Welcome to Breckinridge 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 Breckinridge County was formed from Hardin County after it was created by the legislature on 13 Dec 1799. It was named for John Breckinridge (1760-1806), Kentucky Attorney General, Legislator, U.S. Senator, U.S. Attorney General. Its county seat is Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Records were saved from a fire on 28 Dec 1864, though records were lost to a fire in Feb 1958. ONLINE DATA Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Records Death Records Family Bibles History Marriages Military Newspaper Articles  Obits Surnames Towns Wills     Website updates: November 2009 - Vietnam Casualties SURROUNDING COUNTIES Meade, Hardin, Grayson, Ohio, Hancock Perry County, Indiana (northwest – across the Ohio River) 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.