Are you interested in adding your story to our Veterans Oral History Project? Staff from the Local History and Genealogy Department are available to conduct veterans oral history interviews. 

Interviewees are required to fill out and return a pre-interview questionnaire and release form at least one week before their interview. The interviews are video recorded and a copy will be made available to the interviewee. Veterans are encouraged to bring medals, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other items related to their service to the interview.

To reserve your interview time, or to ask questions about the interview process, please contact Casey Blackmore at (859)962-4070.

Are you interested in adding your story to our Veterans Oral History Project? Staff from the Local History and Genealogy Department are available to conduct veterans oral history interviews. 

Interviewees are required to fill out and return a pre-interview questionnaire and release form at least one week before their interview. The interviews are video recorded and a copy will be made available to the interviewee. Veterans are encouraged to bring medals, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other items related to their service to the interview.

To reserve your interview time, or to ask questions about the interview process, please contact Casey Blackmore at (859) 962-4070.

To commemorate Black History Month, please visit our gallery of Great Black Kentuckians, located in the local history section.

Are you interested in adding your story to our Veterans Oral History Project? Staff from the Local History and Genealogy Department are available to conduct veterans oral history interviews. 

Interviewees are required to fill out and return a pre-interview questionnaire and release form at least one week before their interview. The interviews are video recorded and a copy will be made available to the interviewee. Veterans are encouraged to bring medals, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other items related to their service to the interview.

To reserve your interview time, or to ask questions about the interview process, please contact Casey Blackmore at (859)962-4070.

We'll help you create a simple family history holiday newsletter. Staff will be available to help you scan photographs, fill out a family history chart, and do some basic genealogy research. 

Surprise your relatives and make gifts from scanned copies of vintage and heirloom photographs. Staff in the Local History and Genealogy Department will be available to scan up to 10 of your family photographs.  Bring a CD or USB/Flash Drive to save your images. 

Paint a photo of Covington's Pike Street at Christmas-time! All art supplies provided. All skill levels encouraged to attend. Photographs courtesy of KCPL's Faces and Places Online Northern Kentucky Photograph Database.

Join us online on Instagram as we discuss simple ways to share your family history in less than 60 seconds. 

We'll show you how to get started, or restart your family history research.

Just getting started on your family research, or looking for help with a genealogy "brick wall"? Call the Local History & Genealogy Department at (859) 962-4070 and reserve a one-hour session to discuss resources and search strategies. 

Just getting started on your family research, or looking for help with a genealogy "brick wall"? Call the Local History & Genealogy Department at (859) 962-4070 and reserve a one-hour session to discuss resources and search strategies. 

This hands-on, interactive program is fun for all ages! Mr. Baggett will bring an old wooden trunk full of interesting items and military equipment from the Revolutionary War period.  This presentation utilizes reproductions of 18th Century weaponry, camp tools and equipment, clothing, toys, personal hygiene items, and other everyday necessities. He will bring to life the reality of everyday living during the Revolutionary War / Colonial Period. A selection of his books will be available for sale and signing following the presentation. Stay for Colonial Crafts immediately following!

Join us following Mr. Baggett's presentation "Revolutionary War in a Trunk" to try your hand at creating some Colonial Crafts. A variety of craft options will be available. Crafting will open immediately following the presentation, in an adjacent room. 

We'll make a Kentucky hot chocolate recipe and decorate marshmallows to put in our cups!

Staff from the LHG Dept. are available to discuss getting started researching your family history or working on a elusive ancestor. Call the Local History & Genealogy Department at (859) 962-4070 and reserve a one-hour session to discuss resources and search strategies. 

Looking to join a lineage society, but not sure where to start? Local members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be in the Local History & Genealogy Department to discuss the necessary steps toward membership and to help you with research questions. 

Take a jaunt back in time with us and listen to stories about Covington in the Roaring 1920s - the good, the bad, and the ugly! 

Just getting started on your family research, or looking for help with a genealogy "brick wall"? Call the Local History & Genealogy Department at (859) 962-4070 and reserve a one-hour session to discuss resources and search strategies. 

Just getting started on your family research, or looking for help with a genealogy "brick wall"? Call the Local History & Genealogy Department at (859) 962-4070 and reserve a one-hour session to discuss resources and search strategies. 

Learn how your can use Wordpress to blog, share, and archive your family history documents, photographs and data.

2/4 - Searching the United States Federal Census on Ancestry Library Edition
2/11 - Finding your Ancestors in the 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules
2/18 - Using the 1890 Veterans Schedules to Find Your Military Ancestors
2/25 - Documenting Deceased Ancestors in the U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885

Join us online on Instagram as we share ideas for researching your African-American genealogy.

Just getting started on your family research, or looking for help with a genealogy "brick wall"? Call the Local History & Genealogy Department at (859) 962-4070 and reserve a one-hour session to discuss resources and search strategies.