I am a family historian, a genealogist, one who puts families together, who finds those who have been lost for many years and acquaints modern day generations with their ancestors. There's nothing like having a full family tree! Email me at phyrit@roadrunner.com
Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church is located in central Marion County, south of Lebanon on Hwy 208, in the small town of Calvary. This was the location of one of the early Maryland to Kentucky pioneers. Known as the Rolling Fork area, it was settled after 1790. […]
Know all men by these presents that we, Thomas Pittman and John Boyd, are held and firmly bound unto Benjamin Harrison, Esq., Governor or chief magistrate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the sum of fifty pounds current money of Virginia, to be paid to the said Benjamin […]
The fifth installment of the original members of New Providence Presbyterian Church, Mercer County, Kentucky, who were born before 1800. The previous installments can be viewed –Volume 1 and Volume 2 and Volume 3 and Volume 4. Still more too come – I have at least 40 more […]
Being the romantic that I am, I had to share this article found in The Cincinnati Enquirer from Thursday, February 26, 2015. I introduced you to Erastus and Catherine Tousey on the 10th. Ritchey and I had lunch at what once was their beautiful home – Tousey House […]
Sacred to the memory of Nancy, wife of William Perkins, who departed this life December 26, 1843; in the 65th year of her age. Old Burlington Cemetery, Boone County, Kentucky Nancy Gilpin, wife of William Perkins, died six years previous to his death in 1849. Will of William […]
Last month I received an email from Tammy Johnson with a photo of Goose Creek School in Nicholas County, taken about 1924 or 1925. She wrote: ‘I love your Kentucky Kindred postings. I was going through my late Mother’s- Kathleen Hunter Paris McClanahan- photos and found this one. Three […]
Thomas Madison Lillard, born in Madison County, Kentucky, December 5, 1815, died in Boyle County, Kentucky, May 7, 1891. The friend of man, the friend of truth. The friend of age, the guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, Few heads with knowledge so informed […]
Today we travel to rural Washington County to Rockbridge Baptist Cemetery. Take Hwy 555 north from Springfield for about five miles – if you reach the Bluegrass Parkway you’ve gone too far. Turn right onto Hwy 1796. You will pass Hwy 1754 on the left – keep going. […]
Know all men by these presents that we, Luke Vaughan and Samuel Grundy, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency, the Governor of Kentucky, in the sum of fifty pounds current money to the payment of which well and truly to be made to the said governor […]
Cave Hill Cemetery is located on Baxter Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. There are 296 acres, 49 of which were sold to the cemetery in 1863 by the Douglass family. It came with an agreement that the fence around the family lot would remain. Let me share my photos […]
I am a family historian, a genealogist, one who puts families together, who finds those who have been lost for many years and acquaints modern day generations with their ancestors. There's nothing like having a full family tree!
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
John Linton Edwards
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House
