www.HarrisonCountyKy.US - A Site Dedicated to Harrison Co., Ky. History & Genealogy

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Despite rumors to the contrary and being a cousin unto myself, I only have one pair of hands and while still working on my "family forest" in Harrison County, but I can always add a little more to this site.

If you have any materials or suggestions to improve the site, please let me know. David Smith has offered this wonderful photograph of his great-grandmother for use in the Family Photo Album of the County pages. Other generous offers of family photos, school photos and records, and Bible records have also been accepted and posted to this site. Do you have anything you would like to share?

Marietta (Renaker) Smith

(1872-1959)

(Photo courtesy of David Smith)

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If you have any questions or suggestions about the site or genealogy or local history research in Harrison County, please contact Philip Naff, the website's creator, and he will see what can be done to answer your queries or to improve the site.

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Get Your Genealogy Fix Today!

Uh . . . I mean get your Feix genealogy today, or more precisely, a genealogy entitled Feix & Kauffman Families of Harrison County, Kentucky.

It is the exploration of the family tree of Charles W. Feix (pronounced "fakes"), noted genealogist and local historian of Harrison County. He has traveled far and wide to put together nearly 200 pages of the story of his research with family photos, diagrams, documents, and just about everything that one would want to know about his 19th century immigrant ancestors from Alsace-Lorraine (France) and their descendants. He is now offering the volume to the public for the first time ever.

To learn more about the book or to get your own copy ($30.00) you can contact him at cwfeix16@bellsouth.net, write to him (Charles W. Feix, 71 Culpepper Drive, Cynthiana, Kentucky 41031), or call (859) 234-5416.

To learn of the program for the next monthly meeting of the Harrison County Historical Society click on "Historical Society" below and go to the "Calendar of Events" for details. Meetings are almost always held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at the new meeting room of the Cynthiana-Harrison County Public Library. Come one and all!!!

Welcome!

Welcome to HarrisonCountyKy.US, an easy-to-remember web address that will get you to this site, which is designed to be an aid in the genealogical and historical research of Harrison County, Kentucky and its people.

You may never have heard of Harrison County before, or of its county seat, Cynthiana, but the county is located just north of Lexington, about an hour's drive away, and almost just as far from Cincinnati, Ohio, if you don't mind speeding a little!

Genealogy and local history research have been interests of mine for the past seventeen years. When I began researching my own family's past in Harrison County in 1992, I didn't know a whole lot about genealogy or how to research one. I have since discovered that about half of my ancestors liked the area well enough to spend about two hundred years around that little spot on the globe that is Northern Kentucky, and even though the state has many charms, it took them thousands of years to get there . . . but it need not take that long for you to follow in their footpaths and find your ancestors!

Over time and during many research trips to Kentucky I have collected a good bit of information for my own personal research library which I have decided to share through this website. Just click on any link to the left to learn more about the topic or to access related databases.

As I always say, "Ancestors were never lost, they are just waiting to be found!" So let this site be your teacher and your resource and these pages will help you to fill out all those blanks in your own Harrison County pedigree.

Quite a few items have already been posted to HarrisonCountyKy.US, but the site still has room to grow, and I hope to continue adding to it in the next few months and years. Some of the information, references, or materials may not be new to the web and may be located elsewhere, however, there are and will be quite a few unique items to be found here and nowhere else.

I have found the work on this website to be a lot of fun and a learning experience, which is what genealogy and the study of local history should be about. I do hope you find something useful at HarrisonCountyKy.US.

Mark Twain is reported to have said that "when the end of the world comes I want to be in Kentucky, because there it will come 20 years later." When he said that he may very well have well thinking of this site, for here the past is always present, and the future, well, that's another day!

So, please, just click, read, learn, and enjoy!

Philip Naff

Indianapolis, Indiana

Website creator and editor of HarrisonCountyKy.US

Staff writer for the Harrison Heritage News

Recipient of the 2007 Kentucky Genealogical Society's Outstanding Service to Genealogy Award

Member, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (Since 2007)

P.S. Please visit the following sites which all feature Harrison County history and genealogy as their main attractions. Come join, attend, or spend a little time . . . and maybe a little money; you will be the one all the richer for it!

The Harrison County Historical Society

This site is also host to the online home of the Harrison County Historical Society. Click on @TheSociety to read about all the "goings-on" or look at the Calendar of Events to learn what is planned for any of the twelve monthly meetings that the society holds each year (Every third Thursday of the month). Make it a special part of your life by making this the year you decide to join!

Harrison Heritage News

If you haven't seen them before, just want to read the fine articles by local historians George Slade, Bill Penn, Harold Slade, and other authors and experts again, or if you would like to learn all about the other historical happenings of Harrison County, then you must read the award-winning Harrison Heritage News!

Archived issues of the Harrison County Historical Society's monthly newsletter from early 2001 through 2005 are now available online. Just click on Harrison Heritage News, to begin your trek back in time.

The Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum

This past year (2012) was the 18th anniversary of the Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum's establishment. If you can't get there in person, take a look at the museum's pages at www.CynthianaKy.com to see what events and attractions the museum has planned for the year and learn more about the county's past.

The Genealogy Guy

Click on the link to visit TheGenealogyGuy.com whenever you feel you need to add a genealogy index or volume on Harrison County to your personal library.

Add the latest editions of Harrison County marriage indexes (or should the word be "indices" . . . ) to your library!!! The transcription and publication of General Index to Marriages No. 3 (1948-1984) and Marriage Records Index, 1985-2008 were completed in 2009! Be sure to get yours today!

The Genealogy Box

Since 2007 a special supplement, published nearly every other month, has been added to issues of the Harrison Heritage News. Entitled The Genealogy Box, its goal is to bring to light all of the genealogy and local history resources that are available for research, both online and in person in Cynthiana and at other resources. Each issue basically serves as a research guide to one particular topic, in as much as any two printed pages can. News of recent genealogical events, features at this site, and other items of interest are also included.

With the publication of the tenth issue, now seems a good time to commemorate the event and so all of those which have been published are being posted online for the first time. Just click on the either link to begin your learning experience with The Genealogy Box.

What People Have to Say about

HarrisonCountyKy.US

This is truly the most unbelievable, awesome, comprehensive, interesting genealogy site on the internet.--Jim D.

You ought to get a medal. You have done a great job and I have yet to see a history/genealogy site with as much information and so well displayed.--Barry M.

Thank you for all the work on the Harrison County, Ky. site. I know this required a lot of work on your part. Just wanted to let you know that some of us appreciate the work.--Rita B.

Each time I visit the Harrison site I'm always left with a feeling of having visited the most professional, friendly and comprehensive amount of information available for a web site . . . I always find your web site so informative and a joy for reading everything. You have produced what others need to understand. Genealogy can be informative and fun while being professional. As I read many years ago, genealogy should be regarded as a science, not a hobby. You have given credence to that statement.--Tom C.

. . . the Harrison County, Kentucky website is wonderful. I have visited Cynthiana many times and will continue to return to the home of my ancestors to find more info. But your site allows me to work on genealogy when I don’t have time to travel to find something new. Keep doing a great job!--Cindy A.

Bless your heart!!!--Jean E.

None of these comments has been solicited, and I say "Thank You" to all who have been thoughtful enough to share their appreciation with me.

Philip Naff

Indianapolis, Indiana

The content of www.HarrisonCountyKy.US has been written, compiled, transcribed, abstracted, extracted and/or edited by Philip Naff, except for content which has been submitted for use at the site by unpaid volunteer contributors or where otherwise noted, and he maintains all rights in these web pages as defined by the copyright laws of the United States of America. No content of this website may be used at or viewed through any other website without the express written consent of Philip Naff.

Last Edited Update: 01.25.2010