Jackson Courthouse

Jackson Courthouse

Welcome to Breathitt County, KY History and Genealogy Presented by Kentucky Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Kentucky is covered under our "Southern" States mailing list. COUNTY HISTORY Was formed from Clay, Estill, and Perry Counties. The county is named for John Breathitt who was Governor of Kentucky from 1832 to 1834. Its county seat is Jackson, Kentucky The courthouse or the jail was burned during the Civil War by Confederate troops. A fire in 1873 destroyed most of the county's records. ONLINE DATA Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County History Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Extinct Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: June 2009: News Item of BANKS; 1870 Mortality Schedule 05 Feb 2008: Deaths 1852 - 1953; 1890 Veterans Schedule SURROUNDING COUNTIES Magoffin / Wolfe / Floyd / Knott / Perry / Owsley / Lee Back to Kentucky Trails Visit Our National Genealogy Trails Site Subscribe to our mailing lists to get notification when we update this and our other Southern websites. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.