Dearest cousins, friends and fellow researchers, I shall change the subject, even though I have loved this wonderful discussion of 'times past'. I have never shared with you all the strange thing that happened a couple of years ago while I was researching my ORNDORFF ancestor. Paul Drake and I were discussing the above ancestor and I mentioned that they lived in Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD, also mentioning that they had bought property in Washington, DC and how interesting it was to see those plots now overlaid on the current DC. Paul asked for Major Christian Orndorff's wife's name and I told him. He said that the name sure sounded familiar. Your will never believe what happened next! Paul had the ORIGINAL newspaper with her obit. on the front page. He gave me the paper as a gift, all safely enclosed in archival protection and to this day I get chill bumps when I read of her death. Major Christian Orndorff, by the way, is one of my Amer. Rev. ancestors. I bring this to the VA-SOUTHSIDE attention because there is so much information in the old newspapers that one never knows what they might find. So....if you ever can get your hands on old Lunenburg County or surrounding Counties, please, please let me know as I would love to buy/read them after you have read them...of course. Fondly, Margaret

>I bring this to the VA-SOUTHSIDE attention because there is so much information in the old newspapers that one never knows what they might find. So....if you ever can get your hands on old Lunenburg County or surrounding Counties, please, please let me know as I would love to buy/read them after you have read them...of course. ---------------------- I have microfilm of two Petersburg, VA newspapers from the 1811 - 1816 time period that have legal announcements from Lunenburg, Brunswick, etc. sometimes. I can be on the lookout for certain names if you want, but both papers are mostly advertisements and news either from Washington or foreign parts. Only a few obituaries and wedding announcements. Lots of announcements about runaway slaves. Lots of text from the debates in Congress. Ed Barnes