You wrote: From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] SOME ANCIENT LANDOWNERS IN ST. MARTIN'S PARISH HANOVER COUNTY, > VIRGINIA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" In a message dated 11/09/2003 1:01:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] SOME ANCIENT LANDOWNERS IN ST. MARTIN'S PARISH HANOVER COUNTY, > VIRGINIA by Norine Campbell Gregory Hi, I am desperately trying to find a Reuben Ross, Moses Ross and an Isaac Green in VA. Would really appreciate a look up if possible. Thanks, Audrey Orlando, FL Dear Audrey: The book I have is a hodge-podge of notes, kind of like you and I keep--only mine is all over the floor, instead of in nice notebooks. If you are looking for solid evidence for the persons you name, post your query again. You have given surnames, but you have no dates and no place. These three elements are necessary for a successful [we hope] query: Name, Date, Place. I am assuming you mean Hanover Co., but unless I (and certainly others) have some other info, you may be spinning your wheels. Hanover Co. was divided several times, and your people may be in an adjoining county. If you suspect your people were in Colonial Virginia, I have found one of the more solid pieces of evidence, especially for a burned county like Hanover Co., are the land patents. These land patents are listed on the Library of Virginia website (or at least were a few months ago--so many budgetary cutbacks, who knows whether they are still there or not). Tip: If indeed your people were in colonial Hanover Co., lots of the early deeds of Louisa Co., VA, which county was formed ca 1742 from Hanover Co., mention persons who reside or own land in Hanover Co. But, first, let's determine where your folks were when you first knew of them. Generally, we who volunteer at LDS centers and try to help persons with their genealogy, recommend this: Start with what you KNOW (have documentation for) and then move backwards SLOWLY in time, all the time accumulating evidence (documentation). One person who searches for others in a professional capacity asks persons who come in: Have you done your census work? The 1930 census is available on line, generally for a fee, but some LDS centers have a subscription to Ancestry.com which has the 1930 census. Start with that census and accumulate all you can from censuses (get printouts), and look at every column, and check out the nieghbors--that may be Aunt Minnie and her kids!!! E.W.Wallace