A little over a year ago, William Dollarhide and Family Root Publishing created a new series of guides, or quick reference sheets, for genealogists. The series, titled A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide, now includes several titles, including:
- A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Colonial Wagon Roads to 1750
- A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: American Migration Routes, 1750-1800
- A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Dollarhide’s Rules & Daffern’s Laws
- A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Online Resources for Finding Living Relatives
Adding to these great titles, Dollarhide and FRPC have released several new guides focused on Dollarhide’s popular name lists books. These new guides include A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Online Kentucky Name Lists.
This new guide lists websites with databases, indexes, or eBooks documenting the early residents of Kentucky were extracted from Dollarhide’s Kentucky Name Lists, 1773-2000.
Like all Insta-Guides, this guide comes either as a four-page, color, printed and laminated guide sheet or in electronic format, PDF file. In the PDF version, every website is hot linked for quick, one-click access to each site.
Contents of Online Kentucky Names Lists
The 140 databases listed here include censuses and census substitutes, i.e., name lists from Kentucky’s early censuses, court records, directories, histories, land records, militia lists, tax lists, vital records or voter lists. Although Kentucky’s first two federal censuses (1790 & 1800) were lost, census substitutes can identify virtually all of the heads of household in Kentucky during that period.
First, find a Kentucky name list – then find the name of your Kentucky ancestor
About Name Lists
Bill’s Name List books give a state-by-state listing of what name lists are available, where to find them, and how they can be used to further one’s research.
Name lists are key to success in any genealogical endeavor. Name lists, be they national, state, county, or even city or town in scope, can help nail down the precise place where one’s ancestor may have lived. And if that can be done, further records, usually found on a local level, will now be accessible to research. But success depends on knowing where the ancestor resided. This is where Dollarhide’s Name List guides can make the difference.
William Dollarhide is best known as the co-author and cartographer of Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, a book of 393 census year maps, and one of the bestselling titles ever published in the field of genealogy. Mr. Dollarhide currently lives in Utah. He has written numerous guidebooks related to genealogical research.
A Genealogists’ Insta-Guide: Online Kentucky Name Lists is available from Family Roots Publishing. With the purchase of the print format also comes an electronic copy in PDF format, or, you can order just the electronic format.