The best source for early Virginia information is land: patents and grants. These land records have indexed in a series titled Cavaliers and Pioneers. These books are now published by the Virginia Genealogical Society (see its web-site, vgs.org). Books should be available in libraries with genealogical collections. 2nd source is the Virginia Genealogist, a journal that was published for 50 years by John F. Dorman, CG. Unfortunately, there are two black holes in the Northern Neck history: Prince William Co., before 1800, and Stafford County, forever. These are two jurisdictions that were parent counties of Fairfax and Loudoun. Ms. Marty Hiatt, CG Certified Genealogist and CG are proprietary service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® used by the Board to identify its program of genealogical competency and evaluation and used under license to the Board’s associates.
Thank you Marty for the information. I would love to be in the Northern Neck to research, but if going there to the courthouses, etc. would not be of any more benefit than a good genealogical library then I need to get to the library. Thanks for helping. Shirley Holder Antrim ----- Original Message ----- From: "martyhiatt" <martyhiatt@wildblue.net> To: "Loudoun list" <valoudou@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:07 AM Subject: [VALOUDOU] Early Va. info The best source for early Virginia information is land: patents and grants. These land records have indexed in a series titled Cavaliers and Pioneers. These books are now published by the Virginia Genealogical Society (see its web-site, vgs.org). Books should be available in libraries with genealogical collections. 2nd source is the Virginia Genealogist, a journal that was published for 50 years by John F. Dorman, CG. Unfortunately, there are two black holes in the Northern Neck history: Prince William Co., before 1800, and Stafford County, forever. These are two jurisdictions that were parent counties of Fairfax and Loudoun. Ms. Marty Hiatt, CG Certified Genealogist and CG are proprietary service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® used by the Board to identify its program of genealogical competency and evaluation and used under license to the Board’s associates. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The First Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us something about your Brick Wall person. To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Search this list's archived messages! http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VALOUDOU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message