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Genealogy Center provides links to 50 genealogy sites
The Knox Historical Museum's Genealogy Center's Nancy Hampton has provided a link to 50 free genealogy sites.
These links were compiled by FamilySearch, which is a genealogy organization operated by the Genealogical Society of Utah, the genealogical arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Slight modifications have been applied to update a few of these links.
The links provide resources to find birth, marriage and death records, obituaries, cemetery listings, newspaper articles, biographies, research tips and more.
Click to access 50 genealogy sites
Museum leads effort to 'save' old Magic Theatre marquee
The deterioration of the old Magic Theatre marquee on the Court Square in Barbourville, Kentucky, has long been a concern of local historians and others who remember its heyday, roughly from 1941 through 1960.
Hays and Unthank family histories relocated to revamped Genealogy menu
The Hays and Unthank family histories previously featured on the front page of the Knox Historical Museum website have been relocated to our reorganized Knox Historical Museum Genealogy Center menu.
Former Boone Festival Chairman Dr. Bushey passes
A longtime supporter of the Daniel Boone Festival, physician Harold L. Bushey, 88, died Jan. 23, 2016 at his home on Edgewood Drive, located just outside Barbourville, Ky.
KHM receives fascinating family history beginning with Joesph Unthank - 1715
In December 2015, the Knox Historical Museum’s genealogy center received a 10- generation family history of the Unthanks in America.
The 24-page document was submitted by Judith Callebs Unthank, the wife of David Unthank. Both were born, raised and still live in Knox County, Ky.
The document is a snapshot of America’s history over the years: beginning in England, traveling by ship to America and settling part of the new country, traveling west on the Oregon Trail during which one Unthank child (Alvah) died and was buried in 1831, and continuing right up to the present day.
