For those of you asking about the Woods book about Albemarle County. There are actually three different histories of the county that I have copies of. The Woods book and a later one are generally available in book stores in Charlottesville. I have copies of both of them and have seen them off and on over the years. I haven't looked lately, but I assume the reprint of the Wood book is still available. I don't have the book here at the office, but have been re-reading it lately so it is at my bedside. It is an interesting book in that over half of it is short family histories of many of the early families in Albemarle County. Unfortunately, neither the Via nor the Sandridge family are covered in their own history, but are mentioned in passing in other parts of the book. The Maupin family is included, but the information is scanty. I'm interested in a number of lines also and fine it valuable. After the family history section there is a sort of almanac of the county, with lists of people filling various offices by year. It also has lists of people that migrated from the county to other states, and this is organized by state. I must warn you that this is not a scholarly work, it is not organized for easy retrieval of data, and is generally unreferenced. It was written by Rev Woods and has the vantage point of having been written in 1901 when he descended from one of those families and a lot of family history was still intact among the older generations- I treat it in the category of the oral history that you wish you had asked great aunt Lucy before she died 30 years ago. The much later history by Moore is more of a history. It is direr, more scholarly, and probably better referenced. It is interesting to a student of the county per se, but not very enlightening about families, unless perhaps you are descended from the Jeffersonian crowd in the eastern half of the county. Not much on the families in the foothills and hollows of the Blue Ridge where my interest lies. -- James A. Pittman, MD jpittma1@erols.com