My Old Kentucky Home
Detailed estate records and old wills were recorded in Kentucky counties and filed as probate records. Although some went unindexed, not to worry! I microfilmed these old estate records and indexed them for easy online viewing. Most pioneers in Kentucky were the first Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia residents. Pioneer families followed the old Wilderness […]
The Great Trading Path to Kentucky
The Great Trading Path began in Pennsylvania and crossed the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains as far west as the Ohio River. At first, a great trading path was used by Virginia traders to get through the towns of the Cherokees and the Catawbas. Still, it was in the 18th century that Virginians pushed further […]