Kentucky
Submitted
by Host GFS Rip
Spring
has ALMOST Sprung
It
must be getting nicer weather
some places, because our chatters
have depleted a bit in the last
couple of weeks :(
Our
April GFNews is now available for
your entertainment and
(hopefully) to help you on your
research. You can check it out
here:
April
2001 Genealogy Forum News
Or
us this:
http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/gfnews/april01/index0401.htm
Next
months theme is: "The Importance
Of Interviewing Relatives". I
think we can all relate to this
one. Take the time to interview
those relatives now! I hope some
of you will consider sitting down
for just a few minutes and
writing down a few sentences on
how grateful you were that you
interviewed GG Uncle Max or how
sorry you are you didn't
interview GG Aunt Matilda. Send
any articles to
Host
GFS
Carol@aol.com
or me, Host
GFS
Rip@aol.com.
Franklin
County, Kentucky Marriages
1790-1815 are being offered until
April 13 at:
http://www.ancestry.
com
WEBSITES
It
has been a long time since I sent
this one out... so this is for
some of our newbies <G>
Surnames
of Kentucky Obituary Lookups:
http://www.skyn.net/
http://www.usgennet.org/~baicon/soky.html
Vital
Records Index
http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/
Top
Sites
Kentucky
Folklore (I do not encourage or
discourage downloading files...
this is entirely up to you! I'm
sure all of you have been told
the advantages and the pitfalls a
dozen times.)
http://affiliates.jeanharris.com/cgi-bin/clickthru.cgi?pid=GD&sid=bones
---------------
From
one of my mailing
lists:
From:
Sept-Oct 1997 Newsletter,
Genealogical Society of Santa
Cruz County
Source:
Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol. 20,
No. 1, Fall 1993, South Bend IN
Area Genealogical
Society
"In
case you ever wondered why a
large number of your ancestors
disappeared during a certain
period in history, this might
help.
"Epidemics
have always had a great influence
on people and thus influencing,
as well, the genealogists trying
to trace them. Many cases of
people disappearing from records
can be traced to dying during an
epidemic or moving away from the
affected area. Some of the major
epidemics in the United States
are listed below:
1657
- Boston --
Measles
1687
- Boston --
Measles
1690
- New York -- Yellow
Fever
1713
- Boston --
Measles
1732-1733
- Worldwide --
Influenza
1738
- So. Carolina
--Smallpox
1739-1740
- Boston --
Measles
1747
- CT, NY, PA, SC --
Measles
1759
- North America (areas inhabited
by white people) --
Measles
1761
- North America and West Indies
-- Influenza
1772
- North America --
Measles
1775
- North America, especially hard
in the Northeast -- epidemic
(unknown)
1775-1775
- Worldwide -- Influenza (one of
the worst
epidemics)
1783
- Dover, DE --Bilious Disorder
("extremely
fatal")
1784
- New Bern, NC (Craven Co.) --
Yellow Fever
1788
- Philadelphia and New York --
Measles
1793
- Vermont -- Influenza and "a
putrid fever"
Virginia
-- Influenza (killed 500 in 5
counties in 4
weeks)
Philadelphia
-- Yellow Fever (one of the worst
epidemics)
Harrisburg,
PA -- (many unexplained deaths)
-- unknown
Middletown,
PA -- (many unexplained deaths)
-- unknown
1794
- Philadelphia -- Yellow
Fever
1796-1797
- Philadelphia -- Yellow
Fever
1798
- Philadelphia - (one of the
worst) -- Yellow
Fever
New
Bern, NC (Craven Co.) -- Yellow
Fever
1803
- New York -- Yellow
Fever
1820-1823
- Nationwide (starts Schuylkill
River and spreads)
"Fever"
1831-1832
- Nationwide (brought by English
immigrants) -- Asiatic
Cholera
1832
- New York City and other major
cities --Cholera
1837
- Philadelphia --
Typhus
1841
- Nationwide (especially in the
south) -- Yellow
Fever
1847
- New Orleans -- Yellow
Fever
1847-1847
- Worldwide --
Influenza
1848-1849
- North America --
Cholera
1850
- Nationwide -- Yellow
Fever
1859-1851
- North America --
Influenza
1852
- Nationwide (New Orleans, 8,000
die in summer) --Yellow
Fever
1855
- Nationwide -- Yellow
Fever
1857-1859
Worldwide -- Influenza (one of
the greatest
epidemics)
1860-1861
- Pennsylvania --
Smallpox
1865-1873
-- Philadelphia, New York,
Boston, New Orleans --
Smallpox
--
Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC
-- Cholera
(a
series of recurring epidemics of
Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever,
Yellow Fever)
1873-1875
-- North America and Europe --
Influenza
1878
- New Orleans (last great
epidemic) -- Yellow
Fever
1885
- Plymouth, PA
--Typhoid
1886
- Jacksonville, FL --
Influenza
1918
- Worldwide (high point year) --
Influenza
More
people were hospitalized in WW1
from this epidemic than wounds.
US Army training camps became
death camps, with 80% death rate
in some camps.
Specific
instances of cholera:
1833,
Columbus, OH 1834, New York City
1849, New York 1851, Coles Co.,
IL, The Great Plains and
Missouri
Here
are our counties for this
month:
BALLARD:
GARRIOTT
- JONES - RANSDELL - TAYLOR -
UNDERWOOD - WHITE -
WYATT
BARREN:
ANDERSON
- BARBOUR - BELL - BUTLER -
CURTIS - FITZGERALDS - GERALDS -
HAGAN - LAYNE - LYLES - SKAGGS -
WHITE
BATH:
None
listed
BELL:
None
listed
BOONE:
None
listed
BOURBON:
BOONE
- BRICE - CALDWELL - CLAYPOOLE -
CURRENT - CURRENTS - DITHMEYER -
EVANS - HARRISON - HOSTETTER -
KEITHLEY - LIGHTER - OWINGS -
PALMER - POLEY - ROLAND - SPEAKE
- THOMSON
BOYD:
None
listed
BOYLE:
None
listed
BRACKEN:
None
listed
BREATHITT:
ANGEL
- BARRETT - BEGLEY - COMBS -
CRAWFORD - DUNAWAY - EVANS -
FUGATE - FUGATE - FULLER -
GABBARD - GRIGSBY - HALL -
HAMILTON - HOWARD - ISAACS -
KINCAID - LUTES - MAGGARD - PRATT
- RITCHIE
BRECKINRIDGE:
KING
BULLITT:
None
listed
BUTLER:
BROOKS
- CORLEY - ELDER - ELMS - EMBRY -
HUFF - HUGHES - LINDSEY - NEEL -
PHARRIS - ROSE - SMALL - SWIFT -
TAYLOR - WILSON -
WOOSLEY
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2001 GFNEWS, a monthly
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Genealogy Forum, Inc. of
Franklin, MA.
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2001 Graphics
By
Carol,
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