Boschong Subscribers, I highly recommend for you newbies and anyone else that is not aware of this that there are two website where you will get an excellent look at the detailed court system that was in place in Virginia very early on. If you are interested in a particular surname, both sites are indexed and searchable. Virginians were a very litigious group and the court system was very strict and rigid in certain areas. Some of the chancery suits are fascinating. On the site with Chalkley's abstracts there are no Bushongs listed except the mysterious Elizabeth Bushon of 1760 who we posted about long ago. There is a lot on the Bosangs however. Lynn Chalkley extracted these early records from 1745 - 1800. However, there are some records that were missed and these are available at the Rockingham County Public Library. Chalkley did the highlights. As you read them, you will see how many times, when the wife married during the Probate of her deceased husband, if she remarried, it was referred to with her new name in some way. You'll see when you read some of them. The other site is the State Archives at Richmond, Virginia. The Chancery Record for the entire state are being scanned and many of them are already available on-line, particularly those counties where Bushongs lived and there are bunches of them. That is where I got a lot of the Chancery that I put on the List already. I sat and hand wrote out every page posted because printing them at that time was not perfected. I think they do have some of the bugs out of the system now. http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res AND http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/ Have fun and learn! Gloria Neiger Bushong

  Gloria I have enjoy what is being taught to us newbies please keep it up.  Its like being reborn again with new ways to research, an I think this is a better method than I suggested.    I just don't know when I will fine time to try these ideas because of all of the Postings.  I'm glad I live on the West Coast it gives me time too catch up, with spring fever an all.      Noel Eugene (Boschung) Bushong ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Russell Bushong <chochoruss@aol.com> To: boschong@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 3:13 PM Subject: [BOSCHONG] A glimspe of life in early Virginia and the way the Courts worked Boschong Subscribers, I highly recommend for you newbies and anyone else that is not aware of this that there are two website where you will get an excellent look at the detailed court system that was in place in Virginia very early on. If you are interested in a particular surname, both sites are indexed and searchable. Virginians were a very litigious group and the court system was very strict and rigid in certain areas. Some of the chancery suits are fascinating. On the site with Chalkley's abstracts there are no Bushongs listed except the mysterious Elizabeth Bushon of 1760 who we posted about long ago. There is a lot on the Bosangs however. Lynn Chalkley extracted these early records from 1745 - 1800. However, there are some records that were missed and these are available at the Rockingham County Public Library. Chalkley did the highlights. As you read them, you will see how many times, when the wife married during the Probate of her deceased husband, if she remarried, it was referred to with her new name in some way. You'll see when you read some of them. The other site is the State Archives at Richmond, Virginia. The Chancery Record for the entire state are being scanned and many of them are already available on-line, particularly those counties where Bushongs lived and there are bunches of them. That is where I got a lot of the Chancery that I put on the List already. I sat and hand wrote out every page posted because printing them at that time was not perfected. I think they do have some of the bugs out of the system now. http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res AND http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/ Have fun and learn! Gloria Neiger Bushong ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOSCHONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message