Our Resources
Our resources include, but are not limited to:
• Scores of Clay County genealogies in bound and loose leaf notebooks contributed by members.
• Thousands of genealogy files of Clay and area counties from Jess Wilson’s library.
• Thousands of letters and emails regarding Clay and area county families from Jess Wilson’s library.
• Bound volumes of the Dickey Diary with separate bound indexes.
• Hundreds of area county family charts on CD.
• Census records in book form and on CD from 1810 through 1940.
• Clay County tax lists from 1807 through 1856.
• Obituary clippings from the Manchester Enterprise in bound volumes from 1932 to the present.
• Marriage records from 1807. Includes “missing marriage permission slips.”
• Birth and death records from various sources in notebooks.
• Cemetery records in loose leaf notebooks that contain lists of graves and photos.
• Deed abstracts from 1806 to 1923 in bound volumes.
• Deed abstracts from books A, B, and C (1804 to 1848) in a bound volume
• Court order entries from 1815 to 1832 (Order book B) in a bound volume
• Mortgages and Wills in bound volumes
• All issues of the Clay County Ancestral News (beginning in 1985) in loose leaf notebooks. With index.
• Military rosters of the War of 1812, Mexican War, and the Civil War in bound volumes.
• A wide range of military books on the American Revolution and the Civil War.
• Military pension and other official records of Clay and area county soldiers from 1776.
• Over sixty published books about Clay County or by Clay County authors.
• A wide variety of papers, monographs, articles and other media pertaining to Clay County history.
• Digital records (converted from microfilm) dating from 1809.
• Photos of people, places and events in Clay and area county histories.
• Maps of historic Clay County places, cemeteries, settler’s locations etc.
• Large graphic illustrations of Clay County history and families.
• A large collection of historic Clay County documents dating from 1807, originals and copies.
• A large collection of historic books dating from 1835.
• Dozens of oral histories of Clay Countians converted from tape to CDs.
• Church records of Clay and area county congregations.
• A large selection of books on Kentucky history.
• Vital statistics, genealogy and history material of all southeast Kentucky counties in various media.
• Vital statistics and historic records of North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee in bound volumes.
• Many years of the “Register” of the Kentucky Historical Society. With index.
• Many years of the Filson Club Quarterly
• Many years of “Kentucky Explorer” Magazine. With index.
• Computers available to researchers with the Ancestry.com subscription service.
• Knowledgeable volunteers to help guide your research.
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