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Patricia Patton Kentucky Room

The Patricia Patton Kentucky Room will be closed due to the remodeling of the library. The Kentucky Room will reopen as soon as possible. We are sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions please contact us at (606)789-4355. Welcome to the Patricia Patton Kentucky Room. If your into genealogy then this is our place to stop. Here in the Kentucky Room, we have two microfilm readers and a microfilm collection of the Paintsville Herald and the Big Sandy News. The microfilm collection, which is comprised of numerous rolls containing marriage, census, wills and deeds of Johnson and surrounding counties.

The Johnson County Historical Society became partners in this Kentucky collection venture and still helps add additional materials such as books, family charts, maps, photographs and many one of a kind items. We have census records in print of any county that touches Johnson County and some more far reaching. The records start in the early 1800's and go up to the 1930's census of Johnson County.

We have a complete set of War of the Rebellion and the microfilm that complements the items of the same war. We also have the unique collection of The Civil War Diary of Captain Edward O. Guerrant C.S.A. We have the best collection of the Civil War materials in Eastern Kentucky.

Besides our local newspaper on microfilm and war materials, we also have: census records (state and federal) starting in 1810, land deeds, marriage certificates, birth/death records, court orders, tax records beginning in 1793, records from North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The early census records on microfilm cover the better half of the state of Kentucky.

We also have an abundance of local family histories that researchers have compiled into short family histories to several volumes.

Genealogy isn't the only to stop in here because we have a non-fiction section that pertains to Kentucky and things closely related to Kentucky. We also have a collection of fiction authors located in this room, such as Jesse Stuart, Sue Grafton, and many more.

We will do genealogy research by letter or phone request. It it is $5.00 for each name requested to be researched. You must send SASE and payment before the research is done.