Dear Germanna descendants, No doubt, many subscribers subscribe to Dick Eastman's almost-daily newsletter, who keeps up up-to-date on genealogical happenings. He frequently notifies us of new occurrences on the Familysearch.org website and associated websites--such as the FHL wiki. Anyway, I just returned recently from a week's research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and when I began to use the online FHL Library catalog (I prefer the Classic version to the new dumbed-down newer catalog) I was astounded to find many records have been digitized--even some of the previously suppressed pre-1837 English parish records where I found a few *usual suspects* related to my English maternal grandmother. As I was seeking some early probate records of Henderson Co., KY (paternal great-grandfather, whose second wife was a Kemper, I was astounded to learn that many of these records (alas, not early ones) have been digitized, and you can sit at your computer and read these records.  There is a whole new printing system since my visit last year.  Highly computerized--but not infallible, we learned!!!  I suggest you jot down some of your *imponderables*, think up some search terms, and see what you can find on the Family History Library Catalog besides lists of books and films.  What kinds of records do you wish would fall in your lap--at home?  Maybe not this week, however. For example, just as I typed the above, I wondered whether there might be at least a familysearch.wiki on the First and the Second Germanna colonies in Virginia.  Hmm--something for you and me to explore!!!  And notify the rest of us!!! There has been a bit of back-and-forthing on this rootsweb.com about Weaver aka Wever family members. Relying on one of  my several books of Fauquier Co., VA I find this in a court record: [Fauquier Col, VA] May court 1780 [22 May] O. [ordered] that Tilman Wever, John Wever, John Herndon and John Ashby,or any 3 of them, first being sworn, appraise the estate of Augustine Smith, dec'd. (John K. Gott, Fauquier County Virginia Court Records 1776-1782 [Bowie, MD:  Heritage Books, 1993] p. 104.) Heritage Books is now in Westminster, MD.  There is a website, and also a free catalog with a multitude of books. I see I need to order some more books regarding colonial Fauquier Co. (before my remaining Kempers moved to Kentucky, where they bought land from their cousins, the Holtzclaws!!!!) Oh, yes, Iberian Publishing Co.--now New Papyrus Publishing--of Athens GA --has other other books concerning Fauquier Families such as a supplement by John P. Alcock. Hmm!  In the Fauquier Co. quotation above, I wonder if the John Ashby listed in 1780 COB, Fauquier Co. might be the same person who was commander of the 2nd Virginia Rangers in 1755 (French and Indian War). This information about enlists in the 2nd Virginia Rangers comes from Lloyd D. Bockstruck's Virginia's Colonial Soldiers [Baltimore:  Genealogical Publ. Co., 1988], p. 53]      One of Ashby's soldiers/enlistees was one Jesse Oldham, , 7 Sept, 5' '8'", dark [complection, 21 [age], Virginia, carpenter. (Jesse was not a Germanna descendant, but he next appears in the literature (as I know it) some years later was in colonial Orange Co. NC where he married a bride whose parents were from Fairfax Co., VA (Richard Simpson and Mary Kincheloe, were his in-laws).  He stayed in North Carolina until after the Revolution when he relocated to Kentucky--near Boonesborough in Madison Co., KY.  Any information about Jesse Oldham accepted.  A whole bunch of Oldhams show up on the early tax lists of Caswell Co. NC. E.W.Wallace "