This site is dedicated to assisting all of those in pursuit of their African American ancestry in Kentucky by being a central depository for African American records of historical proportion such as Emancipation Orders, Deeds, Wills, Family Records, etc. through out the state of Kentucky.  Our goal is to provide free genealogical research data pertaining to African American's for all to share in. 

     Organization of data is by county and special databases.  Data that contains information from more than one county can be found on the Kentucky page.    Anyone wishing to submit data  please contact us. 

African American Research Resources, Guides and More

• African-American Genealogy: Putting Together the Pieces of Your Past A Five-Part Series with Traci L. Wilson-Kleekamp

• Ancestry.com - Black Roots: A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree

• Center for African American Research

• Genealogy.com - Building Blocks of African American Genealogy

• Princeton Public Library - African American Genealogy on the Web/ Beginners Guide and How-tos

• Access Genealogy - African American Genealogy

• African American Griots - (see below)

• Afrigeneas - African Ancestored Genealogy

• Christine's Genealogy Website - Who are your people?

• Cindi's List - African-American

• Freedmen's Bureau - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,

• Genealinks - African American Genealogy

• Liberia - Roll of Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1843

• Sankofagen Wiki - data pertaining to plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor

Kentucky & National Online Resources

• Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

• KY Vital Records Project

• KYGenWeb

• KY in the USGenWeb Archives

• KY Death Record Index 1911-2000

• KY Historical Society

• KY Department of Libraries and Archives

• Camp Nelson Union Army and Supply Depot

• Kentucky - African American Message Board

• Slaves in Kentucky Message Board

• Social Security Death Index

• A History of Black Horseman in the Twentieth Century

• Sandi Gorin's Kentucky Research Board

• Sandi Gorin's Kentucky Biography Board

What's New!

• 7/16/2008: Allen County Indenture of Apprenticeships

• 7/14/2008: Bourbon Co. Prescott Pike Cemetery, new info added

• 5/4/2008: Clark County Deeds Naming Slaves

• 4/30/2008: New Marriages in Vital Records

• 4/28/2008: Madison Co. Deeds & Civil Cases

• 4/24/2008: Wilkerson Family Group Sheet

• 4/16/2008: The Colored Brethren - Nicholas Co.

• 4/16/2008: Bourbon Co.; 1796 Marriage Cromwell/Buchannon

• 4/9/2008: Daniel Goff Revolutionary War Pension

• 3/15/2008: Jim Boy Proctor

• 3/7/2008: New Photos

• 2/12/2008: Bourbon - Humble/Mann Deeds Naming Slaves

• 2/09/2008: Oldham - 1857 African American Births Oldham County

• 2/02/2008: Bourbon & Quebec Canada - Rollins Family Group Sheet

• 1/28/2008: Clark & Madison - Chambers Family of Madison and Clark County

• 1/10/2008: Whitley - Will of Joel Watkins, 1841; Bourbon - Bourbon News 1900

Searching the for your African American ancestors just got easier!

African American Griots - Charee Harvey - National Coordinator

Dallas County Texas African American Griots - Theresa Williams - Coordinator

Iowa African American Griots - Alice Warner - State Coordinator

Virginia African American Griots - Alice Warner - State Coordinator

New Mexico African American Griots - Charles Barnum - State Coordinator

Oklahoma African American Griots - Jane Webre - State Coordinator

Tennessee African American Griots - Amy Batton - State Coordinator

Missouri African American Griots - LaDonna Garner - State Coordinator

Georgia African American Griots - Charee Harvey - State Coordinator

Louisiana African American Griots - Charee Harvey - State Coordinator

Washington State African American Griots - Jacky Ryckman - State Coordinator