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REMEMBER: All dues-paying members of Boyle County Genealogical & Historical Society, Inc. get a 10% discount on any of the books that the group is selling.   Just make sure that we are aware of this when you order your product.  This discount does not apply to the Newsletter.

For more information e-mail Carolyn Crabtree at ctree1492@ctreeacres.com or contact other members of the association. To order any of the above books, make the check payable to Boyle County Genealogical and Historical Society Inc. and mail to:

 

Boyle County Genealogical & Historical Society, Inc.
% Carolyn Crabtree, Treasurer
P.O. Box 24
Parksville, KY 40464
 

If you will send an e-mail address to ctree1492@ctreeacres.com, we will send an acknowledgement to you that we have received your order. For questions about book orders, send your e-mail to ctree1492@ctreeacres.com.

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A scanned and published copy of the 1909 Danville City Directory may be purchased from Carolyn Crabtree. This book contains the names, addresses, and occupations of all citizens in Danville, Kentucky in 1909.  It also contains information about businesses, organizations, churches and other historical information about Danville in 1909.  The cost of the book is $26.50, which includes sales tax.  Shipping and handling will bring the price to a total of $33.00.  Contact Carolyn at ctree1492@ctreeacres.com for more information or to order the book.

The Descendants of Alexander Caldwell in America may also be purchased from Carolyn Crabtree.  This book can only be purchased on CD now.  It has gotten too large and expensive to print.  The cost of this CD is $25. 

Two new books that may be purchased from Carolyn Crabtree are:

McDowell-Shelby-Warren Families, price $35, plus shipping and handling.  This book is a compiled genealogy of the three related families. 

Warrenwood and the Warren Family, price $15, plus shipping and handling.  This book gives a genealogy of the Captain William Warren family and a history of Warrenwood, the home standing in Danville, Kentucky, that was  built by his two grandsons.

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The following books may be purchased from the Forkland Community Center. Send e-mail to gwill@mis.net or call Shirley Sheperson (859) 936-2061.  Please note: Do not write checks for the following Forkland list to the Boyle County Genealogy Association, Inc.  The checks must be made to Forkland Community Center.  Some of the books may have been expanded and reprinted and the cost may have changed.  Please contact Pat Williams at gwill@mis.net to verify the information.  All money for these particular books goes for the benefit of the Forkland Community Center.
 

The following books may be purchased from the Forkland Community Center. For mail orders, shipping charges are extra. Send e-mail to gwill@mis.net or call Shirley Sheperson (859) 936-2061. 

For Sale from Forkland Community Center Price Please contact the Forkland Community Center for Shipping and handling costs
gwill@mis.net

Forkland Cemetery Book: The Forgotten Past (85 Cemeteries in the Forkland area) (fourth edition)

$15  

Forkland Heritage: Its People, Past and Present 1793-1996 (Hardback: Vol. 1 & 2)
 

$75  
Roots, Trunk and Branches: Abraham Lincoln's Connections to Forkland through Lucy Shipley Hanks Sparrow $45 Hardback
$25 paperback
 
Forkland Favorites (Cookbook) (Christmas Wrapped is available for  $11) $10  
Sparrows: Abraham Lincoln's Other Family $25  
Crowe Family $40  
It's History: from Brenda's Notebook $53  
Early Days in Danville by Calvin Fackler $20  
Descendants of Thomas Shannon $50  
Descendants of Crawfords and Mitchells of Green and Boyle Counties $18  
Irvine Family of Central Kentucky $25  
Honaker Family $25  
Belcher Family $25  
Genealogies on Lincoln-related family lines:
Whitehouse, Shipley, Sparrow, Edwards, Hanks and Lincoln (CDs available for $5-$20)
$5-$30 depending on size  
Aunts and Uncles of Nancy Hanks Lincoln (Berry, Mitchell, and McCord)-- CD only available $15  
Forkland's Heritage from the Lord $10  
Marcus Purdom and His Descendants $18  
2014 Calendar with Forkland Prize-winning Photography (Old Calendars available for $3-$5) $10  
Crow Family, Kentucky and Beyond (CD available for $15)
Compiled by Carolyn B. Crabtree
$50  
Brumfields of Central Kentucky
Compiled by Carolyn B. Crabtree 
$15  
Brumfields: Kentucky and Beyond
Compiled by Carolyn B. Crabtree 
$25  
Descendants of Benjamin Berry
Compiled by Carolyn B. Crabtree 
$20  
Simon Kenton by Carolyn B. Crabtree $18  
Secrets of Ben Hardin Whitehouse $20  
Whitehouse Family from England to Kentucky $15  
James Whitehouse 1758- August 1783
by Gayle H. Thompson
$18  
Ancestors of Andrew Berry Young
by Gayle H. Thompson
$20  
Edwards Family of Central Kentucky $5  
Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln, Parents of a President $5  
Crow-Brumfield-Caldwell Families $15  
Edwards of Scrubgrass Creek $35  
Family of Lucey Shipley, Abraham Lincoln's Grandmother $20  
Descendants of James Madison Phillips $25  
Short Lincoln-Todd Genealogy w/Logan Relationship $15  
Companion CD containing detailed Genealogies of these families: Sparrow (with several generations not included in Roots, Trunk and Branches), Shipley, Whitehouse, Edwards, Hanks and Lincoln, and Aunts and Uncles of Nancy Hanks Lincoln (Berry, Mitchell, and McCord).   These genealogies are in the PDF format, which can be viewed with the Reader software available free at the Adobe website.  The CD-R also includes audio (MP3) files of a 1975 interview with Ezra Sparrow, plus a talk he gave and a poem he recited at the 100th anniversary celebration in 1962 of the New Liberty Church in Anderson County, Kentucky. $60  

Softbooks on the following families compiled from Newspaper obituaries and other item:
Preston, Ellis, Purdom, Sheperson, Edwards, Whitehouse, Guthrie and others
 

$5-$45
(depends on size of book)
 
Reminisences of the Fork by Howard B. Breeding $3  
The Fork - Gravel Switch and Wards Branch by James Shelby Eads $3  
Sorghum Making $3  
Water Powered Mills of Forkland and Gravel Switch $3  
Shepperson-Whitlock History by John L. Sheperson $5  
Forkland's Heritage - From the Lord $10  
Tales from the Fork - Cole $3  
Turnpike Roads of Boyle County, Kentucky by Mike Denis $15  
History of the Forkland Community Center Log Cabin from the 1790s to 2009 $6  
Jacob Minor in Kentucky and His Descendants by Mable Kirkland Bottom
Reprinted from a 1974 edition with Index added
$25  
Noe Family History 1798-1900
By E. C. Wooten
$5  
Whitehouse Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant (in 2 volumes) $80  
Jacob Minor,  Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries
by Monty J. Bryant
$40 for 2 volumes  
Joseph Minor,  Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries
by Monty J. Bryant
$25  
Purdom Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $40  
Ellis Family and Descendants,  Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $10  
Preston  Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $10  
Sheperson Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $5  
Chambers Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $30  
Guthrie Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $20  
Descendants of Lucey & Henry Sparrow, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $7  
Kirkland Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $25  
Crowe Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $20  
Edwards Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $30  
Harmon Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $50  
Lanham Family History by Monty J. Bryant $20  

 

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