Goochland Co. has many extant records. Also the first deed book of Louisa Co., VA, which was formed from Hanover Co., has many references to residents of Hanover Co. about 1740s. Some possible works of interest. Dr. Benjamin B. Weisiger permitted the Family History Library in Salt Lake City to film or microfiche many of his books, and I believe he had one or two on Goochland Co. Do an author search on the FHL online catalog at _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) You will find he compiled a number of books on colonial Virginia counties (but not Northern Neck counties). Each microfiche costs 15 cents presently, and they stay at your local FH center--so that you can continue to use them. Mrs. Rosalie Edith Davis is still selling her booklets [reasonably priced] on Louisa Co. records, and I have dogeared my copies to death. This is her website: _http://www.angelfire.com/va3/redavis/_ (http://www.angelfire.com/va3/redavis/) Some advice I got from a lecture on doing genealogy in Virginia--search ALL the counties!!! At first I thought the lecturer (who has a PhD in history and is the author of many genealogical works) was nuts. But, after conducting some research in colonial Virginia, I must agree with the lecturer!!! Not only did people move to new land, but the county boundaries changed--all the time!!! And don't overlook the fact that a lot of Hanover Co. people, as indicated by a batch of deeds in Granville Co., NC, moved to North Carolina. Granville Co. has some excellent records, and I am told that one time Granville Co. covered most of the area adjoining Virginia--not that it was all settled. My Hanover and Louisa co. folks went to North Carolina in the 1750s. E.W.Wallace