Welcome to Bourbon County, KY History and Genealogy Presented by Kentucky Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy My name is Stephen Miller and as your Bourbon County Kentucky host I try to post as much data online as possible in order to make it freely available to all. We gratefully accept contributions of raw data such as census information, marriage/birth/death records, obituaries, county histories, biographies, old newspaper items - anything that would help someone build their family tree!! Feel free to email me with your contributions - every little bit helps. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Kentucky is covered under our "Southern" States mailing list. COUNTY HISTORY Bourbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed as a county within Virginia in 1786. In 1792, it transferred to the newly formed State of Kentucky.  It is best known for being the place that invented bourbon whiskey and for being the home for the most famous horse farms in the world. Bourbon County was one of nine counties that made up Kentucky when it became a state in 1792. As of 2007, the population was 19,839. Its county seat is Paris which was named after the city Paris, France. The county derived it's name from the famous Bourbon Family of France who was notorious in helping the Americans in their split with England during the Revolutionary War. Some records were lost in a fire on 8 May 1872. ONLINE DATA Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County History Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Political Graveyard Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills Website Updates: November 2011: Obituaries Kentucky State Vital Records Cabinet for Health Services Office of Vital Statistics 275 East Main Street Frankfort, Kentucky 40621-0001 Phone: 502-227-0032 Fax: 502-227-0032 Bourbon County Kentucky Vital Records Bourbon County Clerk 310 Main Street Paris, KY 40361 Phone: (859) 987-2142 Paris-Bourbon County Public Library 701 High Street Paris, KY 40361 Phone: (859) 987-4419 SURROUNDING COUNTIES Harrison -- Scott -- Fayette -- Clark Montgomery -- Bath -- Nicholas Back to Kentucky Trails Visit Our National Genealogy Trails Site Subscribe to our mailing lists to get notification when we update this and our other Southern websites. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters. .

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