VIRGINIA 929.3755
1788 - Virginia became the 10th state on 25 June 1788
Appalachian Ancestry—Mountain Climbing—Traverse the peaks & valleys of your family tree with
our guide to tracing Appalachian ancestry. (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, W. Virginia,
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi)
“Family Tree Magazine,” vol. 12, no. 5, Sep 2011, pp 48-53
CD Review - Virginia Vital Records, Format: CD, Price: $39.99, ISBN: 0806397233
This Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of the following six books which were originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company:
(1) Virginia Vital Records,
(2) Virginia Marriage Records,
(3) Virginia Will Records,
(4) Virginia Land Records,
(5) Virginia Military Records, and
(6) Virginia Tax Records.
All six volumes contain articles that originally appeared in the three major Virginia periodicals: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler"s Quarterly. Altogether the articles refer to 130,000 individuals, making this CD one of the largest existing collections of Virginia genealogical records.
Book Review - New books reported
Everton’s Genealogical Helper, Vol 61, No. II, March/April 2007, pp 110-117
Books - Virginia Books - http://members.aol.com/tmcorner/book_vir.htm
Virginia Genealogy: Sources and Resources, An encyclopedic inventory of the records and printed materials available to persons researching their Virginia ancestors. Includes an extensive bibliography., McGinnis, 1994, 505pp $35.00
Jamestown - “A Journey of Survival” - Beverly Smith Vorpahl chronicles the history of the first permanent English settlement in the present-day United States.
Family Chronicle September/October 2006, Vol 11, No. 1, pp 27-30
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Book Review - 1810 census, Monroe County, Virginia [copied by Mrs. Owen Crickard]
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
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Book Review - Abstract of land grant surveys, 1761-1791 by Kaylor, Peter Cline.
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
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Book Review - Abstracts of Fauquier County, Virginia wills, inventories, and accounts, 1759-1800 by Gott, John K. (John Kenneth), 1929-
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
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Book Review - Abstracts of wills and inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742-1801
Author - King, J. Estelle Stewart (Junie Estelle Stewart)
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
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The will abstracts generally consist of the name of the testator, dates of instrument and probate, and the names of the spouse, children and other family members, executors and witnesses. Inventory abstracts usually only have a reference to the administrator and the inventory date.
Book Review - Abstracts of wills, administrations, and marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia, 1759-1800 - Author = King, J. Estelle Stewart (Junie Estelle Stewart)
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 KIN
Included with this volume of probate records are a list of marriage bonds for the period 1764-1800, the Rent Roll of 1770 (and the Rent Roll of the parent county, Prince William, for the year 1738), cemetery inscriptions, and a variety of miscellaneous data. Notwithstanding the terminal date of 1800 in the title of this work, the probate records actually run up to the year 1804. Typically the abstracts give the name of the testator; dates of instrument and probate; names of spouse, children, and other family members; names of executors and witnesses; the page number of the original will book in which the full will is recorded; and detailed references to the disposition to the estate. The marriage bonds contain the names of approximately 2,000 men and women, and each is accompanied by a reference to the date of the bond. The index to this work contains something near 6,000 entries.
Book Review - Abstracts of wills, inventories, and administration accounts of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757-1800 - Author is King, J. Estelle Stewart (Junie Estelle Stewart)
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 KIN
These probate records include the names of the testator, spouse, children, family members, executors and witnesses, the dates of the will and its probate, and its location. Supplementing this are a 1761 rent roll, lists of militia officers and pensioners, and inscriptions from four cemeteries. The new index has 4,250 entries.
Book Review - Abstracts, Lancaster County, Virginia, wills, 1653-1800
Author - Lee, Ida J. (Ida Johnson)
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
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These 2,000 will abstracts refer, on average, to eight persons (mostly relatives of the decedent) per will, or 18,000 names in all. Information contained in the abstracts includes the date of the recording of the will, exact volume and page number of the original will book, names of heirs, appraisal and division of estate, names of administrators, executors and guardians, and, frequently, references to the parish of jurisdiction.
Book Review - Albemarle County in Virginia : giving some account of what it was by nature, of what it was made by man, and of some of the men who made it / by Edgar Woods.
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 WOO
The first third of this volume consists of a history of Albemarle County from its first settlement to the mid-1800s. There are numerous references to the early settlers in the historical chapters, and the final two-thirds consists primarily of family histories of about two hundred families. There are also several appendices containing petitions, militia rolls, lists of officials, a listing of Albemarle residents who emigrated to other states which specifies the state and county to which they removed, and a list of deaths from 1744 to 1890. This edition includes a new every-name index by Roger L. Goodman. (1901), 2006, 5½x8½, paper, index, 464 pp.
Book Review - Annals of southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. -
Author - Summers, Lewis Preston, 1868-1943.
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 SUM Pt.1
R 929.3755 SUM Pt.2
Although Mr. Summers' genealogical masterpiece covers the territory west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including areas now in Kentucky and West Virginia, the work focuses primarily on the Virginia counties of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe, including the present-day West Virginia counties of Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier,, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mason, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Putnam, Raleigh, Summers, Wayne, and Wyoming. Documents featured in the Annals include minutes of the county courts, marriage licenses, abstracts of deeds and wills, surveys of lands, and lists of soldiers. In addition, there is an exhaustive list of Revolutionary War soldiers from Southwest Virginia, compiled from the most reliable sources. Numerous illustrations and three large fold-out maps add to the book's considerable authority.
Book Review - Births from the Bristol Parish register of Henrico, Prince George, and Dinwiddie counties, Virginia, 1720-1798 - Author Bristol Parish, Va.
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
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Book Review - Births, deaths and sponsors, 1717-1778 - Author - Albemarle, Va. (Parish
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Includes index.Albemarle Parish was formed in 1738 and covered the southern portion of Surry County. It became part of Sussex County when that county was created from Surry County in 1753.
Book Review - The border settlers of northwestern Virginia from 1768-1795
Author - McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944.
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3754 MAC
Most outstanding collection of biographical info about the Virginia/Ohio Valley frontier ever collected. Indian massacres, captivity stories, pioneer accounts and hunting tales, these are amazing stories of the people and places on the western borders. However, the most important part of this book is the near 100 pages of notes collected by the author. It was war, it was dangerous and it was full of adventure. But it was also their chosen way of life. These common trans-Allegheny pioneers were a bold and daring lot, crossing paths with such greats as Simon Girty, Tecumseh, Simon Kenton, Chief Bald Eagle and the scout Jesse Hughes. Fullname index and anyone who wants to know more about the uncontrolled spirit of our ancestors need only read this book. Originally published in 1915.
Book Review - Brief abstract of Lower Norfolk County and Norfolk County wills, 1637-1710 by Charles Fleming McIntosh
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
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Abstracts of early wills, lists all names included in the original will. (1914), 1997
Book Review - A brief of wills and marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, Virginia, 1733-1831 / compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell.
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 WOR 1976
The marriage records from ministers' returns, marriage bonds, and miscellaneous sources name about 6,000 newlyweds, with the date and names of parents or sureties. The will abstracts give the name of the testator, the date of the instrument or probate, and the names of the heirs.
Book Review - Buckingham County, Virginia : surveyor's plat book, 1762-1858 / transcribed and edited by Eric G. Grundset.
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 GRU 1996
Buckingham County was created in 1761 from the part of Albemarle County that lies below the Fluvanna/James River. When the Buckingham County courthouse burned in 1869, most of its records were destroyed, making subsequent genealogical and historical research extremely difficult. One of the few survivors from the county's old records is the Surveyor's Plat Book (1762-1858), which is housed at the Virginia State Library and here abstracted and edited by D.A.R. Librarian Eric Grundset.
The abstracts and two indexes in this publication include the names of every person and place appearing in the Surveyor's Book. The abstracts typically supply the name of the landholder, the date the plat was surveyed, the size of the lot, the names of neighbors, references to any transfer of the property, and the names of any abutting creeks, rivers, mountains, roads, or ferries. In all, the abstracts refer to about 3,000 early inhabitants of Buckingham County (most of them prior to 1820), and they are easily identified in the name index at the back of the volume. The author has prepared a map of Buckingham County to serve as a general location-finder to place names, which are also indexed. All in all, this diminutive book is a major resource for Buckingham County research and, when used with modern plat maps, land tax records, and other post-1869 sources, will enable the researcher to piece together more information on county families. (Researchers should note, as Mr. Grundset points out in his Preface, that owing to changes in Virginia county boundaries, a number of the tracts abstracted herein are now situated in Appomattox and Cumberland counties.)
Book Review - Campbell chronicles and family sketches - Author R. H. Early (Ruth Hairston) - Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 EAR
With due regard to primary source materials, this history not only treats the initial phases of Campbell County's settlement and the three major streams of immigration-Quaker, Presbyterian, and Anglican-but also identifies the early patentees, the Quakers who moved from South River, the founders and settlers of Lynchburg and surrounding towns and villages, ministers, lawyers, court clerks, judges, military veterans, and pensioners. Of paramount importance for genealogists is the 200-page section devoted to Campbell County genealogies.
These sketches--about ninety of them--generally mention the earliest Campbell County immigrant, a succession of descendants through several generations, places of residence, occupation, and biographical particulars of large number. Below is a list of the families treated in this section of the book: Adams, Alexander, Anderson, Anthony, Bailey, Bolling, Brown, Bullock, Burton-Harrison, Callaway, Candler, Chiles, Clark, Clay, Clemens, Clement, Cobbs, Cocke, Dabney, Daniel, Davies, Davis, Deering, Diuguid, Douglas, Early, Evans, Floyd, Franklin, Garland, Gilliam, Goggin, Hairston, Hanks, Haythe, Henry, Holcombe, Hughes, Hunter, Irvine, Jennings, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Kabler, Langhorne, Lee, Leftwich, Lewis, Lynch, McReynolds, Miller, Moorman, Morgan, Murrell, Norvell, Otey, Owen, Pannill, Payne, Perrow, Pleasants, Preston, Prewitt, Robertson, Rosser, Russell, Scott, Slaughter, Snow, Stith, Strange, Talbot, Tate, Terrell, Thompson, Thorpe, Thurman, Tyree, Venable, Wade, Walden, Ward, Watts-Saunders, Winston, Withers, Wyatt, and Yuille.
Book Review - Catalogue of Revolutionary soldiers and sailors of the Commonwealth of Virginia to whom land bounty warrants were granted by Virginia for military services in the War for Independence by Author Samuel Mackay
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
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Book Review - Cavaliers and pioneers : abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants / abstracted and indexed by Nell Marion Nugent.
Vols 1-7 & Supp to Vol 2
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 NUG
Vol 1 - This is one of the most outstanding records of early emigrants to Virginia. It records, under the name of the patentee or grantee, the earliest Virginia land grants and patents from 1623 to 1666, giving the number of acres, locations and dates of settlement, and names of family members, and it further provides references to marriages, wills, and other legal instruments. It also has the names of some thousands who were transported or brought over by the early settlers as "headrights." The index contains the names of about 20,000 persons.
Vol 2 - 1666-1695 Vol 3 - 1695-1732 Vol 4 - 1732-1741
Vol 5 - 1741-1750 Vol 6 - 1749-1762 Vol 7 - 1762-1776
Book Review - Book Review by Genealogical.com - the home page of Genealogical Publishing Company, Clearfield Company, and Gateway Press.
Virginia Colonial Abstracts, In Three Volumes, Beverley Fleet - Format: Paper,
Pages: 2,087 pp. total, Published: 1937-1949, Reprinted: 2006, Price: $189.95,
ISBN: 0806311959
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 FLE V.3
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R 929.3755 FLE V.1
Published between 1938 and 1949, the original thirty-four paperback volumes of Virginia Colonial Abstracts brought together a wealth of data from the records of Tidewater Virginia--vital records of birth, marriage, and death; tax lists; court orders; militia lists; wills; and deeds. The result of extensive research in county courthouses, municipal and state archives, and private collections, most of the abstracts were based on the earliest records known to exist--in the case of Accomack County, for instance, the oldest continuous records of English-speaking America; in the case of King and Queen County, which suffered the loss of its records in 1864, a unique collection of eighteenth-century materials still in private hands.
As important as this work proved, however, it was not without certain flaws. Records of some counties were published in fragments and scattered among various volumes, while the inferior quality of the printing aggravated the problem even further. What is more, as each of the thirty-four volumes was separately indexed, searching for names was needlessly protracted.
To rectify these deficiencies, the contents of Virginia Colonial Abstracts have been rearranged, re-typed, and consolidated in three paperback volumes, each with its own master index. Thus resurrected, Virginia Colonial Abstracts is now the major genealogical resource it always promised to be. What follows is a breakdown of the consolidated volumes.
Volume I: Accomack County, 1632–1637 (original vol. 18); Accomack County, 1637–1640 (original vol. 32); Lancaster County Record Book No. 2, 1654–1666 (original vol. 1); Lancaster County Court Orders ,1652–1655 (original vol. 22); Lancaster County Court Orders, 1692–1704 (original vol. 16); Richmond County Records, 1704–1724 (original vol. 17); Northumberland County Records, 1652–1655 (original vol. 2); Northumberland County Record of Births, 1661–1810 (original vol. 3); Northumbria Collectanea, 1645–1720, A–L (original vol. 19); Northumbria Collectanea, 1645–1720, M–Z (original vol. 20); and Westmoreland County, 1653–1657 (original vol. 23).
Volume II: Essex County Wills and Deeds, 1711–1714 (original vol. 8); Essex County Wills and deeds, 1714–1717 (original vol. 9); Essex County Records, 1703–1706 (original vol. 29); and King and Queen County Records, 18th-Century Persons (original vol. 4), 2nd Collection (original vol. 5), 3rd Collection (original vol. 6), 4th Collection (original vol. 7), 5th Collection (original vol. 14), 6th Collection (original vol. 15), 7th Collection (original vol. 27), 8th Collection (original vol. 28), and 9th Collection (original vol. 33).
Volume III: York County, 1633–1646 (original vol. 24); York County, 1646–1648 (original vol. 25); York County, 1648–1657 (original vol. 26); Charles City County Court Orders, 1655–1658 (original vol. 10); Charles City County Court Orders, 1658–1661 (original vol. 11); Charles City County Court Orders, 1661–1664 (original vol. 12); Charles City County Court Orders and Fragments, 1664–1696 (original vol. 13); Henrico County—Southside, 1736 (original vol. 21); Lower Norfolk; County, 1651–1654 (original vol. 31); Washington County Marriage Register, 1782–1820 (original vol. 34); and Huntington Library Data (original vol. 30).
For the above data - on CD - see following info .........
Virginia Colonial Records - Format: CD; Price: $29.99,
ISBN: 0806397551 - This is the largest and most complete collection of Virginia colonial records ever assembled on CD-ROM, representing the combined efforts of several generations of talented and dedicated genealogists. Anyone with suspected colonial Virginia ancestry will almost certainly find something of interest here in the form of original source records, manuscripts, lineage records, or family histories, for this Family Archive CD contains a treasure-trove of records that identify many of Virginia"s earliest immigrants and settlers.
From records of immigration, headright records, land and tax records, and early census records, to records of the colonial militia, vital records of birth, marriage, and death, and court records of wills, deeds, and administrations, this CD has it all--English origins, dates and places of immigration, places of residence in the new colony, names of wives, children, and other family members, occupations, ages, military service records--it even has the names of the earliest landholders in Virginia, lists of Virginia"s original immigrants and settlers, and the names of those who were listed in the colony"s first census of 1623/24. It also boasts a comprehensive list of Virginia"s colonial militiamen, giving data pertaining to each soldier"s place of birth, age, residence, occupation, and physical description, and a huge collection of records extracted from England"s Public Record Office establishing the colonists" family connections with the mother country and their former places of residence, as well as deeds, wills, and other records recorded in English courts.
Naming nearly a quarter-million Virginians living in the colony between 1607 and 1776, this new CD is yet another collaborative effort between GPC and Broderbund; like other such products it is designed to simplify genealogical research by combining the images of pages of selected volumes published by GPC with a single electronic name index which allows you to search all the volumes quickly and effortlessly. Thus a search on a single name will turn up all references to that name found in any of the following volumes:
* Virginia"s Colonial Soldiers, by Lloyd Bockstruck
* Virginia"s Colonial Militia, 1651-1776, by William Armstrong Crozier
* List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia, by Hamilton J. Eckenrode
* Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, by Nell Marion Nugent
* Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, by George Cabell Greer
* Virginia Colonial Abstracts (34 vols.), by Beverly Fleet
* Virginia Gleanings in England, by Lothrop Withington
* Personal Names in Hening"s Statutes at Large of Virginia, by Joseph J. Casey
* English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, by Louis Des Cognets, Jr.
* The Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704, by Annie. L. W. Smith
* Some Emigrants to Virginia, by William G. Stanard
* The Colonial Virginia Register, by William G. and Mary N. Stanard
* Colonial Records of Virginia, Committee of the Virginia State Library
Featuring records of every description, from supposedly "lost" records to records of "burnt counties," and from records of forced transportation to the invaluable records of "headright" used in support of land acquisition, this CD is an unrivalled tool in the researcher"s arsenal of colonial reference works. Imagine! A quarter-million of the most hard-to-find names on a disc no larger than the palm of your hand, at a fraction of the price of the original volumes!
Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly
With: Virginia Colonial Abstracts, by Beverley Fleet
Format: CD; Price: $39.99; ISBN: 0806397330
This new Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of all four volumes of Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler"s Quarterly and the multi-volume Virginia Colonial Abstracts by Beverley Fleet. The four-volume collection from Tyler"s Quarterly contains all 350 family history articles published in the magazine from its inception in 1919 until its demise in 1952. It further includes Bible records and wills, as well as a very important group of articles published under the title "Copies of Extant Wills from Counties Whose Records Have Been Destroyed."
Fleet"s Virginia Colonial Abstracts, originally published in thirty-four paperback volumes which were subsequently consolidated into three large volumes by GPC, contains an enormous variety of genealogical information pertaining to Tidewater Virginia, such as vital records of birth, marriage, and death, tax lists, court orders, militia lists, wills, and deeds. The result of extensive research in county courthouses, municipal and state archives, and private collections, this work contains some of the earliest records known to exist. The two collections refer in total to approximately 130,000 individuals.
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Book Review - Jamestowne Ancestors, 1607-1699, Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of the Landing at James Towne, 1607-2007 by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis, 108 pp, 2006, ISBN 0-8063-1767-1, $20.00
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.37554 DAV 1607-99
Book Review by Genealogical.com - the home page of Genealogical Publishing Company, Clearfield Company, and Gateway Press. www.genealogical.com
The year 2007 marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. From its tentative start as a small fort on an island in the James River, with scarcely more than 150 inhabitants, Jamestown became a model for the colonization of the New World. Its founders—planters and indentured servants alike—established a formula for immigration and settlement, and laid the foundation for the leapfrog expansion into the hinterland. Because of its unchallenged position in American history, the 400th anniversary of Jamestown is a milestone, and celebrations are planned throughout 2007.
For our part as publishers we are offering several books in commemoration of the founding of Jamestown, and the one announced here, Jamestowne Ancestors 1607–1699, by noted Virginia genealogist Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis, reveals the names of the very people who established the colony, first under the auspices of the Virginia Company of London and then under King James I and the later Stuart kings of England.
Thus Jamestowne Ancestors is a list of approximately 1,000 persons who are known to have owned land or resided on Jamestown Island between 1607 and 1699. They are listed here alphabetically along with their known dates of residence in Jamestown, their official position in the colony (landowner, burgess, etc.), and their place of origin or county of residence. In addition, the book contains details concerning the settlement of the island, a brief history of Jamestown plantations and hundreds and their evolution into the early counties of Virginia, and pen and ink drawings, together with maps of the fort and city of Jamestown.
The 1608 map of James Fort and the diagram of the site show the original settlement and the progression of present-day archaeological work undertaken there. Other maps show the growth of the colony beyond Jamestown Island throughout the seventeenth century, first as shires, then as plantations and hundreds. From this you can determine the areas where the early settlers selected their home sites and plantations. Together with other facts assembled here, this information can be used as a starting point in establishing eligibility for membership in a number of hereditary societies that require proof of descent from an early Virginia ancestor.
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Jamestown - Newspaper article The long and winding path to Jamestown
By Darrell Laurant; dlaurant@newsadvance.com; Friday, November 24, 2006
Even with the arrival of the information superhighway, the genealogical road from today back to Jamestown is rarely smooth.
Ancestor-hunting descendants often find unexplained name changes and unplanned detours. People vanish somewhere between their recorded birth and what should have been their recorded death. Sometimes, part of the generational bridge will be washed out entirely.
“It gets particularly difficult before 1850,” said Nancy Jamerson Weiland of Jones Memorial Library, a member of the Society of Colonial Dames, 17th Century, West of the Falls Chapter. “After that, marriage records usually list the parents of both parties and the occupation of the groom. Before 1850, it tended to be just the names of the bride and groom.”
A lot of Virginia history also disappeared between 1860 and 1865, when a number of rural courthouses were burned by northern troops. Other repositories of records, such as the Buckingham County Courthouse, burned later.
“Sometimes,” said Weiland, “you can use the census records to get around that.”
Weiland’s ancestry follows several paths back to Jamestown, but she’s only been able to fully document one of them.
“I went into the Colonial Dames on John Price,” she said, “who came to Jamestown in 1609. I found a line right straight back to him.”
In fact, she added, Price’s ancestry has been researched by British genealogists all the way to 934.
But Weiland wasn’t so fortunate in her attempt to link herself to children produced by the third marriage of John Rolfe to Jane Pierce, the daughter of a Virginia planter.
“Their daughter, Elizabeth, is listed in 1624, living with her mother and stepfather,” Weiland said. “From what I’ve been told by other genealogists, she grew up and had children herself, but I can’t document it. I’ve been stumped.”
In the search for his Jamestown ancestor, Marvin Peele of Monroe also experienced bridge-building problems.
“We (Peele and his brother, Horace) had the early stuff and the recent stuff, but it was really hard connecting the dots in between.”
Since many of the descendants of Jamestown settler Lawrence Peele ultimately became Quakers, however, the Peele brothers were able to tap into the meticulous records kept by the Quaker Church.
“They not only recorded births and deaths and marriages,” Marvin Peele said, “but every time a member transferred to another church, that was recorded, too.”
Ruth McBride, also a member of the local Colonial Dames chapter, has made her way through the genealogical labyrinth not only for herself but on behalf of prospective members. She compares it to presenting evidence in court.
“You always try to get the hard evidence,” she said, “but sometimes circumstantial evidence can be helpful.”
As an example, she recalled helping a woman prove that an ancestor had lived in Essex County before 1700, a requirement for 17th century chapter membership.
“We found where he had paid quit rent (a Colonial tax) in 1704,” McBride said, “but that didn’t place him in Virginia earlier. But looking through the Henning’s Statutes of the time, we found where a new arrival could wait seven years before paying taxes. So what would anybody do? They’d wait. And if he waited as long as he could, that would have had him here by 1697.”
Another “a ha” moment McBride remembers fondly solved a dilemma in which two men in the same area had the same name.
“When they went to register to vote one year,” McBride said, “the registrar must have asked how he could tell them apart. One of them said, ‘I’m the son of Joseph,’ and that was right there in black and white.”
The Internet has helped enormously in genealogical research, McBride said, “but you can’t find everything there. Sometimes you still have to go to the libraries and courthouses.”
A man named John Camden Hotten endeared himself to an army of future genealogists with his “Original Lists of Persons of Quality.”
Hotten’s turn-of-the-17th-century research promised to chronicle “Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for A Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed and Others Who Went From Great Britain To The American Plantations, 1600-1700. With Their Ages, The Localities In Which They Formerly Lived In The Mother Country, The Names Of The Ships In Which They Embarked, And Other Interesting Particulars.”
The list makes it obvious that the Godspeed, Susan Constant and Discovery were only the first harbingers of a veritable Britain-to-America migration, with more than 60 different ships conveying settlers across the Atlantic before 1625.
“Our ancestor was listed on two different ships,” said Marvin Peele.
As is true even today, passenger lists are often inexact. Perhaps a sudden personal or business emergency kept a passenger from boarding at the last minute. Others died en route and were buried at sea with no record of their passing.
Weiland recommends that anyone trying to connect with a Jamestown colony ancestor start at the present and work back.
“So many try to do it the other way, and that’s harder,” she said.
The Jones Library has a wide selection of material dealing with Colonial Virginia, and staff members who can point would-be ancestor hunters in the right direction.
Other genealogical groups with an interest in Jamestown include the Jamestown Society and the First Families of Virginia. The Daughters of the American Revolution, while only tracing lineage back to the Revolutionary War, can be helpful in constructing part of the highway back.
And if all else fails, there’s always DNA.
“I had mine done,” said Weiland. “It’s really easy - they just take a swab from your cheek. They can’t really connect you with a particular ancestor or family, but they can connect you with an area. The best thing was, I found out that my DNA matched that of some bones found in a cave in England dated 12,000 years ago.”
Fortunately, she doesn’t have to prove it.
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Book Review - Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. Fourth Edition, Published for the Order of First Families of Virginia. Vol. 1: Families A-F by John Frederick Dorman, Editor, 1,278 pp, 2005, ISBN 0-8063-1744-2, $89.50
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Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 ADV 2005 v. 2
R 929.3755 ADV 2004 v.1
This is the second of three volumes that will eventually comprise the fourth edition of the landmark Adventurers of Purse and Person, the most widely respected of all "first families" studies and the actual starting point of American genealogy (see Volume One for families A-F).
Individuals ranging from G-P (Gaither to Purifoy) identified in the work must have been resident in Virginia during the period 1607-1624/25 or members of the Virginia Company of London in order to be designated "adventurers," and it is their descendants alone who qualify for membership in one of the most distinguished hereditary societies in America, the Order of First Families of Virginia. Adventurers of Purse and Person is their story, a collection of genealogies of all adventurers with proven descents into the sixth generation.
Prepared under the auspices of the Order of First Families of Virginia in anticipation of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, this new edition of Adventurers of Purse and Person extends the lines of descent of the founding families documented in previous editions from four generations to six, bringing most families down to the Revolutionary or early Federal periods. The purpose of the work is to establish descents of the approximately 150 individuals who can be identified as (1) Adventurers of Purse (i.e. stockholders in the Virginia Company of London who either came to Virginia in the period 1607-1625 and had descendants or who did not come to Virginia during that period but whose grandchildren were resident there; or (2) Adventurers of Person, 1607-1625 (i.e. immigrants to Virginia who left descendants).
The foundation of the work is the famous "Muster" of January- February 1624-25-essentially a census taken by the Royal Commission which succeeded the Virginia Company to determine the extent and composition of the Jamestown settlements. In the Muster, which is reproduced in entirety in Volume One, the name of each colonist appears with the location of his home and the number in his family, together with information about his stock of food, his supply of arms and ammunition, his boats, houses, and livestock. In all, about 1,200 persons are named in the Muster, of whom approximately 150 are shown in this work to have left descendants to the sixth generation.
In addition to the Muster, this work builds on the investigations of dozens of scholars, correcting, revising, and supplementing the best genealogical scholarship of the past half century. New discoveries, newly available information, and a further reevaluation of evidence concerning previously accepted relationships have led, in some instances, to wholesale changes in the accepted genealogies. In consequence, this fourth edition brings together the results of all the most recent scholarship on these families, expanding the limits of what is presently known and opening up possibilities for research beyond the sixth generation. Families Included: Gaither, Gaskins, Gilbert, Gookin, Gosnold, Granger, Graves, Gray, Grendon, Gundry, Hallom, Hampton, Hansford, Harris (John), Harris (Thomas), Harwood, Holt, Hooe, Hopkins, Johnson-Travis, Jordan (Samuel), Jordan (Thomas), Kent, Kingsmill, Knott, Laydon, Lloyd, Lovelace-Gorsuch, Lukin, Lupo, Macock, Martiau, Mason, Mathews, Menefie, Montague, Moone, Moore, Offley, O'Neil-Robins, Osborne, Pace, Parramore, Pead, Peirce, Peirsey, Perry, Pierce-Bennett, Price, Price-Llewellyn, Purifoy
Also Vol 2: G-P, 2005, xvi, 1,095 pages, index, hardcover, $89.50 plus $4 p. & h.
Book Review - Kent County - Old New Kent County: Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places - Compiled by Malcolm Hart Harris
“FGS Forum,” Vol 18, No 3, Fall 2006, p 36
Book Review - The Marriage License Bonds of Lancaster County, Virginia from 1701 to 1848, by Stratton Nottingham, 106 pages, 1927, reprinted 2006, ISBN 0806346388, $14.50. This long out-of-print collection of the oldest recorded Lancaster County marriage bonds furnishes, in each instance, the name of the groom, the maiden name of the bride, and the name of the surety (often a relative). The nearly 2,000 bonds are arranged alphabetically according to the surname of the groom, and a bride's index at the back of the volume makes for even greater convenience.
Book Review - Book Review by Genealogical.com - the home page of Genealogical Publishing Company, Clearfield Company, and Gateway Press.
Marriages of Some Virginia Residents, 1607-1800, 7 vols. in 2, Dorothy Ford Wulfeck, 2,295 pages total, 1961-1967, Reprinted 2006, ISBN 080631141X, $150.00.
Book is part of the Pomona City Library genealogical collection
R 929.3755 WUL V.1
R 929.3755 WUL V.2
Marriages of Some Virginia Residents is a stupendous reference work and a recognized landmark in Virginia genealogy. Not only does it contain the records of approximately 40,000 marriages with references to about a quarter-million individuals, it also draws information from a body of sources altogether unique in genealogy. Unlike other published lists of marriages, traditionally based on parish registers, ministers' returns, and marriage bonds, this work derives from Bible records and references found in wills, deeds, court suits, and orphans' court records, as well as the traditional sources just named. The result is a collection of marriage records that is both comprehensive and unique.
As a rule the marriage records relate to three classes of people: (1) those who were married before settling in Virginia; (2) those who were married in Virginia; and (3) those who married after moving from Virginia to another colony or state (absolutely essential for determining the colonial origins of ancestors who removed to states like Kentucky, the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Indiana).
Most items are a composite of data found in various records. In general, each entry consists of some or all of the following: names of bride and groom, date and place of marriage, names of parents, sureties and bondsmen, place of residence, and a specific source citation. Brides and grooms are listed in a single alphabetical sequence; all other persons mentioned in the records are indexed separately.
Book Review - Heritage Books Publication and Review
Virginia 1850 Agricultural Census, Volume 1 - Linda L. Green. This census names only the head of the household. Often times when an individual was missed on the regular U.S. Census, he would appear on this agricultural census. There are forty-eight columns of information in the agricultural census, six of which are listed here. They include name of owner, improved acreage, unimproved acreage, cash value of the farm, value of farm implements and machinery, and value of livestock. This volume includes the counties of Accomack, Albemarle, Alexandria, Allegheny, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Botetourt, Brunswick, Buckingham, Campbell, Caroline, Carroll, Charles City, Charlotte, Chesterfield, and Clarke. (2004), 2006, 8½x11, paper, index, 304 pp. $45.00 G3824 ISBN: 0788438247
Book Review - Heritage Books Publication and Review
Virginia 1850 Agricultural Census, Volume 2 - Linda L. Green. This census names only the head of the household. Often times when an individual was missed on the regular U.S. Census, he would appear on this agricultural census. There are forty-eight columns of information in the agricultural census, six of which are listed here. They include name of owner, improved acreage, unimproved acreage, cash value of the farm, value of farm implements and machinery, and value of livestock. This volume includes the counties of Culpeper, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, City of Petersburg, Elizabeth City, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Floyd, Fluvanna, Franklin, Frederick, Giles, Gloucester, Goochland, Grayson, Greene, Greensville, and Halifax. (2004), 2006, 8½x11, paper, index, 268 pp. $42.00 G3823 ISBN: 0788438239
Book Review - Heritage Books Publication and Review
Virginia 1860 Agricultural Census, Volume 1 - Linda L. Green. This census names only the head of the household. Often times when an individual was missed on the regular U.S. Census, he would appear on this agricultural census. There are forty-eight columns of information in the agricultural census, six of which are listed here. They include name of owner, improved acreage, unimproved acreage, cash value of the farm, value of farm implements and machinery, and value of livestock. This volume includes the counties of Accomack, Albemarle, Alexandria, Allegheny, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Botetourt, Brunswick, Buchanan, Buckingham, Campbell, Caroline, Carroll, Charles City, and Charlotte. 2006, 8½x11, paper, index, c298 pp. $44.50 G3817 ISBN: 0788438174
Book Review - Heritage Books Publication and Review
Virginia 1860 Agricultural Census: Volume 2 - Linda L. Green. This census names only the head of the household. Often times when an individual was missed on the regular U.S. Census, he would appear on this agricultural census. There are forty-eight columns of information in the agricultural census, six of which are listed here. They include name of owner, improved acreage, unimproved acreage, cash value of the farm, value of farm implements and machinery, and value of livestock. This volume includes the counties of Chesterfield, Clarke, Craig, Culpeper, Cumberland, City of Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Floyd, Fluvanna, Franklin, Frederick, Giles, Gloucester, Goochland, Grayson, Greene, Greensville, and Halifax. 2006, 8½x11, paper, index, c308 pp. $45.50 G3816 ISBN: 0788438166
Book Review - Heritage Books Publication and Review
The King’s Passengers to Maryland and Virginia - Peter Wilson Coldham. Nearly 400 convict ships carrying 50,000 men, women and children left British waters bound for the southern colonies of America where their human cargos were sold. With remarkably few exceptions the transportation ships frequented the ports of Chesapeake Bay where, for almost 100 years, facilities had been developed for the reception and sale of convicted prisoners. This tidal wave of involuntary laborers became known, officially and informally, as "His Majesty's Seven-Year Passengers": they have been characterized as the largest body of identifiable emigrants ever recorded but until now no attempt has been made to bring together the hundreds of individual passenger lists which survive in English and American archives. Some 25,000 passengers are listed here. They are shown alphabetically by surname and in the order of the English cities or counties where they were condemned. A comprehensive list of convict "runaways" has been compiled from contemporary Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania newspapers and cross-referenced to the passenger lists. A separate section is devoted to the later careers in the colonies of twenty known felons from England, including one for whom there is some evidence of royal descent. (1997), 2004, 5½x8½, paper, index, 464 pp. $32.50 C0582 ISBN: 1585495824
Virginia - County Boundaries - Lee County and bordering counties
“Family Chronicle” March/April 2006, pp 58-59
African American Ancestry - about Aunt Mary, submitted by Bonnie Stuart Beckett
“VAN,” Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp 68-74
African American Ancestry - Bethel A.M.E. Church cemetery aka Cave Springs Cemetery
“VAN,” Vol. 30, No. 3, Summer 2006, pp 116-120
African American Ancestry - Stuart Cemetery, near Check, VA
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp 62-65
Bland County Centennial Celebration - by Goodridge Wilson + brief history + historical society’s research projects + map + sources and location + websites for Bland County
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp 66-73
Botetourt County Courthouse - - Botetourt County, VA at its inception in 1770 extented to the Mississippi River encompassing much of what are now West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. - see location and collections available
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 2007, pp 107-108
Botetourt County - Virginia death records Gillespie to Graybill
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp 95-104
Botetourt County - Virginia death records Haymaker to Hipes
“VAN,” Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp 93-100
Botetourt County History and Maps
“VAN,” Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall 2002, pp 157-159
Botetourt County Voter Register 1792
“VAN,” Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall 2002, pp 160-162
Buchanan County 1917 Business Directory
“VAN,” Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2000, pp 3-6
Cemetery - A list of those buried in Caldwell Cemetery, City of Radford, Virginia
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall 2002, pp 164-167
Cemetery - A list of those buried in Central Cemetery, City of Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 27, No. 1, Winter 2003, pp 14-50
Cemetery - Howery-Cannaday Cemetery in Floyd County
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2000, pp 31-32
Cemetery—Springwood Burial Park in Roanoke’s Lincoln Terrace neighborhood between 1937 and
1979 sumitted by Margarette Tynan & Robert Bird
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 2, Spring 2008, pp 56-68
Chincoteague Island--Chincoteague Cemeteries Online, Virginia
Chincoteague Island is located in Accomack County, Virginia. The Chincoteague Cemeteries Online website began as an individual effort to document family gravesites. It was expanded to document twenty-one cemeteries on the island. Enter the website from the welcome page to view the list of cemeteries recorded here. To access the burial databases and photographs of gravestones, click on the image above the cemetery’s name. This will open a new page with information on where the cemetery is located and a notation on whether or not the cemetery has been completely documented. In addition to the images, there is a caption giving the deceased’s name and birth and death dates.
Church records - Catholic Historical Society of the Roanoke Valley
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 2007, p 108
City Directory - City of Covington, VA - Residence S-Z
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring 2002, pp 62-74
City Directory - http://distantcousin.com/Directories/VA/
*Norfolk, Virginia 1859 City Directory - Offsite @ VirginiaCityDirectory.com
Coffins—Floyd County—Records of coffin maker Marion Thomas Hall of Floyd County
containing who bought the coffin and price paid.
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 1, Winter 2008, pp 11-17
Cohabitation Registers - A cohabitation register, or as it is properly titled,
Register of Colored Persons…cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866, was the legal vehicle by which former slaves legitimized both their marriages and their children. The information about an individual person contained in a cohabitation register is literally priceless as it is often the first time that a former slave appeared officially in the public record and because of the extensive kinds of information that the register recorded. Though recorded at the local level, registers may not exist for every Virginia county. Images of certain cohabitation registers are available here, along with accompanying full-text searchable transcriptions (pdf) of each.
http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/collections_a_to_z
Death Records—Botetourt County Death Records (Huffman through Kesler)
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 1, Winter 2008, pp 25-39
Death Records—Botetourt County Death Records (Kessler through Lankford)
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 2, Spring 2008, pp 89-100
Death Records—Botetourt County Death Records (Lantern through Linkenhoker)
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 4, Fall 2008, pp 138-150
Death Records—Botetourt County Death Records (Linkenhoker through McClure)
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 3, Summer 2008, pp
Death Records—Botetourt County Death Records (McClure through Malory)
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 33, no. 1, Winter 2009, pp 42-49
Death Records—Botetourt County Death Records (Muse through Sprinkle)
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 33, no. 4, Fall 2009, pp 151-187
Death Records—Botetourt County Death Records (Sprowl through 210)
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 33, no. 4 Supplement, Fall 2009, pp 151-210
Death Records - Buchanan County, VA in the year ending 31st December 1886, 1891, 1895.
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2000, pp 7-19
Death Records - Grant Bryant Funeral Home records 5 Dec 1856-21 Oct 1944
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring 2002, pp 78-100
Fluvanna County – Colbert Funeral Home Records _ 1929-1976
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start
Giles County - Giles County, Virginia plus map
“VAN,” Vol. 30, No. 3, Summer 2006, pp 110-111
Historical Society of Western Virginia - location and collection available
Historical Society & Salem Museum - location and collection available
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 2007, pp 108-111
Jamestown - Journey to Jamestown - Find our if you have family ties to America’s 1st permanent English settlement – just in time for its 400th anniversary - by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
“Family Tree Magazine” Vol. 8, No. 3, July 2007, pp 42-45
Lafayette, Virginia - And this (to)(too)(two) shall pass by Hazel Wells Collins - She describes a way of life which is gone except for some of the physical properties like the mountain, the river, the railroad, the church and several old houses.
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp 74-82
Land Patents and Grants - land patents issued prior to 1779, land grants issued by the Virginia Land Office after 1779, grants issued in the Northern Neck from 1692-1862
http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas30&local_base=CLAS30
Legal terms - Legal terms found in early Virginia court records
Court clerks frequent used (and misused) Latin terms derived from early English law. Following are terms used in the court records of Westmoreland County, Virginia which can also be found in other court records. Our author, Pamela Pearson has created a list of these terms and their apparent meanings based primarily on Black’s Law Dictionary, for her own use, and now, for yours. It becomes obvious that the court clerk injected his own interpretation, often modifying the earlier meanings and spelling. Pam has also found help in the work, “What Did They Mean by That?" by Paul Drake, J.D.; published by Heritage Books, 2003. She has put these entries into her own words, trying to simplify as much as possible without losing the meaning.
P.S. We welcome corrections & additions with this subject
Alias capias; als. capias: court order issued when a prior similar or identical order has failed or not been fulfilled. See also capias.
Alias pluries: court order issued when a pluries capias was not fulfilled. See also capias; alias capias; pluries capias.
Arbitration: method of resolving disputes; the decision of one or more third parties is binding.
Assignee: one to whom property rights or powers are transferred.
Attachment: seizing of a person’s property to either (1) secure a judgment or, (2) be sold to satisfy a judgment.
Bill of revivor: revival of a suit which was abated by the death or marriage of one of the parties.
Capias: court order directing arrest, notification, attachment, etc.
Chancery: court of equity, as opposed to a court of a law.
Counter (countor) security: security given to one who has become security for another.
Covenant: formal agreement or promise between two or more parties, usually in the form of a contract.
Coverture: legal condition of being a married woman.
Curtesy: by common law, a husband’s entitlement, upon the death of his wife, to a life estate in any land she owned during their marriage, assuming a child was born alive to the couple.
De bene esse: done conditionally; done in anticipation of a future need.
Dedimus: writ allowing a person to act in place of a judge or court; e.g., to administer an oath or examine witnesses.
Deed of trust: deed conveying title to a trustee, as security, until the grantor repays a loan; resembles a mortgage.
Demurrer: assertion by a defendant that the allegations, even if true, do not legally constitute a cause for action; now called a motion to dismiss.
Detinue: action taken to recover personal property wrongfully detained or taken by another.
Ejectment: ejection of an owner or occupier from property.
Exon: exoneration; removal of a burden, responsibility or duty; the right of a surety to compel the principle debtor to satisfy the obligation.
Ex parte; expartee: done without input or argument from the absent party.
Feoffor; feoffer: person granting a feoffment.
Feoffment: transfer of property accompanied by livery of seisin; the new owner has the right to sell the property or pass it on to heirs. See also livery of seisin.
Fieri facias: writ directing a sheriff to seize and sell a defendant’s property to satisfy a monetary judgment.
Garnishee: person who holds money or property belonging to a debtor and subject to an attachment.
Habere facias possessionem: writ directing a sheriff to cause the plaintiff to have immediate possession of disputed land.
Imparlance: extension of time for a party to a lawsuit to further plead his or her cause.
Imparte: to make known or disclose; to obtain information and/or facts.
Imprimis; imprs: “in the first”; in the first place; first of all.
Indemnification: compensation for loss or damage; restitution; reimbursement.
Indemnify: to compensate for loss or damage; to provide security for reimbursement to a person in case of a specified loss incurred by the person.
Indictment: formal, written accusation of a crime made by a Grand Jury and presented to the Court for prosecution.
Injunction: court order commanding or preventing an action.
Livery of seisin (seisen, seizen): symbolic ceremony by which possession of land is delivered from the grantor to the grantee.
Mittimus: court order directing a sheriff to arrest and detain a person until ordered otherwise.
N.B.; nota bene: take notice; Latin for “note well.”
Nihil dicit: the defendant does not plead or answer the plaintiff’s complaint; Latin for “he says nothing.”
Non est inventus: sheriff’s return to a writ, requiring him to arrest a person, signifying that the person was not found within the sheriff’s jurisdiction; Latin for “he is not found.”
Nonsuit: judgment against a plaintiff who has given no evidence of his claim, or who refuses or neglects to proceed with the case.
Ordinary: tavern and/or restaurant, having no overnight accommodations, that is open to the public.
Oyer: hearing or an inspection.
Petition: written application made to the court requesting action on a certain matter.
Pluries capias: court order issued for the third time. See also capias and alias capias.
Privily: privately or secretly.
Prefer: to present for consideration or resolution by a Court or other legal authority; to bring a charge against a person.
Presentment: report to the Court, initiated by a Grand Jury, stating that a crime was committed.
Processioners: parishioners appointed to determine the boundaries of private lands within a parish.
Processioning: walking of private lands within a parish, by appointed parishioners, to determine boundaries and resolve disputes.
Proffer; profer: to offer evidence in Court.
Qui tam; quitam: action brought by a private person with knowledge of fraud committed against the government; today, the plaintiff is called a “whistle blower”; Latin for “who as well.”
Replevy: action for the recovery of property.
Replication: reply, or answer, made by a plaintiff to a plea.
Scire facias: writ requiring a party to show cause why a judicial record should not be enforced; often used when a person was occupying land patented or granted to another.
Special bail: person bound to answer for the appearance of another.
Special imparlance: allowance of time with a saving only of exceptions to the writ, but not to the Court’s jurisdiction.
Trespass on the case: action brought to recover damages from one whose actions indirectly resulted in injury or loss.
Trover: action for the recovery of damages for the conversion of personal property.
Trumphery: items of limited or no value.
Without day: the legal proceedings against a defendant are resolved, usually by dismissal; shortened from “go hence without day.”
Writ: written order from the court.
Writ of enquiry (inquiry): writ ordering the sheriff to empanel a jury and act as judge in a trial held to determine the damages suffered by a plaintiff who has won a default judgment on an unliquidated claim.
Library - web site - Virginia state library page - www.lva.lib.va.us
This is the main access point for state government records, military records, personal papers, 6,000 family Bible records (also www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/index.htm click on Archives and Manuscripts link to access the Bible records), genealogical notes and charts, church and cemetery records, business records, maps and other archival and manuscript material
Library - Fincastle Public Library - location and collection available
Jones Memorial library - location and collection available
Roanoke Public library - location and collection available
Virginia Tech, Special Collection, University Libraries - location and collection available
Wytheville Community College, Kegley Library - location and collection available
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 2007, pp 108-112
Library—Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries digital collections online
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm4/collections.php
Lost Colony - Was the Lost Colony really lost? By Jennifer Sheppard
“Everton’s Genealogical Helper,” Vol. 61, No. 6,Nov/Dec 2007, pp 22-23
Map - Tidewater, Virginia - 1622 - http://www.midatlanticarchives.com/maps_va_statewide/tidewater_virginia_1622.html
Map - York River Expansion of Virginia 1630-1635 -
http://www.midatlanticarchives.com/maps_va_statewide/york_river_expansion_1630-1635.html
Marion - Landmark in Marion has been silent spectator to life’s passing parade Clara Hill Carner
“VAN,” Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp 60-62
Marion court records - Young Smyth girl saved records from destruction - by Clara Hill Carner - Roanoke Times - 17 Jan 1960
“VAN,” Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp 63-64
Marriage Records—Rev. Peter Vest Marriage Records as printed in the Floyd Press
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 33, no. 2, Spring 2009, pp 63-70
Montgomery County Courthouse - location and collection available
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 2007, p 109
Montgomery County Obituaries -
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp 84-93
Museum—African American Ancestry—Mt. Pleasant HeritageMuseum, 320 South Main Street, Marion, Virginia, is partnering with “Project Crossroads,” as a non-profit group, to focus on the preservation of the church, to be used as a community center for worship services, programs and meetings; and as an African American Museum to promote the cultural contributions of African Americans to Smyth County, the state and the nation.
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 33, no. 2, Spring 2009, pp 72-74
Northern Neck Counties—Map & locations relevant to Early Adams ancestors in the
Northern Neck Counties of Virginia
“Adams Addenda,” vol. 25, issue 1, 1995, p 15
Papers - Collections of the Virginia Historical Society Vol. VI: Miscellaneous Papers 1672-1865 http://www.midatlanticarchives.com/db_va_statewide/va_hs_vol_vi/index.html
Pension roll of 1835 -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/vapensio.htm
Quakers - History of Quakers in Eastern Virginia by Anthony Lowe
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp 51-59
Quakers - History of Quakers in Southwest Virginia - by Anthony Lowe
“VAN,” Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp 75-91
Research in Virginia—Things you often learn the hard way
“NGS Magazine,” vol. 35, no. 2, April/June 2009, pp 48-51
Researching in Virginia - From 1728 to as late as 1863, a person born or living in Virginia could have been in
Any part of Illinois from 1781 to Statehood in 1818
Any part of Indiana from 1787 to Statehood in 1816
Any part of Kentucky from 1775 to Statehood in 1792
Any part of Maryland from 1775 to Statehood in 1792
Any part of North Carolina from 1728 to 1779
Any part of Ohio from 1778 to Statehood in 1803
Any part of Pennsylvania from 1752 to 1786
Any part of Tennessee from 1760 to 1803
Any part of West Virginia from 1769 to possibly as late as 1863
Richmond Daily Dispatch Online - 1860-1865
http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/
“Everton’s Genealogical Helper,” Vol. 61, No. 3, May/June 2007, p 74
Roanoke County—Yearbooks, a Rich Resource are available at the Roanoke Public Library,
Virginia Room 706 S. Jefferson St., Roanoke, VA 24016—copies avail see following:
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 4, Fall 2008, pp 157-158
Saltville Battle - Old Book Relates how the Yankees were fooled in Saltville Battle - by H. E. Diggs
“VAN,” Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp 58-59
Smyth County - Muster Roll for 1857
“VAN,” Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp 65-66
Smyth County Map - 1961
“VAN,” Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2007, p 67
Surname—Surname index for 2008 of the Southwestern Virginia Genealogical Society
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 3, Summer 2008, pp 120-130
Tax Lists—Bedford County, Virginia—1800 Tax list
“Virginia Appalachian Notes,” vol. 32, no. 2, Spring 2008, pp 70-88
Virginia Militry District: a Study in Contradictions—This district is not in Virginia
but in Ohio. Virginia owed Revolutionary Veterans a compensation and without cash
honored this debt with bounty land. Those who served in the Continental Line from
Virginia could claim land in Ohio, while veterans of Virginia’s state units could claim
land in the Kentucky District. Amy Johnson Crow explains the records and where to find them.
“NGS Newsmagazine ,” vol. 28, no. 4, July/August 2002, pp 208-209, 24
Washday instructions - Instructions given in 1916 to a new bride to remind her what washday was like before the automatic washer.
“VAN,” Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring 2002, p 100
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