Lincoln County, Kentucky Wills and Administrations, Vol. 1

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Lincoln County, Kentucky Wills and Administrations, Vol. 1 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

Original data: Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Lincoln County, Kentucky Will and Administration Records. Vol. I. Chillicothe, MO, USA: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, c1965.

About Lincoln County, Kentucky Wills and Administrations, Vol. 1

This collection of wills adds to the growing number of databases in the Ellsberry Collection. The database was compiled by long-time researcher, school teacher, and professional genealogist Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. These will records contain the names of people involved in Lincoln County wills between the estimated dates of 1870 and 1890, and the dates of their proceedings. The records also often include comments about family relationships.

Ms. Ellsberry began genealogical publication in 1958, when she published her own family history, The Warrens and You. In researching her own family, she found that libraries needed additional information from cemetery records, wills, land records, probate records, census records, etc., to help people with their family history. Ellsberry decided that she wanted to help by publishing books that contained solid genealogical data. She taught school for 34 years, but on weekends and summer vacation, she would travel around to different courthouses and cemeteries, recording the information she found. She also corresponded with several researchers and helped them in their research. Ellsberry self-published more than 300 books, and most of them are available for sale. Most of the compilation of these books took place between 1958 and into the 1970s, so the recorded information should include the cemetery and/or courthouse records of that time period.

Address:
Ms. Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
P.O. Box 206
Chillicothe, MO 64601

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