Lexington, KY, Genealogical Society

03/09/2026

Kentucky Chautauqua is made possible by the Kentucky Humanities Council.

02/17/2026

We’ve just added Thomas Disney to the Eastern State Hospital project.
His story includes a curious gap in the records. A newspaper clipping reports that he was brought to the hospital on 11 Mar 1892, yet the first formal admission record we can locate appears on 18 Feb 1903 (patient 8769).

For now, that eleven-year space raises questions about how patients were handled, documented, or transferred in the late 19th century. If anyone has seen additional references to Thomas Disney in Knox County newspapers or court records from the 1890s, please share them.



Link: https://kygenweb.net/esh/patients/stories/1934-disney-thomas.html

11/04/2025

09/25/2025

Registration required: https://events.lexpublib.org/event/14229794

08/22/2025

This weekend in Hopkinsville, Kentucky

06/13/2025

https://www.lexfreedomtrain.org/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwK4WVhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHm1pX73lmzdBxakW5A_CJMG2PmzQ2TtPFNrDp-EpbtMSPBBxVLXwZluRcd7s_aem___yt8Gbp6yvoVdfDqncjRQ

Bringing History to Life Monument to Lewis & Harriet Hayden and Lexington’s Underground Railroad This monument is an effort to memorialize our cruel history of slavery and to help us heal from it, to honor Lewis and Harriet Hayden, two of Lexington’s enslaved who became famed aboli...

02/09/2024

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/picnic-in-cemeteries-america

For a time, eating and relaxing among the dead was a national pastime.

02/07/2024

Come learn about Kentucky's Colored Marriage Records, February 14, 2024, 1:30-3:00 p.m. at the Lexington Public Library’s Central Library, Lexington, KY, 140 East Main Street, Conference Room B.

Hosted by African Cemetery No. 2.