This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gAC.2ACE/2373.1.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The origionals are in storage in the Courthouse in Winchester. They are, however, very fragile & not available to the public. These books I list are from transcribed from microfilmed marriage records & bond records. Ms. Good then compared the transcriptions with the origionals. LDS microfilmed them, and this set of 3 microfilm rolls can be accessed through interlibrary loan from the Virginia State Archives. I don't know of any photos - I am not related in any way. I don't know if William Roe's father would be listed - neither marriage/marriage bond book I have list him. In these books, in early records (before 1800) often both sets of fathers are listed. The later years often don't list the grooms father, and just who the bondsman was (in the bonds book). Have you found them in census records? As of 1850, all persons in the household are named. Often family relationships are also listed. It wouldn't be unusual for a parent to live with their grown children later in life. Some later ones also list where parents were born. Also, try the Handley Archives in Winchester. They have some family histories and sometimes photos. You might also try looking for obituaries of William or Basheba. Their parents might be listed there. Before 1900, they listed quite a bit of information.