I recieved this email from Mytrees.com I thought I would pass it along to those of you who are interested. DEBBIE ************************** MyTrees.com Announces a comprehensive Shenandoah Valley, Virginia database now on-line. Mytrees.com and the late Duane L. Borden have teamed up to bring to you 184,400 newly extracted names from Shenandoah County, Virginia Cemetery Records. MyTrees.com was selected by the family of Duane L. Borden to place their father's entire 12 book collection on-line. This set of genealogy manuscripts consist of over 30 years of his personal grave site and land records research. We have scanned and indexed all 6089 pages from the 12 hand typed manuscripts. We just finished indexing this valuable data collection and have placed it on line for your research convenience. Research the Borden Family archive at MyTrees.com These Records are also found within United States, Virginia Records Summary of Indexed Documents. Book 1 "Tombstone Inscriptions, Toms Brook and vicinity, Shenandoah County, Virginia" - 308 pages, 17 cemeteries, 3,500 names published on 17 February 1982. Book 2 "Tombstone Inscriptions, Strasburg and vicinity, Shenandoah County, Virginia" - 370 pages, 10 cemeteries, 5,600 names published on 29 March 1982. Book 3 "Tombstone inscriptions, Woodstock and Fort Valley vicinities, Shenandoah County, Virginia" - 460 pages, 248 cemeteries, 9,000 names published on 4 May 1983. 42 cemeteries were copied in Page County Virginia. Book4 "Tombstone Inscriptions, Woodstock Virginia and vicinity" - 456 pages, 24 large cemeteries, 12,114 names published on 11 October 1983. Book 5 "Tombstone Inscriptions, Shenandoah and Page counties of Virginia" -360 pages , 141 cemeteries, 8,140 names published on 14 June 1984. 34 cem-eteries were copied in Page County Virginia. Book6 "Tombstone Inscriptions, New Market, Mt. Jackson, and Edinburg vic-inities, Shenandoah County, Virginia" - 493 pages, 17 large cemeteries, 13,000 names published on 31 July 1984. Book 7 "Tombstone Inscriptions, Prospect Hill Cemetery, Front Royal Virginia, and other Warren County Virginia vicinities" - 495 pages, 22 cemeteries -13,000 names published on 19 Aug 1985. Book 8 "Tombstone Inscriptions, Shenandoah County Virginia and bordering counties Frederick, Rockingham, Warren, Fauquier, Rappahannock, and Hardy Co. West Virginia"-348 pages, 130 cemeteries, 7,000 names published on 27 May 1986. Book 9 "Tombstone Inscriptions, Page County Virginia" - 488 pages, 76 cemeteries all copied in Page County, Virginia, 12,000 names published on 25 August 1986. Book 10 "Marriages, Shenandoah County Virginia, 1850-1882" - 732 pages, 4,000 marriages, 36,000 names, added genealogy, biographies of ministers, facsimiles of various marriage documents, published on 22 Oct 1987. Book 11 "Marriages, Shenandoah County, Virginia, 1882-1915" - 5,000 marriages, 1,126 pages, 55,000 names, 10,000 brides and grooms, 20,000 names of parents, 6,000 tombstone inscriptions and the locations of the cem-eteries. Much genealogy is included, published on 9 July 1990. Book 12 "Tombstone Inscriptions, Page County Virginia - Volume II", 453 pages, 197 cemeteries, 10,000 names published on 12 Oct 1991 Background reading on families living in Shenandoah Valley. A significant number of US families can trace their early roots back to the Shenandoah Valley area. Population pressures from this area were due primarily to the very large families of that time frame, and to the constant partitioning of previously large landed estates by heirs-at-law of deceased land owners, who petitioned the probate court for partitions of the landed estates to obtain their lawful shares. This partitioning system after two or three generations succeeded in turning the large landed estates into very small lots and tracts which would not sustain a large family. Four hundred (400 ) acre land grants used to be a common quantity in a great many of the early grants. This situation resulted in only a few members of each family remaining behind in the Valley, and this same situation exists today, as the lots and tracts are still very small, and as soon as the youths of the Valley graduate from High school, they leave the Valley to receive higher education, to marry, and to earn a living for themselves and family in areas that have more opportunities for them, and most of them never return, especially to be buried, as they usually purchase burial lots where they raise their family There are no large cities in the lower Valley of Virginia, and very little industry , either light or heavy. Therefore, most of the 184,400 names in this index are the older residents, and the parents of the young people who have left the Valley. Research this valuable archive at MyTrees.com These Records are also found within United States, Virginia Records Best of luck in your research Michael Andrews MyTrees.com Debbie Noland Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net FAMILY HISTORY SITE http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/t/Debra-Nitsche// PHOTO SITE OF "FAMILIES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO" http://hometown.aol.com/familiesofwashco/index.html OLD MARIETTA & WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO PHOTOS http://hometown.aol.com/washcoohiopics/myhomepage/collection.html WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL "LINKS" http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/index.html