Talk:Kentucky, United States Genealogy

I came over to the Kentucky State page to see if a link was already included for the minorities. When I hit the minorities hotlink, it took me to Maryland Minorities. I clicked back and noticed that all of the links on the Kentucky page went to Maryland. I do remember the Maryland State page being one of the barnraising pages and maybe that Maryland page, as a template eventually became Kentucky. Good. But all of those links on the left side need to be redone. It is releatively simple and I could redo them, but I just wanted to make sure that is actually the case.

tia. Great work is done here.

Darlene

Me again. I went to look at the KY sidebar to make sure this was the case, and it does look like so. Before I do any edits, I wanted to be sure I was editing a copy of the MD sidebar and not the MD sidebar itself.

Darlene

You're correct, Darlene. The sidebar was showing Maryland links. It has been corrected and now reflects KY and KY links.

Sherri

UPDATE: 6 May 2014

While browsing today looking at the Kentucky State page, I hit the hot link for Campbell County and discovered the area code for the Campbell County courthouse phone number was incorrect. I verified the phone number for the Campbell County courthouse, then checked to verify the Boone County and Kenton County courthouse phone numbers. Based on that, I decided to check all of the counties listed in the 859 area code and discovered a few of them are still referring to the area code 606.

Area code 859 was created in 1999, separating from area code 606. I see the reference for these phone numbers came from the Handybook for Genealogists 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002). I elected to not change the phone numbers for Boone, Campbell and Kenton County courthouses because of being undecided what to do with the footnote reference. I did go through the list of counties on this page to verify which counties on this list are still referencing area code 606.

The following info was obtained from the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_859

"Area code 859 serves the east-central portion of the state of Kentucky. It was created in a split from area code 606 in 1999.

Its service area encompasses the following Kentucky counties (the boundary closely, but not exactly, tracks county lines):"

Following those lines are the list below to include all of the counties included in area code 859.

Boone County               606              859-334-2220 Bourbon County             606 Boyle County                  606 Campbell County            606              859-292-3845 Clark County                   606 Fayette County                859

Gallatin County               859 Garrard County               859 Grant County                  859 Harrison County             859 Jessamine County         859 Kenton County              859-392-1690 Madison County            859 Mercer County              606 Montgomery County     859 Nicholas County           859 Pendleton County         859 Washington County       859 Woodford County          859

Note Kenton County has 2 courthouses. This phone number reaches either of them. 303 Courthouse; PO Box 1109 Covington, KY 41012

5272 Madison Pike Independence, KY 41051