Someone on the list asked whether a family history had been compiled on the Hitt family. The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has a multitude [a good part of the first fllor at that Library] of family histories. Many of them have been filmed. I did a Surname search of the Library catalog [www.familysearch.org - and click on Library] for the Hitt family and found this promising family history, which the catalog says is about 1100 pages--and it has been filmed. Here is a description [the formatting may not transfer well to the internet] so do the search yourself--remember Surname and then Hitt. There are quite a few other histories about that family--and related families. Here is the one I chose to see the details . (By the way, Fauquier Co. was not formed until 1759--try Prince William Co., where some of the records are missing.) _Littlefield, Barbara Jeanne Grim_ (http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=authordetails&authorno=207469&name= Littlefield,+Barbara+Jeanne+Grim) , 1945- (Main Author) Notes Peter Hitt (ca. 1683-1772) was probably born in Germany and died in Germantown, Virginia. According to Siegerländer Perönlichkeiten-und Geschlechter- Lexikon, Peter Heide was the son of Jacob Heide of Rebhach farm near Marienborn; Peter emigrated in 1714 from Tupbach to Virginia and called himself Hitt. He married Elizabeth (d. ca. 1773) possibly in England or aboard ship to America. One of their children, Herman Hitt (1721-1820), was born, raised and buried in Germantown, Essex County (now Fauquier County), Virginia. In 1745, he married Mary Weaver (d. 1793). They had twelve children, all born in Faurquier County, Virginia. Their 1st was born in 1746, their last in 1770. The nine generations of descendants traced include Alden, Emmert, Glascock, Grim, Hershey, Huff, Newcomer, Perkins, Rector, Reynolds, Rowland, Wachtel and related lines. Since it has been filmed, through a nearby Family History Center, one can order the film for a fee for a short time. For a bigger fee, one can extend the time, and if the center has storage space, you might be able to put it on permanent loan. Happy hunting. Try this kind of searching for other Germanna names. Someone may have compiled a history for your family. It's a beginning!!! But be careful when counties were formed. You may be looking in the wrong county!!! E.W.Wallace **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)