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Marriages Indexes

for Harrison County, Kentucky

Now Available for Purchase!!!

It was only two years ago that the transcription of the three oldest marriage record index volumes for Harrison County, Kentucky, were completed, published and first offered to the genealogical public, volumes which should be useful to any who are researching genealogies or family histories with ties to Harrison County or nearby counties in the region of Northern Kentucky and along the Ohio River Valley.

Beginning in the early 1890s and continuing until 1985 four general marriage indexes were compiled and maintained for use in the Harrison County Court Clerk's offices in Cynthiana.  They were entitled

• General Cross Index to Marriages 1

• General Index to Marriages 2

• General Index to Marriages 3

• General Cross Index to Marriages - Colored

For marriages from 1985 to the present day the index for the county's marriage records is a part of the clerk's office's computer system, which has also been transcribed and proofed and is now available in print as Marriage Records Index, 1985-2008.

The valuable genealogical information contained in these volumes was only available in the court clerk’s vault or on microfilm at select facilities . . . until now.

After several months of visits to the court clerk’s offices in Cynthiana and hundreds of hours spent at a computer keyboard, I was able to develop a new and improved set of marriage record indexes.  Combined, these three published volumes contain approximately 35,000 individual entries (General Index to Marriages No. 1 indexes 17,656 individuals; No. 2 lists 14,568 individuals; while the African American index contains the names of 3,544 individuals), referring to more than 17,500 marriage records in all.  Questionable or illegible entries found in each original index have been proofed, checking also to see that every document, numbered from 0 to 18167 (1794-1947), has been accounted for.  In the process the names of nearly four hundred individuals, who were not accounted for in the original volumes in the court clerk’s vault, have been added to these published indexes.

While a portion of Harrison County’s marriage records have been indexed and/or abstracted before, although never beyond 1858, none of the African American marriage record indexes had ever been transcribed until now.  All African American marriage records and their indexes have now been examined and transcribed for a more accurate and complete index of African American records than has ever existed.

If you would like an index or indexes for yourself, know of a relation or other genealogist who would like one, or know of a library which might need one for their genealogy room, please consider one of the publications below for your genealogy library, whether in your own home, in a friend or relative's, or for the the library down the street or in your old hometown.

I certainly thank you for taking the time to read about these new publications and hope that you may realize their value by deciding to add them to your own genealogy library.  Please contact me anytime if you should have any questions.

Bookshelves and libraries everywhere will be all the happier for these new additions!

Sincerely Yours,

Philip Naff

Indianapolis, Ind.

2 NEW! Marriage Records Indexes for

Harrison County, Kentucky

$ 39.00

$ 39.00

NEW - $ 39.00

General Index to Marriages No. 3

     10,500+ entries on nearly 300 pages!

Marriage Records Index,1985-2008

     7,500+ entries on nearly 200 pages!

Now, for the first time ever, with the publication of these two new volumes, a complete records index of Harrison County marriages, from 1794 thru to 2008, can be at your fingertips!

Each volume contains a complete alphabetical, every name, bride and groom marriage records index and includes license and/or marriage dates with their corresponding document numbers or volume and page citations.

Introductory texts explain how each index was created and how to obtain copies of the original marriage records.  All books are comb-bound with protective presentation covers, front and back, for a durable and attractive appearance!

If this is the first you have ever heard of this fine set of Harrison County, Ky. marriage records indexes, please consider adding the following indexes for the first century-and-a-half of records on file in the offices of the Harrison County Court Clerk to your own genealogy bookshelf:

General Index to Marriages No. 1

     17,000+ entries on nearly 500 pages!

General Index to Marriages No. 2

     14,000+ entries on nearly 400 pages!

African American Marriage Index

     3,500+ entries with just over 100 pages!

NEW - $ 24.00

$ 25.00

To Order

Please send your name, full address (e-mail address, too, if you have one), phone number, check or money order, with the titles of the indexes you are ordering to

Philip Naff

4716 Andover Square

Indianapolis, Indiana 46226-3119

If you would like, a convenient order form (It is a Portable Document File (PDF) and requires a free download of Adobe Reader)) is available which can be downloaded by clicking on the link.  Use this form to mail in your order, or pass it on to others engaged in family research in Harrison County.

Personal checks must clear before any order ships.  U.S. Postal Service money orders are preferred, but will accept others available at major national chain stores.  PayPal payments are accepted, too.  Please send PayPal payments to philnaff@comcast.net (A PayPal account (at www.paypal.com/) is easy to establish, and an account makes accepting payments by debit or credit card available to the small business man, like me, for little cost with no fees charged to the customer).  If you pay by PayPal, please let me know with the payment which books you are ordering.  I will send an e-mail confirming receipt and to verify the contents of the order before shipping the indexes.

Shipping (USPS Media Mail) is free to all U.S. addresses, including APOs and FPOs.  Please inquire about other rates or addresses if you need faster delivery.  For any further inquiries please write to the address above or send an e-mail to thegenealogyguy@gmail.com.

No returns allowed nor are any refunds offered; please be sure that you like what you see here before ordering.

General Index to Marriages No. 3 (1948-1984) and Marriage Records Index, 1985-2008 began shipping on May 15, 2009.  Get yours today!

Please Note!:  On special occasions, such as at genealogy conferences and other events, these indexes have been offered for sale at reduced prices; if you should happen across advertisements or flyers with these promotions, I will honor the reduced prices if you mention the offer with your order.

Sending for a Photocopy

Once you locate the marriage record citation you are looking for, you need to find a little money, get out a pen and some paper, and write a note to the Harrison County Court Clerk (313 Oddville Avenue, Cynthiana, KY 41031-1242) to obtain photocopies of the original marriage record(s).  The clerk’s office will answer questions via e-mail, but no search will be made or request fulfilled until payment is received.

In order to receive photocopies of the correct record, be sure to include the following information in your request:  document number (or volume and page number), the names of bride and groom, and the license and/or marriage date(s).

At the time of this writing (April, 2009) the cost is reported to be $5.00 per photocopied marriage record, which, depending on circumstances, could consist of a bond, a license, a certificate, and/or a consent, any one or all of which make up the typical marriage record.

Personal checks and money orders are accepted by the clerk’s office.  At present, marriage photocopy requests are not actually fulfilled by the staff of the clerk’s office, but by an outside private party designated by the clerk.  For the most recent information regarding fees and the fulfillment of requests you can call the clerk’s office at (859) 234-7130 or 235-0513, or you can e-mail them at harrclrk@setel.com.

Don't forget to include a business-sized (#10), or larger, self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with your request.  Please be sure to add sufficient postage for the first ounce, about the weight of the SASE plus 3-4 sheets of paper, and additional postage, if you think it necessary, for each additional ounce.  Also be aware of the most recent changes to postage rates based on an envelope’s size or shape (Visit http://www.usps.com/ to determine the most accurate rates).

For any document numbered 1 thru 1724, you should specify whether you found the reference in General Index to Marriages No. 1 or in the African American index, as these earliest sets of records share the same document numbers.

Since 1973 the county clerks of all 120 counties have provided copies of their marriage records to Kentucky’s Office of Vital Statistics, and so it is also possible to obtain marriage certificates from their facilities in Frankfort, Kentucky.  Be mindful that the document numbers and volume and page citations given in these indexes are only relevant to locating the records in the Harrison County Court Clerk’s vault.  However, armed with the names of the bride and groom and their marriage date, it should also be possible to make a successful request of the Office of Vital Statistics.  Visit http://chfs.ky.gov/dph/vital/ for the most up-to-date information.

If you are making your request of the Harrison County Court Clerk, you shouldn’t have to wait long!  Usually you will receive your photocopies within a week of the receipt of your payment.