Wolfe County, Kentucky Genealogy

United States &gt; Kentucky &gt; Wolfe County

Parent County
1860--Wolfe County was created 5 March 1860 from Breathitt, Morgan, Owsley and Powell Counties. County seat: Campton

Record Loss
1886, 1915--Disasters destroyed most of the records.

Neighboring Counties

 * Breathitt
 * Lee
 * Magoffin
 * Menifee
 * Morgan
 * Powell

Cemeteries
Kentucky cemetery records often identify birth, death, relationship, and military information, as well as religious affiliation. Local volunteers through Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness may&amp;nbsp;take photographs of headstones found in&amp;nbsp;county cemeteries.


 * Kentucky Historical Society&amp;nbsp;Cemetery Search&amp;nbsp;can be searched by name, place and/or date.&amp;nbsp; This database has hundreds of thousands of names transcribed from gravestones across Kentucky.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;


 * Find A Grave can be searched by the&amp;nbsp;name of a person or family to find where a person is buried.&amp;nbsp; Usually gives birth and death dates often with a picture of the tombstone.&amp;nbsp; May&amp;nbsp;give obituaries,&amp;nbsp;names of&amp;nbsp;family members and links to their information in Find A Grave.


 * Find A Grave also gives&amp;nbsp;a list of cemeteries in&amp;nbsp;Marion County and links to the &amp;nbsp;information&amp;nbsp;for the&amp;nbsp;individuals buried there,


 * Kentucky Cemeteries lists the national cemeteries in Kentucky with links to their web sites. The first link under Online Kentucky&amp;nbsp;Cemeteries goes to the Kentucky section of Interment.net *Marion Co. KY&amp;nbsp;USGenWeb Tombstone Project usually gives the names of the deceased in alphabetical order by last name with birth and death dates plus any remarks.&amp;nbsp;


 * The Family History Library Catalog lists some&amp;nbsp;records of&amp;nbsp;cemeteries in&amp;nbsp;Marion County.&amp;nbsp; Some of the books or others may be on Google Books or available at public libraries.


 * ePodunk&amp;nbsp;list of&amp;nbsp;Marion County cemeteries gives the names of the cemeteries in the county with a link to more information such as address, phone number, and web site.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog
 * http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KY/Wolfe/