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Potter Family Roots The Descendants Of Thomas Potter, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2021

Potter Family Roots The Descendants Of Thomas Potter, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Research by Barbara Potter Holland on the Potter family of Kentucky and Virginia with Thomas Potter, William Potter, John Ewing Potter, Joseph Ewing Potter, John Woodrow Potter and David Eugene Potter


Historical Overview Of Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, Kentucky Library Research Collections Nov 2019

Historical Overview Of Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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This footnoted paper provides historical and cultural information about Red Boiling Springs, Macon County, Tennessee from its beginnings to 2019.


Fannie Goodrum Neel Photograph Album, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

Fannie Goodrum Neel Photograph Album, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Slaves were listed by owner, not individually. Listed by column number, enumerators recorded the following information:

Name of owner

Number of slave

Each owner's slave was only assigned a number, not a name. Numbering restarted with each new owner Age Sex

Color: "B" if the slave was Black and an "M" if they were Mulatto.

Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of uncaught escaped slaves in the past year Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year Is the slave "deaf and dumb, blind, insane, …


1860 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

1860 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Slaves were listed by owner, not individually. Listed by column number, enumerators recorded the following information:

Name of owner

Number of slave

Number of slave houses

Each owner's slave was only assigned a number, not a name. Numbering restarted with each new owner Age Sex

Color: "B" if the slave was Black and an "M" if they were Mulatto.

Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of uncaught escaped slaves in the past year Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year Is the slave "deaf …


Shake Rag Clippings File, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2018

Shake Rag Clippings File, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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The Shake Rag Historic District, located along the north end of State Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2000. It is Bowling Green’s first National Register District recognized for its significance to African American history. The Shake Rag Neighborhood developed around Lee Square, a parcel of land donated in 1802 for use as a public square. From https://www.visitbgky.com/shakerag/, see for more information.


U.S. Geological Survey (Usgs) Topographic Map Collection, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2018

U.S. Geological Survey (Usgs) Topographic Map Collection, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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This is a listing of the Topo maps housed in the KLRC; 7.5, 15 and 30 minute Kentucky and Boundary State Maps. These maps are helpful in genealogy to show how the landscape may have changed and they may have the locations of lost towns and cemeteries and indicate houses, barns, and other structures and how place names, roads, and streams changed over time.


Schutz Family, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2018

Schutz Family, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Complied by Wanda Weidemann


Schujahn Descendants, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2018

Schujahn Descendants, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Family history of Schujahn Descendants by Wanda Weidemann


Bowling Green Warren County Cemetery Map Listing, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2018

Bowling Green Warren County Cemetery Map Listing, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Warren County, Kentucky cemetery listings


Traces Index By Sandra Gorin, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2017

Traces Index By Sandra Gorin, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Index to Traces journal, 1973-2016, the publication of the Barren County, [Kentucky] Historical Society, formerly the South Central, Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2007, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2007

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2007, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2006, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2006

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2006, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2005, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2005

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2005, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2004, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2004

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2004, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Extended Family Of John Wilson And Frances Franklin Carroll, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2004

Extended Family Of John Wilson And Frances Franklin Carroll, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Four additional albums of photographs collected by Faye Carroll with family names: Elijah and Sarah Carroll, Meredith, Thompson, Rhodes, James "Jim" and Wardie Carroll, Cain, Wells, Demunbrun, Freshour, Jaggers, Higdon, Blissit, Wilson, Gardner, Bratcher, Pierce, Reams, and photos of J. A. Sanders Distillery, Oliver tractors, Mt. Moriah Church and Union Light community


Carrolls Of Longfall, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2004

Carrolls Of Longfall, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2003, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2003

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2003, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2002, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2002

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2002, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Runner And Allied Family Research, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2002

Runner And Allied Family Research, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Jeremiah Osborn (And Some Descendants) Of Hampshire County (West) Virginia, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2001

Jeremiah Osborn (And Some Descendants) Of Hampshire County (West) Virginia, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2001, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2001

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2001, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Early Railroad History Of Warren County, Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2001

Early Railroad History Of Warren County, Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Confederate Soldiers With A Kentucky Connection On File With The Orphan Brigade Kinfolk, E. Porter Harned Jan 2000

Confederate Soldiers With A Kentucky Connection On File With The Orphan Brigade Kinfolk, E. Porter Harned

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The "Orphan Brigade" was a nickname given to a group of military units recruited from Kentucky to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War. This finding aid was prepared by the Orphan Brigade Kinfolk and donated to the Kentucky Library along with military files, genealogical information, photographs, and biography on the original soldiers. Please email spcol@wku.edu for additional information.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2000, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2000

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2000, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 1999, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1999

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 1999, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 1997, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1997

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 1997, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Index To Faces And Places Volume 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1996

Index To Faces And Places Volume 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 1996, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1996

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 1996, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 1995, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1995

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 1995, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.