Saturday, December 26, 2009
Old Kentucky Records Resurface
KENTUCKY....
Lots of Kentuckians will soon be able to learn more about their ancestry as they take a step back in time. Kentucky land, census and marriage records from the late 1700s to the 1900s are being prepared for public inspection after Deputy Fayette County Clerk Linda Potter learned from a magazine article that a volume of land patents containing the names of the commonwealth's earliest settlers called the "Doomsday Book" had been moved to Frankfort in the early 1970s. The books were found in government archives in Frankfort and the Fayette County clerk's storage area. They are being indexed to make information easier to find and documents are being scanned for microfilm or computer viewing and should be complete in about two weeks.
Lots of Kentuckians will soon be able to learn more about their ancestry as they take a step back in time. Kentucky land, census and marriage records from the late 1700s to the 1900s are being prepared for public inspection after Deputy Fayette County Clerk Linda Potter learned from a magazine article that a volume of land patents containing the names of the commonwealth's earliest settlers called the "Doomsday Book" had been moved to Frankfort in the early 1970s. The books were found in government archives in Frankfort and the Fayette County clerk's storage area. They are being indexed to make information easier to find and documents are being scanned for microfilm or computer viewing and should be complete in about two weeks.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 2:31 PM 
