Welcome to Lee 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 Founded in 1870, many sources say it was named for General Robert E. Lee, which is certainly possible given that it was formed near the time of Lee's death. On the other hand, this area of Kentucky was strongly pro-Union during the Civil War. Other sources say the County was named for Lee County, Virginia, or for Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee Lee County lies within the Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields region. The very rugged terrain greatly defines the area. Roughly half of the county lies within the Daniel Boone National Forest. Timber and coal remain economically significant. The county seat is Beattyville [source: wikipedia.org] Online Data We need Data!! Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Extinct Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: 1870 Mortality Schedule - July 2009 Adjacent counties * Powell County (north) * Wolfe County (northeast) * Breathitt County (southeast) * Owsley County (south) * Jackson County (southwest) * Estill County (northwest) 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.