At 07:07 AM 8/18/2009, you wrote: >Can anyone tell me where in VA I might check for info that supposedly took >place in Ohio Co., VA but was not made a part of those current county's >records. The same with those western PA counties once part of Virginia >(Yohogania, Ohio, or Augusta County.) Hi, Lou, I've been told to check with the WV & Reginal History Section of the WVU Library. You can learn more about their resources at their website: http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvcollection/ One of the best sources for land records is Earl Core's first volume of "The Monongalia Story" in which he lists the contents of land certificates entitling the holder to a land warrant for the land mentioned. (I forget now how that book, covering 1766-1776, survived the fire which destroyed all the other early Mon. Co. Courthouse records.) There's also a book by Boyd Crumrine entitled "Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania" pub'd by Clearfield for Genealogical Pub. Co. which says that the material was excerpted and reprinted from "Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Volumes I-III, Pittsburgh, 1902-1905." In the book's Foreword, the Gen Pub. Co. states: "When the border controversy was at length settled an Act was passed authorizing the clerk of Washington County, Pennsylvania to collect the probate registers, records of deeds, and records of court administrations from the clerks of the counties of Yohogania, Monongalia, and ohio insofar as they related to the Pennsylvania territory then embraced by Westmoreland and Washington Counties. Those parts of Monongalia and Ohio Counties pushed out of Pennsylvania by the running of the new boundary lines were, of course responsible for the custody of their own records. Everything else, though, including the records of the court held at Fort Dunmore in the District of West Augusta, became the official records of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they are herein transcribed for the period 1775-1780 --- the period most likely to cause consternation to the genealogical researcher because of the legal chaos coincident to the border controversy. " The Gen Pub. Co. goes on to write that the court order books of Yohogania County were transcribed by Crumrine from the holdings of the Washington Co. Historical Society. Monongalia records had been destroyed by fire. Ohio County records were transcribed from photostats furnished by the Clerk of Court in Wheeling. Crumrine's transcriptions were originally published in the first three volumes of the "Annals fo the Carnegie Museum (1902-1905); they add that this is a periodical "devoted to scientific subjects," suggesting that would not be a likely place for genealogists to look. There is an index including with this book but it refers only to full-name entries in the text. Best regards, Jane