I use Microsoft VISTA and did not have a problem with the Chancery Records this morning. Estelle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amanda E. Douglass" <[email protected]> To: "Fauquier Board" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:39 AM Subject: [VAFAUQUI] Virginia Chancery Records site.....is it workingproperly? > Can some of you who use Microsoft VISTAS check this site and see how well > it is performing? It's not working as well as it has in the past weeks. > Last night and today it has been very difficult to get more than a few > pages to open once you get into a record. That spinning icon starts and > then it just seems to freeze. I click refresh but that doesn't help. > > Thanks, > Amanda > > > > > http://www.lva.lib.va.us/ChanceryWebQ/ChanceryBasicQuery.asp#basicdatastart > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Our 17th and 18th Century ancestors probably had really bad teeth, and although those living near the coast ate seafood, they really didn’t like salmon. They imported utensils from England, but the rounded-point knife did not gain acceptance as fast as the fork that had led to its development in the first place. Instead, they used their spoon to hold their meat while cutting it, then put down the knife and used the spoon to bring the food to their mouth. That’s why European table manners are still different from American. These are just a few of the interesting facts from "Everyday Life in Early America" by David Freeman Hawke, the best source I have found for learning about, well, everyday life in early America. For family historians who want to learn how their ancestors lived, not just their vital statistics, this book is the best I have found. It was published in 1989, but still available either new, or used for less than $6 including shipping. (Check bookfinder.com for sources.) 195 pages, paperback, indexed. Most public libraries probably have it on their shelves, too. When practices and conditions varied from New England to the Mid-Atlantic to the Chesapeake, the book points out the differences. One recurring theme, though, is that many ideas and adaptations from one place eventually found their way to others where they worked just as well. * * * Meanwhile, did you see the story today about how the exact location of George Washington’s boyhood home has been found and excavated by archeologists? It is on the Rappahannock near Fredericksburg, perhaps 40 miles from early settlement locations near the same river in Fauquier County. Many of our ancestors would have seen the house on their way to and from Fredericksburg, the major commercial center for that part of the colony. For those interested in archeological research of colonial Virginia sites, read any of several books by Ivor Noel Hume, who worked several decades ago at Jamestown and other locations. Bob Kamman Phoenix AZ