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Monday, December 31, 2018

It was German Explorers Brought the Rifle, Wagon and Dulcimer into Kentucky #kentuckypioneers #kygenealogy

It was German Explorers Brought the Rifle, Wagon and Dulcimer into Kentucky

Conesta WagonIsaac Hite (Hayd), after surveying in Kentucky and returned there with James Harrod to survey Harrodsburg the following year. One of the companions of Daniel Boone was the German Michael Stoner (Holsteiner), a Pennsylvania Dutchman. Matthias Harman (Hermann) was one of the numerous Harmans of eastern Kentucky and was included in the search party that looked for Jenny Wiley in 1789. Both the Kentucky rifle and the Conestoga wagon originated in the German settlement of Pennsylvania, the rifle being transformed from the German Jager rifle. Also, the Appalachian dulcimer is of German origin. Germans were among the eight men who laid out Lexington and in 1790 they comprised 14% of the population. In 1885 the state commissioned Heinrich Lembke to make a tour of German settlements in Kentucky and found that thirteen colonies had spread from Lyon County in the west to Laurel County in the east. Source: Kentucky Encyclopedia by John E. Kleber. 




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Monday, December 24, 2018

When Large Families Boggle the Lineage

When Large Families Boggle the Lineage

large familiesSome genealogies are simply too entangled to unravel. And if many people are descendants from the same group of ancestors and adding their two-cents, it may seem impossible to separate relationships. One issue of large families is when that the first-born children reach maturity they could easily be considered the parents of the last-born siblings! Especially if we have John Sr. and John Jr. And then John Jr. names a son John. Whose John Sr. and John Jr.? A careful separation of the generations is indicated. The popularity of using the same name for several generations is helpful, however, if that name is rather unusual. The last several hundred years, it was popular to incorporate the surname of the parents and grandparents into the first names of the children. This fact should not be overlooked, for sometimes that is the only reasoning available to solving the problem. 





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Thursday, December 20, 2018

How Far Back Can We Trace our Ancestors in the Records?

How Far Back Can We Expect to Trace Our Ancestors?

Henry VIIIHow far back do the records go? All genealogical research needs to be as legitimate as possible and each generation should be verified in order to avoid getting on the wrong track. You can possibly find your ancestor reference in 1066 in the Domesday Book. This was in the days of William the Conqueror when he required a complete listing of all residents in order to tax them. Expect to find a simple reference, without family information. The name is good enough to establish that person as a resident in 1066 A. D. The best hope of accuracy, however, occurs to about 1500, the era when parish records were being kept in England. The old Irish records did not survive, and there is very little on Scotland. However, from the 1400's (you might find a 1400 entry in some parish registers) through the 17th century, the religion was in upheaval. William VIII broke off from the Catholic Church and established the Anglican religion. This is what you will mostly find so far as parish records are concerned. I cannot tell you . . . more . . .



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Monday, December 17, 2018

The Red River Gorge #kentuckypioneerscom #kygenealogy

The Red River Gorge

Red River GorgeEven before the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and Yuchi were removed from Kentucky, there were European settlers. Counties were not formed until after the American Revolutionary War. Thus, in wilderness regions, the genealogist must really dig to locate old colonial forts and militia records. My personal procedure is to read every page of the tax digest in the county where my ancestor resided, recording the description of acreage, number of acres, names of neighbors, waterways, district, etc. (whatever the tax digest provides) for each year, then trace that same acreage forward. This information provides a time-line for when he resided in the county. When his name no longer appears, I search the default list. A sensible place to search next is the adjoining counties because the old parent county lines changed with the ascent of the formation of new counties and even States. For example, Hampton County Virginia went to West Virginia. The boundary lines frequently changed. Next, I look at marriages with that surname. This also gives me a time-line of the marriages of the sons and daughters as well as an idea of whether or not any members of the family were still around. If there was a ten or twenty year gap, say, that means that the older generation has either died or moved away. Of course, a thorough search of the deed records tells a better story, but there may be little or nothing there.



Map of Boone County, Kentucky

Boone





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Monday, December 10, 2018

Dinsmore Homestead #kentuckypioneers #kentuckygenealogy

Dinsmore Homestead

Dinsmore HomesteadDuring 1839 James and Martha Dinsmore purchased 700 acres of land in Boone County and built Dinsmore House in 1842 along with several outbuildings. It is located on the Burlington Pike west of Burlington, Kentucky. The family raised sheep and grew grapes and willow trees for a basket-making business that was overseen by German immigrants. The house survives today and contains all of its original artifacts brought from in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Indians. The Dinsmore family resided in the home from 1842 to 1926. In 1987, the Dinsmore Homestead Foundation purchased the home along with 30 acres of land. A collection of some 90,000 pages of family letters, journals and business records have been preserved on microfilm for use at the Dinsmore Homestead.




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Friday, December 7, 2018

Images of Logan County KY Wills, Estates, etc. #kentuckypioneers #genealogy

Images of Logan County Wills, Estates, Distributions, Guardianships


Map of Logan County

The county of Logan was formed in 1792 and was named after Benjamin Logan, second in command of the Kentucky Militia during the Revolutionary War. The territory first stretched from the Mississippi River in the west to the Little Barren River in the east. The county seat is Russellville.

Indexes to Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Distributions
  • Book A, 1795 to 1817
  • Book B, 1815 to 1823
  • Book C, 1823 to 1827
  • Book D, 1827 to 1831
Images of Logan County Wills and Estates Book A, 1795 to 1817

Adams, E.Allen, BeverleyAllen, Reuben*Anderson, Thomas*Anigel, George*Arnold, John*Ashley, William*Baker, Robert*Barnard, William R.*Barton, James*Barnett, William*Barton, James*Bayley, Thomas*Bell, John*Bennett, William*Bernard, Heningham*Bernard, John*Bernard, William*Bowie, Patsy*Boyd, Daniel*Boyle, Patrick*Britt, William*Brown, Jared*Brown, John*Browning, John*Bryant, Abraham*Burton, James*Campbell, George*Carlisle, Henry*Cavender, Thomas*Clark, William*Conner, William*Cook, John*Coreen, John*Crabtree, William*Cransden, William*Curry, John*Daniel, John*Davis, Keiza*Dawson, Redford*Drake, Sir Francis*Duncan, Benjamin*Edwards, PenelopeEley, Eli*Elliott, Thomas F.*Ewing, George*Ewing, John*Ewing, William*Ferguson, William*Fike, Malachi*Fisher, William*Fleming, Ralph*Foster, John*Frizzel, William*Furbanks, Robert*Gilbert, William*Gorham, Thomas*Graves, Frederick*Green, John*Hampton, Thomas*Hannah, David*Hawkins, James*Henderson, Thomas*Hendrick, Henry*Hendry, William*Henson, James*Herndon, James*Hinton, John*Holeman, James*Hollarton, Elizabeth*James, Isaac*Horton, William*Howard, James*Howe,, Levi*Hughs, Roland*Hughs, Rowland*Hunter, James*Johnson, John*Johnston, Nathan*Johnston, William*Jones, Aaron*Jones, JudsonKennerly, John*Kerr, Widow*Kown, L. W.*Lang, N.*Langston, Ragland*Lathem, Dickey*Lee, William*Lockhart, David*Lodge, Matthew*Lofland

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Thursday, December 6, 2018

Names of Mercer County Kentucky Ancestors #kentuckypioneers

Mercer County, Kentucky Wills, Estates, Marriages


Harrodsburg

Mercer County was formed from Lincoln County in 1785 and was named for the Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer who was killed at the Battle of Princeton in 1777. The county seat is Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Some of the earliest settlers were: Abraham Bsnta, Alexander Bowling, Daniel and Cornelius Cozine, George Silvertooth, James Harrod, James Hornback, James Quigley, Thomas Freeman, Thomas Threlkeld, Patrick Lowry, Joseph Bohannon, John McMurtry, Harman Van Dyke, Benoni Swearengin and Matthew English. The Wills, Estates, Inventories, Orphans and Guardian Returns are all combined in the same books. A number of pages in these books were too faded and damaged to include. Effort was made by the State of Kentucky to restore some of the images, however, what you see is what you get.

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Marriages
  • 1786 to 1800
Images of Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Inventories, Appraisements, Bk 1, 1786 to 1795

  • Adams, William | Armstrong, Mary | Arnold, Stephen
  • Banta, Abraham | Batten, William | Beaman, John | Berry, John | Bohannon, Joseph | Bowling, Alexander | Bowling, Henry | Brown, Daniel | Brumfield, Robert | Burn, James O.
  • Campbell, James | Canaday, Rachel | Cooley, Rubin | Corbin, Robert | Cozine, Cornelius | Cozine, Daniel
  • Davis, Joseph | Davis, Thomas | Dickens, Daniel | Downing, William
  • English, Matthew | Estes, Abraham | Flanigan, Dominick | Foster, Isaiah |Freeman, Thomas
  • Gill, John | Givens, Samuel | Gordon, John | Graham, Benjamin | Gricon, Samuel
  • Hale, Jobe | Hale, Joseph | Harbeson, John | Harris, William | Harrod, James | Hartley, Thomas | Holland, Alexander | Holloway, George | Hornback, James
  • James, Abraham | Jeffries, Matthew | Lapsley, Samuel | Little, John | Longly, Isaac | Lowry, Patrick | Lyons, Stephen
  • McAfee, Robert | McBrayer, George | McKinny, Stephen | McMurtry, John | McPike, James | Miller, Hannah | Mitchell, John | Mitchell, Robert | Moun, James
  • Neeld, Benjamin | Noell, Thomas | Overton, James | Prather, Thomas | Quigley, James
  • Roberts, Robert | Robertson, James | Robertson, William | Ross, George
  • Silvertooth, George | Smith, Adam | Stephens, George | Sutton, Robert
  • Taylor, David | Telford, David | Thompson, John | Threlkeld, Moses | Threlkeld, Thomas



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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Names of Nicholas County KY Ancestors -- See Names on Old Wills #kentuckypioneers

Nicholas County Genealogy Records: Wills, Inventories, Distributions, Guardianships

Nicholas County Court House

Nicholas County was established in 1799 from land taken fromBourbon and Mason counties. It was named after George Nicholas, a Revolutionary War Soldier, from Fayette County. The county seat is Carlisle.

Images of Wills Inventories, Guardianships, Distributions, Book A, 1800-1815

Names of Estates:Anderson, James |Archer, James |Augustus, Enoch |Baker, Jacob |Baker, Martin Sr.Barlow, Thomas |Bell, Robert |Buckner, Robert |Buckanon, James |Burdin, James |Burton, Robert |Capady, Daniel | Cassaway, Daniel |Cochran, Peggy |Corbin, Abraham |Crawford, Samuel |Dailey, Bryan |Davidson, John |Deal, Matthew |Downey, ArchibaldDrummond, James |Duncan, James |Dunsmore, Samuel |Finley, Michael |Forsythe, John |Foster, Thomas |Githens, HenryGlascow, James |Glasgow, John |Gray, James |Grissman, Philemon |Grovena, John |Hall, Cornelius |Harney, Mills |Harris, Samuel |Hildreth, Squire |Howard, Matthew |Howerton, George |Jenkins, Samuel |Johnson, Jonathan |Johnston, Andrew |Jones, John |Jones, Robert |Kimbrough, Nathaniel |Kimbrough, Samuel |Kincart, Samuel |Kinhart, Samuel |Leeper, John |Manutty, John |Manutty, Joseph |McClelland, Jane |McCormick, James |McDowell, Robert |Mitchell, Josias |Mitchetter, Jonas |Moncrief, Mara |Morgan, Garret |Morgan, John |Myers, George |Oliver, John |Paugh, Henry |Phillips, Michael |Poe, Benjamin |Pratton, Joshua |Proctor, Jeremiah |Roberts, Newby |Robinson, Alexander |Saddler, John |Smart, James |Smart, Joseph |Snap, George |Stewart, John |Stewart, Robert |Stokes, Hamlin |Thomson, Alexander |Thomson, Joseph |Trousdale, Jon |Warrant, Isaac |Welch, Michael |Wells, Aaron |Williams, Nathaniel    ...more...




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Monday, December 3, 2018

Images of Fleming County KY Wills and Estates #genealogy

Fleming County Genealogy, Wills, Estates, Distributions, Inventories, Guardianships

Map of Fleming County

Fleming County was founded in 1798 and named after Colonel John Fleming, an Indian fighter and early settler to Kentucky. The land was taken from Mason County. The county seat is Flemingsburg and the first court house was constructed with logs.

Indexes to Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Distributions

  • Book A, 1798 to 1815
  • Book B, 1816 to 1822
  • Book C, 1823 to 1829
  • Book D, 1829 to 1834

Images of Fleming County Wills and Estates, Book A, 1798 to 1816

Alexander, William*Armstrong, Robert*Axley, ElyBaker, Charlies*Barnes, Joshua*Barnes, Samuel*Bateman, Thomas*Bazle, William*Beard, Philip*Bell, Benjamin D.*Bell, M.*Benham, Amariah*Bennington, William*Bevins, Sally*Brevard, Adam*Brevard, William*Bridges, Dillen*Bright, Edward*Brown, D. G.*Brown, James*Brown, Manly*Brown, John*Brown, M.*Burke, William*Burrington, William*Butler, Thomas*Carter, James*Carter, Thomas*Chapman, NathanChapman, William*Clare, Andrew*Clarke, Thomas*Cobyn, Benjamin*Collins, James*Collins, John*Constant, John*Cornwall, Thomas*Cothran, Robert*Cotteman, John*Curry, Susanna*Dale, James*Davis, John*Dawkins, Thomas*Denard, Margaret*Dickson, James*Donevan, Philip*Dudley, William*Dudley, Will*Dunbar, Alexander*Dunbar, James*Duncan, William*Elijah, Moses*Emmers, James*Evans, Esbert*Evans, Isaac*Evans,  ...more...



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The Perils of Settling the West Country #kentuckypioneerscom #kygenealogy

The Perils of Settling the West Country

tomahawkDuring the time that families were venturing into Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio to take up land grants, Indians were marauding, raiding and taken white women as slaves. Yes! Throughout this region women and children disappeared never to be seen again. During the 1730s there was a movement along the wagon trail road leading out from Philadelphia as well as Wilderness Trail which led as far west as the falls of the Ohio River. The historians documented the career of Daniel Boone, however, other Boone families from Philadelphia also ventured out. The Boone famlilies had lots of children, and some of them were Quakers. They moved through Virginia and Kentucky with other relatives and friends. What I am saying is that Daniel Boone was not the only adventurer into Kentucky; a large movement was afoot. The reason: land grants.




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