Hardin Family Traced on Kentucky Pioneers

The Hardin families of Virginia and Kentucky are discused from ca 1706 on Kentucky Pioneers and includes a video.

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Busey or Bucy Family of Anderson County

The Busey genealogy dating from 1742 is available to members of Kentucky Pioneers and includes a video.

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Boone Genealogy Traced by KentuckyPioneers.com

The Daniel Boone Genealogy is traced back to ca 1600 in England and goes to Pennsylvania and Kentucky.



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Check List on Where to Start Genealogical Research

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Family Bibles. Search local archives and special collections from groups such as the DAR
Cemeteries. Get a county map with a good legend.
Church Records. While out visiting cemeteries, visit local churches to learn if they kept baptismal records, etc.
County Records. Search wills and estates (everything), plus marriages, deeds and tax digests.
Census Records.
Pensions, civil war, Mexican war, War of 1812 and Revolutionary War. These are found on microfilm at the National Archives.



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Carson of VA and KY

The Carson family first came through York County, PA, then Washington County, Virginia and finally to Fayette and Lincoln Counties, Kentucky, traced on Kentucky Pioneers

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Callaway Family Histry added to Kentucky Pioneers.com

A sketch of the Callaway family fom Birginia into Boonesboro is now available to members of Kentucky Pioneers
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Family Bibles. Search local archives and special collections from groups such as the DAR
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Church Records. While out visiting cemeteries, visit local churches to learn if they kept baptismal records, etc.
County Records. Search wills and estates (everything), plus marriages, deeds and tax digests.
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Finding Origiinal Documents

The discovery of an original last will and testament, deed or marriage record is indeed difficult for the genealogist to locate. We really need to view the original will document because it not only provides the hand-writing of the decedent, names of witnesses, but detailed information about the disposal of the worldly goods. Ypu can read the abstracts all day long. However, until you read the original document, you do not fully understand your ancestor's intent. Now, where are these originals? Well, initially the wills and marriages are filed in the record room of the clerk's office of the probate court. Deeds are filed in the record room of the Superior Court. These documents were copied by the clerk in his own hand-writing in the large, heavy books inside the record room. The copying sometimes added error, misspellings, omitted words and lines. I worked on the Brantley genealogy in Georgia for a number of years trying to unravel a last will and testament. Finally, upon visiting the court house, I located the original document. What a difference! The name of the testator had been incorrectly written by the clerk. Finding this document resolved a genealogy of errors by all of those who accepted the clerk's record. The oldest documents have virtually disappeared from all court houses. They got stored, lost or even stolen. In today's world, some court houses (like Chatham County, Georgia) are storing their old books on an off-site location and you have to wait several days for them to be delivered to the court house. In other words, the public does not have access to the storage facility. I filmed as many of Chatham's old wills as possible upon my visits there and put them online available to members of Georgia Pioneers Also, I have to tell you that the employees of some court houses have no knowledge of old records and cannot help you locate them. In the State of Virginia, the old books were removed to the Virginia State Archives in Richmond. Still, these are not the documents themselves. The Georgia State Archives has been given some original documents, such as land plats,but you have to sign them out. Also, I understand that they have some original wills for certain counties. The thing to do is to ask the librarian and hope that she is knowledgeable. What is happening is that some original documents are turned over to State Archives. Georgia is having budget issues now and is only open 3 days a week to the public. When you visit there, look in the glass display cabinets. Georgia Pioneers.com has filmed most of Georgia's 156 oldest county will books and continues to work on this project. Another place to search for the oldest books would be local historical and genealogical societies. Do the employees at the court house know this? No. You simply have to nose around. I suspect that we may lose more of our record books as time passes, for one reason or the other.

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