This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perry-Watkins-Sudbury Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/2453 Message Board Post: John and William Perry are the first Perrys to appear in Henrico Co abt 1750. We think they are brothers who came from Perrys in Charles City. Per family legend these Perrys were from Wales. John Perry b abt 1725-1740 m Patience Sudbury dau of Ezekiel. Their children *James Married Elizabeth Watkins * my line Elizabeth married Steward Jackson Rebecca Peter Ann William Samuel John Alexander Any help linking us to Chas City Perrys right across the river. They lived on Swift Creek and were allied with the Watkins and Graves around Petersburg. Looking for documentation on Henrico or Chesterfield Co John Perry selling Chas City property given to him from father or a will mentioning John and Wm from Swift Creek Henrico or Chesterfield Co. Wm died 1776 and John 1789 in Chesterfield Co.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/678.1445 Message Board Post: I have some Sinton names from old city directories. I also know the location of the Sinton property just outside of Richmond. Contact [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PROSSER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/678.749.751.1435 Message Board Post: Tell me more about the William Prosser. Please. Lindagen in IN

More than likely it is at the Library of VA on microfilm. Check their website using microfilm as a key word. If it is on microfilm you might also be able to have your local Family History center order it for you. Most localities in Va have sent their early records to LVA for safekeeping and to be microfilmed. Some records are missing because of fire, war, etc. Edith In a message dated 2/4/03 4:12:26 PM, [email protected] writes: << Would someone be so kind as to tell me where I would find a will dating back to 1722, written in Henrico County? Could I find it in the Henrico County Courthouse on Parham Road? Thanks. >>

Would someone be so kind as to tell me where I would find a will dating back to 1722, written in Henrico County? Could I find it in the Henrico County Courthouse on Parham Road? Thanks. Joanne Robison Case - South Carolina Arnold-Daniell-Lester-Montgomery-Patman-Robison-Simonton

<< Subj: [VAHANOVE] Fw: HB2426 Date: 1/30/2003 9:52:52 AM Eastern Standard Time From: [email protected] Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Fellow genealogists-- Please read the below (House Bill 2426) and address your concerns to Patron Del. Nixon & Co-Patrons Del. Janis & McDougle as soon as possible. This will affect ANYONE doing genealogy research in Virginia. Time is of the essence. If you reside in Virginia, please visit the Virginia General Assembly's website at http://legis.state.va.us/ and click on "Who's My Legislator" and contact all your legislators. Thanks!! (My apologies to those who may receive this message twice)' Please pass the word to any other Virginia genealogy-related lists you may belong/subscribe to. ~Sheri Millikin ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:46 AM Subject: HB2426 > Honorable Legislators, > I would like to express my concerns regarding HB2426. > > It presently reads as below: > > <START> > 030940904 > HOUSE BILL NO. 2426 > AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE > (Proposed by the House Committee on General Laws > on January 28, 2003) > (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Nixon) > A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered > 2.2-3808.2, relating to posting certain information on the Internet; > prohibitions. > Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: > > 1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered > 2.2-3808.2 as follows: > > § 2.2-3808.2. Posting certain information on the Internet; prohibitions. > > A. Beginning July 1, 2003, no state agency or court clerk shall post on a > state agency or court-controlled website any document that contains the > following information: (i) an actual signature; (ii) a social security > number; (iii) a date of birth identified with a particular person; (iv) the > maiden name of a person's parent so as to be identified with a particular > person; (v) any financial account number or numbers; or (vi) the name and > age of any minor child. > > B. Every agency and every court clerk that posts any document on a state > agency or court-controlled website may require that any party who files > documents in any form with such agency or clerk provide, in addition to the > original document, a redacted copy of such documents that excises the > information prohibited by subsection A. Failure to provide such redacted > copy shall relieve the agency or court clerk of any liability or > responsibility in the event that such information is posted on a state > agency or court-controlled website. > > Each such agency and clerk shall post notice that (i) includes a list of the > documents routinely posted on its website, (ii) the information listed in > subsection A shall be redacted from such documents, and (iii) such documents > are for informational purposes only. Such notice shall indicate the location > of the original document. > > C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit access to any > original document as provided by law. > <END> > > I can certainly understand and completely agree with keeping living > individuals private information secure. However, the wording of this bill > would not allow for genealogical research to continue within the > Commonwealth of Virginia by way of the internet. Census records, wills, > deeds, etc. would no longer be accessible. The Library of Virginia would > become directly affected as well as any courthouses within Virginia that > offer information on deceased individuals. > > Please have this revised so only living individual's information is > protected and genealogy research may continue to thrive in our Commonwealth. > > Thank you > Sheri Millikin > Hanover County,VA resident > (proud Virginian by birth who avidly enjoys genealogy research) >

IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ ALL. (I apologize to those of you who may be getting this more than once. I thought it important enough to send on to some whom I wasn't sure were on the email list.) Shirley Indiana ----- Original Message ----- From: Rex Bertram To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 8:47 PM Subject: [INJAY] Fw: IN House Bill 1540 - Birth and Death Records This concerns us all. Read below. Rex Bertram Jay County Indiana Webpage co-ordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~injay/ ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 8:29 PM Subject: IN House Bill 1540 - Birth and Death Records I am sending this to you to get the word out about proposed legislation in Indiana concerning Birth and Death Records. Would it be possible for you to send this to people on your mail list or to people you know that do genealogy in Indiana? I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Darlene Anderson IGS East Central District Director Henry County INGENWEB ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is proposed legislation to prohibit public access to vital records for the state of Indiana! House Bill (HB) 1540 can be read online at http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2003/IN/IN1540.1.html Some of the language in HB 1540 is: "h. When one hundred (100) years has elapsed after the date of birth, the records of those events in the custody of the state or local registrar shall become available to the public....." There is much more to read concerning HB 1540. Have I gotten your attention yet? I sure hope so and I hope that each and every one of us contacts our legislators about this. We've got to contact our legistatures immediately telling them of our opposition regarding HB 1540 as genealogists and family historians. Please read on: In this morning's Indianapolis Star in Section B City & State on page 3, House Bill 1540 is listed for Hearing on Wednesday morning at 10:30 from the Public Health Committee. Our emails and phone calls to legislators will need to start immediately with follow up letters in the mail on Monday! Express your opposition to proposed HB 1540 adopting new privacy standards for Indiana's public vital records! Even if you live outside the state of Indiana you may be affected by this HB. This applies to all of us - If we, at some point, wish to become a member of an organization that requires us to prove our lineage and HB 1540 becomes a law we will not have access to birth or death records to do this. Our desire to become a members of any organization that requires us to prove our lineage may be in jeopardy! Please contact the persons that have authored this proposed legislature. The site where you can find email address for IN Representatives is http://www.in.gov/cgi-bin/legislative/contact/contact.pl We are all concerned about identity theft. The state of Indiana requires information from us that should safeguard the issues of theft identity. Please contact your representatives by email, phone and follow-up with a letter. Thank you for reading this email. Darlene Anderson IGS East Central District Director Henry County INGENWEB ==== INJAY Mailing List ==== Genealogy Look Up Forum: http://expage.com/genealogylookup ============================== 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

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/WBC.2ACI/2452 Message Board Post: Searching for traces of BREEDING family known to be in Northern area here. Names John,David and Richard. This early Va family eventually move to Greenbrier,then on to KY. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/381.782.1 Message Board Post: Hello again ! Do you have any information about Thomas H. Easley ? The 1880 U.S. Census, Sullivan County, TN lists him at age 54 with wife Sarah and children Sarah A, John E.,Abraham L.,Margaret H.,Sarah B., Nelson, and Amanda J. My grandmother was Maybelle, daughter of Abraham L. Easley . I believe she was born in or near Kingsport TN.......I know her grandfather Thomas Henderson Easley was a Capt. in the Civil War

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Easley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/118.781.1 Message Board Post: Do you know what became of Daniel Easley ? The 1811 East Tennessee Tax list of Hawkins County has a Daniel Easley. 1830 Grainger co. TN census lists Daniel Easley, age 60-70, 5 persons in household. Daniels' will dated 10-12-1847(recorded 1848) names a widow Susan, daughters Mary, Katherine, and Isabella Harris. I have heard that he died in the war ?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/2448.1.1 Message Board Post: Carol, thank you so much for responding to my query. Your information is fascinating. I am trying to verify that Benajah Thomas and Rhoda Lacy were the parents of my great, great grandmother, Virginia Thomas. Keep me in mind if you ever find anything and if/when I get verification, I will contact you with my information. Sincerely, Janie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Allen--Brookbank--Chambers--Parrish Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/2451 Message Board Post: Looking for info on the Washam Family from Moore County. My Grandmother, Flossie Washam, Born Feb.19,1900 and died in Guilford Co. Nov. 13, 1954. She married W.L. Lowery from Danville, Va.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harding-Hardin-Harden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/2450 Message Board Post: I am searching for the husband of Nancy Harden (1850 Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia, Census): Nancy Harden born about 1811; Children: Jane Y. born about 1841; Thomas born about 1845; Christopher, born about 1846; and Berry born about 1848. Also, Berry Harden is listed in the following census (1880 Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia, Census) Berry, wife Laura Virginia, born about 1852; Lula L., born about 1874; Minnie, born about 1879; Christopher born about 1877. I would appreciate hearing from anyone with these ancestors. My grandmother was Mary Belle Harding, daughter of Christopher Harden and Sarah Gaulding. Christopher was the son of Nancy Harden. Thanks.

Well, I can't afford $30 per will from the Library of VA!!!! So..... does anyone have wills for the following people ca 1720-1750: Benjamin BURTON Baldwin ROCKETT Richard LEVENS Richard OGLESBY Abraham COWLEY Robert, Thomas, and/or William CHILDERS Thanks!! Kay in NC

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas, Knight Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/2448.1 Message Board Post: Benajah Thomas and Rhoda Lacy's daughter, Cleverine Thomas (b. 26 May 1825-d. 29 Dec 1911), married my great, great grandfather, William Carter Knight on 11 Nov 1851. This was a second marriage for William Carter Knight. He first married Elizabeth Guerrant Dickinson. I have an original letter written by Cleverine to her brother, Wray Thomas(b. abt 1820) while he was living in Columbus, Ohio. He was in law practice with another brother, Kendal (b. 31 May 1824-d. 26 Feb 1878). A sister, Delight Thomas (b. 10 Dec 1813-d. 14 May 1892) m. John F. Davis on 7 Oct 1835. Another brother, Creed Thomas, M. D. b. 8 Mar 1812-d. 23 Feb 1899 m. Mary Elizabeth Apperson on 1 Oct 1835. Daughter, Emma, and a son, Reese, and a daughter ,Virginia, I haven't been able to find much about. A daugher Ruth Bathia (b. 4 Oct 1823-d. 2 Jul 1889) m. Royal Parrish on 7 Feb 1843. William Carter Knight bought the plantation "Wilton" in 1859 and lived there during the civil war. My great grandfathe! r was named Creed Thomas Knight, obviously after Cleverine's side of the family.

Oakwood cemetery records are on microfilm at the Library of VA. If he is there, it should tell you the location of his grave which may or may not be marked. Edith In a message dated 1/26/03 8:30:52 PM, [email protected] writes: << Griff, Thanks for your reply. If Lucian R. Smith is buried at Oakwood, is there a way to find his grave? >>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/2169.2.1.2 Message Board Post: Griff, Thanks for your reply. If Lucian R. Smith is buried at Oakwood, is there a way to find his grave? Tom Jones

Anyone going to the Library of Virginia soon? I would gladly pay for your time if you could find a document for me. Thanks in advance, Gloria

Hello Everyone, In gathering information for another assault on my likely DeFord ancestry (Isle of Wighty Co, VA:>Wake Co NC), I came across the following article pasted at the end I collected a while back. It is a humorous piece on the Huguenots written for Sports Illustrated by sportswriter Frank DeFord in 1998 after (I guess if I read it correctly) the French won the soccer World Cup in 1998. I found it at a Fetty website, which also has a short historical statement. I thought all of you with Huguenot ancestry would find it amusing (or hope you do!). http://www.fettywww.com/Fetty_Huguenots.html Best Regards, Janet (Baugh) Hunter 07/27/98 Sports Illustrated By Deford, Frank ; McCallum, Jack ; et al Magazine: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED July 27, 1998 Section: Scorecard World Cup ========= PAS DE RESPECT -------------- The author's French forebears were paid no heed before the final--or after it People are always b______g about being stereotyped because of their heritage. But let me tell you: Just wait till you're not stereotyped. Then you'll be sorry. Then nobody grants you quaint genetic characteristics that allow you to get away with stuff. Nobody says, "Well, no wonder he acts that way. Hey, it's O.K. because he's a -----." No. If you're not stereotyped, then you're just stupid all by yourself, laughed at strictly on your own hook. How well I know this. Because, unlike most Americans, I've been deprived. Like Peter Pan without his shadow, I have no visible heritage, no direct connection to the land of my forefathers. Instead, I've had to slog through life simply as American. No hyphen before that. No qualifying I.D. The World Cup made me think about this. You see, I am from a forgotten tribe. Not lost, you understand. That's romantic: lost. My tribe is simply forgotten. I am a Huguenot. A French Huguenot. Who remembers us? But hey, we remember the Incas, and who has even seen an Inca? As Tom Brokaw, a lapsed Huguenot, once declared when he attended another ethnic celebration, "There are very few songs that start When Huguenot Eyes Are Smiling." At one time we Huguenots were among the noblest of all immigrants, among the first to come to the colonies in search of religious freedom. Paul Revere was a Huguenot. But as time went on, we were assimilated. My original family name was Dufour, which is so lovely and ethnic, but some d__n ancestor anglicized it to bland old Deford. And there's no Huguenot homeland to vacation in. No Huguenot newspapers, no Huguenot food, no Huguenot expressions. Not even any Huguenot jokes. No "There was this atheist, this Jew and this Huguenot, and...." Hardly anybody can even spell Huguenot, and the British pronounce it HYU-ghe-no, as opposed to the way we say it (HYU-ghe-naht). How can you stereotype a people you can't even pronounce? Besides, what red-blooded American believes that Protestants could be discriminated against? But, you see, we Huguenots were the minority in France, and it was the majority who gave us something of an option: Leave or get burned at the stake. But still: I am (was) French, and--Hallelujah!--here were my people (my bloods) in the World Cup final. At last I knew what it was to feel like an Irishman or an Italian or a Jew or a Puerto Rican! Ich bin ein minority! Of course, there was a certain amount of angst, of conflict. After all, it was the forefathers of Les Bleus who wanted to burn my ancestors at the stake. Besides, nobody likes the French. All my life, because I cleverly, deceitfully pass as non-French, people have dissed the French right in front of me, unaware of my deep, wounded feelings. For everybody who's insecure, the French are fair game to kick around. And I have had to put up with this cruel slander. Of course, I don't much like the French either. But it's the principle of the thing. It's the only heritage I've got, even if they did want to burn me at the stake. Nobody's perfect. Every now and then I have met another Huguenot--but it's not easy to tell. It doesn't say Huguenot on your driver's license. There are no Huguenot bars. But: Frank Perdue, the chicken man, revealed to me that he is a fellow Huguenot. So did Pete Rozelle, the late pro football commissioner. Then there's Brokaw--although he does not seem to have come out as a Huguenot. Then...last week: France trois, Brazil zero. At last, my country of origin had won the World Cup. Everybody was trilling, "Vive la France!" The nouveau fans were climbing on the Gallic bandwagon. Now, for the first time in my life, I could be one with my glorious heritage. I could stand on the rooftops and belt out La Marseillaise. I could be Dufour again. "Bonjour, mes amis!" I cried down at the Sunoco station. Moreover, much was made of the French being so heterogeneous, so tolerant. It was Frenchmen of Algerian descent, Frenchmen from Guadeloupe who had won the Cup. The tricolor was, suddenly, a veritable Jesse Jacksonian rainbow. Of course, for all the patriotic speeches in Paris, all the self-congratulation--nowhere any apologies to the Huguenots. Nowhere even a mention of Huguenots. No room in the rainbow. All my hopes for financial reparations or for being allowed to build a casino on the French land that used to belong to my family--dashed. After a lifetime of waiting to be taken back into the embrace of the land of my fathers, the World Cup had shown me that, alas, Huguenot eyes can never smile. I'll never be stereotyped like all those Americans with another past, an alternative persona. I'll never be a Dufour. I'm stuck as old Deford. Anglicized name, Americanized body. Forever. ~~~~~~~~ By Frank Deford

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/WBC.2ACI/2169.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I will inquire here in Richmond about names at Oakwood and Hollywood. If he was at Seven Pines he would be at Oakwood I believe. We are fighting a brutal battle here in Richmond over evil people and their money profits at the expense of sleeping Confederate soldiers and their relatives living. See: http://lincolnstatuescam.tripod.com/ The United States Government Park Service, Kline and Marty Moran are determine to erect a Abraham Lincoln statue in the middle of 37,000 sleeping Confederate soldiers, on a Confederate site in Richmond in April 2003, to honor the Commander-in-Chief of the Army that killed them. Read our web site and weep. Regards, Griff