NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY 
GENEALOGY CONFERENCE

April 24 & 25,  2026

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Friday – April 24, 2026 (Free and Open to the Public)

6:00 p.m.     Registration Begins

6:30 p.m.     Music by Brad Howerton, Mike Adkins, and Bob Hall
7:30 p.m.     *Carolyn Hale - Richardson - The true story of a community                         that was tied to the Peach Orchard Coal Mine in Lawrence                       County Kentucky. 
                     *Marlitta Perkins: The life of Asbury Parker

 

Saturday – April 25, 2026 

 

8:00 a.m.     Registration Fee

• Brandon Kirk (Big Sandy Heritage Center Museum)
  “John Hartford’s Search for Ed Haley in Eastern Kentucky.”

• Roslyn Torella: (member of Association of Professional Genealogists) "Back in the Old Country: Finding a Foreign Ancestral Village"

• David Kirkpatrick (Mercer County Public Library):"Following Founders: Research in Kentucky Before 1850"

• Kelli Bergheimer:  Title: FamilySearch: Full Text Search Learn to search in these never-before-searchable files! ​

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