Somebody asked in response to this message about the Doris Davison Collection: "Is there any easy way to get a list of primary research surnames? As I apparently did not make it clear when I wrote THESE HAVE NOT YET BEEN CATALOGED". These WILL BE catalogued. They are not YET cataloged. It is three boxes. We are NOT scanning these files at this time. We are happy to see if there even IS a file on a given surname. Send an email to info@mbwm.org and one of the volunteers will get back with you as soon as possible. There ARE three typed lists of the contents of each box. I do not not think we are at the stage yet to publish this list. Bear with us. You may of course send a query to our library at info@mbwm.org. Certain fees may apply. Craig Kilby Craig Kilby <persisto1@gmail.com> wrote:By "out of area" I should add that in most cases that can be as near as Amelia County,Virginia or as far away as Texas or Missouri. Obviously, it is is heavy on Tennessee and Kentucky but by no means restricted to a purely Western migration pattern. It all depended on who her clients were and how they were tracking back to the Northern Neck. On Jan 25, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Craig Kilby wrote: > We have not talked about this for sometime, but I wanted to give all of you an update on what the Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library has done/ is doing with the voluminous papers of the late the Doris Davison, genealogist of the Northern Neck, whose family donated them to us. > > (1) the library ordered a special stamp saying "Doris Davison Collection" for all of the papers that were: > (2) interfiled in existing family files (i.e. vertical files, loose papers) already at the library. These were for Northern Neck families > (3) three large boxes remained for "out of area" research she did. These have not yet been cataloged but will remain a separate collection. A typed list of the contents, by box, has been done.