How many years.... (Hopkinsville, Frankfort, Paducah: to live in, cost, plantation)

[RuralGuy]

I can't compete with you guys. My family's only been in this country since 1966. But I've lived in Kentucky for the past 27 years.

[kygman]

Mine settled for the first time in southern Christian County in the early 1800s. Part of Ft. Campbell is on land formerly owned by my family. My wife is super super big on geneology. When we saw that things were getting serious between us she got all excited! She had another family to work on! lol Took over 400 pages to trace us back to the Lord Mayor of London in 1550! Her family and mine were "kissin' cousins" in the mid-1800s. lol

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by kygman

Mine settled for the first time in southern Christian County in the early 1800s. Part of Ft. Campbell is on land formerly owned by my family. My wife is super super big on geneology. When we saw that things were getting serious between us she got all excited! She had another family to work on! lol Took over 400 pages to trace us back to the Lord Mayor of London in 1550! Her family and mine were "kissin' cousins" in the mid-1800s. lol

How interesting! How hard is it to do? What I have is based on what my great grandma wrote and a few others.

[censusdata]

One more tidbit: My great grandfather used to own the highest point in KY (Black Mountain) and sold it to the government for the radar station. He lived in a tiny community called Rock House

[teebird1012]

Since 1980... my family's all from Indiana and Maryland before that. Dad took a position with an ophthalmologist group here in town and my mom got accepted to UK Law School so they moved here from our family's "stronghold" of Indianapolis. Not much of a story I know...

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by RuralGuy

I can't compete with you guys. My family's only been in this country since 1966. But I've lived in Kentucky for the past 27 years.

where are they from originally?

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by censusdata

One more tidbit: My great grandfather used to own the highest point in KY (Black Mountain) and sold it to the government for the radar station. He lived in a tiny community called Rock House

How much does a mountain go for if you don't mind me asking?

[RuralGuy]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

where are they from originally?

My father is from Hungary, my mother from Germany. Long story short, he immigrated here in the late 50's (following the Hungarian Revolution), went to college, joined the army, and got stationed in Germany, where my Mom was working as a civilian secretary for the colonel under which he served. When his tour was up, he brought her back to the US, they got married, and next thing you know, I was born. It was 1966 when they came here together, but technically my family's been here longer if you look only at my dad's side.

[Davart]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

Mine did too but I think they started out in Maryland and Virginia.

About the same, they come over and landed in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey ... most were Quakers but were kicked out for taking up arms to fight the British. The other side of the family landed in South Caroline and moved to KY after the Civil War when they had lost all they had. Including myself there are a bunch of genealogist in the family and have 1000 of pages of records and 100's of year of history.

[missymomof3]

Thank y'all for the info, I find this stuff interesting!