Bob Thank you very much. I hope your info will help me climb over my brick wall : ) Teresia F. Scott Hamilton, VA Genealogy, it's a family thing. Surnames and places: Sanders/Saunders, Smith, Cathcart, Jones, Combs, Barker, Hawn, Dunlevy, Clegg, Huckleberry, Yeary, Wallace, Russell, McCarty, Lowe, Legg, American Indian Places: Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ireland On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:01 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > VALOUDOU-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 239 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: VALOUDOU-D Digest V05 #238 [Teresia & Jamil Scott > <[email protected]] > #2 Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Re: VALOUDOU-D Di [[email protected]] > #3 Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Re: VALOUDOU-D Di ["Robert N. Grant" > <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from VALOUDOU-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > > From: Teresia & Jamil Scott <[email protected]> > Date: September 21, 2005 2:22:28 PM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: VALOUDOU-D Digest V05 #238 > > > Bob, > Thank you. I am new to researching wills. I assume I would have to > look elsewhere for this person's actual will. > > Teresia F. Scott > Hamilton, VA > > Genealogy, it's a family thing. > Surnames and places: Sanders/Saunders, Smith, Cathcart, Jones, Combs, > Barker, Hawn, Dunlevy, Clegg, Huckleberry, Yeary, Wallace, Russell, > McCarty, Lowe, Legg, American Indian > Places: Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ireland > On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> >> VALOUDOU-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 238 >> >> Today's Topics: >> #1 Wills [Teresia & Jamil Scott >> <[email protected]] >> #2 Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Wills ["Robert N. Grant" >> <[email protected]] >> >> Administrivia: >> To unsubscribe from VALOUDOU-D, send a message to >> >> [email protected] >> >> that contains in the body of the message the command >> >> unsubscribe >> >> and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >> requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >> >> ______________________________ >> >> >> From: Teresia & Jamil Scott <[email protected]> >> Date: September 20, 2005 8:32:29 PM EDT >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Wills >> >> >> I have a question regarding wills. A contact of mine found a listing >> for a will on a microfilm index that read: Lewis >> Smith............app. 471, Oct 1876 >> >> Does anyone know what "app" means? >> >> Teresia F. Scott >> Hamilton, VA >> >> Genealogy, it's a family thing. >> Surnames and places: Sanders/Saunders, Smith, Cathcart, Jones, >> Combs, Barker, Hawn, Dunlevy, Clegg, Huckleberry, Yeary, Wallace, >> Russell, McCarty, Lowe, Legg, American Indian >> Places: Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, >> Ireland >> >> ______________________________ >> >> >> From: "Robert N. Grant" <[email protected]> >> Date: September 20, 2005 8:56:58 PM EDT >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Wills >> >> >> Teresia, >> >> It probably stands for appraisement, meaning the inventory and >> appraisement of the assets of the estate. These typically do not >> have any genealogical information in them, but sometimes allow >> tracking of slaves from parent to child. >> >> Bob Grant >> >> Teresia & Jamil Scott wrote: >> >>> I have a question regarding wills. A contact of mine found a >>> listing for a will on a microfilm index that read: Lewis >>> Smith............app. 471, Oct 1876 >>> >>> Does anyone know what "app" means? >>> >>> Teresia F. Scott >>> Hamilton, VA >>> >>> Genealogy, it's a family thing. >>> Surnames and places: Sanders/Saunders, Smith, Cathcart, Jones, >>> Combs, Barker, Hawn, Dunlevy, Clegg, Huckleberry, Yeary, Wallace, >>> Russell, McCarty, Lowe, Legg, American Indian >>> Places: Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, >>> Ireland >>> >>> >>> ==== VALOUDOU Mailing List ==== >>> To contact Listowner: >>> Rena Worthen [email protected] >>> >>> >>> > > ______________________________ > > > From: [email protected] > Date: September 21, 2005 2:55:33 PM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Re: VALOUDOU-D Digest V05 #238 > > > Teresia, by any chance was your Jones line from the Hillsboro area of > Loudoun and were they Quakers? Thanks, Dan Harris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________ > > > From: "Robert N. Grant" <[email protected]> > Date: September 21, 2005 3:09:07 PM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Re: VALOUDOU-D Digest V05 #238 > > > Teresia, > > There is a significant chance that there is no will, if the only thing > listed in the index was the appraisement. This would mean the estate > would pass by intestate succession under the Virginia statutes. > > You would then want to search for an estate accounting, which would > set forth the receipts and disbursements for the estate and may list > the heirs and the shares each received as part of the administration > of the estate. If there is no estate accounting, there is often a > petition and order for the sale of land and division of the proceeds > among the heirs which again would list the names of the heirs and > their respective shares. Generally, the shares are of equal amounts, > but if a child has predeceased the parent, then the grandchildren > would divide the deceased child's share, resulting in smaller amounts > for them. If the land were not sold, you will often find one or more > deeds by which one heir purchased the interests of other heirs in the > land. > > Alternatively, if you examine the Land Tax Lists for the county for > the years before and after death, there is often a listing of the > decedent as owner of the land until death and then a listing of the > heirs as new taxpayers after death. This is another route for finding > the names of the surviving spouse and children. > > Hope this is of help to you in your search. > > Best wishes, > > Bob Grant > > Teresia & Jamil Scott wrote: > >> Bob, >> Thank you. I am new to researching wills. I assume I would have to >> look elsewhere for this person's actual will. >> >> Teresia F. Scott >> Hamilton, VA >> >>