When one has a rather uncommon name (not like some of mine--Williams, Brown, Scott, Rose, et al), try going to the LDS surname search on www.familysearch.org The link to the catalog at Salt Lake City is on the lower right. You can choose surname search. I typed in Sydnor, about whom someone asked! There are lots of family histories in SLC which refer to this surname, including one (which has NOT been filmed) about the Sydnor family of Hanover Co. Since the Sydnor fam hist has not been filmed, interested parties could get a form at a nearby (we hope) LDS center to request photocopies of selected pages and/or indexes from the Library at Salt Lake City. Instructions are on the form. There will be a fee, but it is modest. (May save you LOTS of time and gasoline and internet time). You can request that photocopies of the index of the book be sent to you. An alternate methods is to request--gasp!--whether the book can be put on microfiche. Lots of books, with the permission of the author, have been published on microfiche. Each microfiche costs 15 cents apiece. By the way, Benjamin B. Weisiger III, who abstracted many records of colonial Virginia county, particularly along the James River, gave permission for many of his books to be published on microfiche. If you check the search for author and put in Weisiger, Benjamin, you may come up with a long list of his Virginia books. Check the "view film notes" at top of screen, and see which have been microfiched. These fiche remain at your local LDS center, so that you can refer to them again and again. By the way, ask what else is in the microfiche drawers at your LDS center. You may be pleasantly surprised. Ask about the use of AIS (Accelerated Indexing System), a consolidated index of the US censuses through 1850 with some additional census indexes (note, indexes, not censuses) for Western territories and some mortality schedules which need checking into. Happy hunting! E.W.Wallace

Sydnor family of Hanover can be found in University of Richmond's Virginia Baptist Historical records of Walnut Grove Baptist Church. This family donated the land that the church sits on. I don't think they have the info online, but I have been there some years ago and found them mentioned when I was looking for my relatives that are under their headstones in the church cemetery. Jim in Newport News [email protected] wrote: > When one has a rather uncommon name (not like some of mine--Williams, Brown, > Scott, Rose, et al), try going to the LDS surname search on > www.familysearch.org > > The link to the catalog at Salt Lake City is on the lower right. You can > choose surname search. I typed in Sydnor, about whom someone asked! There > are lots of family histories in SLC which refer to this surname, including > one (which has NOT been filmed) about the Sydnor family of Hanover Co. > > Since the Sydnor fam hist has not been filmed, interested parties could get a > form at a nearby (we hope) LDS center to request photocopies of selected > pages and/or indexes from the Library at Salt Lake City. Instructions are on > the form. There will be a fee, but it is modest. (May save you LOTS of time > and gasoline and internet time). You can request that photocopies of the > index of the book be sent to you. > > An alternate methods is to request--gasp!--whether the book can be put on > microfiche. Lots of books, with the permission of the author, have been > published on microfiche. Each microfiche costs 15 cents apiece. > > By the way, Benjamin B. Weisiger III, who abstracted many records of colonial > Virginia county, particularly along the James River, gave permission for many > of his books to be published on microfiche. If you check the search for > author and put in Weisiger, Benjamin, you may come up with a long list of his > Virginia books. Check the "view film notes" at top of screen, and see which > have been microfiched. These fiche remain at your local LDS center, so that > you can refer to them again and again. > > By the way, ask what else is in the microfiche drawers at your LDS center. > You may be pleasantly surprised. Ask about the use of AIS (Accelerated > Indexing System), a consolidated index of the US censuses through 1850 with > some additional census indexes (note, indexes, not censuses) for Western > territories and some mortality schedules which need checking into. Happy > hunting! > > E.W.Wallace > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237