What would you think is the Kentucky State Animal? I thought maybe a wildcat or cardinal etc. However, thats not the case the Kentucky State Game Animal is none other than the gray squirrel.

via Kentucky.gov State Symbols

Here is a great tool that Kentucky offers to the genealogy searcher.  It is mad available by the office of vital statistics.  You can search the Kentucky Death Index or the Kentucky Marriage,Divorce index.   A pretty neat tool for those of you that want to find information on your parents/grandparents in Kentucky.

Kentucky Vital Statistics Search Index

Here is some fun facts about Kentucky Education that you may not be aware of.

There are 1,243 public schools in Kentucky

Kentucky also has  175 School Districts,23 have female superintendents and 152 are male.

The number of students in Kentucky Public schools is 664,606 and Kentucky has a 94% graduation rate.

via kde

barrels

Originally uploaded by David!!!!!!.

Who doesn’t love some Maker’s

Kentucky Mirror & Plate Glass

Originally uploaded by pjchmiel.

Great Sign!