Logan County, KY, Genealogical Society, Inc.

LOGAN LINKS subscriptions due, $12.00

January through December delivered each year

E-mail subscriptions only as each runs about 75 to 100 pages with attachments; printing and postage prohibits hard copies

Disks of 2011, 2012, and 2013 available, $25.00 each postpaid

Each contains interesting tidbits from court records, a historic site article, queries, attachments of indexes to records in the Archives

Order from LCGS, P. O. Box 853, Russellville, KY 42276-0853 or write for a free example

Formed in 1979, volunteers work to preserve genealogical records.  By 1981, group had incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. 

Logan County Fiscal Court granted permission to the volunteers to work on records, Kentucky Libraries and Archives provided the training, and the court provides the space and materials needed.

               Logan County, KY Archives, Jail vault in rear of office 

HOW OUR VOLUNTEERS CAN HELP YOU

We review indexes available in Archives to locate your ancestor and send you a list of records that may help in your research.

  County court records -  

    Marriages, 1792-present

    Wills and probates, 1792-present

  Circuit court records -

    Equity, 1802-1940 (card file), later records indexed in book format, database being printed in LOGAN LINKS, 2 boxes per month, approximately 20 cases per box)

    Ordinary, 1800-1942, index being expanded in 2014

    Miscellaneous, 1789-1942 (complete index on card file and in LOGAN LINKS)

  Other resources within Archives -

    Cemetery book, all known stones to year 2000

     Funeral home records book, printed 1997, covers most funeral homes

    Confederate and Union soldier records


 More recent records or grantor and grantee indexes on deeds can be checked on special request.

 Copies may then be obtained by remitting payment and postage.

 Send ONE name and approximate dates, identifying information on person, and snail mail address so review of records available can can be mailed to you.  You then study list of original records available and order which ones help your research.

 

Check our BOOKS FOR SALE page. 

 

SOFT-BACK Will Books NOW AT 1/2 PRICE.

 

 
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