(My apologies if this is a repeat; I never saw the first one go by.) A new book is available to help you untangle the many intermarried families of the Bath Co, VA region. Since Bath Co came out of Augusta, Botetourt, and Greenbrier counties, and originally contained portions of Alleghany, Pendleton, Highland, and Pocahontas counties, you'll find many families from those counties in this book, plus a few folks from adjacent Rockbridge Co. Following Jean Bruns's abstraction of Will Books 1 through 4, this book takes Bath Co through the 2 decades before the War Between The States, the War itself, and the post-war reconstruction period. Most valuable, it includes many names from the critical pre-1850 census years (before the census listed every name in the household). --------------------- Abstracts of Bath County, Virginia Will Books 5 and 6 (1843-1875) compiled by Holly Wanless Cochran ISBN 0-9666399-0-1 - abstracts of the entire contents of Will Books 5 and 6 (March 1843 through September 1875) of Bath County, VA, in one 282-page volume - contains wills, estate inventories (names only, not estate contents), estate sale buyers, heirs mentioned in estate settlements, guardian bonds for minor children, records of commitment for insanity, children born out of wedlock, land sales, slave sales, slave emancipations, marriage contracts; licenses to operate various businesses, perform marriages, or be a minister; bonds to guarantee performance in public office; powers of attorney for distant heirs to receive their portion of an estate - 5 indexes, glossary of legal terms, explanation of probate process See this web site: http://id.mind.net/~cochran/hollyhock for more details, including a sample page from the book, an order form, and a special offer for free shipping for books ordered by Sept. 15. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments. Thanks for your time, Holly Wanless Cochran hcochran@bigfoot.com