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. The publication is one of the benefits of membership, and 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

NEW! Kentucky Ancestors Online Archives

The four most current issues of Kentucky Ancestors will be available soon in a new members-only section of the KHS Web site. Each new issue will be available online as soon as it is published in this special members-only section. Watch for more information in the near future.

Photocopies of articles from Kentucky Ancestors can be ordered using the KHS Publications Request Form (PDF, 67 KB).

Kentucky Ancestors News

Coming Soon!
The Autumn 2009 Issue of Kentucky Ancestors

The Alexander Family of Woodburn Farm, Woodford County, Kentucky
The Ewing Institute: Perryville’s Noted Antebellum School
New Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church Membership Roll
Gateway to the Pot of Gold: Kentucky Family History and Genealogy at the Martin F. Schmidt Research Library
Searching Through a Haystack: Kentucky Genealogical and Historical Periodicals