Kentucky Vital Records
Many web sites can help you find out more about your Kentucky ancestors. In the table of information below, you will find many KY web sites organized for you, including the type of record, the title, the web site address, the approx. number of records, the date range, whether or not it is free to search, and notes about the site. Come back often as we will be adding more and more genealogy web sites to help you learn more about using the Internet to find your genealogy.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree Kentucky Births | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put KY in the birth place field | 0ver 460,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
| RootsWeb Kentucky Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Kentucky in the birth place field | 0ver 1,700,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb Kentucky Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Kentucky in the marriage place field | 0ver 1,000,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Kentucky Vital Records Index | ukcc.uky.edu
/~vitalrec/ | 1000s | 1900s | Free | These university sponsored sites are wonderfully comprehensive. I couldn't get a count, however which was annoying. You can search by three different ways though. |
| RootsWeb Kentucky Death Records | userdb.rootsweb.com/
ky/death/search.cgi | 2,921,383 | 1911-2000 | Free | There are not too many of these sites on Rootsweb, just four states. But they are so nice with millions of records! |
| RootsWeb Kentucky Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Kentucky in the death place field | 0ver 900,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: Kentucky | obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put KY in the Keyword Search | 0ver 115,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree Kentucky Deaths | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put KY in the death place field | 0ver 223,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
Census Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| The USGenWeb Census Project | www.us-census.org and go down to Census Surname Search and then find KY and put in the word "census" | 381 links with varying numbers of records per each | 1790-1920 | Free | Wow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found this site great! You can search by year, state, or name! |
| Census Online, Kentucky, 954 links | www.census-online.
com/links/KY/ | 1,000s | 1840-1900 | Free | Another nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not a surname search |
Cemetery Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Kentucky Inscription Cemetery Search | www.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/ky-cem.htm | 2456 documents with various numbers of results per each | varies | Free | Another nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb, but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites. |
| Cemetery Transcription Library | www.interment.net
/data/search.htm | 100s | varies | Free | What a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the entire site. |
| Search the Virtual Cemetery | www.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html | 100s | varies | Free | A nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture of the actual headstone. |
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