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 However, I likely have a ton of it and it's also likely that I have some material unavailable (or at least "unpublished" on the listserver) before.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

I would love to have a copy of your CD and will be happy to pay any costs involved. (I will take it to the San Antonio Genealogical Library--we have a wonderful stand-alone building-- for others to puruse.) However, I do have a couple of questions/suggestions. If you quote Boddie, keep in mind that there are many errors/corrections/omissions in his works. They should really not be construed as "errors" since he did the very best he could with the information that he had, and did provide us with a basic work to "follow up on", but there are several incorrect listings regarding the Wynnes, Bells and other families. Also, could you, please, note that we do not know when/where Francis Poythress, husband of Mary, died and THEREFORE can not verify if Mary was the mother of all of Robert Wynne's children? I really do look forward to your postings. Thank you for sharing. Deloris Wynne-Riley -----Original Message----- From: John M. Poythress [mailto:brerfox@bellsouth.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 6:45 PM To: POYTHRESS-L@rootsweb.com 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