Boyd County, Kentucky Genealogy

United States   Kentucky    Boyd County

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

Boyd County Kentucky Courthouse
Boyd County Courthouse 2800 Louisa Street Catlettsburg, KY 41229 Phone: 606.739.5116

Parent County
1860--Boyd County was created 16 February 1860 from Greenup, Carter and Lawrence Counties. County seat: Catlettsburg

Boundary Changes
There has been no changes to Boyd County boundaries since it was created. For animated maps illustrating Kentucky county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Kentucky County Boundary Maps" (1776-1939) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Neighboring Counties

 * Carter
 * Greenup
 * Lawrence
 * Lawrence County, Ohio
 * Wayne County, West Virginia

African Americans
United States African Americans Kentucky African Americans

Biographies, Family Histories/Trees, GEDCOM files etc.

 * KY Biographies ~ Jeff Murphy's Kentucky Biographies Project
 * Biographies for Boyd County Kentucky at Genealogy Trails History Group

Cemeteries
Kentucky cemetery records often identify birth, death, relationship, and military information, as well as religious affiliation. Local volunteers through Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness may take photographs of headstones found in county cemeteries.


 * Boyd County Kentucky Cemeteries and Tombstones [may need to scroll down the page to see]
 * Klaiber Cemetery scroll down page to see list of burials.
 * Cemetery Transcriptions for Boyd County, Kentucky at Genealogy Trails History Group
 * Boyd County KYGenWeb Cemetery Project
 * Catlettsburg Cemetery at Interment.net
 * Boyd County Kentucky Cemetery Records at Access Genealogy
 * The Tombstone Transcription Project-Boyd County
 * Kentucky Historical Society Cemetery Search can be searched by name, place and/or date. This database has hundreds of thousands of names transcribed from gravestones across Kentucky.
 * Find A Grave can be searched by the name of a person or family to find where a person is buried. Usually gives birth and death dates often with a picture of the tombstone.  May give obituaries, names of family members and links to their information in Find A Grave.
 * Find A Grave also gives a list of cemeteries in Boyd County and links to the information for the individuals buried there,
 * Kentucky Cemeteries lists the national cemeteries in Kentucky with links to their web sites. The first link under Online Kentucky Cemeteries goes to the Kentucky section of Interment.net
 * Boyd Co. KY USGenWeb Tombstone Project usually gives the names of the deceased in alphabetical order by last name with birth and death dates plus any remarks.
 * TheFamilySearch Catalog lists . Some of the books or others may be on Google Books or available at public libraries.
 * ePodunk list of Boyd 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

 * Boyd County, Kentucky USGenweb Archives-Census Census online-Boyd Co.,Kentucky
 * Eastern Kentucky Genealogy-Boyd County, Kentucky Poor House 1870

Church
LDS Ward Branch Records *


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

Court

 * Abstracts of Early KY Court Cases Abstracts of Early Supreme Court Cases ~ KYGenWeb Special Project
 * Kentucky Court of Justice Research &amp; Reference

Genealogy

 * [Clay] Smith, Zachary F. and Mary Rogers Clay. The Clay Family. Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton and Company, 1899. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.

Land

 * The KY Land Office

Local Histories

 * Boyd County, Kentucky USGenweb Archives-History
 * Wikipedia-Boyd County, Kentucky
 * The Archives of Appalachia

Maps

 * KYGenWeb compiled list of maps
 * Click on the county to go to the KYGenWeb site

Military

 * Boyd County, Kentucky USGenweb Archives-Military
 * Boyd County, Kentucky USGenweb Archives-World War I Memorial
 * Military Resources ~ Revolutionary War through Civil War
 * Korean War Memorial Korean War Memorial for Soliders from KY ~ KYGenWeb
 * Kentucky Genealogy Trails-Military Records for Boyd County Kentucky

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


 * - 14th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry (Union), Company C.
 * - 27th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry (Union), Company I.
 * - 39th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry (Union), Company E.
 * - 40th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry (Union), Company D.
 * - 45th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry (Union), Companies A, B, C, D, E, F and G.
 * Preston, John David. Civil War Soldiers of Boyd County, Kentucky. 
 * Preston, John David. Civil War Soldiers of Boyd County, Kentucky. 

Miscellaneous

 * KY Postcards Kentucky Postcards ~ The USGenWeb Archives Penny Postcard Project
 * The KYGenWeb Footsteps ~ The Kentucky Footsteps Archives ~ KYGenWeb Special Project

Newspaper

 * Boyd County, Kentucky USGenweb Archives Newspapers
 * Kentucky News -  Kentucky Newspaper Index with links
 * Another Kentucky Newspaper Index with links
 * Kentucky Newspapers on Microfilm  -   Kentucky Newspapers Available On Microfilm

Obituaries
Boyd County, Kentucky USGenweb Archives-Obituraries


 * KY Footsteps Archives ~ KY Footsteps List Archives - thousands of obituaries here ~ KYGenWeb Project
 * KY Obituary Sources ~ Kentucky Obituary Sources ~ Compiled by the KYGenWeb Project
 * Links to research and locate obituaries
 * Browning Genealogy Database ~ The Browning Genealogy Database - A Collection of Obituaries Compiled by Charles Browning.
 * USGenWeb Archives Obituary Project ~  Kentucky Obituary Project
 * 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 Advocate ~ Death Abstracts from the Nashville Christian Advocate
 * Web: Boyd County, Kentucky, Ashland Daily Independent Obituary Index, 1922-1945, 1970-1973, 1998-2010 at Ancestry.com ($)

Probate

 * 1860-1962 - have been digitized by FamilySearch - free.
 * Search Tax, Criminal, Land and Wills Records ~  Ancestry.com  (subscription)

Online Probate Records


 * 1774 – 1999 Kentucky Wills and Probate Records 1774-1999 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1727 – 1990 at FamilySearch — images

Vital Records

 * How to order Kentucky Vital Records

Birth

 * 1839-1960 - KY Births and Christenings ~ Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960 Family Search
 * 1859 - Boyd County Birth Index 1859. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1875 - Boyd County Birth Index 1875. Batch at FamilySearch - free.

Marriage

 * 1783-1979 - KY Marriage Records ~ KY Marriages 1783 - 1979 ~ Family Search
 * 1797-1954 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1875 - Boyd County Marriage Index 1875. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1875 - (Boyd County Kentucky) Marriages
 * 1877-1878 - Boyd County Marriage Index 1877-1878. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * Boyd County, Kentucky USGenweb Archives-Marriages
 * 1895 - (Boyd County Kentucky) Negro Marriages
 * 1907 - Boyd County Marriage Index 1907
 * 1973-2000 - Kentucky Marriage Records 1973 - 2000  ~ Kentucky Marriage Records - 1973 - 2000
 * Searchable KY Vital Records ~ Searchable databases of KY Births, Deaths and Marriages

Death

 * 1843-1970 - KY Deaths and Burials ~ KY Deaths and Burials 1843 - 1970
 * Boyd County, Kentucky USGenweb Archives- Deaths
 * The Kentucky Vital Records Project Transcriptions of and Images of KY Death Certificates - A Work in Progress ~ The KY Vital Records Project
 * The Social Security Death Index The Social Security Death Index - Searchable

Divorce

 * 1973-1993 - KY Divorces 1973 - 1993 ~ Kentucky Divorce Records 1973 - 1993 ~ University of Kentucky Vital Records Databases

Boyd County Kentucky Genealogy Societies and Libraries
Eastern KY Genealogical Society Box 1544 Ashland, KY 41105-1544e more at:

Boyd County Historical Society 2734 Jackson Avenue Ashland KY 41101 Catlettsburg Historical Society 3420 Spring Street Catlettsburg KY 41129
 * Links and addresses to Kentucky genealogical and historical societies
 * Boyd County Public Library

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Ashland Family History Center, 1001 Kenwood Dr Russell Kentucky 41169 United States

Boyd County Kentucky Genealogy Websites

 * Boyd County, KY History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Genealogy Inc)
 * Boyd County at Kentucky Kinfolk
 * USGenWeb Archives-Boyd County Ky
 * KYGenWeb project. Has maps, name indexes, history or other information for each county. Select the county.
 * State of Kentucky Website
 * USGenWeb Kentucky Archives ~ Kentucky in the USGenWeb Archives ~ Vital statistics, maps, obituaries, Bible records, tombstone transcriptions and many other records.
 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Boyd County, KY at Genealogy Trails History Group
 * USGenWeb Archives-Boyd County Ky
 * Boyd County, Kentucky Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Boyd County KY Genealogy (Kentucky Genealogy)
 * Boyd County KY Genealogy (Kentucky Genealogy)