The October 2003 issue of The Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter printed, with permission an article from The Library of Virginia [title], issue 159 (Sept/Oct 2003). It concerns the New On-Line Card Catalog of the Library of Virginia. This website can use up a lot of your time, but may save you hours (and long trips) of away-from-home research. The URL is rather long--and don't you dare misspell a word, as I did when I first tried to type in this longish URL (it is at the end, as rootsweb does not like or permit HTML, I am told). Because most (but not all) of my ancestors seem to have left Virginia prior to the Americn Revolution, I was most interested in the colonial land patents, particularly those of Northern Neck (the land between the Potomac and the Rappahannock). Originally all that land was designated Northumberland Co. but the counties kept multiplying--and dividing--and some of your folks must not have known in which county they should record their land records!!! As one noted genealogist of Salt Lake City has said in one of her lectures, If you are searching in Virginia, search all the counties!!! I thought she was crazy, but my research makes me understand that not only did these folks move, but the counties kept dividing, and the ancestors kept acquiring or selling land in an adjoining county!!! After accessing the URL, I printed out seven different NN patents either for Oldham males or for some of their neighbors, where the lines of Oldhams were mentioned. They [the NN patents] mentioning Oldhams seem to begin ca 1709. A good many are patents for land in Richmond Co. [not the city of Richmond, which is surrounded by Henrico Co. and used to be a part of Henrico Co.]. One late Oldham patent, however, is for land in Augusta Co. and another for land in Culpeper Co. I think there are other patents mentioning Oldhams which I overlooked, such as one for Richard Oldham. Most of those I printed out were for a man [more likely several men] named John Oldham. One dated 1739 for a John Oldham [I do NOT assume these are all the same person, and neither should you] mentions James Oldham's corner *on the north east side the Coach Road adjoining Richard Rout, Robert Bryant &c.* Of course, I will want to check out these neighbors, as they probably intermarried!!! I need to get back to this website to explore all its capabilities and the links to other information. I hope you find this information useful in your search for Oldhams and for associated families in Virginia. E.W.Wallace www.lva.lib.va.us/index.htm