Clark County, Kentucky Genealogy

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



Description
Clark County was named for George Rogers Clark. The county is located in the central area of the state.

County Courthouse
Clark County Courthouse 34 S Main Street Rm 103 Winchester, KY 40391-2600 Phone: 859.745.0282 Clark 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:

Bible Records

 * Clark County, Kentucky Bible Records at Access Genealogy
 * Clark County, Kentucky Family Bibles and Family Records at Kentucky Genealogy Trails

Biographies

 * Kentucky Biographies Project

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


 * Interment.net, Kentucky cemetery records by county.
 * Cemetery Junction, Links to cemetery transcriptions
 * 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
 * Third census of the United States (1810 census), Clark County, Kentucky at Ancestry ($)

Church Records
List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * Kentucky Christian Church Directory, ChurchAngel
 * Catholic Parishes in the Diocese of Lexington
 * Catholic Parishes in the Archdiocese of Louisville
 * FamilySearch Places

Court Records

 * 1793-1826 (*); Circuit Court and Court of Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1793-1932 (*); Circuit Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1793-1978 (*); Circuit Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1795-1814 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1801-1830 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1803-1857 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1863-1874 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1875-1892 (*); Court of Common Pleas 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

African Americans

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

Genealogies

 * [Hall] Hayden, Richard A. "Early Hall Family Pioneers of Frederick County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1993):163-174. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Hickman] Jones, L.H. Captain Roger Jones of London and Virginia, Some of His Antecedents and Descendants: With Appreciative Notice of Other Families, viz.: Bathurst, Belford, Browning, Carter, Catesby, Cocke, Graham, Fauntleroy, Hickman, Hoskins, Latane, Lewis, Meriwether, Skelton, Walker, Waring, Woodford, and Others. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, 1891. Digital versions at Google Books; Internet Archives. 1911 edition: ; 1985 reprint:.
 * [Hickman] Buford, Marcus Bainbridge. A Genealogy of the Buford Family in America, With Records of a Number of Allied Families. San Francisco, Calif., 1903. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
 * [Hickman] Fay, Mary Smith. "The Three James Hickmans: Identifying Revolutionary War Veterans," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1997):52-54. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Jones] Jones, L.H. Captain Roger Jones of London and Virginia, Some of His Antecedents and Descendants: With Appreciative Notice of Other Families, viz.: Bathurst, Belford, Browning, Carter, Catesby, Cocke, Graham, Fauntleroy, Hickman, Hoskins, Latane, Lewis, Meriwether, Skelton, Walker, Waring, Woodford, and Others. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, 1891. Digital versions at Google Books; Internet Archives. 1911 edition: ; 1985 reprint:.
 * [Lampton] Keith, Clayton. Sketch of the Lampton Family in America, 1740-1914. Louisiana, Mo.: C. Keith, 1914. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Price] American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, 1898. Vol. 9:128-129. Digital version at Google Books - free.
 * [Price] Price, Benjamin Luther. John Price the Emigrant, Jamestown Colony 1620, With Some of His Descendants. Alexandria, La.: B.J. Price, 1910; digital version at Internet Archive - free.
 * [Quisenberry] Quisenberry, Anderson Chenault. Memorials of the Quisenberry Family in Germany, England and America. Washington, D.C.: Gilson Bros., Printers, 1900. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
 * [Stafford] Stafford, Carolyn Joy. The Biography of Thomas Moore Stafford, 1841-1910 of City of Louisville, Clark, and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky and Citrus and Lee Counties, Florida: Saddler, Soldier, Settler. Brandon, Fla.: C.J. Stafford, 2007. ; digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * [Watts] Heinemann, Charles Brunk. John Watts Family of Clark County, Kentucky: (Watts Family No. 2). 1934?..

Land and Property Records

 * The KY Land Office

Local Histories

 * Early Clark County, Kentucky : a History, 1674-1824. 1966. By Willard Rouse Jillson. Frankfort, Kentucky : Roberts Printing Company. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.


 * Hand-book of Clark County and the City of Winchester (1889)

Maps and Gazetteers

 * 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 — index - How to Use this Collection
 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index - How to Use this Collection
 * 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 - How to Use this Collection

'''Confederate
 * - 2nd Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry (Woodward's) - CSA - Company A.
 * - 11th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate) - CSA - Company C.

'''Union
 * - 22nd Regiment, Kentucky Infantry (Enrolled Militia), Companies A, B, C, F, and G
 * - 39th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Company A, B, C, D, F, G, I, and K
 * - 45th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Company K
 * - 6th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Company E

World War I

 * Fallen Soldiers in WWI from KY

Korean War

 * Korean War Memorial, 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


 * 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 including interactive search function
 * Nashville Christian Advocate Death Abstracts

Other Records

 * Kentucky Postcards, USGenWeb

Probate Records
'''Online Probate Records


 * 1774-1989 Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989 at Ancestry ($) — index and images
 * 1792-1803 (*); at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1792-1826 Clark County, Kentucky Wills 1792-1826, Vol. 1-2 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1792-1851 (*); at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1793-1826 (*); Circuit Court and Court of Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1793-1850 (*); at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1793-1868 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1793-1868 at FamilySearch  - How to Use this Collection
 * 1801-1830 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1863-1874 (*); County Court at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * Historical Collection of the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky : Clark County - Winchester. By McGhee, Lucy Kate. Clark County, Kentucky : Clark County, Kentucky. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * Index to Settlements and Wills, Clark County, Kentucky, 1793-1854. By William L. Howison & Associates. Columbus, Ohio : William L. Howison & Associates. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * (*); at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * Will Records of Clark County, Kentucky. By Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather. Chillicothe, Missouri : Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * Wills, Probates, Land, Tax and Criminal at Ancestry ($)

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.

Tax Records

 * 1792 - Burbridge, Sandra, submitter. "1792 Tax Roll for Clark County, Kentucky", Clark County KyGenWeb.
 * 1800 - 1800 Tax List of Clark County, Kentucky Genealogy is included in Clift's Second Census of Kentucky 1800, digitized by Ancestry ($).
 * Search Tax, Criminal, Land and Wills Records at Ancestry ($)

Birth

 * 1839-1960 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1852-1861 - Clark County Birth Index 1852-1861. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1874 - Clark County Birth Index 1874. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1875-1876 - Clark County Birth Index 1875-1876. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1911-1912 Searchable KY Birth Index
 * 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
 * 1795-1824 Kentucky Pioneers ($) Marriages
 * 1797-1954 at FamilySearch — index and images - How to Use this Collection
 * 1829-1853 - Clark County Marriage Index 1829-1853. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1852-1859 - Clark County Marriage Index 1852-1859. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1875 - Clark County Marriage Index 1875. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1876-1878 - Clark County Marriage Index 1876-1878. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1895 - Clark County Marriage Index 1895. Batch at FamilySearch
 * 1973-2000 Searchable KY Marriage Records
 * 1973-2000 Kentucky Marriage Records 1973-2000
 * 1960-1993 Kentucky Marriages, 1960-1993 at MyHeritage ($) — index
 * 1960-1993 Kentucky Marriages, 1960-1993 at MyHeritage ($) — index

Death

 * 1843-1970 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1911-1965 at FamilySearch — index - How to Use this Collection
 * 1911-2000 Searchable KY Death Index
 * 1900-1999 Kentucky Deaths, 1900-1999 at MyHeritage ($) — index
 * - How to Use this Collection
 * The Kentucky Vital Records Project, Transcriptions of and Images of Kentucky Death Certificates

Divorce

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

Archives
Archives of Appalachia East Tennessee State University Website

Family History Centers

 * Lexington Kentucky Family History Center
 * Owingsville Kentucky Family History Center
 * The Kentucky Historical Society Library - an affiliate library.
 * Lexington Public Library - an affiliate library.

Societies
Clark County Historical Society 122 Belmont Avenue Winchester, KY 40391

Websites

 * Clark County KYGenWeb
 * KYGenWeb project. Has maps, name indexes, history or other information for each county. Select the county.
 * State of Kencucky Website
 * USGenWeb Kentucky Archives
 * USGenWeb Project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Clark County, Kentucky Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Clark 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