The Poythress CD had to be a herculean effort encompassing hours of work. This was a great idea Maynard. It seems that you possess the greatest comprehensive compilation of material extant on the family. I really appreciate the copy of the CD and your efforts in making this CD available for future study.......Thank you, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Poythress" <brerfox@bellsouth.net> To: <POYTHRESS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:44 PM Subject: Database CD > For some time now I have felt a need to capture in one place the > Poythress > and related family information we have accumulated over the past years. > For one > thing, nothing new has been posted to the website for several years..and > during > that interim many of you have made great contributions of citations of > legal > records, copies of histories, etc. I have accumulated quite a pile > myself. > > Over the past few months I have been trying to capture all of this > information on > a single CD-ROM to share with those of you that I think would be > interested in > the information. I make no claim to having it "all." However, I likely > have a ton of it and it's also likely that I have some material > unavailable (or at least "unpublished" on the listserver) before. > > There are no adverse copyright implications on any of this material. It > is either public domain or constitutes fair use, largely based on the > two principles that it is legitimate academic research and second, that > no one is either selling the stuff or "chilling" anybody else's market. > > While we are all hugely grateful to fellow-contributors, I have made no > attempt to claim or assign "credit" for any of this work and likewise I > don't want to create any unrealistic expectation that it is a > well-organized "study." It is simply a record of what has been > accumulated that I have in my "storage." My purposes in wanting to > share this information with you are several: 1) perhaps I can add to > your own information, 2) I hope that each of you will be so kind as to > forward me corrections and or missing pieces (or whole chunks) that I > may have missed and that YOU have..and 3) of course, as these CDs get > distributed among you a database will exist which I hope might fall into > the hands of some future family historian and save him or her many, many > hours of work. > > While some of the information is inclusive of other states the > concentration on purpose is directed to Virginia, a topic on which we > all share a common interest. > > Below is a brief description of some of the "headings": > > ^ Batte...complete, the text, Diana's "lines", and scans of every one of > Batte's 205 index cards on Poythress courtesy of Ted Kingsbury. > > ^ Boddie.complete..all "scanned"..I will add at this point that when I > refer to scans you may expect to have to view these through a "viewer" > such as MS Photoeditor and magnify them either once or twice for > reading. And some of the scans get a bit ragged. Documents and pages > this old don't scan perfectly..or even well..and, as you all know, I'm > not especially technically hip. > > ^ Census (all states).essentially I used Elaine's work. > > ^ CSA service lists > > ^ Dr. W. B. Hall on Poythress..scanned in total. > > ^ Illustrations, various..thanks to all contributors. > > ^ Individual wills and estate administrations (69 of > them)..chronologically. > > ^ Poythress land patents..both direct grants/patents and the Poythress > references in other patents..arranged chronologically. > > ^ the Swem Index...essentially this amounts to scans of all the > Poythress > references from the various publications covered by the Swem indexes. > This is a huge number of scans, several hundred pages as a guess. > > ^ VA databases BY COUNTY. What I did here was to take all of the "runs" > of various specific documents, facts, etc., re-cut the pie "by counties" > and restacked them chronologically. > > ^ VA files & folders..this is quite lengthy but is an assortment of > documents not especially large enough for "headings" of their > own..Bristol Parish Records, the Maitland Bible, William Byrd Diary > entries, Rev. War Bounty Grants, etc. > > > All I need to mail you a CD (no charge) is a snail mail address..the > "expense" related to this project is minimal at the most and I am > delighted if it will bring any information here-to-now unknown to any of > you. Just send me your snail mail (if you wish privately to me at > brerfox@bellsouth.net ) and a CD will go out to you within only a day or > so. > > On a final note, I'll comment again to the effect that some of this > material is far from "complete" (although I tried to mention it when > ends were left dangling) and > what I would really love to have from you is information supplementing > what you will see (I hope) right off is that is missing and that YOU may > have. > > A good example of this is the patents. They are in several "forms": > full text, abstracts, surveyor talk, etc. I would like to get them all > into "full text" form and if you have such on any one or more just email > the information to me and I will bring the "master CD" up to date. > When all of you have gone through this process it will be a simple > matter to burn another set of CD's and mail out the revisions. CDs cost > about a nickel so this is not a federal case. > > And..also, don't forget that many of you will have full and complete > records of a number of documents that well may not even be included > here. Obviously, those are very important to the group..sent to me they > will be included on the master > CD. > > Be waiting to hear from you. > > Best, > > Maynard > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > Poythress Genealogy Research Web > www.poythress.net > >