Livingston County, Kentucky Genealogy

Guide to Livingston County, Kentucky ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Description
Livingston County was named for Robert Livingston. The county is located in the southwestern area of the state.

County Courthouse
Livingston County Courthouse 335 Court Street PO Box 40 Smithland, KY 42081-0400 Phone: 270-928-2162 Livingston County Website

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

Biographies

 * Kentucky Biographies Project

Cemeteries
The following web sites have additional information on Livingston county cemeteries.


 * Interment.net, Kentucky cemetery records by county.
 * Livingston Co. KY Cemeteries List
 * Naming the Forgotten, The Eastern State Hospital Project

Census Records

 * Kentucky Census Transcriptions 1850-1930, USGenWeb
 * Census Images, USGenWeb
 * KY Census Online, Links to online census records
 * at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Church Records

 * Livingston Co. KY Churches
 * Listing of churches

Baptist
List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * Baptist Church at Salem. Church minutes (1805-1902) are available online.
 * FamilySearch Places

Court Records

 * 1798-1910 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1801-1806 (*); Court of Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1803-1922 (*); Circuit Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1870-1934 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1891-1986 (*); Fiscal Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * Cases Heard Before the Supreme Court for the District of Kentucky 1785-1792 at KYKinFolk.com
 * Abstracts of Early Kentucky Supreme Court Cases


 * Commonwealth of Kentucky, State Board of Elections at KY.gov
 * Contact information for all Kentucky County Court Clerks. Scroll down or use index at top of page to find desired county.


 * Kentucky Court of Justice at KYCourts.gov
 * Livingston Co. Wills and Probate Records
 * State of Kentucky Livingston Circuit Court, June Term 1821; Tree Builders, V.21. 2000. Hopkinsville, Kentucky: Tree Builders. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.

African Americans

 * at FamilySearch — index and images
 * African American Research (US) has more information about the kinds of records available
 * The African American Griots Project
 * Kentucky Minorities has information specific to Kentucky African Americans.
 * Sandi Gorin's Tips, Hangings in Kentucky 1792-1900

Funeral Homes

 * Boyd Funeral Directors and Cremation Services in Salem.
 * Smith Funeral Chapel in Smithland.

Genealogies

 * Baker - Chapman, Peggy Brown. Bakers of Logan, Christian, Muhlenberg, Livingston, Henderson, Hopkins, Caldwell, Union, Todd, Trigg, Crittenden, Lyon, McLean and Webster Counties &amp; Jackson Purchase, Kentucky. Lubbock, Texas: P.B. Chapman, 1995.
 * Lacey - Moore, Maurice Augustus. The Life of Gen. Edward Lacey: With a List of Battles and Skirmishes in South Carolina During the Revolutionary War. Spartanburg, S.C.: Douglass, Evins &amp; Co., 1859..
 * Lacey - Draper, Lyman C. King's Mountain and Its Heroes. Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, Publishers, 1881. Pages 463-464. Digital version at Google Books.
 * Lacey - Owen, Thomas McAdory. "Colonel Edward Lacey of the Revolution and Some of His Descendants," The Gulf States Historical Magazine, Vol. 1 (July 1902):41-44. Digital version at Google Books.

Land and Property Records

 * Bureau of Land Management
 * Kentucky Land Grants, Ancestry ($)
 * The KY Land Office

Local Histories

 * Livingston Co. KY History

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Maps of Kentucky (1776-1939)
 * Old Fire Maps
 * KYGenWeb compiled list of maps
 * Click on the county to go to the KYGenWeb site
 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Military Records

 * Military Resources, Revolutionary War through Civil War

Civil War
'''Online Records
 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (Free)
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry— index (Free)
 * 1912-1950 at FamilySearch  - How to Use this Collection; index and images


 * - 20th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry (Union), Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and K.

World War I

 * Fallen Soldiers in WWI from KY

Korean War

 * Korean War Memorial for Soldiers from KY, KYGenWeb

Newspapers

 * Livingston Ledger
 * University of KY Libraries newspapers on microfilm
 * USNPL, Kentucky, Kentucky newspaper index with links
 * World-Newspapers, Kentucky, Kentucky newspaper index with links
 * Kentucky Newspapers on Microfilm

Obituaries

 * Kentucky Footsteps Archives, KYGenWeb
 * Kentucky Obituary Sources, KYGenWeb


 * Browning Genealogy Database, Compiled by Charles Browning.
 * Kentucky Obituaries, USGenWeb
 * Afrigeneas, African American death notices, obituaries and funeral programs compiled by users from current newspapers and historical sources
 * Obituary Daily Times, Citations to over 15,000,000 obituaries including interactive search function
 * Nashville Christian Advocate Death Abstracts

Other Records

 * National Register of Historic Places - Livingston Co. KY
 * Kentucky Postcards, USGenWeb

Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes and Records
 * 1774-1989 Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989 at Ancestry ($) — index and images
 * 1798-1910 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1799-1815 (*); at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1799-1815 (*); at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1799-1872 Kentucky Genealogy and Images of Old Wills, Estates, Inventories, Annual Returns, Marriages at Kentucky Pioneers ($)
 * 1799-1873 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1799-1873 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1851-1977 (*); Clerk of the County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1890-1908 (*); Clerk of the County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * Livingston County, Kentucky Wills at USGenWeb
 * Dates Vary United States Wills and Deeds Experimental Search at FamilySearch - incomplete index and images, counties and dates vary

School Records

 * 1898-1913 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Social Security Records

 * 1935-2014 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index

Tax Records

 * 1800 - 1800 Tax List of Livingston County, Kentucky Genealogy is included in Clift's Second Census of Kentucky 1800, digitized by Ancestry ($).
 * 1837 Deliquent Tax List for Livingston Co., KY
 * Present Tax Rates
 * Search Tax, Criminal, Land and Wills Records, Ancestry ($)

Vital Records

 * Livingston County Kentucky Vital Records
 * Livingston County Clerk 335 Court Street Smithland, KY 42081
 * KY Vital Records Project

Birth

 * 1800-1901 Delayed Livingston Co. KY Births 1800-1910
 * 1839-1960 – at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1852-1861 - Livingston County Birth Index 1852-1861. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1875 - Livingston County Birth Index 1875. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1911-1930 Livingston Co. KY Births 1911-1930
 * 1911-1999 Kentucky Births, 1911-1999 at MyHeritage ($) — index

Marriage

 * 1609-2016 Kentucky, United States Marriages at Findmypast — index $
 * 1785-1979 – at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1797-1954 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1852-1861 - Livingston County Marriage Index 1852-1861. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1875 - Livingston County Marriage Index 1875. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1876-1878 - Livingston County Marriage Index 1876-1878. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1895 Livingston Co. KY Marriages 1895
 * 1973-2000 Searchable KY Marriage Records
 * 1960-1993 Kentucky Marriages, 1960-1993 at MyHeritage ($) — index

Death

 * 1843-1970 – at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1860 Livingston Co. KY 1860 Mortality Schedule
 * 1870 Livingston Co. KY 1870 Mortality Schedule
 * 1900-1999 Kentucky Deaths, 1900-1999 at MyHeritage ($) — index
 * 1911-1965 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection;
 * 1911-2000 Searchable KY Death Index
 * Some Livingston Co. KY death certificate transcriptions
 * - How to Use this Collection

Archives
Archives of Appalachia East Tennessee State University Sherrod Library, Room 422 344 J L Seehorn Rd Johnson City, TN 37614 Phone: 423-439-4338 Email: [mailto:archives@etsu.edu archives@etsu.edu] Facebook Website

FamilySearch Centers

 * Murray Kentucky FamilySearch Center
 * Paducah Kentucky FamilySearch Center
 * Graves County Public Library - an affiliate library.
 * McCracken County Public Library - an affiliate library.

Libraries
Livingston County Library 321 Court St Smithland, KY 42081 Phone: 270-928-4100 Email: [mailto:tracey.dismore@livingstonco.ky.gov tracey.dismore@livingstonco.ky.gov] Facebook Website

Societies
Livingston County Historical and Genealogical Society 117 State St PO Box 138 Smithland, KY 42081 Phone: 270-928-4656 Email: [mailto:livingstonhistorical@windstream.net livingstonhistorical@windstream.net] Facebook Website

Websites

 * Livingston Co., KyGenWeb
 * KYGenWeb project. Has maps, name indexes, history or other information for each county. Select the county.
 * State of Kentucky Website
 * USGenWeb Kentucky Archives
 * The USGenWeb project May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Livingston County, Kentucky Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Livingston County KY Genealogy (Kentucky Genealogy)
 * . Free - The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records