For those of you who can not attend the Land Grants Workshop the Kentucky Secretary of State's Land Office website can be found at: http://www.kysos.com/ADMIN/LANDOFFI/landoffice.asp Click on "Saddlebag Notes". The searchable database is there too. The Kentucky Historical Society website is http://www.kyhistory.org/ and the list of online links to genealogy sites can be found at: http://www.kyhistory.org/Research/Online_Resources.htm You can email the library Reference Desk to register for the workshop. RefDesk@mail.state.ky.us. Sorry I forgot to include that. Sharon > Genealogy Workshops > October 24 at 2:00 p.m. > Using Land Grants and Tax Lists for Studying Genealogy > Join Kandie Adkinson of the Secretary of State's Office for a session on > "Use of Land Grants and Tax Lists for Studying Genealogy." Adkinson will > teach participants how to search for their ancestors using the Secretary of > State's web site, which contains scanned images of Kentucky land grants. > The workshop will be held in the Brown-Forman Room of the Kentucky History > Center, sponsored by the Kentucky Historical Society's Thomas D. Clark > Library.The workshop is free of charge, but participants are asked to > preregister by calling (502) 564-1792 ext. 4460, or emailing the Library > Reference Desk, with your name, address, and phone number. Please include > GENEALOGY WORKSHOP in the subject line. > > >