Logan County, KY Genealogical Society

08/27/2025

The office is closed Aug. 27 and 28 for training. We will reopen Friday, Aug. 29 at 9 a.m.

07/23/2025

Gail Jackson Miller presents Follow the Land! Using Land Records in Your Research on August 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the corner of Cave Mill and Smallhouse Roads in Bowling Green. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome!

07/21/2025

Before: mismatched chairs that gave the office a disorganized look and feel

After: matching chairs and an organized look and feel

This improvement was made possible by the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels through their Good Works Grant Program. Along with new chairs, we were able to purchase more Hollinger boxes for oversized records (Civil War Soldier and Widow Pension applications) and clear archival sleeves to encase the most fragile documents and prevent further damage caused by careful handling.

We cannot thank the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels enough for their continued support of what we do. As a result of their support, we were able to pay it forward. We donated the old chairs, which still have a fair amount of life in them, to the SEEK Museum Research Center.

06/21/2025

The "Russell Girls" came from Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio to explore their Logan County ancestors. It's really awesome when we can connect visitors with local descendants!

06/18/2025

We will be closing today, Wednesday, June 18th, at 2:00.

06/14/2025

Happy Flag Day! Did you know that today’s holiday would not exist but for the actions of a 19-year old schoolteacher from Wisconsin?

In other words, anyone, anywhere can make a difference.

In 1885, Bernard J. Cigrand was teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Waubeka, Wisconsin. He’d devised a simple class exercise for his students: They were to write essays about the flag in commemoration of the flag’s birthday on June 14.

Perhaps some of these essays mentioned the reason that June 14 is considered to be the flag’s birthday? It was on this day in 1777 that the Continental Congress first adopted a national flag for the newly declared American nation. Congress has made some changes since then, but the basic design of the flag remains the same: “thirteen stripes, alternate red and white” with a union of “thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”

Surely Cigrand could not have imagined where this simple class exercise would take him! He would end up spending literally the rest of his life fighting for a national flag holiday.

One year later, in 1886, he wrote an article for a Chicago paper, urging that the flag’s birthday be observed annually. He would eventually author hundreds of articles advocating for the June 14 holiday, and he delivered many speeches. By 1894, he had achieved a public school celebration of Flag Day in Chicago. More than 300,000 children attended! Many more private and state-level celebrations ensued over the next two decades.

On May 30, 1916, with World War I looming on the horizon, President Woodrow Wilson formalized something that people were doing on their own anyway. He issued a presidential proclamation declaring that June 14, 1916, would be the first annual national Flag Day celebration.

“Let us on that day rededicate ourselves,” he wrote, “to the nation, ‘one and inseparable’ from which every thought that is not worthy of our fathers' first vows in independence, liberty, and right shall be excluded . . . .”

Cigrand unfortunately did not live long enough to see the end of the tale, because he died unexpectedly in 1932. Seventeen years later, President Harry Truman finally signed a congressional act that officially designated June 14 as Flag Day.

Today’s holiday is not only a celebration of our flag, but it is also a wonderful demonstration of what one determined individual can accomplish, isn’t it?

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06/01/2025

05/25/2025

In honor of Memorial Day, we want to hear about your Logan County veteran. If you have a photo of your vetran share it here and tell us about their service. We will add each one to our military service project files.

05/22/2025

Congratulations to our intern, Laura Brown, on her graduation tonight! We have loved having her at the Archives and know she will do big things at college. ❤

05/22/2025

Thank you to Russellville High School for allowing us to be part of their Amazing Race today! They moved the contents of filing cabinets and brought books from the Courthouse for us to store. Teamwork and youthful energy helped alot!

05/18/2025

If you plan to visit this week:
We will be closed on Monday, May 19th.
Tuesday, May 20th, we will be closed most of the day. Sorry not more specific, we just don't know exact times.
Wednesday, May 21st, we are participating in Russellville High School's Amazing Race from 9:00 - 12:00. We will be in and out between the Archives and the Courthouse.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

05/05/2025

We have had a call looking for World War II veterans from any service branch. If you know of any local, please get in touch with Denise at the News-Democrat & Leader dshoulders@newsdemocratleader.com