Genealogy
Start with a name. We will take it from there.
Descendants write to us from every corner of the country. Most of them begin with one surname and a half-remembered county. That is enough to open a file.
Research Resources
What you can search here
Everything below is open to the public at no charge. Volunteers do the lookups; you keep the findings.
Surname files
Roughly 280 family folders holding charts, correspondence, clippings, and notes contributed by descendants over the years.
Cemetery index
Transcriptions of the burial grounds in and around Bradfordsville, including stones now too worn to read in the field.
Church records
Membership rolls, baptisms, and minute books from congregations that served the village and the surrounding ridges.
Marion County records
Deed abstracts, marriage notes, and census extractions narrowed to households within the Bradfordsville neighborhood.
Burial Grounds
Where the names are still standing
Limestone weathers fast in this country. We read, photograph, and map the stones while they can still be read, and we walk visitors out to them whenever we are asked.
Ask a Volunteer
Send us your family question
Tell us the surnames, roughly when they were here, and anything you have already ruled out. Requests are answered in the order they arrive, usually within a few weeks.