tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post3698146149783493056..comments2024-02-05T18:14:35.019-06:00Comments on Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog: African-American Marriages in 1866Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-12276130825006456912017-08-13T10:40:07.148-05:002017-08-13T10:40:07.148-05:00Thanks. I will include this bit of fact in a book ...Thanks. I will include this bit of fact in a book that I am completing about the African American history of Muhlenberg and Western Kentucky.<br />leedurhamstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387342562711745997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-863973099297686522017-08-13T10:30:47.127-05:002017-08-13T10:30:47.127-05:00It is impossible to be sure, but I suspect some co...It is impossible to be sure, but I suspect some counties did not keep marriage records for African American couples. I was told by a reference librarian at the Archives that Henderson was not the only Kentucky county that had no Declarations of Marriages, but whether they were lost or never existed, I do not know.Brenda Joyce Jeromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-80944701843932991192017-08-13T02:48:59.863-05:002017-08-13T02:48:59.863-05:00Why would some counties not have registers of Afri...Why would some counties not have registers of African American marriages? Because they were lost or because they kept no records?leedurhamstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387342562711745997noreply@blogger.com