Welcome to Nelson 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. Established in 1785 The fourth county created in what is now Kentucky, it was formed from Jefferson County, Virginia, in 1784. The county is named for Thomas Nelson, Jr. a Virginia Governor who signed the Declaration of Independence. Its county seat is Bardstown [Source: Wikipedia.org] Online Data We Need Data! Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Extinct Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: Charles William Rapier & John Lawrence Rapier Biography Surrounding Counties * Spencer County (north) * Anderson County (northeast) * Washington County (east) * Marion County (southeast) * LaRue County (south) * Hardin County (west) * Bullitt County (northwest) 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.