After a long hiatus, Kentucky Genealogy is back on the WWW. (I made the mistake of opting for a long-term contract with my web site provider, and by the time renewal came up, I'd changed my e-mail address and never got the notice..) Anyway, we're back. Kentucky Genealogy is a mostly fee-based web site, at www.sworrel.org <http://www.sworrel.org/> , 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: an automatic Soundex conversion searches for common variants. (This is important because the county court clerks often spelled names phonetically.) The databases make the marriage records fully searchable with one click-for all occurrences of a name, not just the bride, groom, or bondsman. Free lists of the most common surnames in each database are on the site, along with detailed information on the documentary sources used. Additional free records abstracts for Boone County are posted on the site as well. I am occasionally available for genealogy research commissions in the central and northern Kentucky area. If you are interested, contact me via the site's e-mail address in the navigation bars. Again, it's at www.sworrel.org <http://www.sworrel.org/> .