Genealogy Collection

The genealogy collection provides records for the entire United States.  Comprehensive coverage is available for the Jackson Purchase counties of Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall, and McCracken.  Genealogy records on surrounding counties, Kentucky, and other states are also available, especially Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Southern Illinois.  Internet access and databases expand the collection.  Colonial records, Revolutionary War data, and immigration lists provide additional aids for locating ancestors.

Microfilm

McCracken County deeds, marriages and wills beginning in 1825
Selected court records 1825-1913
Selected KY tax records
Area newspapers

Books

Search our online catalog
Paducah city directories 1859-present (Some years unavailable)
Genealogy and History books - Search by state or county
Family history books - Search for family name by Subject
Biographies

Files

Paducah subject files
Kentucky subject files
Family History files 

McCracken County Genealogy Historical Society

Other Resources

Census

Subscriptions to AncestryLibrary and HeritageQuest
Entire U. S. census 1790-1930

Census microfilm
Kentucky and Southern Illinois

Description of enumeration districts
All states 1830-1870
Kentucky and selected states 1880-1920

Kentucky slave schedules 1850 and 1860
Index books and microfilm

Index books (Search our online card catalog)
Individual states and counties – various years

Kentucky tax lists (census substitutes) 1790-1800
Kentucky index books 1810-1870
Kentucky 1850 census transcribed
Kentucky mortality schedules 1850 and 1860

Vital Statistics

Kentucky death certificates on microfilm 1911-1956

Index to Kentucky deaths

Index to Kentucky marriages

Index to Kentucky births
1911-1995

Kentucky vital statistics before 1911
All counties for existing years 1852-1910  

Other Microfilm Features

Scanner with email capabilities
Kentucky Death Certificates 1911-1956
Various Early West Kentucky Newspapers
Kentucky Land Records – West of the Tennessee River
Land Certificates, Vol. 1 through 8
Land Grants Index, Books 1 through 11
World War I Draft registration cards
--selected counties of Kentucky, East Tennessee, Southern Illinois
Miscellaneous Genealogy records
--Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall, McCracken, and Trigg counties of Kentucky
Various Western Kentucky Family Bible Records
Various Western Kentucky Church Records
Civil War
Kentucky 1890 Special Schedules Union Veterans and Widows
First Confederate Cavalry Regiments (Formerly King’s Battalion, Kentucky Mounted Rifles)

Kentucky

Biographies
History and culture
Journals and periodicals
Subject file
Literature  

Civil War

The Confederate Veteran
Kentucky Adjutant General’s Report
Veterans of Jackson Purchase Counties
Volunteer Union Officers
1890 Veterans Census
Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War
The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
Various histories and records from other states  

Other Genealogy

Bibliographies
African American genealogy
Early, Colonial, Revolutionary
“How to"s
Native American
Scots

Online Research

McCracken County Court Clerk Office and Index http://www.mccrackencountyclerk.com

McCracken County GenWeb
http://www.mccracken.jacksonpurchase.org

Kentucky GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymccrac/

Kentucky Death Index (Rootsweb)
http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ky/death/search.cgi

Kentucky Vital Records Index
http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/

Kentucky Vital Records Project
http://www.kyvitals.com

Kentucky Vital Statistics Office
http://chfs.ky.gov/dph/vital/

Kentucky Land Office
http://sos.ky.gov/land/

Social Security Death Index
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

FamilySearch – Includes 1880 US census transcribed
http://www.familysearch.org/

USGenWeb
http://www.usgenweb.com/ 

Archives

Irvin S. Cobb Collection
Mary Wheeler Collection
Paul Twitchell Collection
History of McCracken County Public Library 

Services

Photocopier available – copies 15 cents each
Four microfilm reader printers – copies 10 cents each
Free parking
Internet access
Family Tree Maker software & CDs
Staff assistance and guidance available
Browsers welcome

Hours

We are open whenever the McCracken County Public Library is open. We are closed on major holidays.
9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday
1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Sunday  

Contact:

Special Collections
McCracken County Public Library
555 Washington Street
Paducah , Kentucky 42003
Phone 270-442—2510 Extension 124
Email: specialcol@mclib.net