Kentucky Genealogy is a mostly fee-based web site that contains several complete, professionally abstracted Kentucky marriage databases with an automatic Soundex conversion search feature.

Marriage databases are available for the following counties, from their formation up to 1850: Boone, Campbell, Clark, Kenton, and Mason. Also, some marriages from ministers' returns for unknown counties are included. These are the most complete and authoritative abstracts of marriages from these counties ever done: they contain information not only from the bonds, licenses, and ministers' "returns," but from "consents" filed by parents or relatives, where available (see "FAQ"). In some cases, the databases contain over 1,000 more marriages than previous compilations. The civil records have been supplemented by some religious records where the latter contain new marriages for a given county.

Unlike some other genealogy databases, you don't have to know the exact spelling of a name to retrieve it: our automatic Soundex conversion searches for common variants (see "FAQ"). This is important because the county court clerks often spelled names phonetically.

A total of 18,853 marriages are in the databases, along with thousands of additional names of bondsmen, consent-givers, etc. (The number of marriages by county is Boone, 2,676; Campbell, 3,835; Clark, 4,652; Kenton, 1,468; Mason, 5,890; and Unknown, 332.) Free information on principal surnames for each marriage database is contained in the County Pages. The county pages also contain detailed information on the sources for the marriage database abstracts. Click here to see a Sample Results Page, from the Clark County marriage database for the surname "Taliaferro."

Additional free records abstracts for Boone County are posted on the site as well. Links to the free Boone County material are on the Boone County page.

Information on the fee schedule for accessing the marriage databases is on the Fee Registration Page. If you already have a passsword, go to the Fee Area page.

I am occasionally available for genealogy research commissions in the central and northern Kentucky area. If you are interested, contact me via this site's e-mail address in the navigation bars.