Donald, Thanks for the reply and all of your help over the years. It looks like a major task to scan the whole book page by page. I'm not sure my eyes or brain will co-operate with the search for any records of William Thorn. I wish they would have had typewriters back then. Sincerely Elmer Thorn -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Donald L Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:26 PM To: va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Stafford County Elmer - As was described on the Virginia History listserv, the Stafford County Order Book, 1749-1755, has been completely scanned and is available on the Library of Virginia's website. It has not been transcribed into a digitally searchable format, but there is a manuscript index in the front of the book. You can see it at http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/EH2GQSFIJU1AF4T6LUUF396EPCPDI6512FHAXQ4CTKL22AY7SH-00064?func=collections-result&collection_id=1586 (Item 47) Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian The Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC) Prince William Public Library System Bull Run Regional Library 8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, VA 20109-2892 703-792-4540 www.pwcgov.org/government/dept/library/RELIC ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:46:09 -0600 From: "Elmer thorn" <eandmthorn@suddenlink.net> Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Stafford County Craig, I am wondering if there are volunteers that can look at the recently returned Record Book to Stafford Co? My 4th Great Grandfather William Thorn was from Stafford Co until his land was later included into Prince William Co. The Thorn family, The Reneau-Reno family , the O'Rear family The Carter Family, The Sanford Family are just a few names of my family from there in that particular time period. If you could point me in the direction of anyone that could help me on these records I would greatly appreciate it. Sincerely Elmer Thorn Missouri ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message