>X-From_: VAGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com Tue Nov 23 06:10:36 1999 >Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:10:31 -0800 (PST) >X-Sender: spearsj@mail.rdu.bellsouth.net >Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:17:21 -0500 >Old-To: VAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >From: JoLee Spears <spearsj@bellsouth.net> >Subject: Re: [VAGEN-L] VA Northern Neck Grants online >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by bl-14.rootsweb.com >id HAA22596 >To: VAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: VAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: VAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <VAGEN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1165 >X-Loop: VAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: VAGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com > >Maybe I am misunderstanding the discussion, but all (as far as I know, all of >them) Northern Neck Land Grants (full images) are on-line at the below LVA >site. A message there says the files will not be available Nov 26-29. I >can't >seem to get in today, but I go there frequently. > ><http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/land>http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/land/ > >JoLee > >At 04:05 AM 11/23/1999 , you wrote: >>A remarkable work by Steve Knoblock. >> >>Having been accustomed to referring to Gertrude E. Gray's abstracts of >>"Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants" I was looking forward to Steve's >>searches. However, when I searched for the names shown on page 1 of Gray's >>abstracts of 1694-1742 patents not a single one was found in Steve's >>database. >> >>Upon checking the background pages at Steve's site I found that the base >>work on which Steve has drawn was selective : "Beginning at a white Oak. >>Patents and Northern Neck Grants of Fairfax County, Virginia. by Beth >>Mitchell is a comprehensive survey of land grants and patents made in the >>Northern Neck of Virginia in what are now Fairfax and Arlington counties." >> >>It appears that Dick Eastman somehow translated Steve's selective work to >>be a work covering all of the Northern Neck Land Grants. So, if your >>Northern Neck ancestor is not found in Steve's database it means only that >>your ancestor did not receive a grant for land that is now in either >>Fairfax or Arlington Counties. >>