Except for a series of newspaper abstracts by G. Glenn  Clift , this volume contains every list of marriages known to have been  published in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society since 1903. The  following nineteen of Kentucky's oldest counties are represented, some of which,  either in whole or in part, spawned a great many later counties: Barren,  Bourbon, Christian, Floyd, Franklin, Grant, Greenup, Hardin, Lawrence, Lincoln,  Madison, Mercer, Montgomery, Muhlenberg, Nelson, Pike, Shelby, Union, and  Woodford. Based on courthouse records--primarily marriage bonds, licenses,  ministers' returns, and marriage registers--the combined lists, which are fully  indexed, contain references to approximately 50,000 persons!