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From: "Maxine Friedly" <>
Subject: Re: [MADKY] 1860 Birth Records
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:06:09 -0500
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The State Archives and the Kentucky State Historical Society Library are in
FRANKFORT, KY, not Lexington.

Maxine

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Subject: [MADKY] 1860 Birth Records


> For the person wanting information about a birth ca 1860 in Henderson Co.,
> KY this is to advise that it seems no records were kept for that year.
>
> This is to inform you, however, that for a time, prior to the Civil War,
> most counties in Kentucky kept some birth and death records, including, if
> I
> remember correctly, of slaves (most without names, unfortunately). Of
> course,
> most kept some kind of marriage records as marriage is a legal contract
> and
> affects inheritance, etc.
>
> However, this is what the Family History Library Catalog has under Vital
> Records for Henderson Co., KY
>
> Microreproduction of original records at the Kentucky State Historical
> Society and the State Arhives in Lexington, Kentucky. [oops--their
> computer
> cannot spell either]
>
> ____________________________________
>
> Births, 1852-1859, 1903-1904, 1907; marriages, 1852-1859, 1902-1905, 1907;
> deaths, 1852-1859, 1903-1904.
>
>
> Suggestion:
>
> If you think the child whose 1860 birth you seek had older siblings born
> between 1852-1859, then possibly there may be a record of those children's
> births.
>
> If you have the inclination to read some of these records, contact your
> local LDS family history center and order the film for the time period in
> which
> you are interested. I was fortunate enough to find an umpteen
> great-grandmother's death record in such a film for Montgomery Co., KY.
> She was 80 years
> old, the surname was spelled wrong [or else the clerk had sloppy writing]
> and
> the cause of death was *old age*.
>
> In genealogy, we sometimes have to take chances such as ordering a film
> which gives no information on our ancestor, but which film/record teaches
> us
> something.
>
> If you have a good many Kentucky ancestors, do some surfing of the FH
> Library catalog for those counties and see whether Vital Records for the
> time
> periods are extant.
>
> Good luck!!!
>
> E.W.Wallace
> one of whose ancestors bought land in 1799 in Henderson Co.

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