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Scott County Public Library
Georgetown, Kentucky
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Georgetown.
1783 to 1981Dates represented
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306,942Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
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Discover the people, places, and stories of Georgetown, Kentucky.
Get to know Georgetown, Kentucky in earlier years through newspapers and vital records shared in the Scott County Public Library's digital archive. Its eighty-two titles include material from 1783 to 1981. The collection also includes financial and tax records as well as court and legal records.
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In the collection shared by Scott County Public Library, you will find “Administrators Bonds” and “Will Books”.
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Newspaper pages connect individual accounts with a wider story, preserving how events were reported and presented to the readers of the day.
Historical newspapers can connect a family name with the events and everyday concerns of an earlier time, offering more than a date or a name on its own. Bring a family connection, a question about a familiar place or an interest in local history, and see where the sources lead. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
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Titles in this collection
Browse eighty-two titles and 306,942 digitized pages, with material from 1783 to 1981. A partnership between Scott County Public Library and Advantage Archives makes this collection available. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
If you are tracing a family connection or exploring local history, the titles below offer a place to begin and a thread to follow.
Administrators Bonds
1,830 pages in 1856
Ashland Kentuckian
8 pages in 1856
Ballard Yeoman
68 pages from 1937 to 1945
Bath County Reporter
8 pages in 1878
Bee
74 pages in 1910
Birth Marriage and Death Records
1,634 pages from 1852 to 1909
Bonds
3,742 pages from 1837 to 1875
Bouquet
8 pages in 1863
Bracken Record
8 pages in 1877
Carlisle County News
58 pages from 1921 to 1937
Carlisle Mercury
16 pages from 1875 to 1878
Cherokee Advocate
8 pages in 1885
Christmas Gift
8 pages in 1867
Cincinnati Daily Commercial
16 pages in 1862
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
16 pages in 1863
County Court Marriage Records
1,442 pages in 1837
County Court Marriage Registers and Slave Volumes
4,780 pages from 1886 to 1913
Cynthiana News
8 pages in 1878
Daily Hustler
52 pages in 1911
Deed Books
43,730 pages from 1783 to 1883
Deed Books Index
1,298 pages in 1807
Eastern Kentucky Democrat
8 pages in 1895
Estates
2,022 pages in 1877
Ewing Inquirer
8 pages in 1907
Fleming County Dispatch
280 pages from 1866 to 1867
Fleming County Gazette
8 pages in 1881
Fleming Flag
32 pages from 1846 to 1847
Fleming Gazette
40 pages from 1905 to 1925
Fleming News
16 pages in 1894
Fleming Republican
16 pages in 1845
Fleming Star
8 pages in 1860
Fleming True Blue Democrat
8 pages in 1887
Flemingsburg Gazette
24 pages from 1890 to 1893
Flemingsburg Kentuckian
24 pages from 1838 to 1842
Flemingsburg News
8 pages in 1859
Flemingsburg Weekly Republican
8 pages in 1878
Frankfort Commonwealth
8 pages in 1869
Freedman Declaration of Marriage Book
218 pages in 1867
Georgetown News
60,838 pages from 1935 to 1978
Georgetown News And Times
10,978 pages from 1978 to 1981
Georgetown Patriot
278 pages in 1816
Georgetown Times
9,272 pages from 1884 to 1905
Georgetown Weekly Times
6,270 pages from 1867 to 1883
Hustler
16 pages in 1918
John A Lewis Papers
240 pages in 1841
Kentucky Journal
8 pages in 1827
Kentucky Sentinel
248 pages from 1834 to 1835
Kentucky Whig
14 pages from 1843 to 1943
Kentucky Whig
8 pages in 1855
Land Sale for Taxes
5,228 pages from 1879 to 1886
Land Warrants
1,756 pages in 1815
Ledger and Times
20 pages in 1940
Lexington Herald
44 pages in 1913
Lexington Observer and Reporter
8 pages in 1869
Lexington Transcript
44 pages in 1889
Local History Index
1,310 pages in 1787
Louisville Commercial
16 pages in 1878
Madisonville Daily Messenger
152 pages from 1918 to 1925
Maysville Sun
16 pages in 1869
Mortgage Books
4,026 pages from 1871 to 1879
Paducah Press
16 pages in 1937
Paducah Tobacco Plant
16 pages in 1873
Public Daily Ledger
8 pages in 1896
Register of Surveyors
258 pages in 1840
Report of the Adjutant General
4,954 pages in 1861
Rough and Ready
64 pages in 1847
Scott County Circuit Court Book of Sample Legal Intrument
290 pages in 1842
Scott County Circuit Court Common Pleas Order Book
2,882 pages from 1874 to 1880
Scott County Circuit Court General Index to Orders
2,004 pages from 1837 to 1881
Scott County Circuit Court Judgements by Default
2,874 pages from 1855 to 1885
Scott County Circuit Court Order Books
18,696 pages from 1797 to 1879
Scott County Circuit Court Tax Books
11,142 pages from 1836 to 1875
Scott County Clerk Marriage Register Book
5,140 pages in 1837
Scott County Mortgage Books
2,122 pages in 1884
Scott County Tax Books
8,472 pages from 1794 to 1834
Scott County World War I Books
3,646 pages in 1917
The Georgetown Times
60,416 pages from 1901 to 1976
Weekly Advance
134 pages from 1901 to 1933
Weekly Maysville Eagle
24 pages from 1866 to 1867
Weekly News
48 pages from 1885 to 1886
Weekly Standard
16 pages in 1886
Will Books
21,382 pages from 1792 to 1896
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Historical Documents
- Report of the Adjutant General (1861-1861)
- County Court Marriage Registers and Slave Volumes (1886-1913)
- Mortgage Books (1871-1879)
- Bonds (1837-1875)
- Scott County Circuit Court Common Pleas Order Book (1874-1880)
- Scott County Circuit Court Judgements by Default (1855-1885)
- Scott County Mortgage Books (1884-1884)
- Estates (1877-1877)
- Scott County Circuit Court General Index to Orders (1837-1881)
- Administrators Bonds (1856-1856)
- Land Warrants (1815-1815)
- Birth Marriage and Death Records (1852-1909)
- County Court Marriage Records (1837-1837)
- Local History Index (1787-1787)
- Deed Books Index (1807-1807)
- Scott County Circuit Court Book of Sample Legal Instrument (1842-1842)
- Fleming County Dispatch (1866-1867)
- Georgetown Patriot (1816-1816)
- Register of Surveyors (1840-1840)
- Kentucky Sentinel (1834-1835)
- Fleming Flag (1846-1847)
- Flemingsburg Kentuckian (1838-1842)
- Flemingsburg Gazette (1890-1893)
- Weekly Maysville Eagle (1866-1867)
- Ledger and Times (1940-1940)
- Fleming Republican (1845-1845)
- Fleming News (1894-1894)
- Hustler (1918-1918)
- Carlisle Mercury (1875-1878)
- Louisville Commercial (1878-1878)
- Maysville Sun (1869-1869)
- Paducah Tobacco Plant (1873-1873)
- Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (1863-1863)
- Weekly Standard (1886-1886)
- Cincinnati Daily Commercial (1862-1862)
- Paducah Press (1937-1937)
- Kentucky Whig (1843-1943)
- Kentucky Journal (1827-1827)
- Bouquet (1863-1863)
- Fleming Star (1860-1860)
About the Library
About The Scott County Public Library
The Scott County Public Library has a rich history of serving the local community with its diverse collection and services. The library, in collaboration with various partners like the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky, continuously works to bring local and regional histories to the forefront. As a gathering place for both the young and old, the Scott County Public Library is a true cultural and educational hub for the community.
Local History
Did You Know?
Did you know that the Scott County Public Library has an extensive collection of marriage records, court documents, and local histories dating back to the 1800s? The library's digital archives provide a valuable resource for genealogists and history enthusiasts, offering a glimpse into Scott County's past.
More ways to explore and share local history
Research Guidance
Look for the story behind a result
Begin with a person, neighborhood, business, or event you want to understand in Georgetown. The newspaper titles in the newspaper titles shared by the Scott County Public Library can connect that question with reports from earlier years; leave a possible match open until its date and details fit. Search a person, place, or event with a second term, then compare the date and context of each result. A repeated name needs more evidence before it identifies the same person or connects two parts of a story.
After recording the issue and page, search a second term tied to the result and compare the surrounding dates and accounts. Keep matching names provisional until the place and context fit. This can turn one result into a better question without turning a repeated name into a confirmed story.
Capture the title, date, and page or item location for a detail you may want to revisit. Label your interpretation as your reading, not the source's own words. Keep enough context with the note that another reader can retrace it.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Scott County Public Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
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