Welcome to Campbell
County Kentucky!
My name is Shirlene Jensen
and I am
the host of the Campbell County KYGenWeb
site. Our co-host
Herman "Buck" Seibert, is a Campbell County
native and long time researcher.
Buck has contributed many items to this
site over the years and has been actively researching and preserving data from
our old cemeteries. Feel
free to contact him if you need information. We moved this site to the US GenWeb
site so that all may still access information for free.
We
are proud to be participants in the
USGenWeb and
KYGenWeb
projects. A great group of volunteers who are working together to provide
a way for you to trace your ancestors. The Kentucky State
Coordinator is Jeffrey
Kemp. If you wish to volunteer please contact him.
Information on this site comes from research done by several Campbell County Historians. To learn more about these valuable researchers, please see our Special Tribute Page.
African-American Records
Bible
Records
Bridges
Campbell
County
History
Cemeteries
Census
Records
Churches
Cities
and Towns
City
Directories
Crimes
Dairies
Deeds and
Court
Records
Divorces
Early
Kentucky
Families
Fires
Funeral Homes
Germans
Immigration
Land
Grants &
Surveys
Libraries
Marriages
Military
Miscellaneous
Naturalization
Records
Neighboring
Counties
Newspaper
Articles
Obituaries
Oral
History
and Veterans
Project
Orphans
Our
Rich History
Physicians
and Early Medicine
Pieces of
the Past
Pioneers
Politicians
Postcards
from the
Past
Professional
Researchers
Research
Links
Schools
Steamboats
and Ferries
Surnames
Tax
Lists
Unknown
Photos
Vital
Records
What's
New!
Who's
Who in Campbell Co
Wills
This Website has also posted information on the Unbound Libraries site at:
http://kyunbound.lib.overdrive.com/
FYI: Free Find does not always soundex, so you may have to try different spellings of your family name. And because Free Find is free, it does not index all the pages.
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Visit Campbell County's Wonderful Historical & Genealogical Society
The Campbell
County
Historical
& Genealogical Society
is at 8352
East Main
Street in
Alexandria. Be a part of history and make your story heard and recorded for posterity. Fill out the Covid-19 Questionnaire! **************** While there, please consider becoming a member. For only $12.00 per year you will receive a newsletter filled with information. The A Day in Campbell County book as well as other books are available at the office or online at their website. 
Campbell County was founded December 17, 1794, two years after the creation of the Commonwealth of Kentucky becoming the state's 19th county. Campbell County was carved out of Scott, Harrison and Mason counties. The original county included all of present day Boone, Kenton, Pendleton, and most of Grant and Bracken counties. It is part of the Outer Bluegrass region and the elevation in the county ranges from 455 to 920 feet above sea level. Campbell County is named in honor of John Campbell an Irish immigrant who was a soldier, explorer, statesman and one of the drafters of the first Kentucky Constitution. The first settler of the area was in Wilder by David Leitch from Scotland and his wife Keturah Moss. Newport was founded by James Taylor from Virginia and named by his brother Hubbard after Christopher Newport, a famous (at least to them) sailing captain. Newport was named the county seat in 1796. In 1840 when Kenton County was carved from Campbell County, Alexandria was chosen as the geographic center of the new Campbell County. Since the greater amount of business was still done in Newport, the county determined to accept two county seats, Alexandria and Newport. Campbell and Kenton Counties are the only counties in the state that boast two seats of government. In 2010 the county population was 90,336 in a land area of 151 square miles. 
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