Lexington, KY, Genealogical Society

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...

06/09/2025

04/09/2025

Save the Date!!

04/09/2025

The African-American Genealogy Group of Kentucky presents the Digital Library on American Slavery with Dr. Deborah Abbott.

The Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) is an expanding resource compiling independent collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single, simple interface. DLAS houses tens of thousands of records relating to all 15 slave states and Washington, D.C. as well as a number of northern states. DLAS contains detailed personal information about over 100 thousand individuals, including enslaved people, enslavers, free people of color, and more.

The goal of the Digital Library on American Slavery is to bring together and make freely accessible public records related to enslavement, with an emphasis upon the names and stories of the enslaved. DLAS strives to be a documentation project, not an interpretive effort. The team works with researchers to make data sets available for personal research.

Deborah A. Abbott, PhD, is a professional genealogist, specializing in African American research, manuscript collections, and genealogy methodology. She is a Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Archives Advisory Commission member and serves on the Lake View (Ohio) Cemetery Outreach Committee. She is an associate with the Kentucky-Tennessee Associates based in Springfield, TN; past president of the African American Genealogical Society, Cleveland, OH; and a retired professor of Counseling from Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. She holds both the BS and M.Ed. degrees from Tuskegee University in Alabama and the PhD from Kent State University in Ohio.

Dr. Abbott is an instructor, as well as the coordinator for both the week-long African American tracts at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) held at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, and the Genealogy Research Institute of Pittsburgh, held at LaRoche University in Pittsburgh, PA. She presents lectures and workshops at national, state, and local genealogy conferences.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UEse0uu7Sw2oSEEspj-czA

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.

06/20/2023

6:00 PM Thursday June 22, 2023 - POLLINATOR HABITAT
Featuring information, inspiration, and door prizes at African Cemetery No. 2!

06/11/2023

Yesterday, Mayor Linda Gorton announced a full calendar of events to celebrate Juneteenth across the City of Lexington, Ky - Government. These events will begin on June 10th and will end at Cadentown on June 19 - where the A Sense of Place campaign will officially kick off! We hope you can join us!

The kickoff will feature:

🍅 Food by Black Soil: Our Better Nature
🌱 Commemorative plants from GreeneLanding KY
🎥 Video stories from Lexington's hamlets
🏫 Tours of the Cadentown Rosenwald School
🎙 Remarks from LFUCG Equity Implementation Officer Tiffany Brown, Reverend Leon Slatter from Cadentown Missionary Baptist Church, Local Historian Dr. Yvonne Giles, Kathy Plomin - 12th District Council Member, and Commissioner Chris Ford
🎉A block party at the church following the event!

For a list of all other Juneteenth events, visit ➡️ https://www.lexingtonky.gov/news/06-06-2023/lexington-celebrates-juneteenth