Top 5 Strategies for Researching Early Kentucky and Virginia Families

Gail Jackson Miller, CG
Jun 12, 2025
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Strong Starting Point
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Jurisdiction
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Tax Lists
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Follow the Land
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Church and Court Records
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

Researching early families in Kentucky and Virginia can be particularly challenging. Every location has multiple people of the same name making even surviving records difficult to sort. There are few available birth and death records and other records may be difficult to locate or non-existent. Learn effective strategies for researching that difficult early Kentucky or Virginia family.

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About the speaker

About the speaker

Gail Jackson Miller, CG is a professional genealogist, teacher, writer, and lecturer specializing in Kentucky, Tennessee, and surrounding states with more than 40 years of genealogical experience. She became certified by the Board for Certificatio
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  1. LS
    Laura Sandidge
    5 hours ago

    Gail is always a wealth of knowledge!!!

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  2. TJ
    Tammu Jones
    5 hours ago

    Thank you! I wish that this webinar had been available before the May NGS conference in Louisville. Tax records will be my next research strategy.

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  3. RM
    Rochelle Males
    5 hours ago

    Thank you! I’ve been putting off circling back around to my KY/VA ancestors and this is great motivation for me to review what I already have and tackle some of those mysteries. 🙂

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  4. BL
    Beverly Leeming
    6 hours ago

    Some excellent strategies here and what to consider in the case study. A little daunting but one document at a time and you can get through it.

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  5. HM
    Harold McClendon Jr
    6 hours ago

    She opened my mind to looking in additional places for records. She helped me understand how thorough one must be in research to ensure accuracy.

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  6. JF
    Jean Foster
    6 hours ago

    Great webinar and very timely. my current brick wall is Virginia and Kentucky in this time frame. Thanks for all the great info.

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  7. HJ
    Helen J Gent
    6 hours ago

    Trying to learn more about my late husband’s ancestors in Eastern Kentucky and Russell County, Virginia. This talk as well as her other one on tax lists have been very helpful. I just now need to be persistent in my research in this unfamiliar area of the country. I now have my work cut out for me.

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  8. AW
    Anne Woodbury
    6 hours ago

    I learned a lot that I hadn’t thought of source wise and how to go about thinking about KY and VA that was very helpful. This is all pertinent to my own research because my family is pre statehood KY from VA. Thank you.

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