Kentucky
Archives and Special Collections
www.louisville.edu/library/uarc/kyarchiv.htmlThe University of Louisville maintains this website. It is a listing of links to
home pages maintained by Kentucky institutions that have special collections of archival
materials.
Kentucky Department
for Libraries and Archives (KDLA)
www.kdla.ky.gov/resources.htm
The site includes research guides for persons researching Civil
War soldiers and African-American ancestors, which point out the types of records
available at KDLA. There are also online lists of governors, past elected officials,
county seats and chambers of commerce, courthouse disasters, origins of county names,
dates of county formation, covered bridges, Kentuckians who served in the United States or
Confederate Congresses, poet laureates, and common baby names and surnames.
Kentucky
Genealogy Resources on the Internet
www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/kentucky.html
This site provides links to sources of information on Kentucky
vital records, military records, place names and maps, list serves, and county resources
on the Internet. Use it in conjunction with Cyndi's List and other guides to Internet
resources for the most complete coverage of available Web resources.
Kentucky Historical Society
(KHS)
http://catalog.kyhistory.org/
The KHS website offers access to its online catalog, which
provides descriptions of the more than 90,000 published works in its collection. It also
provides access to several important databases including the Kentucky Cemetery Records
Database. This database is a volunteer project that has documented hundreds of thousands
of graves throughout rural and urban Kentucky. While it doesn't contain a record for every
grave in Kentucky, it can be quite helpful. There are also databases of Kentucky Oral
Histories and Kentucky Historical Markers.
Kentucky Vital Records
Index (KVRI)
http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/
KVRI is a website maintained by the University of Kentucky based
on information supplied by the Office of Vital Statistics. The database provides indexes
for Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1992 and Kentucky Marriage & Divorce Records,
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