Kentucky Vital Records -- Including Kentucky births, Kentucky deaths, Kentucky marriages, cemetery, census, and more records.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree Kentucky Births | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put KY in the birth place field | 0ver 460,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
| RootsWeb Kentucky Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Kentucky in the birth place field | 0ver 1,700,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb Kentucky Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Kentucky in the marriage place field | 0ver 1,000,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Kentucky Vital Records Index | ukcc.uky.edu
/~vitalrec/ | 1000s | 1900s | Free | These university sponsored sites are wonderfully comprehensive. I couldn't get a count, however which was annoying. You can search by three different ways though. |
| RootsWeb Kentucky Death Records | userdb.rootsweb.com/
ky/death/search.cgi | 2,921,383 | 1911-2000 | Free | There are not too many of these sites on Rootsweb, just four states. But they are so nice with millions of records! |
| RootsWeb Kentucky Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Kentucky in the death place field | 0ver 900,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: Kentucky | obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put KY in the Keyword Search | 0ver 115,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree Kentucky Deaths | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put KY in the death place field | 0ver 223,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
Census Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| The USGenWeb Census Project | www.us-census.org and go down to Census Surname Search and then find KY and put in the word "census" | 381 links with varying numbers of records per each | 1790-1920 | Free | Wow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found this site great! You can search by year, state, or name! |
| Census Online, Kentucky, 954 links | www.census-online.
com/links/KY/ | 1,000s | 1840-1900 | Free | Another nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not a surname search |
Cemetery Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Kentucky Inscription Cemetery Search | www.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/ky-cem.htm | 2456 documents with various numbers of results per each | varies | Free | Another nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb, but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites. |
| Cemetery Transcription Library | www.interment.net
/data/search.htm | 100s | varies | Free | What a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the entire site. |
| Search the Virtual Cemetery | www.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html | 100s | varies | Free | A nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture of the actual headstone. |