Thanks to everyone who came out this past July for another wonderful Kentucky Ancestors Town Hall! As this was our second year hosting the event, we shook things up with a new host, KET’s Renee Shaw, a DNA lunch chat, and a new vendor/demo hall called the Genealogy Makerspace. With …
Well everyone, we’ve been promising this for quite sometime, and it’s finally here! You can now access the full run of Kentucky Ancestors print edition back issues, anywhere for free! Kentucky Ancestors as a publication began in July of 1965, and ran until summer 2013, when the publication moved to …
By: Louise Jones, KHS Director of Research Experience Editor’s Note: The following report comes to us through the research that was conducted for the first Kentucky Ancestors Town Hall event in 2017. As we get deeper into our family histories, it is not uncommon to find an ancestor or related …
Where to start? Well, let’s first begin with introductions: your Kentucky Ancestors Online editorial team consists of Cheri Daniels and Louise Jones. Cheri, your friendly neighborhood Senior Librarian and Reference Specialist is also a 7th generation Kentuckian, blogger, bibliophile, technology/social media junkie and seasoned researcher who began her library and …