I am new to this forum, but I am impressed. This is how it is supposed to work. Bedford descendants seem motivated. I have learned much already. I have been on other forums, but everyone seems asleep. First to Velma--Your Jesse Stith rang a bell. The Stith family was very prominent in early Lunenburg, maybe even early Brunswick. A Drury Stith was a surveyor and platted much of the patents in present Campbell, Charlotte counties. I recall they were reasonably well documented. I remember their estates were east of the now Campbell line, near the Meherrin River, in the now much smaller Lunenburg county. There is a lot on them in the VaGenWeb site for Lunenburg. Stith is such an unusual name. I'm sure your Jesse belongs to this family. Now to Sandra--The Saunders name keeps popping up in my line of Irvines. There was a Judge Saunders of Bedford/Campbell, sometime in the early 1800's? One of the Irvine girls married a Saunders. They may have lived near now Evington. One of the descendants of this union was a lawyer and historian, and has a collection of old manuscripts preserved at UVA in the special collections room. They will do look ups. I will dig through my notes and see what I can find. Now finally, to the folks that are subscribers to Ancestry.com. I learned this a couple of years ago. Ancestry has many hundreds of old books, digitized and online in their entirety. The trick is how you view them. Go to Ancestry's home page--click the search tab up top--then scroll down to "family histories", Click on that and a page will open with a little search box. Do not type anything into the little box. You will get a thousand hits that you have to sort through. Instead, use the letters of the alphabet. For instance: If you are looking for Virginia publications, click "V" then "Vir" then "Virginia", so on so forth. You will eventually get to a list of old publications that all pertain to early Virginia. Then click on one of those and you can "see" the whole book--title page, table of contents, chapters, index, etc. Or you can type in a surname and search only the specific book. This works for any area or subject. You just have to know the first letter of whatever you are looking for. "G" for Georgia or Genealogies, N for Notes on, S for Sketches of, ad infinitum. Or you can just read the book one page at a time by using the next or back buttons. It would take a lifetime to read all these. But it is a great and very under-utilized resource. Just remember, these old books are notorious for being flawed. And don't forget "Google" books. They will eventually have more books online than Ancestry. Now, I read Microsoft is getting in on the act. Eventually, everything ever written will be on the internet. The IRS already knows everything about us anyway. Ha. And like I always say--We are all cousins in this Nation, only 200 years removed. Thanks for your help. Edwin