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Louisville Birth Records

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1852-1910 Kentucky Birth Records (includes Jefferson County: 1852, 1854-1859, 1900-1906, 1908-1909 ) Ancestry online

1911-1999 Kentucky Birth Index Ancestry online

1911-1999 Kentucky Births MyHeritage online

Births and index, 1898-1910; Deaths and index, 1866-1910 FamilySearch Library

Church records (microform), 1829-1910, Christ Church Cathedral (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1848-1907, St. John's Evangelical Church (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1851-1926, St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1908-1941, Christ Church Cathedral (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Jefferson County, Kentucky : births 1900-1901 FamilySearch Library

Jefferson County, Kentucky births FamilySearch Library

Kentucky, Birth Records, 1911-present Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics

Louisville Cemetery Records (179)


Louisville Census Records

Louisville and Jefferson County Kentucky census 1810-1820-1830 (indexed) FamilySearch Library

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage online

United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search online

Louisville Church Records (141)


Louisville City Directories (182)


Louisville Court Records

Jefferson County, Kentucky : Louisville city court mintue book no.1 : indentures of apprenticeship 1836-1856 FamilySearch Library

Order books, 1836-1897 FamilySearch Library

Louisville Death Records

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1852-1965 Kentucky Death Records (incomplete) Ancestry online

1900-1999 Kentucky Deaths MyHeritage online

1911-2000 Kentucky Death Index Ancestry online

Barrett Funeral Home Records, 1919-1998 Archive Grid

Barrett Funeral Home Records, 1919-1998. WorldCat

Births and index, 1898-1910; Deaths and index, 1866-1910 FamilySearch Library

Church records (microform), 1829-1910, Christ Church Cathedral (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1848-1907, St. John's Evangelical Church (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1867-1949, St. John's Evangelical Church (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1908-1941, Christ Church Cathedral (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Death notices from Louisville newspapers, 1814-1842 : most of which are in the Filson Club and the Louisville Free Public Library. WorldCat

Death records (Jefferson County, Kentucky), 1866-1910 FamilySearch Library

Genealogical abstracts from reported deaths, the Louisville and Nashville Christian Advocate and the Nashville Christian Advocate WorldCat

Genealogical abstracts from reported deaths, the Louisville and Nashville Christian advocate and the Nashville Christian advocate, 1852-1856 WorldCat

Kentucky deaths : these are the deaths that appeared in the Sunday Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) during January and February 1954 WorldCat

Kentucky, Death Records, 1911-present Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics

Louisville Newspaper Obituary Index 1918-1987 Louisville Free Public Library online

Maas Funeral Home Records, 1900-1954, Louisville, Ky. Archive Grid

Manning, John W. & Sons Funeral Home Records, 1903-1954 Archive Grid

Muldoon Monument Company, Louisville, Kentucky, KY sales records : including some from Ala, Ga, Tenn, Ark, Ill, and Ind WorldCat

Louisville Histories and Genealogies

1859-1909 souvenir issued in commemoration of fiftieth anniversary of Humbolt Lodge No. 141 I.O.O.F. of Louisville, Ky FamilySearch Library

Adath Louisville : the story of a Jewish community FamilySearch Library

An Historical Sketch of St. Paul's Church, Louisville, Ky. Ancestry online

Butchertown of yesterday : history of the east end of Louisville, Ky., including the Point, Butchertown, and the Vernon Club FamilySearch Library

City of Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky : showing its connection with the cities of Jeffersonville and New Albany, Ind. by the great Ohio River Bridge now in the course of construction by the Louisville Bridge Company FamilySearch Library

City of Louisville, Kentucky FamilySearch Library

Fire service of Louisville : a souvenir containing an account of the service from leather bucket times to the present fire department FamilySearch Library

Glimpses of the past FamilySearch Library

Historical development of the Louisville and Nashville railroad system FamilySearch Library

Historical sketch and souvenir of the Louisville Fire Department FamilySearch Library

Kentucky records; tabulated known Conewago families according to male, parent, 1769-1780; signers of the Kentucky petition of 1780; signers of the Kentucky petition of 1783. WorldCat

Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky FamilySearch Library

Louisville illustrated FamilySearch Library

Louisville in eighteen forty-six : events which interested the people of Louisville in the year of the founding of the Stewart store FamilySearch Library

Louisville information FamilySearch Library

Louisville of today : richly endowed by nature as a manufacturing and jobbing centre and a place of residence FamilySearch Library

Louisville's First Families : A Series of Genealogical Sketches Ancestry online

Louisville's first families FamilySearch Library

Louisville's first families : a series of genealogical sketches Genealogy Gophers online

Louisville, 1861-1895, G.A.R. 29th Encampment : souvenir and official programme, 1895 Genealogy Gophers online

Louisville, A Guide to the Falls City Ancestry online

Louisville, fifty years ago : a souvenir issued on the occasion of the Louisville Board of Trade luncheon on March 9th, in honor of firms that have been in business fifty years or more, 1873-1923 FamilySearch Library

Memorial history of Louisville from its first settlement to the year 1896 FamilySearch Library

Memorial history of Louisville from its first settlement to the year 1896, Vol. 1 Genealogy Gophers online

Memorial history of Louisville from its first settlement to the year 1896, Vol. 2 Genealogy Gophers online

Representative Kentuckians : City builders ; brief resume [sic] of the limited number of those who have done their full part in helping to make the Kentucky metropolis FamilySearch Library

Scrapbook of historical events, Louisville history FamilySearch Library

Sketches of Louisville and its environs : including ... a Florula louisvillensis ... to which is added an appendix containing an accurate account of the earthquakes experienced here from the 16th December, 1811, to the 7th February, 1812, extracted principally from the papers of the late J. Brookes, esq. FamilySearch Library

The Centenary of Louisville Ancestry online

The Encyclopedia of Louisville FamilySearch Library

The Filson club and its activities, 1884-1922 : a history of the Filson club, including lists of Filson club publications and papers on Kentucky history prepared for the club, also names of members FamilySearch Library

The History of Louisville : from Its Earliest Settlement Till the Year 1852 Ancestry online

The Industries of Louisville, Kentucky and of New Albany, Indiana : their natural, mercantile, manufacturing, financial and commercial resources and facilities, together with a series of comprehensive sketches of their representative business houses FamilySearch Library

The centenary of Louisville : a paper read before the Southern Historical Association, Saturday, May 1st, 1880, in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the city of Louisville as an incorporated town FamilySearch Library

The city of Louisville and a glimpse of Kentucky LDS Genealogy online

The city of Louisville and a glimpse of Kentucky Internet Archive online

The city of Louisville, Kentucky FamilySearch Library

The history of Louisville, from its earliest settlement till the year 1852 FamilySearch Library

The history of the Greeks in Kentucky, 1900-1950 FamilySearch Library

Two hundred years at the falls of the Ohio : a history of Louisville and Jefferson County FamilySearch Library

Who's who in Louisville, the gateway to the South : biographical sketches of Louisville men and women of achievement, 1926 FamilySearch Library

Louisville Immigration Records

Naturalization index, 1811-1913 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization records, 1851-1913 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization records, 1896-1906 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization records, Louisville, Kentucky, ca. 1887-1939 FamilySearch Library

Louisville Land Records

Deeds, 1783-1911 FamilySearch Library

Louisville Map Records

Atlas of the city of Louisville, Ky. and environs FamilySearch Library

Bird's eye view map of Louisville, Kentucky 1876. Library of Congress online

Birds-eye view map of Louisville from the river front and Southern Exposition, 1883. Library of Congress online

Index map of the city of Louisville, Ky., 1879 Library of Congress online

Louisville 1850 to 1899 Bird's Eye View - 68x102.1 Map Historic Map Works online

Louisville 1850 to 1899 Bird's Eye View - 68x102.1 Map (included in Historic U.S. Maps) MyHeritage online

Louisville 1850 to 1899 Bird's Eye View - 73x225 Map Historic Map Works online

Louisville 1850 to 1899 Bird's Eye View - 73x225 Map (included in Historic U.S. Maps) MyHeritage online

Louisville 1876 Bird's Eye View Map Historic Map Works online

Louisville 1876 Bird's Eye View Map (included in Historic U.S. Maps) MyHeritage online

Louisville, 1833 Southern Exposition Bird's Eye View Map (in U.S. Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases) Ancestry online

Louisville, 1876 Bird's Eye View Map (in U.S. Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases) Ancestry online

Louisville, Kentucky Map 1869, 1961 American Geographical Society online

Plan for utilizing the water power map of the Ohio River at Louisville, Ky., 1875 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1892 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1892 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1892 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1905 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1906 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1940 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1940-1950 Library of Congress online

Louisville Marriage Records

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1783-1965 Kentucky, County Marriage Records Ancestry online

1852-1914 Kentucky Marriage Records (includes Jefferson County: 1852, 1854-1860, 1892-1894, 1901, 1903-1904, 1906, 1908-1909 ) Ancestry online

Church records (microform), 1829-1910, Christ Church Cathedral (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1848-1907, St. John's Evangelical Church (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1851-1926, St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Church records (microform), 1908-1941, Christ Church Cathedral (Louisville, Ky.). Archive Grid

Kentucky, Church Marriages, 1824-1995 Family Search online

Marriage records, 1780-1854 FamilySearch Library

Marriage records, 1781-1951 FamilySearch Library

Marriage records, 1852-1931 FamilySearch Library

Marriage registers, 1784-1911 FamilySearch Library

Louisville Military Records

A plea for a history of the Confederate war : an address at the decoration of the Confederate graves in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, May 26, 1879 (Breckinridge, William C. P. (William Campbell Preston), 1837-1904) FamilySearch Library

American Letter Express Company, Louisville and Nashville, 1861 (Brooks, Edward) FamilySearch Library

Confederate soldiers and civilians buried in the Confederate sections and national cemetery, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky WorldCat

History of first regiment of infantry, the Louisville legion : and other military organizations (Macpherson, Ernest) FamilySearch Library

Military petitions, Louisville, Kentucky, 1903-1906,1918-1921 (United States. District Court) FamilySearch Library

The Final Disposition, Vol. III: Cave Hill National Cemetery Ancestry online

U.S. Civil War, Roll of Honor, Vol. XVII: Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky Ancestry online

U.S. Civil War, Roll of Honor, Vol. XVII: Eastern Cemetery (African-American), Louisville, Kentucky Ancestry online

U.S. Civil War, The Unpublished Roll of Honor: Soldiers Buried in Towner's Station, Kansas & Cattlesbury, Kentucky Ancestry online

Louisville Minority Records

Adath Louisville : the story of a Jewish community FamilySearch Library

Afro-American mission herald (The), 1900-1901 Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program online

Life behind a veil : blacks in Louisville, Kentucky, 1865-1930 FamilySearch Library

Louisville Miscellaneous Records

Connections (Filson Club : Louisville, Kentucky) FamilySearch Library

Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Children's Home Records, 1866-1938 Family Search online

Payroll book, 1888-1891 FamilySearch Library

Registers of signatures of depositors, 1865-1874 FamilySearch Library

Louisville Newspapers and Obituaries (132)


Louisville Probate Records

1774-1989 Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories Ancestry online

Louisville School Records (185)


Louisville Tax Records

Tax assessment books, 1834-1885 FamilySearch Library

Tax books, 1789-1892 FamilySearch Library

Tax lists, 1826-1827, Louisville (Ky.). Archive Grid



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