Welcome to Clark County, KY History and Genealogy Presented by Kentucky Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) 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 Clark County, Kentucky was the 14th county to be created from Bourbon and Fayette Counties in 1792. Clark county was established in 1807 and named after Gen. Green Clark (1757-1826) He was a military leader in the War of 1812 and he was a representative of Kentucky County in the Virginia General Assembly. He was also a cousin of Henry Clark. The county seat is Winchester. ONLINE DATA Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County History Court Records Death Records Family Bibles Marriages Military Mortality Schedules Newspaper Data Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: June 2008: More death records added; Newspaper Items all sorted in categories for easy reading 06 Feb 2008: News Articles updated and Obituaries. 28 Jan 2008: Deaths Miscellaneous and 1852 Listing, Marriages 29 Jan 2008:Obituaries, News Articles on Mayor Attersall, More Newspaper Articles and 1860 Mortality Schedule SURROUNDING COUNTIES Bourbon - Estill - Fayette - Madison - Montgomery - Powell 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.