Those Scotch-Irish books used to be in the ncholasville library. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Hdanw@aol.com> To: <VAFAUQUI@rootsweb.com> Cc: <MADKY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:16 PM Subject: [MADKY] Chalkley - Some Abstracts of Augusta Co. Court Records > Ginny writes of Chalkley's book which has been digitized and is online. > I > am adding my two cents' worth. > > Lyman Chalkley's three volumes of The Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish > Settlement in Virginia > Subtitlle: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County > 1745-1800 > > can be more easily accessed with this URL > > _www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/) > > I have been warned that > > 1) these are abstracts only of the court records - should be followed up > with reading filmed originals, if at all possible > > 2) Chalkley left out a lot of the Germans who were in Augusta Co. and so > on > (I have not verified that, as my Pennsylvania German somehow got to North > Carolina to meet Daniel Boone.well before 1775.) > > However, nearly all of us experienced genealogists begin searching in > books/or online to get an idea whether our search of further records may > prove more > fruitful. Most books, Chalkley's included, have indexes, which speed our > research. > > After the reader accesses the first screen in Vol. I, go to the second > screen. At the bottom of the second screen, there is a link to the index > for Vol. > I. > > There is NOT an every-name index but a *grouping*, alphabetically arranged > by surname. Infrequently, one will find linkages of one person to > another, > but not often. So--use with caution. > > Each volume in the online version of Chalkley is indexed separately. As > indicated in the title, this is a good beginning research source to spot > your > Scotch-Irish people from Pennsylvania. > > (Do not chew me out for not using the politically correct hyphenated > Scots-Irish [Protestants for the most part], as one e-mail correspondent > did. I had > to reply that was Chalkey's title, and I was only giving the correct > citation. A lot of these Scots-Irish families, or their descendants, > then trekked > to Western North Carolina and to Kentucky also.) > > I have been told that in its early days, Augusta Co. encompassed all of > what > is now West Virginia. Old maps of Augusta's county's western boundary > are > not shown--I guess it went to wherever it would encounter unfriendly > natives!!! > > An awful lot of persons whose surname starts with Mc are indexed here!!! > Including my ancestress Agnes McCord, who is found later in Albemarle > Co., now > the wife of a Harris, and then spent the rest of her life in Madison Co., > KY. > > E.W.Wallace > > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MADKY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >