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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For Dolly Parton Day, a little “Jolene.” Few songs show the power of a name quite like this one. Dolly turns jealousy, vulnerability, beauty, and fear into a story that feels almost like family lore set to music. #DollyPartonDay #Jolene #Kentucky #FamilyHistory

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Dolly Parton performs Jolene at Glastonbury - BBC

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James Meyers @coalhog.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm so excited to be giving this talk to @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social. Working on the study for nearly a year now has made me realize how I'm just scratching the surface of what there is to find. I'm giving the talk in October but I might be working on the #OnePlaceStudy for a decade!

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We're happy to launch Kentucky Research Roadtrips -- an entirely new member offering. Learn more and sign-up: kygs.org/what-we-do/k... Where are the records? Let's go find them together. #genealogy

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Kentucky was represented at #NGS2026 in Fort Wayne! Researchers connected through the Kentucky Genealogy Meet-up, a special lunch gathering, and many one-on-one conversations. Thanks to Bill Oates, Janet Cobb, Cierra Earl, and everyone who joined us to celebrate Kentucky family history. #genealogy

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We had a great meet-up of Kentucky family historians at the NGS Conference in Fort Wayne last week. Thanks to board member Bill Oates for organizing and hosting and Cierra Earl for supplying the photographs.

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Find-A-Grave is celebrating 30 years with an interview featuring founder Jim Tipton. What began three decades ago as a 3 a.m. passion project in a basement has grown into a global community with more than 265 million memorials! news.findagrave.com/2026/05/18/b... #genealogy #cemeteryresearch

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Back to the Beginnings - Find a Grave News

This is our first post in a series reflecting on our beginnings and the amazing difference our community has made since Find a Grave was created. It’s been over thirty years since then! Find a Grav…

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

History in hand. 🏇🏆 Congrats to Golden Tempo, 2026 Kentucky Derby winner, and Cherie DeVaux—the first woman trainer to win the Derby. A name now written into Kentucky history.

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

At the Falls of the Ohio: Discovering Your Jefferson County Story 23 Apr 7 p.m. ET The river explains the city—and the city explains the records. Trace your Louisville ancestors and learn where to find the records that tell their stories with Christopher Padgett 🔗 kygs.org/event/at-the... #genealogy

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At the Falls of the Ohio: Discovering Your Jefferson County Story

In this presentation your will learn how to identify key research repositories, understand historical context, navigate local records, connect geography to genealogy, and develop research strategies.

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There will come a day when someone searches for you. What will they find? What will be missing? The work we do today becomes the past others inherit. Join the Kentucky Genealogical Society. Help decide what survives. Join now: kygs.org/register/?li... #Genealogy #kentuckyfamilyhistory

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We honor the memory of Bardstown, Kentucky Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt. She has been identified among the crew killed when a U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft went down during a combat mission tied to the American military campaign against Iran.

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Three Historic Kentucky Record Collections Approved for Digitization! tinyurl.com/3tea29u4 #genealogy

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We recently learned of the passing of life member Wanza Neadeen Merrifield, a dedicated family historian with Kentucky roots. We celebrate her life and commitment to Kentucky family history. www.resthaven-sunset.com/obituaries/W... #genealogy

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Obituary information for Wanza Neadeen Merrifield

View Wanza Neadeen Merrifield's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Will genetic genealogy help solve the case of native Kentuckian Nancy Guthrie? A Kenton County native from Fort Wright, she attended the University of Kentucky. She has been missing since February 1. Reporter Brian Entin interviews CeCe Moore about how genetic #genealogy could help crack the case.

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New DNA in Nancy Guthrie investigation - Savannah Guthrie asks abductor to “do the right thing”

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

🧭 Genealogy Fieldcraft Cite it when you find it. Links break. Indexes change. Strong research requires precise documentation. Join Kentucky genealogists doing it right. $20/year → www.kygs.org #GenealogyFieldcraft #KentuckyRoots #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Genealogy Fieldcraft
Record Exact Source Citations As You Go
One of the most common mistakes in family history?
“I’ll go back and cite that later.”
Later rarely comes.
Fieldcraft means documenting your sources at the exact moment you find them.
Every full citation should include:
• Repository name
• Collection title
• Volume or book number
• Page number
• Image number
• URL
• Access date
Digital links break. Indexes get updated. Pagination changes. Platforms redesign.
If you don’t capture it in real time, you may never reconstruct it accurately.
Strong genealogy isn’t just about finding records.
It’s about building work that can stand up to scrutiny.
That’s Genealogy Fieldcraft.
Many family historians work alone — but they don’t have to.
Join the Kentucky Genealogical Society for year-round instruction, research insight, and a statewide community committed to disciplined, credible family history.
Membership is just $20 per year.
Learn more at www.kygs.org

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Family historians: learn to record GPS coordinates. It takes 10 seconds. It preserves places forever. Cemeteries. Old homesteads. Church sites. Vanished schools. Coordinates don’t move. Memories do. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #KentuckyRoots #GPS Connect. Learn. Join for $20 at www.kygs.org

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Family history came alive yesterday in Elizabethtown at the Ancestral Trails Historical Society Book Fair! 📚🌟 We sold research guides, swapped Kentucky stories, and visited with folks who braved the winter weather to stop by. ❄️🧣 #KentuckyHistory #Genealogy #BluegrassRoots

Volunteer director at large Janet Cobb from Bowling Green, volunteer co-president Kathy Keyser from Lexington, and volunteer director at large Jeff Lutz from Coxs Creek.

Volunteer director at large Christopher Padgett from Louisville visited with Ann Sipes, author of The Ray book: a family of Central Kentucky, which is available on FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/703020

Volunteer director at large Jeff Lutz of Coxs Creek and volunteer Lloyd Keyser from Lexington

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Our American Story is a project aimed at collecting and preserving our nation’s stories. This is your opportunity to nominate a living person — a friend, family member, neighbor, or community leader — whose story you think needs to be shared and preserved. america250.org/nominate/ #genealogy

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Nominate history's unsung champions - America250

America250 is a bipartisan initiative working to engage every American in the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Kentucky" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1856. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/634508...

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Kentucky" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1856. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/63450890-2dc5-0135-1bd2-0b9fd9ab4e11

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Bounty Land: It’s Complicated 16 July 2026 | Virtual | 7 P.M. Eastern This presentation will discuss the wars for which bound land was offered, the complexities of the state boundaries and laws, and how to find the federal and state land records. kygs.org/event/bounty... #genealogy #bountyland

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Bounty Land: It's Complicated

This presentation will discuss the wars for which bound land was offered, the complexities of the state boundaries and laws, and how to find the federal and state bounty land records.

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We’re pleased to share our 2026 Program Calendar. This marks our 53rd year supporting family historians across all 120 Kentucky counties. 🌿 Pull up a chair, take a look, and feel free to download and share with anyone tracing Kentucky roots. #genealogy #Kentucky drive.google.com/file/d/1mssr...

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We'll be at the ATHS Annual Book Fair in E-Town. Come say hello! Many #genealogy and local history books available. We'll have both the Essential Guide to #Kentucky Family History and Kentucky & Its Kin available at a special event price. #bookfair aths.site/event/aths-a...

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Did you miss our first program of 2026? Heroes In Disaster: 1833 Cholera Epidemic in Lexington, Kentucky with Terry Foody, RN, MSN #genealogy www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NU2...

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The 1833 Cholera Epidemic in Lexington KY

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Curious who’s helping shape the future of Kentucky #genealogy? Meet the 2026–2027 Board of Directors—volunteer leaders from across #Kentucky and beyond working to strengthen records access, education, and connections for family historians. 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pW...

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2026 Meet the Kentucky Genealogical Society Board

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

UPDATED FRIDAY 12:57 P.M. #winterstormfern #genealogyforecast #kentuckycousins Get plenty of snacks, milk, and bread. Cousins may arrive unexpectedly! #genealogy

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Each year on Jan 25, #BurnsNight honors Scotland’s poet Robert Burns—a celebration of song and memory. If your roots trace to Scotland or the Scots-Irish in KY, join Kentucky Scots-Irish Ancestors Front Porch Talks. 🪑 2nd Tuesday | 7pm ET Pull up a chair. There’s aye room on the porch. #Genealogy

O Hearts Still Warmed by Song and Story
Each year around January 25, people around the world gather to celebrate Burns Night, honoring Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. Burns was a farmer, a keen observer of ordinary life, and a writer who believed that everyday people—and their stories—mattered. His poems and songs gave voice to friendship, love, loss, humor, and memory, reminding us that what binds us together is often found in shared words and shared time.
At the heart of Burns Night is fellowship—voices raised together, stories shared freely, and the understanding that heritage lives best when spoken aloud. It is not about perfection or pedigree, but about connection: listening as much as telling, remembering as much as recording. That same spirit lives on whenever people gather to talk family, place, and possibility—leaning in, learning together, and keeping the conversation going.
Burns understood that what we carry is not always visible. A tune learned young. A line remembered. A way of naming the land. When Scots and Scots-Irish families left familiar hills behind, they brought those things with them—crossing oceans, following rivers, and settling where the land felt speakable. Kentucky became a place where old words met new valleys, where accents softened but stories held fast, and where the past continued to walk quietly alongside the present.
If your family history traces back to Scotland, Ulster, or the Scots-Irish migration into Kentucky, you’re warmly invited to join our Kentucky Scots-Irish Ancestors Front Porch Talk.
🪑 2nd Tuesday of each month
🕖 7:00 p.m. ET | Virtual
Front Porch Talks are small, informal gatherings where members with shared research interests come together to share research, swap ideas, and learn from one another. Topics are shaped by the group itself, all backgrounds and levels of experience are welcome, and curiosity is the only requirement.
Pull up a chair.
There’s aye room on the porch.
Join us at www.kygs.org

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Tonight’s Meet the Board highlighted the strength behind the Kentucky Genealogical Society. 18 board members, across Kentucky and the U.S., bringing talents and perspectives that will help shape the future of Kentucky’s genealogy ecosystem. The next two years will be something special. #Genealogy

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🌿 Kentucky German Ancestors 🇩🇪→🇺🇸 From a riverbank in Germany to a front porch in Kentucky, German-speaking ancestors helped shape the Commonwealth. 📅 Sat, Jan 17 | 2pm ET | Virtual Sign up via the member portal at kygs.org #KentuckyGermanAncestors #FromRhineToOhio #genealogy

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Kentucky Genealogical Society @kentuckygenealogy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

#Genealogy without borders. 🌍 Through the International German Genealogy Partnership, societies around the world collaborate across languages and continents. We're proud to be part of this global work, supporting Kentucky family historians with German roots. #AhnenForschung #GermanRoots

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