Kentucky Cultural Groups

African American

 * See African American Resources for Kentucky

Germans

 * Smith, Clifford Neal. Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio (Mainly Cincinnati and Environs,) Kentucky, and Other States. McNeal, Arizona: Westland Publications, 1984. . This book contains abstracts of obituaries, membership records, and articles from the monthly German magazine Der Deutsche Pioniere (The German Pioneer). It includes an index and lists the name of the settler, his or her place of residence and origin, and the reference volume and page number.

Huguenot

 * Original Papers Concerning the Huguenot and Walloon Lines. Frankfort, KY: Historical Society, [196–?]. (FamilySearch Library .) About half of the early pioneers of Kentucky were descended from French-speaking Protestants, including the Huguenots from southern France and the Walloons from southern Belgium. These unindexed papers contain the history of these two groups of people.

Indigenous Peoples

 * See Indigenous Peoples of Kentucky

Polish

 * Haiman, Miecislaus. Polish Pioneers of Virginia and Kentucky. 1937. Reprint, [Ft. Wayne, Indiana: Allen County Public Library, 198–]. . This book includes notes on the genealogies of Polish families, including the Sadowski family. It is unindexed.

Shakers

 * Neal, Julia. The Kentucky Shakers. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1977 . This history of the Shakers from 1805 to 1922 is unindexed.

Swedish

 * See Kentucky: Swedish American

General
See also United States Cultural Groups for additional resources.

Other records and histories of ethnic, racial, and religious groups in Kentucky are listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:


 * KENTUCKY - MINORITIES


 * KENTUCKY, [COUNTY] - MINORITIES


 * KENTUCKY, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - MINORITIES

You will also find records in the Subject Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:


 * AFRO-AMERICANS - KENTUCKY