After a route was discovered across the Appalachian Mountains through the Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone, and other land speculators began bringing small parties into the region. Researchers of Kentucky will discover that the first will books also contained plentiful estate records. The latter is worth reading because that is how to discover the details. For instance, the receipts provide the names of heirs and husbands! Thus, if you did not find your family names in the marriage records, you will discover some connections in the receipts. Also, one should read the sales (for names of purchasers), and annual returns to follow the trail of those who inherited the estate.
On KentuckyPioneers, we created an index, to make it easy to find names.
