Is this the e-mail of Hugh who wrote, in part: I am of the school that believes that there is more some where--an attic or basement of a courthouse or a library, or an old bible or a fallen tomb stone. There is always hope of a new find. I call it the rainbow effect. Hugh Well, yes, Hugh. I have a newish book about Fauquier Co., where my Kempers aka Kampers [First Germanna Colony] mainly resided. The book is by Joan W. Peters, who writes in the beginning paragraphs of her preface: *This is a book about Fauquier County Virginia's colonial and Revolutionary war tax lists These tax lists were discovered during a 1994 sixteen month grant projected, funded by the Library of Virginia. The purpose of this grant project was to mend, flat file, label, arrange, store and index the earliest papers records of the County. Tri-folded, jacketed and bundled together with red tape, the papers were packed into narrow 4" x 12" metal woodruff drawers, and arranged chronologically, by drawer, from the earliest papers of the 1759 county court through the cessation of the court, in 1904. "One of the record groupings associated with the preservaton grant project related to Tax and Fiscal records The records in this series portrayed the work done by the Justices who took the lists of Tithables from Fauquier's residents and the Sheriff and other officials who took in the actual taxes and were responsible for their transmission to the colonial capital. "Fauquier County is only one of a handful of Virginia counties whose colonial tax lists have survived down to the present day......." >From Joan W. Peters, CGRS, The Tax Man Cometh: Land & Property in Colonial Fauquier County, Virginia: Tax Lists from the Fauquier County Court Clerk's Loose Papers, 1759-1782 [Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 1999] n.p. So hope springs eternal. I keep hoping some diligent person in a western Kentucky county will crawl into the attic or dig into the basement and find the first two missing court order books--which may have some more information about some of my ancestors--one from colonial Granville Co., NC!!! I must say the burned counties of Virginia stifle my hopes, however!!! So many of my Dad's lineage had their beginnings in colonial Virginia, many heading later west and south to help populate these United States! E.W.Wallace **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)