Welcome to Washington 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. Founded in 1792 Washington County was the first county formed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky when it reached statehood. The county is named for George Washington. The Washington County Courthouse in Springfield, completed in 1816, is the oldest courthouse still in use in Kentucky. A significant county court record is the marriage bond of President Abraham Lincoln's parents, Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. The bond is dated June 10, 1806; the day before the marriage in the small community of Beechland on the Little Beech River. The marriage return was signed by Jesse Head, the Methodist preacher who performed the ceremony, and dates the marriage to June 12, 1806. The center of population of Kentucky is located in Washington County, in the city of Willisburg. Cities, Towns and Communities * Bear Wallow * Fredericktown * Mackville * Manton * Springfield * Willisburg * Thompsonville [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: 1883 Pensioners; Death Notices; WWII Casualties; 1800-1810 Marriages;   Surrounding Counties Anderson / Mercer / Boyle / Marion / Nelson 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.