Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 46, Number 2 - Kentucky Historical ...

Citizenship Commission was
created to “decide citizenship
claims in a legal and uniform
manner.” The records in these new
publications were transcribed from
microfilm copies of handwritten
Cherokee Citizenship Commission
proceedings. Each volume contains
an extensive complete-name index
that will assist in research about a
specific person or surname.
(Editor’s Note: The compiler of
these books states that volume
one in this series was previously
published (by another publisher)
under the title, Cherokee
Commission Dockets Books
1898-1914. That book has been
reformatted and republished as
Volume 1 with a new index and a
revised introduction, and contains
citizenship dockets 1-286. The
entire series will contain 540
dockets when completed.)
The People of the Scottish Burghs:
The People of Kirkcaldy, 1600-1799
and The People of Greenock,
1600-1799. Two Volumes. By David
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Dobson. (2010. Pp. 105. Paper. $17.50
each. Baltimore: Clearfield Company
by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260,
Baltimore, MD 21211-1953, or from the
Internet at www.genealogical.com).
Two new genealogical references
on the people of the Scottish
burghs of Kirkcaldy and Greenock
(1600-1799) provide a sampling of
the individuals who lived in those
two communities. The author
points out that neither volume
is intended to include all of the
people who lived there, but the
books do provide short biographical
notations on each individual, and
designate the historical reference
or record repository where that
information was discovered.
God’s Acres: Private Graveyards
in Bourbon County, Kentucky By
Kenney Shropshire Roseberry and
Rogers Roseberry Barde´. (2009. Pp.
186. Cloth. Ordering information not
available. A copy will be placed in the
Kentucky Historical Society Research
Library.)
God’s Acres: Private Graveyards
in Bourbon County, Kentucky
is a unique and excellent new
resource on private graveyards in
Bourbon County. It is welcome
in the field of Kentucky genealogy
research because it deals exclusively
with private graveyards that are
generally connected with a church
or a private family home. The
authors of this book have done
an outstanding job in locating
and documenting the graveyards
in the county, and they have put
the gravestone texts, charts, and
illustrations together in a way
that will make it much easier
for anyone searching for familyhistory
information to locate the
people being researched. The
book concludes with an excellent
complete-name index that will
make it much easier to identify the
grave of a specific person.