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Owen County
Courthouse
Owen County Clerk has
Marriage Records from 1819 and
Land Records from 1819 and is located
at 136 West Bryan Street, Owenton, KY 40359; Phone:(502)
484-2213, FAX:(502) 484-1002. The current County Clerk is Joan
Kincaid.
Owen County
Clerk of the Circuit Court has Probate Records
from 1820 and Court Records
from 1819 and is located at Courthouse, 100
NORTH MADISON ST., OWENTON, KY 40359; Phone: 502-484-2232 . You
may email the Circuit Court Clerk
Here. The current Owen Co. Circuit Court Clerk is Cindy
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Genealogists
traveling to Owen Co. will be interested to know that the Owen County
Courthouse is closed on Wednesdays and Saturday afternoons and all day
Sunday.
The
Owen County Public Library
is open on Mondays from 9:30 AM until 8:00 PM and Tues-Sat from 9:30
AM until 5:00 PM. The Library houses the records of the County Clerk's
office on microfilm. The Library has a microfilm reader, but does not
currently have a printer. Xerox copies of printed materials may be
made for $0.10/copy. Several titles among the Library's collection
should be of interest to historians and genealogists. The staff will
gladly answer simple inquiries and forward requests for information to
members of the Historical Society. Located on:
N. Main Street, Owenton, KY 40359 --- Phone:
(502) 484-3450
The
Owen County Historical
Society maintains a collection of
historical and genealogical materials which is housed at the Library.
This collection includes local records, family histories, census
records, and cemetery records. We also house the county newspaper
(News-Herald) microfilms from 1905 to 1995. The Historical Society has
a number of publications for sale (see below) which may be purchased
through the mail to the Library.
The Owen County Historical Society, P.O. Box 84, Owenton, KY
40359, meets on the second Thursday of the month at the Senior Citizens
Building at 6:30 p.m.
Please feel free to
post our telephone number (502-484-3450) and let us
know if we can be of any further help.
Bettina Somerville,
Library Director,
STAFF: Catherine Matthews, Susan Hampton, and David Washburn.
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