Kentucky Genealogical Society

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Discover Your Kentucky Story: Access Resources, Insights, and Connect with Family Historians for All 120 Counties. Join our Global Community of Kentucky Family Historians for just $20/year. 2026 is our 53rd year! www.kygs.org #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jun 12

We're happy to launch Kentucky Research Roadtrips -- an entirely new member offering. Learn more and sign-up: kygs.org/what-we-do/k... Where are the records? Let's go find them together. #genealogy

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jun 3

Kentucky was represented at #NGS2026 in Fort Wayne! Researchers connected through the Kentucky Genealogy Meet-up, a special lunch gathering, and many one-on-one conversations. Thanks to Bill Oates, Janet Cobb, Cierra Earl, and everyone who joined us to celebrate Kentucky family history. #genealogy

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jun 1

We had a great meet-up of Kentucky family historians at the NGS Conference in Fort Wayne last week. Thanks to board member Bill Oates for organizing and hosting and Cierra Earl for supplying the photographs.

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· May 2

History in hand. 🏇🏆 Congrats to Golden Tempo, 2026 Kentucky Derby winner, and Cherie DeVaux—the first woman trainer to win the Derby. A name now written into Kentucky history.

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· May 1

#genealogy #KentuckyDerby

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Mar 19

There will come a day when someone searches for you. What will they find? What will be missing? The work we do today becomes the past others inherit. Join the Kentucky Genealogical Society. Help decide what survives. Join now: kygs.org/register/?li... #Genealogy #kentuckyfamilyhistory

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Mar 16

We honor the memory of Bardstown, Kentucky Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt. She has been identified among the crew killed when a U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft went down during a combat mission tied to the American military campaign against Iran.

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Mar 2

Three Historic Kentucky Record Collections Approved for Digitization! tinyurl.com/3tea29u4 #genealogy

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Feb 14

🧭 Genealogy Fieldcraft Cite it when you find it. Links break. Indexes change. Strong research requires precise documentation. Join Kentucky genealogists doing it right. $20/year → www.kygs.org #GenealogyFieldcraft #KentuckyRoots #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Genealogy Fieldcraft
Record Exact Source Citations As You Go
One of the most common mistakes in family history?
“I’ll go back and cite that later.”
Later rarely comes.
Fieldcraft means documenting your sources at the exact moment you find them.
Every full citation should include:
• Repository name
• Collection title
• Volume or book number
• Page number
• Image number
• URL
• Access date
Digital links break. Indexes get updated. Pagination changes. Platforms redesign.
If you don’t capture it in real time, you may never reconstruct it accurately.
Strong genealogy isn’t just about finding records.
It’s about building work that can stand up to scrutiny.
That’s Genealogy Fieldcraft.
Many family historians work alone — but they don’t have to.
Join the Kentucky Genealogical Society for year-round instruction, research insight, and a statewide community committed to disciplined, credible family history.
Membership is just $20 per year.
Learn more at www.kygs.org

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Feb 10

Family historians: learn to record GPS coordinates. It takes 10 seconds. It preserves places forever. Cemeteries. Old homesteads. Church sites. Vanished schools. Coordinates don’t move. Memories do. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #KentuckyRoots #GPS Connect. Learn. Join for $20 at www.kygs.org

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Feb 8

Family history came alive yesterday in Elizabethtown at the Ancestral Trails Historical Society Book Fair! 📚🌟 We sold research guides, swapped Kentucky stories, and visited with folks who braved the winter weather to stop by. ❄️🧣 #KentuckyHistory #Genealogy #BluegrassRoots

Volunteer director at large Janet Cobb from Bowling Green, volunteer co-president Kathy Keyser from Lexington, and volunteer director at large Jeff Lutz from Coxs Creek.

Volunteer director at large Christopher Padgett from Louisville visited with Ann Sipes, author of The Ray book: a family of Central Kentucky, which is available on FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/703020

Volunteer director at large Jeff Lutz of Coxs Creek and volunteer Lloyd Keyser from Lexington

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 31

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Kentucky" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1856. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/634508...

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Kentucky" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1856. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/63450890-2dc5-0135-1bd2-0b9fd9ab4e11

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 29

We’re pleased to share our 2026 Program Calendar. This marks our 53rd year supporting family historians across all 120 Kentucky counties. 🌿 Pull up a chair, take a look, and feel free to download and share with anyone tracing Kentucky roots. #genealogy #Kentucky drive.google.com/file/d/1mssr...

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Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 28

We'll be at the ATHS Annual Book Fair in E-Town. Come say hello! Many #genealogy and local history books available. We'll have both the Essential Guide to #Kentucky Family History and Kentucky & Its Kin available at a special event price. #bookfair aths.site/event/aths-a...

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 23

UPDATED FRIDAY 12:57 P.M. #winterstormfern #genealogyforecast #kentuckycousins Get plenty of snacks, milk, and bread. Cousins may arrive unexpectedly! #genealogy

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 22

Your 4-Day Genealogy Outlook #winterstorm #GenealogyForecast

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 22

Each year on Jan 25, #BurnsNight honors Scotland’s poet Robert Burns—a celebration of song and memory. If your roots trace to Scotland or the Scots-Irish in KY, join Kentucky Scots-Irish Ancestors Front Porch Talks. 🪑 2nd Tuesday | 7pm ET Pull up a chair. There’s aye room on the porch. #Genealogy

O Hearts Still Warmed by Song and Story
Each year around January 25, people around the world gather to celebrate Burns Night, honoring Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. Burns was a farmer, a keen observer of ordinary life, and a writer who believed that everyday people—and their stories—mattered. His poems and songs gave voice to friendship, love, loss, humor, and memory, reminding us that what binds us together is often found in shared words and shared time.
At the heart of Burns Night is fellowship—voices raised together, stories shared freely, and the understanding that heritage lives best when spoken aloud. It is not about perfection or pedigree, but about connection: listening as much as telling, remembering as much as recording. That same spirit lives on whenever people gather to talk family, place, and possibility—leaning in, learning together, and keeping the conversation going.
Burns understood that what we carry is not always visible. A tune learned young. A line remembered. A way of naming the land. When Scots and Scots-Irish families left familiar hills behind, they brought those things with them—crossing oceans, following rivers, and settling where the land felt speakable. Kentucky became a place where old words met new valleys, where accents softened but stories held fast, and where the past continued to walk quietly alongside the present.
If your family history traces back to Scotland, Ulster, or the Scots-Irish migration into Kentucky, you’re warmly invited to join our Kentucky Scots-Irish Ancestors Front Porch Talk.
🪑 2nd Tuesday of each month
🕖 7:00 p.m. ET | Virtual
Front Porch Talks are small, informal gatherings where members with shared research interests come together to share research, swap ideas, and learn from one another. Topics are shaped by the group itself, all backgrounds and levels of experience are welcome, and curiosity is the only requirement.
Pull up a chair.
There’s aye room on the porch.
Join us at www.kygs.org

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 20

Tonight’s Meet the Board highlighted the strength behind the Kentucky Genealogical Society. 18 board members, across Kentucky and the U.S., bringing talents and perspectives that will help shape the future of Kentucky’s genealogy ecosystem. The next two years will be something special. #Genealogy

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 15

🌿 Kentucky German Ancestors 🇩🇪→🇺🇸 From a riverbank in Germany to a front porch in Kentucky, German-speaking ancestors helped shape the Commonwealth. 📅 Sat, Jan 17 | 2pm ET | Virtual Sign up via the member portal at kygs.org #KentuckyGermanAncestors #FromRhineToOhio #genealogy

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Jan 15

#Genealogy without borders. 🌍 Through the International German Genealogy Partnership, societies around the world collaborate across languages and continents. We're proud to be part of this global work, supporting Kentucky family historians with German roots. #AhnenForschung #GermanRoots

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Dec 1

Kenton County Clerk Gabe Summe has authorized the digitization of Kenton County records at KDLA! Kenton becomes the 14th county to sign on—making Kentucky history easier to find and free to access. A big win for researchers and family historians. #genealogy #kentucky #kentoncounty

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Nov 10

Today, we honor the men and women who have served — and those who continue to serve. Share the names and home counties of veterans you wish to recognize in the comments, whether they rest beneath Kentucky soil or still walk among us. Their stories are part of our Commonwealth’s story. #genealogy

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Oct 29

Kindness is the quiet force that holds the family history community together. Every act of help—sharing a record, decoding a document, treating another’s story with care—strengthens our bonds. Genealogy isn’t just data; it’s a human story preserved through empathy and respect. #genealogy #kindness

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Oct 21

📜 Big news for Kentucky history! Russell County Clerk Patti Glover has signed on to digitize & preserve historic county records! A growing number of KY’s counties are now onboard! #PreserveKentucky #Genealogy #digitization #countyrecords

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Oct 10

When Dr. Thomas D. Clark learned Kentucky’s records were in danger, he didn’t shrug—he showed up. That’s what it takes to save history. As Kentuckians, it’s what we must do too—before carelessness or neglect erases our past. #genealogy #archives #preservation #americanarchivesmonth

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Oct 6

Guten Tag! 🇩🇪 Today is #GermanAmericanDay — celebrating the artisans, farmers & dreamers who carried German traditions to Kentucky. Join the Kentucky German Ancestors Front Porch Talks & trace your family’s story from the Rhine to the Ohio. 🌊 #Genealogy #KentuckyHistory www.kygs.org

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Oct 2

October is Family History Month and American Archives Month. The ledgers, photos, and records of ordinary people are what make history extraordinary. Go find your family’s story in the archives. #genealogy #familyhistorymonth #americanarchivesmonth kygs.org/subscription...

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Sep 17

Unfortunately, we do love… 📜 Courthouse fires the year our ancestors married 🐄 Gravestones sinking in cow pastures 📖 Family Bibles full of four-leaf clovers, not births 👉 Join the Kentucky Genealogical Society—because we love these headaches together. kygs.org/subscription... #genealogy

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Sep 8

Your ancestors endured so you could be here. Now it’s your turn to preserve their legacy—become a member today. kygs.org/subscription... #Bloodline #genealogy #kentuckyhistory #kentuckyproud #Kentucky #familytree #kentuckyfamilyhistory

Kentucky Genealogical Society@kentuckygenealogy· Sep 2

By 1830, Kentucky was their home. Today, you can honor their legacy. kygs.org/kentucky-spi... #genealogy #lineage #bloodline #ancestors