There are many sources for researchers in Adair County Kentucky. Just a short five or six years back I remember just a few places would come up in a search engine when searching for Adair County Kin on the World Wide Web. However today its far different than then. There are many web sites, messages boards, and mail lists with connections for Adair County researchers.

Just recently there has been a surge of genealogical interest. I receive from 25 -125 emails a day inquiring about the five (5) Adair County families on my family web site. I received old photos and documents of family members and post them on site, some are quite surprised to find photos of grandparents or great grandparents there.

Every time I visit the family site there has been a good number of visits. The day the site was listed in Rootsweb.com newsletter, there were about 600 visits to the site. If you would like to visit some time the URL is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysurnames

Some Adair County Research Sources:

Adair County Public Library:
Monday 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m
Tuesday through Friday 8: 00 a. m. to 4:3 0 p. m.
Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon
Location: 307 Greensburg St., Columbia, KY 42728 Telephone: 270-384-2472

The Adair County Public Library Genealogical Society Room houses hundreds of helpful resources for family research, including computer base Family Archives CDs.

The ADAIR COUNTY REVIEW, a quarterly publication of the Adair County Genealogical Society, is received by all members of the Society. It is published in the Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Membership is open to anyone interested in the preservation of history of Adair County and the surrounding counties of Casey, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Russell and Taylor. Annual dues are $10. Meetings are held the first Monday in each month November through April. 6:00 p.m. May through October, 7:00 p.m. in the Adair County Public Library, 307 Greensburg St., Columbia, KY 42728.

Adair County Court Clerk's Office:
Monday through Friday 7:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon
Location: Courthouse Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY 42728
Telephone: 270-384-2801

The Adair County Genealogical Society has a New Web Site..
http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyacgs.
With helpful informative pages and societies officers with address and information for membership in the society, also a list of books. The ACGS members and other genealogical web sites links...

If you are interested in starting your family search there is help just waiting for you. A good place to start is yourself, your family members that you know and then the family records, like the genealogy pages of the family Bible, birth, death certificates and marriage bonds etc...

_Carlis