There are many great old books digitized on Google that mention families in the old Brunswick/Lunenburg/Bedford area. You can read them in their entirety for free. They have many hundreds of books online. Forget paying ancestry.com a fortune. You can read the google books for a lifetime, for absolutely nothing. Here are just a few. There are many more. You can use the little search engine, find the index, or just scroll a page at a time. Just remember, old publications, many errors. Naturally, the ones I copied here are skewed toward my kin. But tons of other surnames are mentioned. Edwin http://books.google.com/books?id=oX3hxtr5L24C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Genealogy&lr=&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wi03AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=History+of+the+Mcdowells&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=rZbEC1kEdpcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Annals+of+Augusta+county&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=VzUPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Chronicles+of+Scotch+Irish&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=oX3hxtr5L24C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Albemarle&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=BAo7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Cabell%27s+and+Kin&as_brr=1

Wow, thanks Edwin. One of my families originated in Bedford, the other side in Amherst County, so I'm sure this site is going to be helpful to me. Sheila in Florida -----Original Message----- From: vabedfor-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vabedfor-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Edwin "Tex" Irvin Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:00 PM To: vabedfor@rootsweb.com Subject: [VABEDFOR] Old books on Google There are many great old books digitized on Google that mention families in the old Brunswick/Lunenburg/Bedford area. You can read them in their entirety for free. They have many hundreds of books online. Forget paying ancestry.com a fortune. You can read the google books for a lifetime, for absolutely nothing. Here are just a few. There are many more. You can use the little search engine, find the index, or just scroll a page at a time. Just remember, old publications, many errors. Naturally, the ones I copied here are skewed toward my kin. But tons of other surnames are mentioned. Edwin http://books.google.com/books?id=oX3hxtr5L24C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Genealo gy&lr=&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wi03AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=History +of+the+Mcdowells&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=rZbEC1kEdpcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Annals+ of+Augusta+county&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=VzUPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Chronic les+of+Scotch+Irish&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=oX3hxtr5L24C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Albemar le&as_brr=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=BAo7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Cabell%27s+and+Kin&a s_brr=1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To post to the list, email: VABEDFOR@rootsweb.com To contact the list admin, email: VABEDFOR-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VABEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message