Hi Dottie, Google Books has a snippet view, but the book is actually on Ancestry.com in its entirety, at http://search.ancestry.com/search/DB.aspx?dbid=49380 Some of the "Harris" family make up Chapter 16. Best, Keith On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dottie Brentlinger < dottie.brentlinger@att.net> wrote: > Several years ago Keith Harris send me an excerpt from "Tide Water Virginia > Families" by Virginia Davis. The pages were about James Harris son of > Benjamin and Sarah Dumas Harris. I don't think this is my Harris family but > wonder if the book is on line. > > Dottie Brentlinger Harris DNA Study Group #6 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks for the URL for the Tide Water Virginia Families.  http://search.ancestry.com/search/DB.aspx?dbid=49380 As explained by the author, not too many families of the women in her pedigree are included, but here and there one can pick up a family which is associated with many of our Harris families--Dumas, Winston, etc. I don't have enough time today to plow through this wonderful digitization - there must be a surname index -- but we must remember the female Harrises of Virginia when we can and look for the names of the families into whom these ladies married--or remarried.  The book is referred to below.  Remember, the widows did not stay unmarried for long.  Someone had to help run the plantation/farm/whatever land the widow now held (she was entitled to only a third), and she frequently remarried--no doubt a neighbor, sometimes a widower.  That widower needed a helpmate also.  (Some of the men whom I study had three wives, the second one frequently a poorer neighbor girl, the third perhaps a widow with a child or two (but perhaps with an inheritance.) The Harris family which is featured in the cited work is not with whom I am familiar.  The ones I know were the ones clustered along the Pamunkey River (called other names, no doubt) in what was to be Hanover Co. (a burned county, part of which became Louisa Co., where the early records frequently refer to residents of Hanover Co.)  But one ignores the records of the adjoining counties at one's peril. Thanks for bringing up this digitized book.  Any other recommendations?  I use google.books a lot. Sometimes there is only an excerpt, but... E.W.Wallace ________________________________ From: K S Harris <kharris@psych-science.com> To: harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Tide Water Virginia Families Hi Dottie, Google Books has a snippet view, but the book is actually on Ancestry.com in its entirety, at http://search.ancestry.com/search/DB.aspx?dbid=49380 Some of the "Harris" family make up Chapter 16. Best, Keith On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dottie Brentlinger < dottie.brentlinger@att.net> wrote: > Several years ago Keith Harris send me an excerpt from "Tide Water Virginia > Families"  by Virginia Davis. The pages were about James Harris son of > Benjamin and Sarah Dumas Harris. I don't think this is my Harris family but > wonder if the book is on line. > > Dottie Brentlinger Harris DNA Study Group #6 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, all you Harrises, I am pretty amazed that my friend, Virginia Lee Hutchison Harris' work has already been bought by Ancestry (the monster that is sucking up all the documentation of genealogy on the Internet) from her son. Virginia's works are the same books I paid a ton of money for, and that I am citing as one of the references for the descendant lines of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris (son of William & Temperance Overton Harris, and the brother of Robert & Mourning Glenn Harris.) Pam -----Original Message----- From: harris-hunters-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:harris-hunters-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of EVELYN WALLACE Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 3:44 PM To: kharris@psych-science.com; harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Tide Water Virginia Families - Digitized Book on Ancestry.com Thanks for the URL for the Tide Water Virginia Families.  http://search.ancestry.com/search/DB.aspx?dbid=49380 As explained by the author, not too many families of the women in her pedigree are included, but here and there one can pick up a family which is associated with many of our Harris families--Dumas, Winston, etc. I don't have enough time today to plow through this wonderful digitization - there must be a surname index -- but we must remember the female Harrises of Virginia when we can and look for the names of the families into whom these ladies married--or remarried.  The book is referred to below.  Remember, the widows did not stay unmarried for long.  Someone had to help run the plantation/farm/whatever land the widow now held (she was entitled to only a third), and she frequently remarried--no doubt a neighbor, sometimes a widower.  That widower needed a helpmate also.  (Some of the men whom I study had three wives, the second one frequently a poorer neighbor girl, the third perhaps a widow with a child or two (but perhaps with an inheritance.) The Harris family which is featured in the cited work is not with whom I am familiar.  The ones I know were the ones clustered along the Pamunkey River (called other names, no doubt) in what was to be Hanover Co. (a burned county, part of which became Louisa Co., where the early records frequently refer to residents of Hanover Co.)  But one ignores the records of the adjoining counties at one's peril. Thanks for bringing up this digitized book.  Any other recommendations?  I use google.books a lot. Sometimes there is only an excerpt, but... E.W.Wallace ________________________________ From: K S Harris <kharris@psych-science.com> To: harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Tide Water Virginia Families Hi Dottie, Google Books has a snippet view, but the book is actually on Ancestry.com in its entirety, at http://search.ancestry.com/search/DB.aspx?dbid=49380 Some of the "Harris" family make up Chapter 16. Best, Keith On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dottie Brentlinger < dottie.brentlinger@att.net> wrote: > Several years ago Keith Harris send me an excerpt from "Tide Water > Virginia Families"  by Virginia Davis. The pages were about James > Harris son of Benjamin and Sarah Dumas Harris. I don't think this is > my Harris family but wonder if the book is on line. > > Dottie Brentlinger Harris DNA Study Group #6 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you Keith and thanks for sending me the pages the first time. Dottie Brentlinger -----Original Message----- From: harris-hunters-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:harris-hunters-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of K S Harris Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 2:27 PM To: harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Tide Water Virginia Families Hi Dottie, Google Books has a snippet view, but the book is actually on Ancestry.com in its entirety, at http://search.ancestry.com/search/DB.aspx?dbid=49380 Some of the "Harris" family make up Chapter 16. Best, Keith On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dottie Brentlinger < dottie.brentlinger@att.net> wrote: > Several years ago Keith Harris send me an excerpt from "Tide Water Virginia > Families" by Virginia Davis. The pages were about James Harris son of > Benjamin and Sarah Dumas Harris. I don't think this is my Harris family but > wonder if the book is on line. > > Dottie Brentlinger Harris DNA Study Group #6 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message