Kentucky Ancestors

Kentucky Ancestors, the genealogical quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society, has been preserving and promoting the history of Kentucky families since 1965. Kentucky Ancestors publishes genealogical research, photographs, family and government records and other genealogical information. Regular features include Bible records; submitted information from family Bibles; They Went Thataway, which documents the stories of early Kentucky families that went west; Lost Records of Nelson County, which helps secure 18th- and 19th-century records of that important county; Relatively Speaking, a genealogical column; and Mystery Album, which preserves old photographs. KHS members may submit queries as a networking tool to learn more about their own family histories.

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Kentucky Ancestors Editor
Don Rightmyer
don.rightmyer@ky.gov

Issues online:
Table of Contents for the full run of Kentucky Ancestors

Kentucky Ancestors Online Archives

Photocopies of articles from Kentucky Ancestors can be ordered using the photocopy request form.

Kentucky Ancestors News


Coming Soon!
Spring 2013 Issue of Kentucky Ancestors

Isaac Cunningham of Clark County, Kentucky
Laurance B. VanMeter

The Wilkins Family of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky: Proving An Ancestral Line to a North Carolina Revolutionary War Patriot
Frances R. Nelson Salyers

Inside KHS Collections: Elder John “Raccoon” Smith Marriage Records
Cheri Daniels

Circuit Court Judges Listed in the Kentucky Law Reports, 1825-1903
Kurt X. Metzmeier