Hardin County, Kentucky Genealogy

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



Description
The County was named for John Hardin. The County has Elizabethtown as its seat and the County was created 1792. The County is located in the north central area of the state.

County Courthouse
Hardin County Courthouse 14 Public Square Elizabethtown, KY 42701 Phone: 270-765-2171 Hardin County Website

County Clerk has marriage and land records.

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:

History Timeline
Hardin County History Facts

Biographies

 * KY Biographies
 * Who Was Who in Hardin County. 1946. Vol. 2 digitized by - free.

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


 * Interment.net, Kentucky cemetery records by county.
 * Cemetery Junction, Links to cemetery transcriptions
 * Naming the Forgotten, The Eastern State Hospital Project
 * ePodunk list of Hardin County cemeteries gives the names of the cemeteries in the county with a link to more information such as address, phone number, and web site.

Census Records

 * Kentucky Census Transcriptions 1850-1930, USGenWeb
 * Census Images, USGenWeb
 * KY Census Online, Links to online census records

Church Records

 * Kentucky Christian Church Directory, ChurchAngel
 * Catholic Parishes in the Diocese of Lexington
 * Catholic Parishes in the Archdiocese of Louisville

Baptist

 * Big Spring. Church minutes and membership lists (1816-1940) are available online.
 * Cecilia. Church minutes and membership lists (1819-1922) are available online.
 * Forks of Otter Creek. Church minutes and membership lists (1827-1904) are available online.
 * Gilead. Church minutes (1824-1849) have been published: FHL Book 976.9845 H2c.
 * Severn's Valley. Church minutes and membership lists (1788-1884) are available online.
 * Union. Membership lists etc. (1808-1867) have been published: FHL Book 976.9845/V1 K2j.

Court Records

 * 1793-1875 - have been digitized by FamilySearch - free.
 * Abstracts of Early Kentucky Supreme Court Cases, KYGenWeb
 * Kentucky Court of Justice Research &amp; Reference

African Americans

 * The African American Griots Project
 * Kentucky Minorities has information specific to Kentucky African Americans.
 * Sandi Gorin's Tips, Hangings in Kentucky 1792-1900

Genealogies

 * [Bomar] Wilbur, Tom. Eight Bomar Families of Early Hardin, Hart, and Larue Counties, Kentucky and Some of Their Descendants: A Few Allied Families: Bolton, Buckner, Clopton, Cruse, Dye, Ferguson, Hazle, Highbaugh, Hill, Hodge(s) Jaggers, Lamkin Mears, Owen(s), Shelton, Simpson, Waddle, Wheeler. Okemos, Mich.: T. Wilbur, 1997.
 * [Hodgen] Mather, Otis May. Six Generations of LaRues and Allied Families: Containing Sketch of Isaac LaRue, Senior, Who Died in Frederick County, Virginia in 1795, and Some Account of His American Ancestors and Three Generations of His Descendants and Families Who Were Connected by Inter-marriage: Among Others Carman, Hodgen, Helm, Buzan, Rust ... : Copies of Six Old Wills and Other Documents, Various Incidents Connected with the Settlement of the Nolynn Valley in Kentucky; Also a Chapter on the La Rue Family and the Child Abraham Lincoln. Hodgenville, Kentucky: O.M. Mather, 1921. Available at ; [2 listings at FHL]; digital versions at Ancestry ($); Internet Archive - free; and World Vital Records ($).
 * [Kasey] Schorn, Catherine Scott. "Kaseys in Bedford County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1987):243-248; Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1988):24-32. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [LaRue] Mather, Otis May. Six Generations of LaRues and Allied Families: Containing Sketch of Isaac LaRue, Senior, Who Died in Frederick County, Virginia in 1795, and Some Account of His American Ancestors and Three Generations of His Descendants and Families Who Were Connected by Inter-marriage: Among Others Carman, Hodgen, Helm, Buzan, Rust ... : Copies of Six Old Wills and Other Documents, Various Incidents Connected with the Settlement of the Nolynn Valley in Kentucky; Also a Chapter on the La Rue Family and the Child Abraham Lincoln. Hodgenville, Kentucky: O.M. Mather, 1921. Available at ; [2 listings at FHL]; digital versions at Ancestry ($); Internet Archive - free; and World Vital Records ($).
 * [Lincoln] Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. ; online bookstore.
 * [Lincoln] Hatcher, Patricia Law. "The Real Thomas Lincoln of Cumberland County, Kentucky: Not the Father of the President," The American Genealogist, Vol. 85, No. 4 (Oct. 2011):254-261..
 * [Peebles] Saltzman, Bettie L. Peebles and Linda L. Saltzman McCall. Peebles, 1763-1988. Typescript. 1988 reprint:.

Land and Property Records

 * The KY Land Office

Local Histories

 * The Archives of Appalachia
 * A series of monographs concerning the Lincolns and Hardin County, Kentucky at Ancestry ($)
 * This compilation is of the Hardin Co., Kentucky Bush family founded by Christopher Bush (born about 1733, died Jan. 16, 1813) at Ancestry ($)

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Maps of Kentucky (1776-1939)
 * KYGenWeb compiled list of maps
 * Click on the county to go to the KYGenWeb site

Military Records

 * Military Resources, Revolutionary War through Civil War

Civil War
'''Online Records
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch — index
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch — 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 — index and images


 * - 2nd Regiment, Kentucky Veteran Cavalry (Union), Companies I and G.

World War I

 * Fallen Soldiers in WWI from KY

Korean War

 * Korean War Memorial for Soldiers from KY, KYGenWeb

Newspapers

 * 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
 * Links to research and locate obituaries
 * 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 Depot, Kentucky Newspaper Citations
 * Obituary Daily Times, Citations to over 15,000,000 obituaries
 * Nashville Christian Advocate Death Abstracts

Other Records

 * Kentucky Postcards, USGenWeb

Probate Records

 * Research Tips for Kentucky Probate Records

'''Online Probate Records


 * 1774–1999 Kentucky Wills and Probate Records 1774-1999 at Ancestry ($) — index and images
 * 1810-1816 Images of Wills, Inventories, Appraisements, Book B. Kentucky Pioneers ($)

Tax Records

 * 1800 - 1800 Tax List of Hardin County, Kentucky Genealogy is included in Clift's Second Census of Kentucky 1800, digitized by Ancestry ($).
 * Family Search Library Catalog
 * Early Kentucky Tax Records
 * Researching Early Kentucky Tax Lists 1792-1840
 * Search Tax, Criminal, Land and Wills Records, Ancestry ($)

Birth

 * 1839-1960 - Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960 at FamilySearch
 * 1852-1860 - Hardin County Birth Index 1852-1860. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1874 - Hardin County Birth Index 1874. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1911-1912 - Searchable KY Birth Index

Marriage

 * 1609-2016 - Kentucky, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
 * 1785-1979 - Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979 at FamilySearch
 * 1797-1954 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1852-1860 - Hardin County Marriage Index 1852-1860. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1973-2000 - Searchable KY Marriage Records
 * 1973-2000 - Kentucky Marriage Records 1973-2000

Death

 * 1843-1970 - Kentucky Deaths and Burials, 1843-1970 at FamilySearch
 * 1911-1965 - at FamilySearch — index
 * 1911-2000 - Searchable KY Death Index
 * The Social Security Death Index - Searchable
 * The Kentucky Vital Records Project, Transcriptions and Images of Kentucky Death Certificates

Divorce

 * 1973-1993 - Kentucky Divorce Records 1973-1993, University of Kentucky Vital Records Databases

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to Family History Centers
 * Elizabethtown Kentucky Family History Center

Societies

 * Hardin County Historical Society 128 N. Main PO Box 381 Elizabethtown, KY 42701 Telephone: 270-505-2067 Email: [mailto:jlanz@hardinkyhistoricalsociety.org jlanz@hardinkyhistoricalsociety.org] Email:[mailto:merandac@hardinkyhistoricalsociety.org merandac@hardinkyhistoricalsociety.org] Website
 * Ancestral Trails Historical Society PO Box 1796 Elizabethtown, KY 42702-1796 Telephone: 270-982-0881 Website
 * Links and addresses to Kentucky genealogical and historical societies

Websites

 * Hardin County, KY History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Hardin County 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.
 * Hardin County, Kentucky Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Hardin County at Our Family Tree
 * Hardin 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