Local History Websites

• Jackson Purchase Digital Archive
• Market House Museum

Resources on Microfilm 

• 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
• Various Western Kentucky Family Bible Records
• Various Western Kentucky Church Records
• Civil War records
• 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 files
• 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

Archives

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

Files

• Paducah subject files
• Kentucky subject files
• Family History files