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Genealogy Research in Rowan County, Kentucky

Kentucky is a great place to do research because of the state's large number of archives, libraries and other repositories. In addition to state-level resources in Frankfort, a variety of records can also be found locally at county courthouses, public libraries, historical societies and elsewhere. Websites like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch also offer access to online databases that contain billions of records relating to Kentucky genealogy.
 In addition to these great resources, we have compiled a large number of links that should prove helpful to your search. Many of these are listed below and on our other pages relating to Kentucky's 120 counties. If you would like a professional genealogist to help you with your quest, please click below.
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African American Genealogy

AccessGenealogy - Kentucky African American Genealogy

AccessGenealogy - WPA Slave Narratives

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FamilySearch - African American Resources for Kentucky

Kentucky African American Griots - Rowan County

​National Archives - American Slavery, Civil Records

​National Museum of African American History and Culture

Notable Kentucky African Americans Database - Rowan County

Archives and Libraries

Digital Commonwealth - Rowan County, Kentucky

FamilySearch Catalog - Rowan County, Kentucky

FamilySearch Wiki - Rowan County, Kentucky

HathiTrust Digital Library

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Kentucky Digital Library - Rowan County, Kentucky

Library of Congress - Rowan County, Kentucky 

Open Library - Rowan County, Kentucky

Rowan County Library

USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky

Bible Records

Kentucky Biographies - Rowan County, Kentucky 

Biographies

Genealogy Trails - Rowan County, Kentucky Biographies

Wikipedia - People from Rowan County, Kentucky

Wikipedia - Rowan County, Kentucky Notable People

Cemeteries

AccessGenealogy - Rowan County, Kentucky Cemetery Records

Billion Graves - Rowan County, Kentucky

Find A Grave - Rowan County Cemeteries

GNIS Search Results: List of Cemetery Locations in the Rowan County, Kentucky

Genealogy Trails - Rowan County, Kentucky Cemeteries

Histopolis - Rowan County, Kentucky Cemeteries

Histopolis - Rowan County, Kentucky Graves

Interment.net - Rowan County, Kentucky

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County Cemetery Listings

Kentucky Tombstone Transcription Project - Rowan County

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Cemetery Records

The Political Graveyard - Rowan County, Kentucky

USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Cemeteries

Census Records

AccessGenealogy - Kentucky 1910 Census Edition Map

AccessGenealogy - Rowan County, Kentucky Census Records

Genealogy Trails - Rowan County, Kentucky Census

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County U.S. Census Records

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Census Records

RAOGK - Rowan County, Kentucky Census Records 

USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Census

The USGenWeb Census Project - Rowan County, Kentucky

WorldCat.org - Rowan County, Kentucky 

Court Records

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Court Records

RAOGK - Rowan County, Kentucky Courthouse Records  

USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Court

Directories

Rowan County, Kentucky Free Public Records Directory

​Telephone Directory of Clearfield, KY. 40313


Telephone Directory of Morehead, KY. 40351

Disasters

GenDisasters - Morehead, KY (Other Areas), Flash Flooding, July 1939

Estate Files

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Probate Records

USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Wills

History

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Histories and Genealogies

National Register of Historical Places - Rowan County, Kentucky


​USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky History

Wikipedia - National Register of Historic Places listings in Rowan County, Kentucky

Wikipedia - Rowan County, Kentucky History

Immigration and Naturalization Records

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

Land Records

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Land Records

​USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Deeds

Maps

Digital Commonwealth - Rowan County, Kentucky Maps/Atlases

​Histopolis - Rowan County, Kentucky Map

Historic Map Works - Rowan County, Kentucky

Historical Atlases and Maps of U.S. and States - Kentucky from 1776

Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer - Rowan County

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Map Records

Library of Congress - Rowan County, Kentucky Map

My Genealogy Hound - Rowan County, Kentucky

United States Digital Map Library - Kentucky

USGS Topographic Maps - Rowan County, Kentucky 

Miscellaneous Records

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County The Isaac Hall Murder of 1868

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County Links to Family Pages

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County Reference Shelf

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County Teri Pettit's Files

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Miscellaneous Records

Military Records

AccessGenealogy - Kentucky Civil War Battlefield Map

Genealogy Trails - Rowan County, Kentucky Military

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Military Records

National Archives - ​WWII Army Casualties: Rowan County, Kentucky

New Horizons Genealogy - Rowan County, Kentucky Military Records

​USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Military

Municipalities 

FamilyHart - Rowan County, Kentucky

Histopolis - Rowan County, Kentucky Cities

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Records by City/Town

Wikipedia - Rowan County, Kentucky Communities

Native American Genealogy

AccessGenealogy - Kentucky Indian Tribes

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Ancient Life in Kentucky - University of Kentucky

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FamilySearch.org - Indigenous Peoples of Kentucky

​National Archives - American Indian Records

A Native History of Kentucky - Kentucky Heritage Council

Newspapers

Digital Commonwealth - Rowan County, Kentucky Newspapers

Genealogy Trails - Rowan County, Kentucky Newspapers


LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Newspapers and Obituaries

Library of Congress - Rowan County, Kentucky Newspaper

Newspaper Abstracts - Rowan County, Kentucky 

​USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky News

Obituaries

Genealogy Trails - Rowan County, Kentucky Obituaries

​USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Obits

Photographs

FamilyOldPhotos - Rowan Co KY

Library of Congress - Rowan County, Kentucky Photo, Print, Drawing


​USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Photos

School Records

Kentucky School Photos and Yearbooks - Rowan County

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County School Records

Societies

Kentucky Folk Art Center

​Kentucky Genealogical Society

​Kentucky Historical Society

​Morehead Railroad & Historical Museum

​Rowan County Historical Society

Tax Records

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Tax Records

Vital Records

GEDCOM Index - Rowan County

Genealogy Trails - Rowan County, Kentucky Deaths

Genealogy Trails - Rowan County, Kentucky Marriages

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County Birth Records

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County Civil Death Records

KYGenWeb Project - Rowan County Marriage Records

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Birth Records

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Death Records

LDS Genealogy - ​Rowan County Marriage Records

RAOGK - Rowan County, Kentucky Vital Records 

​USGenWeb Archives - Rowan County, Kentucky Vitals

vitalrec.com - Rowan County, Kentucky

Kentucky County Records

Many Kentucky family records can be found online and at various archives and libraries located throughout the state of Kentucky. Many millions of records aren't yet available online, though, and many of these are awaiting your discovery at the local level at county courthouses, historical societies, churches, county clerks' offices, cemeteries, and elsewhere in Kentucky. To find these and other records, click on the links below to find more information about the specific counties where your ancestors lived in Kentucky. You'll find information on these pages that will lead you to the specific documentation you're searching for.

It is important to keep in mind when doing research that the names and boundaries of certain counties in Kentucky have changed over the past two hundred years. Your ancestors may have lived on a certain farm in one county and when borders were redrawn records relating to your family history might have been located in another area entirely. When searching for land, court, tax, and other records it is also a good idea to search for these records in adjacent counties. Following is a complete list of Kentucky's 120 counties along with their formation dates, county seats, and names of parent counties.

County

Adair County
Allen County
Anderson County

Ballard County
Barren County
Bath County
Bell County
Boone County
Bourbon County
Boyd County

Boyle County
Bracken County
Breathitt County
Breckinridge County
Bullitt County
Butler County
Caldwell County
Calloway County
Campbell County
Carlisle County
Carroll County

Carter County
Casey County
Christian County
Clark County
Clay County
Clinton County
Crittenden County
Cumberland County
Daviess County
Edmonson County
Elliott County

Estill County
Fayette County
Fleming County
Floyd County

Franklin County

Fulton County
Gallatin County
Garrard County

Grant County
Graves County
Grayson County
Green County
Greenup County
Hancock County

Hardin County
Harlan County
Harrison County
Hart County
Henderson County
Henry County
Hickman County
Hopkins County
Jackson County

Jefferson County
Jessamine County
Johnson County

Kenton County
Knott County

Knox County
LaRue County
Laurel County

Lawrence County
Lee County

Leslie County
Letcher County
Lewis County
Lincoln County
Livingston County
Logan County
Lyon County
McCracken County
McCreary County
McLean County

Madison County
Magoffin County
Marion County
Marshall County
Martin County

Mason County
Meade County
Menifee County

Mercer County
Metcalfe County


Monroe County
Montgomery County
Morgan County
Muhlenberg County
Nelson County
Nicholas County
Ohio County
Oldham County
Owen County
Owsley County
Pendleton County
Perry County
Pike County
Powell County

Pulaski County
Robertson County

Rockcastle County

Rowan County
Russell County

Scott County
Shelby County
Simpson County
Spencer County
Taylor County
Todd County
Trigg County
Trimble County
Union County
Warren County
Washington County
Wayne County
Webster County

Whitley County
Wolfe County

Woodford County

Formation Date

1802
1815
1827

1842
1798
1811
1867
1798
1785
1860

1842
1796
1839
1799
1796
1810
1809
1822
1794
1886
1838

1838
1806
1796
1792
1807
1835
1842
1798
1815
1825
1869

1808
1780
1798
1800

1794

1845
1798
1796

1820
1824
1810
1792
1803
1829

1792
1819
1793
1819
1798
1798
1821
1806
1858

1780
1798
1843

1840
1884

1799
1843
1825

1821
1870

1878
1842
1806
1780
1799
1792
1854
1825
1912
1854

1785
1860
1834
1842
1870

1788
1823
1869

1785
1860


1820
1796
1822
1798
1784
1799
1798
1823
1819
1843
1798
1820
1821
1852

1798
1867

1810

1856
1825

1792
1792
1819
1824
1848
1819
1820
1837
1811
1796
1792
1800
1860

1818
1860

1788

County Seat

Columbia
Scottsville
Lawrenceburg

Wickliffe
Glasgow
Owingsville
Pineville
Burlington
Paris
Catlettsburg

Danville
Brooksville
Jackson
Hardinsburg
Shepherdsville
Morgantown
Princeton
Murray
Alexandria & Newport
Bardwell
Carrollton

Grayson
Liberty
Hopkinsville
Winchester
Manchester
Albany
Marion
Burkesville
Owensboro
Brownsville
Sandy Hook

Irvine
Lexington
Flemingsburg
Prestonsburg

Frankfort

Hickman
Warsaw
Lancaster

Williamstown
Mayfield
Leitchfield
Greensburg
Greenup
Hawesville

Elizabethtown
Harlan
Cynthiana
Munfordville
Henderson
New Castle
Clinton
Madisonville
McKee

Louisville
Nicholasville
Paintsville

Covington and Independence
Hindman

Barbourville
Hodgenville
London

Louisa
Beattyville

Hyden
Whitesburg
Vanceburg
Stanford
Smithland
Russellville
Eddyville
Paducah
Whitley City
Calhoun

Richmond
Salyersville
Lebanon
Benton
Inez

Maysville
Brandenburg
Frenchburg

Harrodsburg
Edmonton


Tompkinsville
Mount Sterling
West Liberty
Greenville
Bardstown
Carlisle
Hartford
La Grange
Owenton
Booneville
Falmouth
Hazard
Pikeville
Stanton

Somerset
Mount Olivet

Mount Vernon

Morehead
Jamestown

Georgetown
Shelbyville
Franklin
Taylorsville
Campbellsville
Elkton
Cadiz
Bedford
Morganfield
Bowling Green
Springfield
Monticello
Dixon

Williamsburg
Campton

Versailles

Parent County

Green County
Barren  & Warren
Franklin, Washington & Mercer
Hickman & McCracken
Green & Warren
Montgomery County
Harlan & Knox
Campbell County
Fayette County
Greenup, Carter & Lawrence
Lincoln & Mercer
Mason & Campbell
Clay, Perry & Estill
Hardin County
Jefferson & Nelson
Logan & Ohio
Livingston County
Hickman County
Harrison, Mason & Scott
Hickman County
Gallatin, Trimble & Henry
Greenup & Lawrence
Lincoln County
Logan County
Bourbon & Fayette
Madison, Floyd & Knox
Cumberland & Wayne
Livingston County
Green County
Ohio County
Hart, Grayson & Warren
Morgan, Lawrence & Carter
Clark & Madison
Kentucky County
Mason County
Fleming, Montgomery & Mason
Mercer, Shelby & Woodford
Hickman County
Franklin & Shelby
Madison, Lincoln & Mercer
Pendleton County
Hickman County
Hardin & Ohio
Lincoln & Nelson
Mason County
Ohio, Breckinridge, & Daviess
Nelson County
Knox County
Bourbon & Scott
Hardin & Barren
Christian County
Shelby County
Christian County
Henderson County
Madison, Estill, Owsley, Clay, Laurel, Rockcastle
Kentucky County
Fayette County
Floyd, Lawrence & Morgan
Campbell County
Perry, Letcher, Floyd & Breathitt
Lincoln County
Hardin County
Rockcastle, Clay, Knox & Whitley
Greenup & Floyd
Breathitt, Estill, Owsley, & Wolfe
Clay, Harlan & Perry
Perry & Harlan
Mason County
Kentucky County
Christian County
Lincoln County
Caldwell County
Hickman County
Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley
Daviess, Muhlenberg &  Ohio
Lincoln County
Floyd, Johnson, Morgan
Washington County
Calloway County
Floyd, Johnson, Pike, & Lawrence
Bourbon County
Breckinridge & Hardin
Bath, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell & Wolfe
Lincoln County
Barren, Hart, Green, Adair, Cumberland & Monroe
Barren & Cumberland
Clark County
Bath & Floyd
Christian & Logan
Jefferson County
Mason & Bourbon
Hardin County
Henry, Jefferson, Shelby
Franklin, Gallatin, Scott
Breathitt, Clay, Estill
Campbell & Bracken
Floyd & Clay
Floyd County
Clark, Estill & Montgomery
Green & Lincoln
Bracken, Harrison, Mason & Nicholas
Lincoln, Madison, Knox & Pulaski
Fleming & Morgan
Adair, Wayne & Cumberland
Woodford County
Jefferson County
Allen, Logan, Warren
Nelson, Shelby, Bullitt
Green County
Logan & Christian
Christian & Caldwell
Gallatin, Henry, Oldham
Henderson County
Logan County
Jefferson County
Pulaski & Cumberland
Henderson, Hopkins & Union
Knox County
Breathitt, Owsley & Powell
Fayette County

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