Kentucky Historical Society KHS to Host Family History Workshop
Sept. 8 FRANKFORT, Ky. (Aug. 23, 2012) – The Kentucky Historical
Society (KHS) and Kentucky Genealogical Society (KGS) will host
a free family history workshop at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8,
at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in downtown
Frankfort. Topics include Frankfort Cemetery and how to locate
and document burial sites. The morning session will be a
presentation about the historic Frankfort Cemetery by its former
superintendent, Jim Richardson. Frankfort Cemetery, incorporated
in 1844, is on the National Register of Historic Places and is
the final resting place of 17 Kentucky governors and a number of
notable military leaders, civic leaders, artists, writers and
early pioneers, including Daniel Boone. Participants will
receive driving directions and a map of Frankfort Cemetery, and
be able to visit the cemetery after the workshop, weather
permitting. In the afternoon, Tina Wingate will talk about her
work documenting Fran