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1. Virginia History & Genealogy on DVD - 225 books - Ancestry, Records, Family
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The Ultimate History and Genealogy Collection of Virginia Make no mistake. This is the most complete collection of Virginia History and Genealogy on DVD found anywhere on the Planet at the lowest possible cost. 225 - Books on 2 DVD's An essential resource for Genealogists Scanned images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. It's like having the actual book in front of you. Works with any computer, and is easy to use, read, resize or print from. These books on DVD are SEARCHABLE Your Ancestors are waiting to be Discovered. Partial List of Contents A History of Orange County, Virginia by W.W. Scott - (1907) - 292 pages A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Oren F. Morton - (1920) - 574 pages A History of Rockingham County, Virginia by John W. Wayland - (1912) - 601 pages Albemarle County in Virginia by Edgar Woods - (1901) - 412 pages Boyle Genealogy. John Boyle of Virginia and Kentucky by John Boyle - (1909) - 174 pages Early Virginia Marriages. Part 1 by William A. Crozier - (1907) - 136 pages Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia: Embracing a ... by Raleigh Travers Green, Philip Slaughter - (1900) - 160 pages Historical Sketch Bedford County Virginia 1753-1907 - (1907) - 121 pages History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia 1748-1920 by Wm. C. Pendleton - (1920) - 700 pages Men of Mark in Virginia: Ideals of American Life; a Collection of Biographies of the Leading Men in the State Vol 1 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler - (1906) - 426 pages Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County Virginia by B.F. Nuckolls - (1914) - 206 pages + Plus 155 more books!2. Lunenburg County, Virginia, Wills, 1746-1825
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Book by Bell, Landon C.3. Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyond Adding the Families of
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When Tidewater Virginia Families was published by GPC in 1990 it was considered a landmark publication, so powerful a contribution to Virginia genealogy that it was numbered among a handful of genealogical compendia that would command the respect and admiration of all serious genealogists. In the intervening eight years enough new material has turned up to warrant publication of this supplement, Generations Beyond. But this is no mere addendum. In fact, to the forty Tidewater Virginia families treated in the original publication, no fewer than eleven new families have been added. In addition, the supplement includes vignettes and anecdotes of family life, descriptions and locations of family homes and burial sites, extensions of sibling lines, identification of neighbors, county maps, a place name index, and, where necessary, corrections and updates to the original volume. As in the original publication, all families tie in with the earliest Hutcheson, Peatross, Butler, and Lee settlers in the colony of Virginia, and in each instance the family history, its vital statistics, and the events of the time are reported, as are brief accounts of collateral issue in each generation. With the benefit of myriad sources both in print and manuscript, Mrs. Davis has once again managed to create a microcosmic genealogy of Tidewater Virginia, which includes the counties of Amherst, Caroline, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Gloucester, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Isle of Wight, James City, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Northumberland, Prince William, Prince George, Spotsylvania, Surry, Sussex, and York.4. The Powell Families of Virginia and the South: Being an Encyclopedia of the Eight (8) Major Powell Families of Virginia and the South in General
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The Powell Families of Virginia and the South Being an Encyclopedia of the Eight 8 Major Power Families of Virginia and the South in GeneralDescription
This book is a detailed study of the 8 major Powell families of VA. and their descendants in VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, TN and KY. Contains genealogies of the Norfolk and Elizabeth City counties, VA lines complete revised, the Isle of Wight county, VA family lines; the York county, VA family; the Nicholas Powell family of Northampton county, VA; the Walter Powell family of Accomac, Northampton and Prince William counties, VA and Somerset county, MD; the old Rappahannock county, VA lines consisting of: the Essex county, VA line, the Caroline, Culpeper-Orange counties, VA lines. Also vast sections of legal records for miscellaneous Powells in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, etc. and genealogies of unconnected lines.The MOST comprehensive work ever undertaken on Powells in the South. This reprint does not include the approximately 125 additional pages nof Powell descendants that originally appeared in the editor s book: The Powell Family of Norfolk and Elizabeth City counties, VA which deals primarily with the descendants of Catherine Powell and Benjamine Wills Powell. 724 pages including Full Name Index....
5. SCOTS AND SCOTCH IRISH: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky
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Scots and Scotch Irish Frontier Life in North Carolina Virginia and KentuckyDescription
They left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The descendants of Scotsmen who had colonized the Irish Kingdom of Ulster, they lived for several generations on Irish soil before heading across the Atlantic and the backwoods of America. They founded communities in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the Yadkin River valley of western North Carolina, eventually crossing the Cumberland Gap for the Kentucky frontier. For those Scots-Irish immigrants, life was a test of hardiness, hardship, and endurance, but frontier families also managed time for horseracing, gambling, and socializing - despite their strict Presbyterian ways. They founded churches and helped mold the governments of the new country. Scots and Scotch Irish offers a view of that time and place, along with thousands of names of those early settlers, drawn from church records, military rolls, deeds, court records, and newspapers of the time, all listed alphabetically in a series of appendices by source.6. Virginia Genealogy: Sources & Resources
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This is an encyclopedic listing of Virginia sources and resources for the genealogist. Ms. McGinnis devotes entire chapters to such subjects as Virginia land, people, and history; immigration and migration; vital records; Bible and church records; census records; land and court records; manuscripts and records abroad; ethnic Virginia; slavery and African-Americans; counties and their records; independent cities and their records; genealogical collections; and genealogical societies. Several sections of the book are based upon answers to questionnaires which the author sent to Virginia courthouses and historical and genealogical societies. The bibliography alone runs to 125 pages and contains references to 1,421 books and articles on all aspects of Virginia genealogy. By any measurement, this is a real giant of a book--and the standard by which all future textbooks on Virginia genealogy will be measured.7. Some Emigrants to Virginia: Memoranda in Regard to Several Hundred Emigrants to Virginia During the Colonial Period Whose Parentage Is Shown or Former ... by Authentic Records (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Some Emigrants to Virginia: Memoranda in Regard to Several Hundred Emigrants to Virginia During the Colonial Period Whose Parentage Is Shown or Former Residence Indicated by Authentic RecordsThough of use, no doubt, for genealogical investigations, the compilation was not made for that purpose; but to give examples of the great variety of people who composed the emigrants to the Old colonies.
Some of the persons, whose names are given, died without issue, others returned to England, and of still others nothing is known but the name. Yet they all lived in Virginia, and with their different characters, habits, and antecedents helped to make the colony what it was and to mould the character of the Vir ginia people.
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8. RoAne County, West Virginia Families