A chancery suit helped me narrow down a time frame of death of one of Elizabeth Chinn Wilson's son because he was not named. Rawleigh Chinn gave 65 acres to her.... she died in 1834. She wrote a letter in 1832 to what could have only been her eldest son William by the tone of the letter and people mentioned and her mentioning his pending trip to New Orleans and her concern over that trip because of the dangers of them exploding.... she had not heard from him..... Ruth Dillon of the Chinn Book wrote he died in Kentucky in 1829... so the letter by the mother in 1832 to him and him not being mentioned in the division of the 65 acres given to her and all the other children were mentioned puts his death between 1832 and 1834 but where?????? I would love to delve into land records more. Janean -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 3:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Theorygen on Yahoo: List purpose description andlimitations. Craig, This "Theorygen Mail List" could be very interesting. ? Good job in pointing out the belief that you can "not"?research effectively without researching land records. ? As we all know, many times, there is much more information in the deeds than in the wills or court records. When the "whole" family starts to fight over the estate, the deed books are where the results of?who is who, and how and why, they have or had, said property along with the?list of previous owners usually providing dates of the change in ownership. ? Also agreements?between family members as to their consent to distribution of their portions and even someones list of household, business and personal property put up for collateral for debts owed along and much more. ? Thanks for sharing, Chocy -----Original Message----- From: chocybrown <[email protected]> To: Chocybrown <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jul 30, 2011 12:08 pm A forum to discuss anything related to genealogy, including but not limited to, considerations of research methodology. No subject restrictions in place. Discussion can include, but is not limited to "professionalism." There's only one rule: no spam. No one will be censored or removed from the list for expressing an opinion. There are waivers in place when anyone joins a Yahoo group, but just to clarify things: each member is solely responsible for the content of any posts, emails, messages, or comments that they send, or have sent on their behalf, to the TheoryGen list. They are also solely responsible for any attachments that they post directly to the list itself or to the TheoryGen website. -----Original Message----- From: Craig Kilby <[email protected]> To: Northern Neck List <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jul 30, 2011 9:41 am Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Using Deeds in research Hello all, I wrote this to the theorygen list on yahoo, which is a group of professional researchers across the US and in Canada. It is open to anyone, but much of it is of technical nature and case studies, not general genealogy on surnames and families. Recently, one person shared a " report" done for her by a firm in Salt Lake City that was extremely careless and uninformative. Part of that report stated that deeds were not consulted as they "rarely include any genealogical information." Needless to say, I was ahast! The rest of this message is a copy of what I sent to the theorygen list. Since it includes records in Essex and Middlesex County, I thought they would be appropriate to post here as well. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message