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History & Genealogy
My name is Debbie Quinn and I'm proud to be your Kentucky State Co-Ordinator. We are a new website and a group of dedicated genealogist ourselves. Most of us are involved with the very successful "Illinois Trails" Website. Our goal with "Genealogy Trails" is to bring Free, Informative, Genealogical and Historical information throughout each State. "Kentucky Trails" is now in place and we want to welcome you and hope you will join us as we travel the Trails of our Ancestors through this wonderful blue grass state. I very much want to make you part of the Website - If you have information that you'd like to share about any town, family, county or subject, please send it to me and I'll make sure it gets posted to the right county. We are looking for Biographies, Obituaries, Newspaper Stories, History and Family stories. Things that you won't find on any other website. Along the way we will acquire Births, Deaths, Marriages, Cemetery Listings and everything in between - things that will be of importance to the Kentucky Researcher. If you would like to donate material
If interested - View our Volunteer Information Page and contact meWelcome to Kentucky TrailsWe need State and County Co-Ordinators
Its fun, informative, challenging and its a great group of people to work with.
(html knowledge and a desire to transcribe data is required)
Tired of visiting counties that do not have information on them. Click on the COUNTY Index to find out which ones do.
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Kentucky was used as sacred hunting grounds by roving bands of Shawnee and others. As early as 1750 there were no known permanent Native settlements. After 1770, settlers from Virginia and North Carolina came through the Cumberland Gap, and Kentucky grew rapidly as the first settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains were founded. After the American Revolution, the counties of Virginia beyond the Appalachian Mountains became known as Kentucky County. Eventually, the residents of Kentucky County petitioned for a separation from Virginia. Ten constitutional conventions were held in the Constitution Square Courthouse in Danville between 1784 and 1792. In 1790, Kentucky's delegates accepted Virginia's terms of separation, and a state constitution was drafted at the final convention in April 1792. On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state to be admitted to the union and Isaac Shelby, a military veteran from Virginia, was elected the first Governor of the Commonwealth Of Kentucky. While remaining loyal to the Union, Kentucky was a border state during the American Civil War. The state did not secede, and was officially neutral until a new legislature took office on August 5, 1861 with strong Union sympathies. The Confederates entered the state during the "Kentucky Campaign" of Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith in 1862. Bragg's retreat following the Battle of Perryville left the state under the control of the Union Army for the remainder of the war. The state then abandoned neutrality, and publicly sided with the Union. Southern sympathizers attempted to establish an alternative state government with the goal of secession but failed to displace the legitimate government in Frankfort.
Debbie Quinn - State Cordinator
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