Kentucky Room

The Laurel County Public Library is proud to have a room dedicated to the history, literature, and some unique artwork you can only find in Kentucky.

The Kentucky Room is a great source for your genealogy research because it contains many documents that aren’t available online. While genealogy materials are reference only and may not be checked out, you may copy or print pages from microfilm as you need them.

  • Cemetery records (current) for Laurel County
  • Cemetery records for counties surrounding Laurel County
  • Census records for Laurel County – 1790 to 1930 (on microfilm)
  • Census records for counties surrounding Laurel County
  • Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records – 1852 to 1910 (on microfilm)
  • Kentucky Vital Statistics – 1911 to 1995 (on microfilm)
  • Laurel County genealogy information with indexed census records, cemetery records, marriage records, etc.
  • Mountain Echo and Sentinel Echo newspapers – 1875 to present (on microfilm)
  • Yearbooks of many Laurel County schools (dates and schools vary)
  • Official Records of the Confederate Army
  • Supplement to the Official Records of the Confederate Army
  • Official Records of the Union Army
  • Supplement to the Official Records of the Union Army
  • Official Records of the Confederate Navy in the War of the Rebellion
  • Official Records of the Union Navy in the War of the Rebellion
  • Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War
  • Adjutant General’s Report, Confederate Kentucky Volunteers – Volume 1
  • Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky – Volumes 1 & 2
  • Pension Commissioner’s Report, Confederate Kentucky Volunteers – Volume 1

American Indian Census Rolls (primarily the Cherokee Tribe) on microfilm named the “Dawes Rolls.”

The Kentucky Room has an extensive amount of both fiction and non-fiction books written by persons from our great state.

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