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Dig Up a
Little History . . .
without
getting dirty. Turn
back the clock
by using
the links below to reveal Harrison County's forgotten past and bring it to
light again.
NOTE: This website is presently
undergoing a restructuring to make the management of it a little more
efficient. Virtually all of the URLS (web addresses) have changed,
and so if you have bookmarked any particular page or subsite, you will
need to refresh your bookmarks and/or favorites. The directory
below should get you to anyplace you have been before, with some
additions to come in the near future.
About This Site
African Americans
Bible
Records
Biographies
Birth Records
Cemeteries
Chronicles
of Cynthiana
1896
Cynthiana Democrat
Communities
Churches
Civil War
Cold Wars
Death Records
Desert Storm
Directories*
NEW!!!
Funeral
Records
The Genealogy Box
The Genealogy Guy
Genealogy
Tips
Harrison
County Views
Harrison Heritage News
Historical Society
Historical Timeline
1882
History of the County
Immigrants
Inventors
The Kentucky Room
Links to Get You
There
1905
Log Cabin
Maps
Marriage Records
Mexican War
Monuments
& Memorials
Museum
Pictures & Postcards
Railroads*
NEW!!!
Research Volunteers
U.S. Census
World War I
World War II
HarrisonCountyKy.US isn't the only site on the web which offers
resources to the local and family historian or to genealogist researching
in Harrison County.
Click here to see more.
* A PDF vewer/reader may be required to
view part or all of the content.
Contributions Welcome
Despite rumors to the contrary and
being a cousin unto myself, I only have one pair of hands and while still
working on my "family forest" in Harrison County, but I can always add
a little more to this site.
If you have any materials or suggestions to
improve the site, please let me know. David Smith has offered this
wonderful photograph of his great-grandmother for use in the
Family Photo Album of the County pages. Other generous
offers of family photos, school photos and records, and Bible records have also
been accepted and posted to this site. Do you have anything you would like
to share?
Marietta (Renaker)
Smith
(1872-1959)
(Photo
courtesy of David Smith)
Questions or
Suggestions?
If you have any questions or
suggestions about the site or genealogy or local history research in
Harrison County, please contact
Philip Naff, the website's creator, and he will see what can be done
to answer your queries or to improve the site.
To see what others are saying about
the site,
click here.
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Get
Your Genealogy Fix Today!
Uh . . . I mean get your Feix
genealogy today, or more precisely, a genealogy entitled Feix &
Kauffman Families of Harrison County, Kentucky.
It is the
exploration of the family tree of Charles W. Feix (pronounced "fakes"), noted genealogist and
local historian of Harrison County. He has traveled far and wide
to put together nearly 200 pages of the story of his research with
family photos, diagrams, documents, and just about everything that one
would want to know about his 19th century immigrant ancestors from
Alsace-Lorraine (France) and their descendants. He is now offering
the volume to the public for the first time ever.
To learn more about the book or to
get your own copy ($30.00) you can contact him at
cwfeix16@bellsouth.net, write to him (Charles W. Feix, 71 Culpepper
Drive, Cynthiana, Kentucky 41031), or call (859) 234-5416.
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Welcome!
 Welcome to
HarrisonCountyKy.US, an easy-to-remember web
address that will get
you to this site, which is designed to be an aid in the genealogical and historical
research of Harrison County, Kentucky and its people.
You may never have heard of Harrison County
before, or of its county seat, Cynthiana, but the county is located just
north of Lexington, Kentucky, about an hour's drive away, and almost just as
far from Cincinnati, Ohio, if you don't mind speeding a little!
Genealogy and local
history research have been interests of mine for the past seventeen years.
When I began researching my own family's past in Harrison County in 1992, I
didn't know a whole lot about genealogy or how to research one. I have
since discovered that about half of my ancestors liked the area well enough to
spend about two hundred years around that little spot on the globe that is
Northern Kentucky, and even though the state has many charms, it took them
thousands of years to get there . . . but it need not take that long for you to
follow in their footpaths and find your ancestors!
Over time and during many research trips to Kentucky I have collected a good bit of
information for my own personal research library which I have decided to share
through this website. Just click on any link to the left to learn more about the
topic or to access related databases.
As I always say,
"Ancestors were never lost, they are just waiting to be found!"
So let this site be your teacher and your resource and these pages will help you to fill out all those blanks in
your own Harrison County pedigree.
Quite a few items have already been posted to
HarrisonCountyKy.US,
but the site still has room to grow, and I hope to continue adding to it in
the next few months and years. Some of the information, references, or materials may not be new
to the web and may be located elsewhere, however, there are and will be quite a
few unique items to be found here and nowhere else.
I have found the work on this website to be a
lot of fun and a learning experience, which is what genealogy and the study of
local history should be about. I do hope you find something useful at
HarrisonCountyKy.US.
Mark Twain is reported to have said that "when
the end of the world comes I want to be in Kentucky, because there it will come
20 years later." When he said that he may very well have well thinking of
this site, for here the past is always present, and the future, well, that's
another day!
So, please, just click, read, learn, and enjoy!
Philip Naff
Indianapolis, Indiana
Website creator and editor of
HarrisonCountyKy.US
Staff writer for the
Harrison Heritage
News
Recipient of the 2007
Kentucky Genealogical
Society's Outstanding Service to Genealogy Award
Member,
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (Since 2007)
Volunteer,
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (for Harrison County, Ky.)
P.S. Please visit the following sites which all
feature Harrison County history and genealogy as their main attractions.
Come join, attend, or spend a little time . . . and maybe a little
money; you will be the one all the richer for it!
The Harrison County Historical Society
This site is also
host to the online home of the
Harrison County Historical Society. Click on @TheSociety to read about all the "goings-on" or
look at the Calendar of Events to learn what is planned for any of the
twelve monthly meetings that the society holds each year (Every third
Thursday of the month).
Make it a special part of your life by making this the year you decide to
join!
Harrison Heritage News
If you haven't seen them before, just want to read the fine
articles by local historians George Slade, Bill Penn, Harold Slade, and other
authors and experts again, or if you would like to learn all about the other
historical happenings of Harrison County, then you must read the
award-winning Harrison Heritage News!
Archived issues of the Harrison County Historical Society's
monthly newsletter from early 2001 through 2005 are now available online. Just
click on
Harrison Heritage News, to begin your trek
back in time.
The Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum
This year is the 15th anniversary of the Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum's
establishment. If you can't make it in person, make it to their new site
at
www.Cynthiana-HarrisonCountyMuseum.org to see what events and attractions
the museum has planned for the year and learn more about its past.
Harrison County Views
COMING SOON! A new site
featuring photos and images of Harrison County from the today and
yesterday, presented in albums and slideshows, with all the works.
The Genealogy Guy
Click on the link to visit
TheGenealogyGuy.com
whenever you feel you need to add a genealogy index or volume on
Harrison County to your personal library.
New Indexes
Available in 2009!!! The
transcription and publication of
General Index to Marriages No. 3 (1948-1984) and Marriage
Records Index, 1985-2008 is complete! Be sure to get yours
today!
The Genealogy Box
 Since 2007 a special supplement,
published nearly every other month, has been added to issues of the
Harrison Heritage News. Entitled The Genealogy Box, its
goal is to bring to light all of the genealogy and local history
resources that are available for research, both online and in person in
Cynthiana and at other resources. Each issue basically serves as a
research guide to one particular topic, in as much as any two printed
pages can. News of recent genealogical events, features at this
site, and other items of interest are also included.
With the publication of the
tenth issue, now seems a good time to commemorate the event and so all
of those which have been published are being posted online for the first
time. Just click on the either link to begin your
learning experience with
The Genealogy Box.
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What People Are Saying About
HarrisonCountyKy.US
This is truly the most unbelievable, awesome, comprehensive, interesting
genealogy site on the internet.--Jim D.
You ought to get
a medal. You have done a great job and I have yet to see a
history/genealogy site with as much information and so well displayed.--Barry
M.
Thank you for
all the work on the Harrison County, Ky. site. I know this
required a lot of work on your part. Just wanted to let you know
that some of us appreciate the work.--Rita B.
 Each
time I visit the Harrison site I'm always left with a feeling of having
visited the most professional, friendly and comprehensive amount of
information available for a web site . . . I always find your web site
so informative and a joy for reading everything. You have produced what
others need to understand. Genealogy can be informative and fun
while being professional. As I read many years ago, genealogy
should be regarded as a science, not a hobby. You have given
credence to that statement.--Tom C.
. . . the Harrison County, Kentucky website is
wonderful. I have visited Cynthiana many times and will continue
to return to the home of my ancestors to find more info. But your
site allows me to work on genealogy when I don’t have time to travel to
find something new. Keep doing a great job!--Cindy A.
Bless your
heart!!!--Jean E.
None of these comments has been
solicited, and I say "Thank You" to all who have
been thoughtful enough to share their appreciation
with me.
Philip Naff
Indianapolis, Indiana
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