gc-gateway@rootsweb.com wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Author: jane_gilbert >Surnames: >Classification: queries > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.campbell/2137.1/mb.ashx > >Message Board Post: > >Hi Helen, > >Can you tell me a little more about your Gilberts that were in Campbell Co., in the 1700s? I checked census records, and the earliest I could find a Gilbert in the census was 1810. > >My Gilbert line from Bucks Co., PA has a DNA match with a Martin line from Campbell Co., VA. It's an exact match on 36/37 markers making it a little hard to ignore. Both the Martin researcher and I constantly on the lookout for any "co-mingling" that might have taken place. > >Anything you could share would be great. > >Jane > >Important Note: >The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VACAMPBE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Jane, You cannot find anyone in Virginia in the census before 1810. The 1790 and the 1800 Virgina censuses were burned in a fire. Not sure which branch and exactly when but one of the departments had a fire. Anything you see now is reconstructed from other sources. The best replacement for the census is tax records. Netti Schriner-Yantis and Florine Speakman Love did a three volume set titled the 1787 census of Virginia. This was taken from the 1787 and 1788 personal property tax records of all of the then Virginia counties. There are individual booklets for each county. Not sure what is still in print. John Frederick Dorman published the 1800 personal property taxes for all the counties in the Virginia Genealogist (done alphabetically). He just finished publishing with volume 50 and I believe they are all indexed in printed indexes. I know there are printed index volumes for volumes 1-20 and volumes 21-35. Hope you find your ancestor, Marilyn Jackson Fairfax, VA