Kentucky Research Guides

• Guide for KY Researching Volume 12. Another in the popular series for the genealogist who is researching in KY. Topics include, but are not limited
  to: Hening's Statutes of the Law of Virginia, Harman's Stations and the
  Capture of Jennie Wiley, Kentucky and the War of 1812, Making Sense of the Census (a look at each census, what was required, dates taken, who was included, etc), Mustering Up the Courage (Civil War musters), Nightmares in the Civil War (surgeons, medicines, tools, nurses, spies, female soldiers), The Battle of Blue Lick (who was there), More on Epidemics, Migration From Kentucky, Are You A Welcome Guest (at the county offices), and much more. 31 chapters, 118 pages, $24.00

• Guide for Kentucky Researching Volume 11: Contents include Indian Problems in Carroll, Clark and Fleming Counties, The Handkerchief Attack, The Faithful Horse, The Black White Man, The Ranger’s Spirit, The Cook Wives, Water, Eggs and Blood, Big Joe Logston and the Indian Attack in Green County, “Kwik” Footed Kennedy, Eagle-Eye Hart, Bold Mr Bough, The Trail of Tears in Kentucky, The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in Kentucky (with many names), Floods and Tornadoes in Kentucky, What Am I Doing Wrong?, The Perfect Family, What’s That Mean?, A Pebble In My Shoe, Where’s My Daddy?, You’ve Got To Be Kidding!, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Our Kentucky Courthouses – Losses, Who Has What?, County Boundary Changes, Early Seminaries And Common Schools, High Military Officers, Kentucky Men in Battle, Yesterday, A Letter From Home, A Lonely Grave, Protecting the Kentucky Frontier, The Fine Art of Horse Trading, Oh!, I See!, Navigating The River, The Romance of the River, A Thistle And A Bagpipe, The Strange Story of Nathan Slinker, The Strange Case Of The Blue Peoople On Troublesome Creek, A Boo-Tiful Tip, Christmas Memories 2005. 124 pages, full name index. $27.00 which includes shipping and handling. KY residents add 6 % sales tax.  

• Guide for Kentucky Researching Volume 10: Next in the series of researching tips and helpful information for those researching in KY. Contains the following articles: The Jackson Purchase, The Salt Peter Industry in KY, The Family Shoemaker, Early KY Laws, Let's Go to the Fair, Fisk Metallic Burial Containers, Old-Time Elections, Revolutionary War Pension Applications (where to find), Time to Dissect That Frog!, KY Railroads, Those Glorious Railroading Days, Fire!!!, Beginning at a White Oak, Getting From Here to There on the Early Roads and Covered Bridges, Choctaw Academy, Will You Go To the Store for Me Honey?, The Confederate Home at Pewee Valley (Confederate soldiers buried there), A Town called Stithton, The Sisters of Loretto, Two Broken Arms and Two Broken Legs and many other topics.   112 pages with full-name index. $24.00.

• Guide for Kentucky Research, Volume 1, Gorin - A reference guide for the KY researcher. Includes: Formation of Kentucky, county formations (from which county, which counties taken out, named for, some citizens of); Old Forts, Stations and Settlements (who formed, residents as known, location); Old Trails, Traces, Paths and Roads (where they ran); Revolutionary War Soldiers Pensions (name, rank, where served, when applied, age at application, amount of pension); Kentucky Time Line 1745-1874 (murders, weather, riots, births and deaths of specified citizens, duels, battles, etc.); How KY acquired land (Walker line, Tellico Lands, Loyal Land Co, etc); KY newer military forts, the Kentucky Militia, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Galvanized Yankees; Abbreviations, Definitions and Terminology. 220 pages, soft cover, spiral bound, 6500+ names in full-name index. $28.00.

• Guide For Kentucky Researching Volume 2 - Contains the following information:                                                                       An Overview of the Wars: French & Indian, Revolutionary, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War. Civil War Causalities - KY Confederates Buried in Georgia.
  Battles, Duels, Panics & Skirmishes: Black Patch War, Bloody Monday, Deska-Kimbrough Duel, Battle of Evarts, Jackson-Dickinson Duel, Panic of 1819, Regulator
  Uprising, Skaggs Family Massacre: Feudin' Fightin' and a Fussin' - Breathitt Co Feud, Hargis-Cockrill Feud - Hatfield and McCoy's, Howard-Turner Feud, Rowan Co War, Underwood-Holbrock Feud, White and Garrard Family Feud, Wright-Jones Feud. Kentucky Penitentiaries - a look at the prisons, rules and regs and what they were really like.
  The Draper Manuscripts: What they are and where are. Burned Courthouses - where to look if your courthouse is burned. Migratory Patterns - out of KY. Goldfields, silver
  strikes, other states why? County Holdings. What each courthouse is supposed to have in County, Circuit, Judge Executive's offices - list of all the books and records:
  Why are There so many burned courthouses? Who did it? What Do All These Books Contain? All the previously referenced books and others - what sort of data do they contain to help the researcher?                                                                           The Census: When taken, why are some missing, rules, errors. Land Records: Explanation of Headrights, Military Grants, Vacant lands, treasurer's reports, where to find, etc.                      Metes & Bounds and All Those Confusing Terms: Help in reading a deed with the terms explained.                                   Tax Records: When taken, why, clues found, errors in. Kentucky Marriages. Steps taken, why sureties, clues in names found.                                                                                           Births, Deaths, Burials and Cemeteries: When records kept, errors in, Delayed certificates, newspaper records, burial customs, funeral homes, state rules pertaining to cemeteries, inscriptions on, dating stones with no dates.                                   Guardian Bonds and Indentures of Apprenticeship: What are they, why done, sample of actual form, why discontinued.             So Where Else Can I Look? Secondary sources: The Special DDD Schedule on the 1880 Census Dependent and Delinquent Classes.                                                                          The Family Bible: Can you trust? The Gospel According to Aunt Lizzie. Those family tales which may or may not be the Gospel truth!
  A Little About the Native Americans: Tribes in KY, Skirmishes.                                                                                 Diseases, Epidemics and World Disasters:                    Traces all the major epidemics and diseases that killed so many and world disasters that effected our citizens. Old KY medical colleges.                                                                                Naturalization Papers: Where to find and what contained. National Archives: What's available & how to obtain.               The Wonderful World of Computer Genealogy: The good, bad and ugly. What's So Special About Kentucky? A whimsical look at our beloved Commonwealth.                                                          The Kentucky Man: What was he really like in the olden times? The Kentucky Woman. Same. The Kentucky Child.
  The Changing Scene: As it was so shall it become.
  Voices From the Past: My annual Christmas message.
  169 pages long, full-name index, soft cover, spiral bound. $25.00 including shipping and handling. Priority mail $3.00 extra. KY residents - 6% sales tax.

• Guide for Kentucky Researching Volume 3 - This book contains the following information: Faith of Our Fathers - a look at the early Baptist church and other early denominations in KY; Kentucky Funeral Homes - a massive list of all the recorded funeral homes in the state with address and phone numbers; Occupations - Bankers, barbers, blacksmiths, bookmakers, cabinet makers, cat whippers, chandlers, coopers, coppersmiths, cutlers, druggists, eye glass makers, fullers, glass blowers, gunsmiths, hornsmiths, housewrights, linmers, locksmiths, millers, paper makers, pewterers, plumbers, potters, printers, school teachers, tanners and curriers, tinsmiths, tobacconists, wainwrights and weavers - what they did, the tools they used and how they did it; Weddings and early homes - the ceremony, rules, descriptions of the early cabins; Early Kentucky Laws - alimony, bastardy, divorces, dower, gaming, guardian and wards, juries, law of descents, levies, lunatics, masters and apprentices, mulattoes and free Negroes, poor widows, strays, taverns and tippling houses, towns, vagrants, weights and measures, witnesses and wolves! - a recap of the early KY (from VA) laws determining who could do what, when and why; Wills in KY - who could be a witness, death bed wills, etc; Slavery, researching for African Americans; What's in A Name and Naming Patterns; Early Calendars and calendar reference sheets; Kentucky Court System, KY banking; Money; Colleges, Seminaries and Church Schools; Firsts in KY; Early KY officials; Old Time Remedies; Weather Predictions and KY Sayings; Military and Civilian Government Records - what they contain, where to order; KY Turnpikes and Ferries; What's For Supper; Non-Resident Lands; Patrollers; Inspectors and Warehouses; Jails and Jailers and The Sinking of the Sultana after the Civil War.  149 pages, $25.00, full name index.

• Guide for Kentucky Researching Volume 4: Contains articles on What Really Counts?, What Questions Can You Ask?, Kentucky Seminaries and Academies, Early Historians of Kentucky 1874, Early River Navigation in Kentucky, The Log Rollers, Violent Deaths in Kentucky, 1878, Grave Houses and Annual Funerals, Civil War Prisoner of War Camps, One Look At Reconstruction, Riding the Rails Into War, 9th Kentucky Infantry Regiments, The Underground Railroad, Document-Document-Document - the Census, Coal Mining in Kentucky, Old Kentucky Newspaper (list of same and if available), Early Tobacco Warehouses and Mileages, Kentucky Churches (names and addresses and phone numbers in alphabetical order by city, A through some of the C's).  104 pages, $24.00.  E-book price: $18.00

• Guide for Kentucky Researching Volume 5 - Topics include: Post offices in 1874, Why are there so many counties in Kentucky?, Kentucky Court Day, Libraries in KY, Centre College Alumni 1824-1890, the 1854 Wagon Train from KY to TX, KY County Clerks (names, addresses), Before Social Security, KY Confederate parole Records from Vicksburg, African American Union Soldiers from KY, Vital Statistics Records Available from Archives (each county, films available and years), What Happened to the 1890 Census?, Special Enumeration of Union Veterans and Widows, U S Federal Mortality Schedules, Adoption Agencies, Orphanages & Maternity Homes, The Amish, Andersonville Prisoner of War Deaths, Family History Centers (addresses, phone numbers), Mammoth Cave, Confederate KY Regiments, Soldiers who died, were missing in action or capture in the Korean War and for the Vietnam War. $24.00

• Guide to Kentucky Research Volume 6. Covers the following topics: Of Clock Watchers and Back Fence Snoops, Seasoned Settlers, The 1830's Cholera Epidemic in Kentucky, Code Duello, Panther Across the Skies, Boundaries - Formation of KY Counties, He Did What?, So You Want to Write a Family Book, Hidden Messages, Kentucky Governors, The Great Kentucky Revival, Potter's Fields - County Farm Cemeteries, Gazetteers and Maps in Genealogy Research, Courtship in the Victorian Age, The Engagement, Cleaning Mother's House, Copperheads, What Am I Doing?, The Poor Man's Guide for Preserving Your Family Photos, Bounty Lands Again, Deeds, Again, A Typical Hanging, The 1930 Census is Here!, Tradition!, Dating Old Photographs, Hangings in Kentucky 1792-1900, Lynchings in Kentucky 1792-1900 (both show names, why hung), Wagons Ho!, Midwifery, Why Don't You Marry A Lawyer Dear? 127 pages, soft spiral bound, full-name index. $24.00
  

• Guide to Kentucky Researching, Volume 7: Includes early KY divorces (handled out of Frankfort rather than by the county), A look at the Living conditions in the early forts, how accurate are the published biographies, blowing up your family tree, a deeper look at wills, the iron making industry in KY, Corn Patch and Cabin Rights, old-time dentistry, African-American and moonlight schools, Regulators in Lawrence Co KY pardoned by the governor, policemen killed in the line of duty 1792-1930, distilleries and moonshiners, just plain folk medicine and folk lore, the Transylvania Company, amusements in early times, the bank panic of 1819 and the Forty Thieves, Kentucky Snowstorm, Kentucky cattlemen, boating in KY (steamships, flatboats, transportation of goods, etc), the Shakers (beliefs, location of KY settlements and deaths at South Union in Logan Co), and the saltpeter industry in KY during the wars.  105 pages, soft-spiral bound, full-name index. $24.00

• Guide to Kentucky Researching, Volume 8: Kentucky Cattlemen, The Company Town, Historical Records Survey – the WPA, Early Land Claim Headaches, More of those Unusual Occupations, Kentucky’s Four Constitutions, The Fincastle Surveys, Preserving Heritage Photographs and Memorabilia, A Walk in the Woods (Surveying), Where To Look on the Internet, Inspectors Appointed by the Governor 1792-1797, Kentucky Officials Commissioned by Governor James Harrod 1798-1800 Barren Through Gallatin Counties, The Migrant Patterns, The Need to Belong (societies and organizations), Kentucky Cemetery Laws of 2003, More on Cemeteries, Types of Grave Covers, Oh, Mercy Me!, Steamers Along Green River, Pioneer Amusements, Oh, Those Funny Settlers (How They Named Our Towns), A Toast to the Late, Great Historical Society, The Code of Honor (dueling in Kentucky), Christmas Memories of Those With Kentucky Roots, The Author’s Christmas Memories, U S Army and U S Army Air Corps Casualities of WW II (name, rank, death date, cause of death), The Forgotton Census – the Agricultural Census.          143 pages including a full name index. $24.00

• Guide to Kentucky Researching, Volume 9: The Early Inhabitants of Kentucky, Kincheloe's Station - The BurnedStation, Attack at Estill's Station, Martin's Station in Bourbon County and the Indian Raids, John Breckinridge of Breckinridge County, Madison County Indian Raids,  Captain Garrard's Troops in the War of 1812, H L Hunley - A Civil War Submarine, Kentucky U S Naval Deaths of WW I (names, ranks, how died, when died, nearest kin, where enrolled, where died), The English Influence on Kentucky, Women's Rights in Virginia and Kentucky, State and School Censuses, Help For African American Researchers, Where I Search on the Web, I'm Still Looking!, Bethel College in Logan Co KY, Saddle Bags, Reticules, Carpet Bags & Trunks, Their Boots Were Made For Walking, Fashions Reflected Society (1900-1940), A Pop Quiz, Thou Shalt Not!, Ashes in the Fireplace, Grandpa Said I'm Descended from Pocahontas!, The Digital Camera World of Genealogy, Did your Ancestors Know?  83 pages plus large full name index. $24.00