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Whitley County Tips and Tidbits |
Whitley Co Sunrise by: James E. Lawson |
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Whitley County Tips and Tidbits |
Whitley Co Sunrise by: James E. Lawson |
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Land Grants/Funeral
Homes/Tips/
Newspapers/Libraries/County Government
Files of KY land grants are available from:
Land Office Division
Secretary of State
Capitol Building
Frankfort, KY
40601-3493
502-564-3490
The person who posted
the message said that it would probably be
better to call and discuss your needs first. He recommended that
you
speak with Kandie Adkinson, administrative specialist, whom he
said was
very good. She was a featured speaker at a genealogical seminar
held by the Eastern
KY Gen. Soc. in Ashland recently.
Corbin Public Library 305 E Center St, Corbin, KY 40701 (606) 528-6366
Whitley County Free Library 285 S 3rd St, Williamsburg, KY 40769 (606) 549-0818
McCreary
County Library Main St, Whitley City, KY
42653 (606) 376-8738
We found lots of Whitley County Information at this
library. The also have copies of oral history
tapes of people from this area.
Whitley County Circuit Ct Clerk Main St, Williamsburg, KY 40769 (606) 549-2973
Whitley County District Ct Clerk Main St, Williamsburg, KY 40769 (606) 549-5162
| The
Barbourville Mountain Advocate P.O. Box 190 Barbourville, KY 40906 Phone: (606) 546-9225 Fax: (606) 546-3175 |
Weekly community newspaper in Knox Co. Founded 1904. Circulation and subscription price not known. Has had the same owner, Cecil Wilson, for over 50 years. It is one of the few privately owned weekly papers still left in Kentucky. |
| Corbin
This Week News Journal 215 N Main St, Corbin, KY 40701 (606) 528-9767 |
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| Corbin
Times Tribune 201 N Kentucky Ave, P.O. Box 516 Corbin, KY 40701-1529 |
Daily
newspaper in Whitley Co. Founded 1892. Circulation 8,500.
$99/year out of state, $60 in state.** Phone: (606) 528-2464 Fax: (606) 528-9850 |
| Whitley
Republican News Journal 105 S 2nd St, P.O. Box 418 Williamsburg, KY 40769 |
Weekly
county newspaper in Whitley Co. Founded 1908. Circulation
8,107. $20/year..** Phone: (606) 528-9767 Fax: (606) 528-9779 |
**Prices given are last know prices. Please contact newspaper for current prices.
For
availability of Kentucky Newspapers on microfilm visit the Kentucky
Microfilm website.
There are lots of Whitley County newspapers on film that are
available.
Funeral Homes in Whitley County
Tips
| 1) If you like to do original research,
you can order microfilm copies of many old Whitley Co.
record books (Order Books, Tax Books, Deed Books, Minute
Books) from: Department for Libraries and Archives, 300 Coffee Tree Rd., Frankfort, KY 40602. Write them a letter requesting a list of available films. Films are around $15 each. You can view them at your local library.
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| 2)
Films are available for rental at your local Mormon
stake. You can find them in the Yellow Pages under "Churches" |
"Campbell
Co., TN, marriages, 1838-1881",
1984, Byron Sistler. |
(4) There are LOTS of Whitley marriages from about the 1870's until after 1900 that were registered in Scott County TN. I found the marriage of my great grandparents there, even though they were married in Whitley. I can only surmise that there was a circuit riding preacher who dumped his marriage returns whenever and wherever he pleased. About ten or twelve years ago my sister and myself made the trip to Huntsville where they allowed us to go into the vault and examine the books ourselves. The counties of the bride and groom are listed and we were amazed at the number of people not only from Whitley, but also other surrounding KY counties, especially Pulaski and Wayne. Since my gr-grandparents had never been given an original copy of their license, we were able to obtain one at the price of one dollar. Copies were fifty cents, undoubtedly more now. When were realized the number of Whitley marriages, we kept looking and found some for other family members that we had been looking for as well. (Nancy Jonckheere). When I mentioned this to my, born and raised in Whitley, father-in-law, he said that Scott Co. was a favorite place for run-a-way couples from the Whitley area who wanted to get married. (Becky Earls) |
| 5) Contact your local Genealogy Society to find out what is available in your area. Some researcher donate their books to local libraries for other researchers benefits. Some places have larger freestanding research facilities that are little publicized outside the genealogy world.....(Your local librarian can probably tell you who to contact, or what research facilities are nearby. ) |
| 6) Before going to the Court House in Williamsburg to do onsite research we suggest you spend a few hours at the local library (located just a couple of blocks from the Court House). As of our last trip (1997), records at the Court House are not indexed. Much time can be saved by using the books at the library to get dates before going to the Court House. The Court House does have early school records but you have to ask about these. Take lots of paper to take notes at the Court House. Copies were priced to prohibit us from getting copies of anything we didn't feel we actually HAD TO HAVE. If you don't have an exact dates don't bother writing the County Clerk's Office for marriage records etc. YOU WON'T GET THEM. |
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