Paris-Bourbon County Public Library, Paris KY (c) Chuck Perry Photography

 Paris-Bourbon County
 PUBLIC LIBRARY
 
701 High Street · Paris, Kentucky 40361 · (859) 987-4419



 

Library staffer Susan Eades with new microfilm machine

The Paris-Bourbon County Public Library is pleased to offer a growing collection of genealogy books and microfilm, as well as a digital microfilm viewer/scanner. 

Visits & Queries

The library provides many resources for your use in performing research on our premises and through our web site. We welcome your visit any time during our regular hours of operation (see at left). We seldom close for inclement weather or other emergencies unless the situation is severe, but unforeseen circumstances do occur. If you are making a special trip to come here, please check our Activity Calendar first for any scheduled closings, and call ahead to confirm:
859-987-4419.

The library receives a large volume of genealogy-and history-related queries; we simply do not have sufficient staff resources to perform personal research for everyone. E-mail, telephone and written genealogical queries will be referred back to the resources listed on our main genealogy page.

On request, we will provide contact info for any known/currently available local researchers who will work for a fee.    

The library’s web site contains links to a wealth of historical and genealogical resources; it also offers valuable access for library cardholders to powerful online databases containing census, birth, marriage, death, immigration and military records and much more. OR ask your own local library about access to such resources.

In-house, the library’s rapidly growing microfilm collection includes thousands of old documents that have been scanned and stored on film, including local newspapers, census data, wills, vital statistics records, Kentucky death certificates, tax assessment books, deeds, marriage records, and more. Some items date back as far as 1787. These items are NOT shared online and the microfilm is never loaned.

A Digital Microfilm Viewer/Scanner was purchased with the assistance of Friends of the Paris-Bourbon County Library, a non-profit group that supports the library by conducting fundraisers such as used book sales. The digital viewer/scanner offers incredible film scans at up to 2700 dpi, while keeping file sizes small enough to handle. View, zoom, crop, flip, scan, print, or save scans to a USB thumb drive... Featuring exceptionally clear images for on-screen viewing, automatic focus, instant zooming and printing, positive/negative reversal and more, this machine will even scan directly from 35mm film and slides. Library staffer and genealogy enthusiast Susan Eades is thrilled with this equipment. She said, “It’s very easy to use, the scan quality is great, and people really like taking the images home on a USB drive instead of having to print on paper.”

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