----- Original Message ----- From: "PJS" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:31 PM Subject: RE: [KYNELSON-L] Fw: [MDSTMARY-L] of Interest to St. Mary's County researchers ? > How do you access this KY land documents site??? What is the link? > Don't find a link on the www.sos.ky.gov site. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [KYNELSON-L] Fw: [MDSTMARY-L] of Interest to St. Mary's County > researchers ? > > > Look at this!!!! Some wonderful person's dream is realized!!! > > KY LAND RECORDS ON-LINE with IMAGES!!!! > > Fantastic--is the only word to use!!! Can we get the all Ky Co. MGS > next??????? (that is my personal dream!!!!). > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Judith Burger" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:56 AM > Subject: [MDSTMARY-L] of Interest to St. Mary's County researchers ? > > >> >From Joseph Leo Haining of Madison, Mississippi, a valued cousin. >> >Thanks, Joe. Judith >> ================================== >> Kentucky Digitizes Land Documents >> >> Tucked in the state Capitol's cavernous basement is an office cubbyhole >> containing volumes upon volumes of large books tracing the history of >> land >> in Kentucky. Those books, many of which have been hidden from the public >> eye for years, are now available worldwide on the Internet. >> They're part of the collection in the Secretary of State's Land Office. >> Now, historians, genealogists and those who are just plain curious can go >> online, at www.sos.ky.gov, and access a plethora of scanned images of >> historical land documents. >> And there are more available every day. The agency launched its >> redesigned >> Web site late last month, giving people fingertip access to thousands of >> handwritten historical documents. >> You can read more about this valuable new online resource at >> http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/11772453.htm >> >> >> > > >