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This Family Archive CD contains the records of approximately 225,000 individuals in a unique collection of court, marriage, military, probate, and obituary records. Made up of images of the pages of twelve Kentucky reference works published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, and accessed by a single electronic index, this CD combines many of the most important books ever published on Kentucky. Probably no other resource available can match the range of sources on this CD, which is available at only a fraction of the cost of the original books.

Among the many valuable reference works included on this CD you'll find the two most comprehensive collections of marriage records--Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865, by G. Glenn Clift, and Kentucky Marriage Records, excerpted from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Also included are two important miscellanies of Kentucky court records containing wills and abstracts of estates and administrations, as well as a volume devoted solely to wills and inventories. At least five books cover Kentucky military records, three alone dealing with the War of 1812, and there is even a volume that indexes the names of every person mentioned in Kentucky's early statutes. The following is a list of the books included:

*Kentucky Court and Other Records, Volume I
*Kentucky Court and Other Records, Volume II
*Kentucky Marriage Records
*Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865
*Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854
*Abstracts of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories
*Revolutionary Soldiers in Kentucky
*Kentucky in the War of 1812
*Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812
*Remember the Raisin!
*Kentucky Pension Roll for 1835
*A Complete Index to the Names of Persons, Places and Subjects Mentioned in Littell's Laws of Kentucky

System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at http://www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using the Family Archive Viewer:

1. Install the Family Archive Viewer CD or download it from http://www.genealogy.com/dlfav6.html.
2. Start the Viewer if it is not already running
3. Insert the CD you wish to view into the CD-ROM drive. If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.
4. The CD should open automatically, but users of later versions of the Family Archive Viewer must click the CD/magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar (above the template in some versions) to read the CD.
5. When the screen entitled "About this Family Archive" appears, click OK where prompted.

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using Family Tree Maker:

1. Start your Family Tree Maker and open a Family File. (If the program is already running, skip to Step 2.)
2. Insert the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. (If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.)
3. From the View menu, select Family Finder, or select the Family Finder icon from the toolbar.
4. For FTM 2005, FTM 2006, or Version 16, you must go to the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD. For FTM 2008 or higher, you must download the Family Archive Viewer.

To search the CD for names, select the Search Expert button in the top right of your screen, then select "Search this archive for someone NOT from your Family File." You can also search for names by using the Index.

Note: If a window opens that contains a list of files on the CD, simply close it.