Kentucky Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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Kentucky Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, at FS
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index, at FS
US – Minorities – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
Kentucky Minority Records Online at the state level
Kentucky – African American – Kentucky Obits, at AG
Kentucky – African American – Kentucky, Livingston County, Colored School Censuses, 1898-1913, index links to images, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Afro-American births of Adair thru Ballard County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Afro-American births of Boone thru Bourbon county, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Afro-American births of Boyle thru Caldwell County, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Afro-American deaths of Adair thru Bath County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Kentucky – African American – A brief history of slavery in Boone County, Kentucky : a paper read before a meeting of the Boone County Historical Society, Florence, Kentucky, June 21, 1957, at FS
Kentucky – African American – A brief history of slavery in Boone County, Kentucky : a paper read before a meeting of the Boone County Historical Society, Florence, Kentucky, June 21, 1957, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Kentucky, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Records of the field offices for the state of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Afro-American deaths of Boone thru Boyle County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Biographical sketches of prominent negro men and women of Kentucky : with introductory memoir of the author, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Biographical sketches of prominent negro men and women of Kentucky : with introductory memoir of the author, and prefatory remarks showing the difference between American and British slave holders; also opinions of leading thinkers of the race, at HT
Kentucky – African American – Civil War African American soldiers from Taylor and Green Counties, Kentucky : in the 5th United States Colored Cavalry and the 107th and 108th Colored Infantry, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Colored marriage bonds, Logan County, KY to 1900, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Golden jubilee of the general association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky : the story of 50 years’ work from 1865-1915 including many photos and sketches, compiled from unpublished manuscripts and other sources, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Mt. Moriah Cemetery : a history and census of Bowling Green, Kentucky’s African-American cemetery, at FS
Kentucky – African American – Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, at IA
Kentucky – African American – Weeden’s History of the colored people of Louisville, at FS
Kentucky – Jewish Records – History of the settlement of Jews in Paducah and the lower Ohio valley, at FS
Kentucky – Minorities – Original papers concerning the Huguenot and Walloon lines, at FS
Kentucky – Minorities – The colony Bernstadt in Laurel County, Kentucky : at the beginning of its sixth year, at FS
Kentucky – Minorities – Der Staat Kentucky und die Stadt Louisville mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Deutschen elements, at FS
Kentucky – Native American – The Wilderness Trail : or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny Path: with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones, at FS
Kentucky Minority Records Online at the county level
Adair County – African American – Afro-American births of Adair thru Ballard County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Adair County – African American – Afro-American deaths of Adair thru Bath County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Allen County – African American – Afro-American births of Adair thru Ballard County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Allen County – African American – Afro-American deaths of Adair thru Bath County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Anderson County – African American – Afro-American births of Adair thru Ballard County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Anderson County – African American – Afro-American deaths of Adair thru Bath County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Ballard County – African American – Afro-American births of Adair thru Ballard County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Ballard County – African American – Afro-American deaths of Adair thru Bath County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Barren County – African American – Afro-American deaths of Adair thru Bath County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Bath County – African American – Afro-American deaths of Adair thru Bath County, Kentucky, 1852-1862, at FS
Boone County – African American – Afro-American births of Boone thru Bourbon county, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Boone County – African American – A brief history of slavery in Boone County, Kentucky : a paper read before a meeting of the Boone County Historical Society, Florence, Kentucky, June 21, 1957, at FS
Boone County – African American – A brief history of slavery in Boone County, Kentucky : a paper read before a meeting of the Boone County Historical Society, Florence, Kentucky, June 21, 1957, at FS
Bourbon County – African American – Afro-American births of Boone thru Bourbon county, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Boyle County – African American – Afro-American births of Boyle thru Caldwell County, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Bracken County – African American – Afro-American births of Boyle thru Caldwell County, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Breathitt County – African American – Afro-American births of Boyle thru Caldwell County, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Breckinridge County – African American – Afro-American births of Boyle thru Caldwell County, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Bullitt County – African American – Afro-American births of Boyle thru Caldwell County, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Butler County – African American – Afro-American births of Boyle thru Caldwell County, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Caldwell County – African American – Afro-American births of Boyle thru Caldwell County, Kentucky 1852-1861, at FS
Kentucky Minority Records Online at the city level
Bernstadt – Minorities – Die Schweizer-Colonie “Bernstadt” in Laurel County, Kentucky, Nord-Amerika, at FS
Frankfort – Minorities – A Brief History of the Colored Churches of Frankfort, Ky., at FS
Lexington – Minorities – Registers of Signatures of Depositors, 1870-1874, at FS
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