Kentucky and Ohio: 1999

1998 included a Prall Reunion and week of research in Salt Lake. From there I flew to Boston for the 2nd leg of the Freedoms Foundation program: The Revolution in the North. Boston's Freedom Trail, Saratoga Battlefield, Forts Stanwix and Ticonderga, Oriskany, the Morristown Winter Encampment [NJ], Washington's HQ at Newburgh, NY & West Point were among the stops before wrapping up in Philly. I was going to lay over for 2-3 days of research, but was completely out of gas and went home.

1999 was my first Kentucky trip, with a day trip to Ohio. This, to the best of my recollection was the schedule:

Monday: Eastern Kentucky University [the library has a nice genealogy collection; vital records - especially marriages for Madison County - were the primary target] and the public library in Richmond.

Tuesday: Boonesboro and Fort Harrod.

Wednesday: The KY State Archives and Historical Society/Museum in Frankfort. [Gulley, Land and Cawby research], plus a couple of historical sites/memorials near the Archives.

Thursday: The Jessamine County Historical Society and court house in Nicholasville. I was able to make a copy of my first original marriage record! Martin Cawby Jr.'s first marriage in 1809. You know you're in trouble when an original record has the surname spelled three different ways!

Friday: A day trip to the local library and the Warren County Historical Society in Lebanon, Ohio to do research on my Faucett and Hurin families. Land records, newspaper articles and marriage records were searched and copied.

Saturday: Goofed off and compiled notes.

Sunday: Drove up to Cinergy Field to take in a Reds game.

Pictures:

top: Boonesboro; middle: Kentucky State Archives in the distance; bottom: Fort Harrod