| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Genealogy is a growing interest to many
The Janice Holt Giles Memorial/ Adair County Public Library has many sources of information to help genealogists, and is considered by many researchers who visit it to be one of the state's finest. Assistant librarian and local author Ernestine Bennett specializes in genealogy and in aiding people who come from almost every state in the union to do research on their families at the library. County clerks can assist to find county records such as deeds, wills, tax records, licenses, and surveys. Adair County Court Clerk Ann Melton and her staff have gained a widespread reputation for their help in genealogical searches. Mrs. Melton's office in the Adair County Courthouse Annex, at the intersection of the Public Square and Greensburg ST. The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives has a public record division. The Kentucky Historical society has research libraries and on-line databases. The Kentucky Secretary of State office has information for each county of Kentucky concerning the land warrants/ grants. Putting together pieces of information is a fascinating pursuit for genealogists. Research opens minds and the found information is a valuable family document that can be handed down to future generations. History of genealogy goes back to Biblical times The history of genealogy goes back to Biblical times when people repeated orally their lineage. A system of writing gave people a method of recording history, often individually family/ tribal history. A Bible was often carried by frontier families to record births and deaths because people realized this information was valuable, and as yet there may have been no legal recording requirement. More than 200,000 frontier families, many from the slave states of Virginia and the Carolinas, migrated westward through the Cumberland Gap - a pass that provided the most accessible route to land beyond the Appalachian Mountains. People came into this area for many purposes - one was because of Virginia's system of land appropriation - land patents - that transferred land to an individual or group for numerous reasons, such as payment to veterans of the Revolutionary War. Many veterans claimed their patents and either settled on or sold the granted land, much of which was in southeastern Kentucky. Many frontier people left a paper trail in this part of Kentucky with names in Bibles or on legal papers that help to identify the ancestors that genealogists pursue. Informaton for this article courtesy of the Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce. This story was posted on 2005-02-03 20:00:27
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know.
More articles from topic News:
Kentuckians score mixed marks on environmental survey Senator McGaha one of eight new KWIB appointees Weather Spotters Class open to public LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ohio reader likes cattle photo Two car accident on KY 90 ends in tragedy Flu season just beginning; it's not too late for shots Adair unemployment up slightly in December; still low D.J. Lisa Fisher announces happy news Do I Need a Fishing License? New poll seeks the truth about the James Brothers View even more articles in topic News |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
