Webster County KYGenWeb

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1894 Webster Co map
Webster County was formed in 1860 from Henderson , Hopkins, and Union Counties.
Other neighbors are Crittenden County, Caldwell County and McLean County


Webster County
Delayed Birth Records


Webster County Marriage Index, 1860-1984
Over 15,000 marriages


Beginners click here


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+ the Webster County Family Album
+ Mt. Lebanon Cemetery records.
These sites are reindexed regularly
. . . currently 3034 documents


Webster County Message Board
- queries, obits, wills, deeds, etc.
New material added often
Currently 17,952 messages!
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WEBSTER COUNTY RESOURCES


Archives Bible Records
Biographies of the living and the dead Births
Books & Software for sale Cemeteries & Funeral Homes -
Census Records Churches and Clergy
Coal Mining Courthouse/Newspapers
Court Records Cyndi's List - Webster County
Death Records Family Histories
Historical & Genealogical Society- August 31
Land Records
Letters, etc. Lookups
Mailing list - how to subscribe Maps
Marriages Military Records
Miscellaneous Resources Museums & Libraries
News Articles Obituaries
Photos Reunions, etc.
Schools Surname Information
Towns and Town Governments Wills

In Memoriam



How did Webster County get its name?
Webster County Historical Markers


Data from adjoining counties

Hopkins County Henderson County Union County
Message Board Message Board Message Board
Marriages AHGP site Archives
Genealogical Society Census data online Photos
Obituary Scrapbook Fernwood Cemetery - now complete Cemeteries
Researchers, Surnames, Homepages Biographies 1830,1840, 1850 census
Folk Lore Photo Album Biographies
1850 census Genealogical Society Mural Mystery

Henderson County Obituary Finder

Shawneetown IL Marriages of
western Kentuckians

Julie Gibbs' Western State Hospital site

Owensboro Area Obituary Index
Courtesy Daviess County KY Public Library


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Webster County Researchers' Pages
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Carole's Personal Genealogy Records
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we might be cousins!

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Recommended mailing lists

Webster County Mailing List - click to bring up e-mail so you can subscribe. The body of your message should read subscribe.

Hopkins County Mailing List - click to bring up e-mail so you can subscribe. The body of your message should read subscribe.

Henderson County Mailing List - click to bring up e-mail so you can subscribe. The body of your message should read subscribe.

Union County Mailing List - click to bring up e-mail so you can subscribe. The body of your message should read subscribe.

West Kentucky - click to bring up e-mail to subscribe to this list. Leave the subject line blank; the body of the message should read subscribe westkentucky or subscribe westkentucky-digest

KY-Footsteps - click to bring up e-mail to subscribe to this list especially for posting original Kentucky source information. Leave the subject line blank; the body of the message should read subscribe

Ashby Mailing List - this list should benefit the many Ashby researchers in Webster and neighboring counties. Click to bring up e-mail to subscribe. Leave the subject line blank; the body of the message should read subscribe

KYBiographies - click to bring up e-mail so you can subscribe to this list. The body of your message should read subscribe. This is a read-only list of source material.

KYResearch - click to bring up e-mail so you can subscribe to this list. The body of your message should read sub kyresearch. This is a read-only list of source material.


Recommended publications

Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG, edited the outstanding quarterly Western Kentucky Journal, which was published from Winter 1994 through Fall 2007, and was devoted to the western Kentucky counties of Caldwell, Crittenden, Henderson, Union, Webster, Hopkins, Lyon, Livingston and Trigg. Ms. Jerome is the publisher/compiler of over 30 books of western Kentucky county resource material. She won the Kentucky Genealogical Society's 1994 award for most important contribution to western Kentucky genealogy. After discontinuing publication of the Western Kentucky Journal, Ms. Jerome has begun a new Western Kentucky Genealogy blog which has a new article several times a week.

The Journal-Enterprise ~ Webster County's Online Source of News and Information

Bluegrass Roots ~ quarterly of the Kentucky Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 153, Frankfort, KY 40602. $15 per year.

Kentucky Ancestors ~ quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society, P.O. Box 1792, Frankfort, KY 40602-2108. Write for subscription information.

Kentucky Explorer Magazine ~ Editor: Charles Hayes, Jr

Kentucky Ancestry by Roseann Reinemuth Hogan, Ph.D. ~ A must for the serious Kentucky researcher. $19.95.
Order from Ancestry or call 1-800-262-3787

Simmons Historical Bookstore ~ Many western Kentucky genealogy books

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter ~ read the standard (free) edition online
or subscribe to the Plus version for a small fee

RootsWeb Review - Subscribe to free genealogy newsletters and/or read online archived editions


Recommended online reading
Carmen Finley's "Sharpen Your Research Skills"
How to Complain about Spam
Gedcoms and Other Genealogical Files ~ by George Morgan
Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy
Linda Haas Davenport's Learning Center - so much good material here!
Urban Legends Reference Pages - Check here before forwarding questionable stories via e-mail
Joe Isaac's Top Fifty Tips For Windows XP & Vista
Cyndi's List of Internet Stuff You Need to Know

Webster County salutes the vision,
inspiration, and contributions of
Jeff Murphy, founder of KYGenWeb
and USGenWeb.

Your Webster County KYGenWeb Coordinators
        

The Webster County KYGenWeb Page was updated 2025


Should anything unexpected happen to us and we are no longer able to fulfill our obligations as coordinators of the Webster County KYGenWeb site, we want it known that all of our contributions to this web site are to become the responsibility of the KYGenWeb Project, as part of the USGenWeb Project, to do with as the KYGenWeb State Coordinator(s) feel(s) appropriate. Other persons who have contributed material to this website shall retain their rights to withdraw any such material should they choose to do so.

Amy Dunn
, 29 March 2015; Marian Dunn, 29 March 2015.

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