Hi, anyone visiting the Shenandoah Valley for the first time would be wise to > >visit the libraries in Harrisonburg and Edinburg first.. Both have excellent > >genealogy collections. If you are interested in old Frederick county records > >(pre-Shenandoah Co., ) the Handley Library in Winchester is the place to go. > >Harrisonburg is in Rockingham Co., and Edinburg is in Shenandoah CO.. Good > >hunting, Ken Virginia Hutson wrote: > Researchers, > My husband and I will be making a trip to Virginia later this month to > try to collect data on the LONG family and the RUEBUSH family. ADAM LONG > and MARGARET RUEBUSH were married 1788 in Rockingham Co. In 1792 they > moved to Augusta Co. Margaret died in 1843; Adam in 1854. Both are buried > in Frieden's cemetery in Rockingham Co. Their son ELI LONG died abt. > 1881. He and two of his sons (killed in the Civil War) are buried in > Melanchton Cemetery. I have never been able to find out who ADAM LONG's > parents were. > Here's the question: If you were going to make the trip to Virginia, > where would you look for information about these "befogged" and "beclouded" > ancestoral records? > I know to go to the Frieden's Church, but where from there? > Thanks, > Virginia Hutson > vhutson > > ==== SHENANDOAH Mailing List ==== > SHENANDOAH Families Mail List Archives: > courtesy of Rootsweb, our gracious host! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Just type in the mail list's name: SHENANDOAH