Hello list! This is Christine, your friendly listowner here, and I wanted to take a moment to share the address of a WONDERFUL site I just heard about on another mailing list (my apologies if you've seen the link before, but it really is a good site!). Since Kentucky was once Kentucky County, Virginia, and since Fayette County was one of the three original counties in Kentucky, this is a wonderful resource. The Library of Virginia has put online the Land Office Patents and Grants, with index cards AND scans of the actual entries! You can look through the records and save them to your hard drive and read them again later for free! (I couldn't get Netscape to view the records, but Internet Explorer did it). The site is at http://image.vtls.com/collections/LO.html and the Land Grants are not the only thing they have online. I haven't looked at what else they offer, I've been too busy hunting my ancestors here! One more tip--if you don't see the name you want, click on the name listed that would precede it alphabetically. There's no search, so you have to jump in before your name and keep moving till you find the one you want. Hope this helps someone! Thanks, and good luck, Christine in Chicago