Grant Program Recipients
Dublin Core
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The Kentucky Genealogical Society is pleased to be able to award money grants to repositories or other holders of genealogically significant Kentucky records for digitization. Applications for the 2023 Grant Cycle are due on November 1, 2022. Digitized records will then be made available online free of charge.
The Society launched this digitization grant program in 2019 to encourage the digitization of records that are at risk from being lost forever or are otherwise valuable to Kentucky genealogical researchers. As events in 2022 demonstrate, some Kentucky records are one fire, flood, or tornado from being lost forever. These natural disasters can strike at any time.
The Digitization Grant Program furthers one of the Society’s primary missions to encourage the preservation and availability of Kentucky records that are essential to genealogical and historical research.
Eligible records cover a wide variety of topics such as newspapers, directories, school or organization yearbooks, church records, trade or vocational records, funeral home records, and pension records. This list, however, only scratches the surface on the records in need of digitization.
The Digitization Grant Program is funded by the generosity of members and the general public. Anyone wanting to contribute may do so here.
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As the first Baptist orphanage in the United States, the Louisville Baptist Orphan’s Home is the oldest continuously operating children’s home in the…
Records of enslaved and free African Americans are found in various media in the Bullitt Family Papers, include correspondence, journals, memoirs,…
This collection contains personal narratives, photos, maps, correspondence from the city. It includes the following areas: Ballard County cemeteries,…
The Log Cabin was a local newspaper that was in print from 1896-1960. This collection offers access and insight to information seekers regarding…
This collection contains a variety of records from Green County's unique past. Many printed record transcriptions, historic photos, oral histories,…
This collection contains newspapers published in the county, and Civil War ephemera. In addition to valuable court records, the collection includes a…
This collection contains the records of four Kentucky schools run by the Sisters of Loretto. It includes information about pupils, their parents, and…