History from a Kentucky Mountain Family and Community

From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow: Unusual Kentucky Place Names

A History of Kentucky-Embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, & Biographies
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The Pioneer Press of Kentucky

Heroes and Horses: Tales of the Bluegrass

Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky

Felix Moses: The Beloved Jew of Stringtown on the Pike icon

South from Hell-Fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales

Kentucky Families: A Bibliographic Listing

Kentucky Pioneers and Their Descendants

Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky to the General Assembly of Virginia

Sold! The Land Grants of Kentucky: a Systematic Index of All the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfurt, Kentucky, 1782-1924 Two Volumes icon
"This standard reference work contains abstracts of approximately 150,000 Kentucky land grants for the entire period 1782-1924, and it is usually the first book any searcher for Kentucky ancestors uses. Arranged alphabetically according to the type of grant, it provides the full name of the grantee, number of acres, date of survey, name of county, watercourse, and the volume and page number of the original entry. Out of print for many years, the book is now in great demand."

Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records: Abstracts of Early Wills, Deeds and Marriages from Court Houses and Records of Old Bibles, Churches, Grave Yards and Cemeteries

Life and Writings of John FILSON, the First Historian of Kentucky Filson Club Publications Number One icon

Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865 icon

Kentucky Court and Other Records, Volume I: Early Wills and Marriages, Old Bible Records and Tombstones Inscriptions

Kentucky Court and Other Records, Volume II: Wills, Deeds, Orders, Suits, Church Minutes, Marriages, Old Bibles and Tombstone Records

Wills and Ways: Miscellaneous Kentucky Records

Pioneer Kentuckians With Missouri Cousins icon

Stories of Kentucky Feuds icon

An Atlas of Boone, Kenton and Campbell Counties, Kentucky icon 

Colonial Men and Times: Containing the Journal of Col. Daniel TRABUE; The Huguenots; Genealogy- With Brief Sketches of the Allied Families

Historic Families of Kentucky

Kentucky Family Archives

Kentucky Obituaries 1787-1854 icon

Census of Kentucky 1850, Four Volumes icon

Register of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1947 icon

A Complete Index to the Names of Persons, Places and Subjects Mentioned in Littell's Laws of Kentucky: A Genealogical & Historical Guide

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Kentucky Folks & Families: Biographies, Autobiographies, Genealogies, etc., by Surname

Kentucky's Bicentennial Family Register

Descendants of Stephen C. HAWKINS of Campbell County, Kentucky With Reference to the Allied Families of BARTON, CLEPHANE, ECKERT, MARSHALL, and THOMASSON icon

JOUETT - BUSH - FRAZER: Early Kentucky Artists icon

Our Pioneer Ancestors, Vol. II: the Genealogy of the SCOTT and GALLOWAY Families (Scotland, Mifflin Co., Pennsylvania, Bourbon Co., Kentucky) icon

Historic Families of Kentucky: With Special Reference to Stocks Immediately Derived from the Valley of Virginia icon

The ARVINs and ROBERTSONs of Estill County, Kentucky icon

Kentucky BRIGHTs and their Kin: Including CRABB, DRANE, FORD, HOPKINS and KING Families icon

Some Webster County, Kentucky, Families: BAKER, BASSETT, GIVENS, JOHNSON, PAYNE, PRICE, RICE, and Others icon

The ALLEN Family of Eastern Kentucky (5 Volumes) icon

Original 1855 Vintage Sheet Music: Evergreen Polka Mazourka icon
Dedicated to Margaret and Sarah ARTHUR of Maysville, Kentucky

The BAILEYs of Eastern Kentucky icon

Highlights of the Life of Henry BARE Amid the Cliffs of Caney Creek, Kentucky icon

William BEARD of Nelson County, Kentucky, and His Descendants

Thomas H. BENTON of Morgan County, Kentucky and His Descendants icon

The BOSWELLs Of Shelby County, Kentucky icon

The BOWMANs, a Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky, and the Northwest Territory icon

BRECKINRIDGEs of Kentucky

To Western Woods: The BRECKINRIDGE Family Moves to Kentucky in 1793 icon

John Tinne BROCK of Clark County, Kentucky: Ancestors and Descendants icon

Three Kentucky Pioneers: James, William, and Patrick BROWN icon

Oxmoor, the BULLITT Family Estate Near Louisville, Kentucky, Since 1787

BURNETTs from Virginia to Wayne County, Kentucky

East of the Ohio, South of Red Banks, West of Harpe's Head, North of the Tradewater With Judge Peter CASEY, His Court, Nancy WAGGENER and Their Contemporaries (1811-1812) Henderson, Union, Webster Counties (a Biography & Local History) icon

A History of the Family of John Collins CLARDY of Kentucky icon

The Sun Will Shine-Again: an Orphan Boy's Journey Through the Great Depression and the "Big War" icon
by Powell County native Ralph CONLEE

Voices from the Century Before icon
CLAY & FIELD Families, Bourbon Co., KY

Another DALTON Gang: The Story of an American Family icon

The DANCE Family icon

The DUNCANs of Bourbon County, Kentucky: With Notes From Other Counties icon

DuVALs of Kentucky from Virginia, 1794-1935: Descendants and Allied Families icon

Civilizers: the DuVALs of Texas: From Virginia Through Kentucky and Florida icon

The ENGLAND Family in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois icon

Sold! The FALCONBURYs of Casey County, Kentucky icon

A FINN Genealogy, 1750-1985: Some Ancestors and Descendants of Colman FINN, 1823-1916, Grandson of Richard FINN, 1750-1833 of Adair County, Kentucky icon

Biographical Genealogies of the Virginia-Kentucky FLOYD Families: With Notes of Some Collateral Branches

Annals of the FOWLER Family, with Branches in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, California and Texas icon

Captain John FOWLER of Virginia and Kentucky: Patriot, Soldier, Pioneer, Statesman, Land Baron and Civic Leader

Autobiography of John G. FEE icon

Sold! Judge James GARNETT 1834-1905: His Ancestors and Descendants icon

Kentucky Cousins: The GOODE Family of Barren County, Kentucky and Related Families

Josiah GOODWIN and Descendants icon

Ancestors and Heirs of the Paralee GRAHAM and Daniel SANDERS Family of Mercer County, Kentucky

The GREENs of Falls of Rough: A Kentucky Family Biography, 1795-1965 icon

Sold! HURTs from South Carolina to Wayne County, Kentucky

Some Descendants of John and Elizabeth Cummins JACKSON in Kentucky... icon

Sold! The Thread Runs Not so Truly: a Family Story: Containing a Partial Account of a JENKINS Family That Originated in Letcher County, Kentucky icon

The Early Settlement of Todd County, Kentucky: Sketches By Urban Ewing KENNEDY and the KENNEDY Family History icon

Generations: an American Family icon
LEDFORD Family of Harlan Co., Kentucky

Three Generations of Kentucky LINCOLNs; Elizabethtown, Kentucky 1779-1879 icon

Peter MARTIN, 1741 - 1807: A Revolutionary Soldier of Virginia Buried in Shelby County, Kentucky; His Washington County, Indiana and Many Other Descendants. 464p., typescript

The Life and Times of Ephraim McDOWELL icon

The McKEEs of Virginia and Kentucky

William McMURTRY of Kentucky and Alabama and His Descendants icon

Jacob MINOR in Kentucky and His Descendants

The Life of Rev. Walter Ellis POWERS

Henry RAINS, 1767-1838: The RAINS Family of Yellow Creek, Kentucky icon

The RISNER Family of Eastern Kentucky (4 Volumes)

Famous Virginia & Kentucky RUSSELLs

Ancestors and Heirs of the Paralee GRAHAM and Daniel SANDERS Family of Mercer County, Kentucky

The SANDERS of Saloma [Kentucky]: Some Ancestors and Descendents of Henry SANDERS, 1776-1844, with Notes on Related Families

Descendants of Lemuel SHERWOOD with a Named Daguerreotype of wife Mrs. Mary SHERWOOD, age 45 years, Brookland, Ohio Nov 25, 1853 icon

Raccoon John SMITH: Frontiersman and Reformer icon

SNYDER Family History: Headed by Frederick and Son, William, of Whitley County, Kentucky icon

The SPALDING Family of Maryland, Kentucky and Georgia from 1658...

Uriah SUTHERLAND Family icon

Biography of Elder Alfred TAYLOR icon

Family History of the Joseph TAYLOR, Jr. And Sarah BEST Family of Tyrell, Martin &Edgecombe Counties, North Carolina and Warren County, Kentucky

The THOMPSON Family of Prince Edward County, Virginia Butler and Trigg Counties, Kentucky and the Florida Parishes of Louisiana; the Descendants of Thomas THOMPSON, 1740-1810 Including the Families BREATHITT, BRISTOW, CARTER, GAYDEN, GRINTER, HILL icon

Sold! Ancestry of Sanford Lathadeus TIPPIN Family of Henderson County, Kentucky icon

Memoir of Col. Charles S. TODD icon

Colonial Men and Times: Containing the Journal of Col. Daniel TRABUE; The Huguenots; Genealogy- With Brief Sketches of the Allied Families

Sold! V. WARE's Picture Gallery icon

Sold! The WARREN Family of Trigg County, Kentucky icon

WILSON Families in Cumberland County, Virginia and Woodford County, Kentucky

David Wendel YANDELL: Physician of Old Louisville icon

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Kentucky Patriots:  Military History

Kentucky in the War of 1812

The Civil War in the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky

Travels and Adventures in Mexico: in the Course of Journeys of Upward of 2500 Miles, Performed on Foot...

Fulton Countians in the Civil War: Biographical Sketches of the Men from Fulton Co., Kentucky, and Surrounding Area who Participated in Our Nation's Civil War, 1861-1865: Unit Histories and Muster Rolls icon

Rattling Spurs and Broad-Brimmed Hats: The Civil War in Cynthiana and Harrison County, Kentucky

The Union Regiments of Kentucky

History of Morgan's Cavalry

Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History

1890 Special Veterans' Census for Eastern Kentucky

Bourbon County Men and Women Who Served in World War Two icon

The Cornstalk Militia of Kentucky (1792-1811) icon

Kentucky & the Second American Revolution: The War of 1812 icon

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Soldiers of the War of 1812

When the Ripe Pears Fell: The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky

History of the Orphan Brigade, 1861-1865 icon

Ten Months in the 'Orphan Brigade:' Conrade Wise CHAPMAN's Civil War Memoir 

Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie: Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman icon
by George Dallas MUSGROVE

Old Cane Springs a Story of the War Between the States in Madison County, Kentucky

A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) (Voices of the Civil War)

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Uniquely Kentucky: Vintage Postcards, Cookbooks, Maps & More

Original 1944 Brochure: Bethany Orphanage Began In A Windowless Log Cabin; 1926 - 1944; Stands As A Beacon Light To The Mountain Orphans Community People

Sang Branch Settlers: Folksongs and Tales of a Kentucky Mountain Family icon

Ghost Railroads Of Kentucky

Hospitality Kentucky Style, Kentucky Heritage Grand Tour and Kentucky Fine Foods and Spirits icon

JOUETT - BUSH - FRAZER: Early Kentucky Artists

The New Claudia Sanders Dinner House of Shelbyville, Kentucky, Cookbook icon

Out of Green River Kitchens (A Collection of Family Recipes) icon

A Fort Craig Reader: An Historical Cookbook Presented By the Hart County Historical Society icon

Sold! Scott County Senior Citizens Georgetown News - Georgetown Times 1976 Cookbook

Favorite Recipes From Caldwell County Homemakers 1971 icon

Central Kentucky: Bullitt, Marion, Nelson, Spencer, and Washington Counties (Postcard History Series) icon

A New Map of Kentucky With Its Roads & Distances From Place to Place Along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes icon
(1833)

Sold! Unique, Original Autograph Letter Signed (Als) to "My Dear Sir, " Regarding His Account icon
by John KNOX of Barboursville, Kentucky.  Dated December 16, 1857. From the Seller: "Original folds o/w in very good condition 9.75" x 7.5" one page Written in black ink on blue paper in a legible hand. KNOX states that a Mr. BROMHAM has just told him that "you think you hold a receipt from me for the amount of my account against you...." KNOX says that the recipient is mistaken, that he is confusing his debt to KNOX with a debt owed by Louisa, which the recipient actually did pay off in 1851, etc., etc. Barboursville [Barbourville] is in Knox County, Kentucky."

Original 1855 Vintage Sheet Music: Evergreen Polka Mazourka icon
Dedicated to Margaret and Sarah ARTHUR of Maysville, Kentucky

Larue County Kitchens icon

Home Cookin': the JANES Family icon

The Green Line; the Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Railway: an Illustrated History of Public Transit in Northern Kentucky icon

A New Map of Kentucky With Its Roads & Distances From Place to Place Along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes icon

Charles Patteson's Kentucky Cooking icon

Green River Catfish Festival Cookbook, Etc. icon

Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age icon

Greetings from Kentucky: A Post Card Tour, 1900-1950 icon

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