Descendants of the First Germanna Colonists (1714) will be interested to know that on the online database HeritageQuest (available at some public libraries--only libraries can subscribe) there are references to some of your ancestors--and to the families with whom those colonists intermarried. The name of the book, which has been digitized is: H.C. Groome Fauquier during the Proprietorship: a chronicle of the colonization and organization of a Northern Neck County Richmond: Old Dominion Press, 1927, 264 pgs. There is a Table of Contents plus an index. (Get your librarian to show you how to deal with this database, unless you are 12 years old or younger!!! Or work with computers every day.) There are references to the Northern Neck patents of many of these colonists, and you can look those up on the Library of Virginia website--the *what we have* part--under Land Records. But, if you are like I am, you prefer a book or two, try to find in a nearby library the abstracts of these Northern Neck patents (controlled in later years by Lord Fairfax and his predecessors), abstracted and published by Gertrude E. Gray. There are four such volumes, each one arranged chronologically. The first two volumes probably refer to your ancestors--and their collaterals. Pay attention to their neighbors--these are the ones which the descendants married--German or not! I have a Kelly bride or two in my Kemper ancestry. A good many of the descendants, of course, went to Kentucky, particularly the Eastern Kentucky counties, such as Garrard and Mercer counties, and a few wandered to Fayette Co. (But, as a skilled genealogist-lecturer-author cautioned some of us: If you are looking in Virginia, look in every county. The same applies to its sister state--Kentucky!) Happy hunting! E.W.Wallace (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/hqoweb/library/do/books/results) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com