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Knox Historical Museum

History & Genealogy Center

Established 1987 in Barbourville, Kentucky
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HELP THE MUSEUM BY MAKING A DONATION!

The Knox Historical Museum, Inc. is a 501(c)-3 nonprofit organization that operates from the generous donations of patrons and from the sale of items like calendars, books, and other items from its Museum Store.

If you'd like to make a donation to help us, you may make a safe and secure online donation using our PayPal account by clicking on the Donate button below. You do not need to have a PayPal account to make a donation.

You may also make a donation by check. Please make your check payable to Knox Historical Museum and write 'Donation' in the memo line and mail it to:

Knox Historical Museum
PO Box 1446
Barbourville, KY 40906

The Knox Historical Museum continues as always to appreciate our generous donors for their gifts. Your gift will be used for our daily operational purposes and will be classified as unrestricted funds unless otherwise indicated. Donors will be provided with a receipt of their donation and a huge thank you.

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Important Shipping Information

Our Museum is staffed by Volunteers and our hours of operations currently are such that our Volunteer staff members are only able to check for Online Orders once per week. Typically on either Tuesday or Thursday.

This means that online orders may not be shipped for up to 10 days after your order is placedPLEASE give our Volunteer staff the time to process your order and ship it out to you.  We will do our best to ship all orders as quickly as possible.  Before you ask PayPal for a refund due to non-shipment, please send us an e-mail first to ask about your order's status.

Thank You!

The Knox Historical Museum has completed its listing of the table of contents for the Knox County, Kentucky Kinfolk Newsletter.

Kudos to the Museum's Doug Bargo who spent hours scanning in and converting "pdf" files into searchable text files.

The newsletter was published from December 1977 through May 2006 by the former Knox County Genealogical Society, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky.

In 2005, for reasons of health, the remaining founders of the society -- Maxine Humfleet Jones and Virginia Jones Logan -- transferred all issues of Kinfolk as well as other assets to the Knox Historical Museum, Inc. in Barbourville, Ky.

All issues of Kinfolk are currently available for research at the museum. The issues are also available for purchase online at this website, knoxhistoricalmuseum.org.

To see the current listing of the Kinfolk table of contents, as well as the original letter donating the newsletters and the Museum's announcement of the donation, click the following link: Knox County Genealogical Society page.

 

 

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