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The following books may be purchased from the Forkland Community Center. For mail orders, shipping charges are extra. Send e-mail to gwill@mis.net or call Shirley Sheperson (859) 936-2061. 

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Forkland Cemetery Book: The Forgotten Past (85 Cemeteries in the Forkland area)
(two different editions)
 

$15  


Forkland Heritage: Its People, Past and Present 1793-1996
(Hardback: Vol. 1 & 2)
 

$75  
Roots, Trunk and Branches: Abraham Lincoln's Connections to Forkland through Lucy Shipley Hanks Sparrow $45 Hardback
$25 paperback
 
Genealogies on Lincoln-related family lines:
Whitehouse, Shipley, Sparrow, Edwards, Hanks and Lincoln (CDs available for $5-$20)
$5-$30 depending on size  
Aunts and Uncles of Nancy Hanks Lincoln (Berry, Mitchell, and McCord) (CD available for $15) $20  
Cookbooks from the Forkland area $10  
Marcus Purdom and His Descendants $18  
2010 Calendar with Forkland Prize-winning Photography (Old Calendars available for $5) $10  

Crow Family, Kentucky and Beyond (CD available for $15)
 
$40  

Brumfields of Central Kentucky
 
$15  
Companion CD containing detailed Genealogies of these families: Sparrow (with several generations not included in Roots, Trunk and Branches), Shipley, Whitehouse, Edwards, Hanks and Lincoln, and Aunts and Uncles of Nancy Hanks Lincoln (Berry, Mitchell, and McCord).   These genealogies are in the PDF format, which can be viewed with the Reader software available free at the Adobe website.  The CD-R also includes audio (MP3) files of a 1975 interview with Ezra Sparrow, plus a talk he gave and a poem he recited at the 100th anniversary celebration in 1962 of the New Liberty Church in Anderson County, Kentucky. $60  


Softbooks on the following families compiled from Newspaper obituaries and other item:
Preston, Ellis, Purdom, Sheperson, Edwards, Whitehouse, Guthrie and others
 

$5-$45
(depends on size of book)
 
Reminisences of the Fork by Howard B. Breeding $3  
The Fork - Gravel Switch and Wards Branch by James Shelby Eads $3  
Shepperson-Whitlock History by John L. Sheperson $5  
Forkland's Heritage - From the Lord $10  
Stories from the Fork $3  
History of the Forkland Community Center Log Cabin from the 1790s to 2009 $6  
Jacob Minor in Kentucky and His Descendants by Mable Kirkland Bottom
Reprinted from a 1974 edition with Index added
$20  
Noe Family History 1798-1900
By E. C. Wooten
$5  
Whitehouse Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $55  
Jacob Minor,  Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries
by Monty J. Bryant
$30 for 2 volumes  
Joseph Minor,  Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries
by Monty J. Bryant
$20  
Purdom Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $30  
Ellis Family and Descendants,  Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $10  
Preston  Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $10  
Sheperson Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $5  
Chambers Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $20  
Guthrie Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $20  
Descendants of Lucey & Henry Sparrow, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $7  
Kirkland Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $25  
Crowe Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $20  
Edwards Family and Descendants, Including Newspaper Items and Obituaries by Monty J. Bryant $20  
     

 

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