Thank you Emaress: I am really trying to locate some sort of birth record for William. Maybe one of his sons married in KY, but William RACKERBY and an Elizabeth CRADDOCK did marry in VA and then later there were records of her marrying a Jacob LEWELLEN in Ohio Co. KY. My great great grandfather Joseph Rackerby son of William was born in 1803 in VA. It is just a brick wall I have come up against. I thank you again for your research. Millie (Rackerby) Niswonger ----- Original Message ----- From: Emaress Nova <emaress_nova@yahoo.com> To: <VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:32 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] RACKERBY 1774 > I found William Rackerby born 1774 in Ohio County > Kentucky. He married Elizabeth Craddock who was > born in Nottoway County, VA. They married about > 1798 in Ohio County, Kentucky. > --- Millie Niswonger <mjnis@softcom.net> wrote: > > I hope someone can help me in trying to locate > > information on William RACKERBY, born in > > Norfolk about 1774. Father was a John RACKERBY. > > Are there churches in that area where he might > > have been christened since I don't know if > > marriage or birth records go back that far? > > Thank you. Millie > > > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > ============================== > 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 >

Thank you Bev, So he could have come to VA for just about any reason . It seems his many times grandson ALLEN HULETTwas a farmer in MO. after the Cival War,I wonder if this was a family thing . Linda Rogers Ms2001@aol.com wrote: Indentured servants served for 7 years. Once their indenture was over, they could do anything they wanted. Many other people came for other job opportunities - preachers, lawyers, farmers, doctors, teachers, carpenters, blacksmiths - anything that was needed here. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Date: 9/4/2003 4:14:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: lindarogers6330@sbcglobal.net Reply-to: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Paul , thank you for that info.. Please forgive my ignorance when I ask this and keep in mind that I know squat about VA's history . How long does one become a indentured servant for?Is there a set time or what ?What happens after one is no longer a indentured servant ?If he wasn't a I servant what other possibilities are there for him coming to VA? Linda Rogers Paul Drake wrote:I very much doubt that he arrived as a servant and yet but a few tears later owned land and seemed to be legally active. ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Rogers To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Paul,you had to ask . I was told this ,from who you might ask : Someone read it in a book and told me . Not to accurate , I know but I'm grabbing for straws or crumbs of info. on this one . Paul Drake wrote:It would appear that your Lawrence Hulett was not an indentured servant. Why do you think he was? << I am looking for info. a LAWRENCE HULETT and family . He arrived in VA abt 1659 , a indentured servant I believe . I have no info. on his children or grandchildren etc. ============================== 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 Linda Rogers Eureka , CA ADVICE : The wise person doesn't need it ,the fools won't heed it ! ============================== 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 ============================== 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 ============================== 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 ============================== 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

Thank you so very much for this Paul ,I am using this for sure. Linda Rogers Paul Drake <pauldrake@charter.net> wrote: Here are the VA patents visible on line in photocopies of the original, thus open to you and more complete and accurate than are Nugent's Abstracts, where there are many errors and misinterpretations. You can search VA Land Office Patents by name of ancestor from the bottom of this page if you do not know the Vol. and page numbers. Paul http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/ ============================== 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

Thank you again Bev,That is good info. and answers a question I asked earlier. I am so grateful for all of the lists help on this . I have another VA family ,one of many , that I could use some help with ,if you don't mind me asking for more help?Actually I have at least five families from VA and thats just a conservative guess. Catherine Lucy Hutchinson B 22 July 1792 in Shenadoah , VA D 11 Feb.1842 in Pike County IN father: James Hutchinson B abt 1771 in VA mother : Sarah Thomas B abt 1771 in VA I would like to find out who James parents are and Sarahs too. Any hope of this ? Linda Rogers Ms2001@aol.com wrote: Paul is right - his indentured servant status would have been for a minimum of 7 years. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Date: 9/3/2003 3:27:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: pauldrake@charter.net Reply-to: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent from the Internet (Details) I very much doubt that he arrived as a servant and yet but a few tears later owned land and seemed to be legally active. ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Rogers To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Paul,you had to ask . I was told this ,from who you might ask : Someone read it in a book and told me . Not to accurate , I know but I'm grabbing for straws or crumbs of info. on this one . Paul Drake wrote:It would appear that your Lawrence Hulett was not an indentured servant. Why do you think he was? << I am looking for info. a LAWRENCE HULETT and family . He arrived in VA abt 1659 , a indentured servant I believe . I have no info. on his children or grandchildren etc. ============================== 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 Linda Rogers Eureka , CA ADVICE : The wise person doesn't need it ,the fools won't heed it ! ============================== 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 ============================== 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 ============================== 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

Paul , thank you for that info.. Please forgive my ignorance when I ask this and keep in mind that I know squat about VA's history . How long does one become a indentured servant for?Is there a set time or what ?What happens after one is no longer a indentured servant ?If he wasn't a I servant what other possibilities are there for him coming to VA? Linda Rogers Paul Drake <pauldrake@charter.net> wrote:I very much doubt that he arrived as a servant and yet but a few tears later owned land and seemed to be legally active. ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Rogers To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Paul,you had to ask . I was told this ,from who you might ask : Someone read it in a book and told me . Not to accurate , I know but I'm grabbing for straws or crumbs of info. on this one . Paul Drake wrote:It would appear that your Lawrence Hulett was not an indentured servant. Why do you think he was? << I am looking for info. a LAWRENCE HULETT and family . He arrived in VA abt 1659 , a indentured servant I believe . I have no info. on his children or grandchildren etc. ============================== 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 Linda Rogers Eureka , CA ADVICE : The wise person doesn't need it ,the fools won't heed it ! ============================== 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 ============================== 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

To explain what "Cavaliers and Pioneers" is, I've compiled this information from the Introductions to Volumes I - V ........ Cavaliers and Pioneers began with 3 volumes that lists abstracts of the Virginia Land Patents and Grants from 1623-1749 by Nell Marion Negent who was the custodian of the Land Office from 1825 - 1958. Mrs Nugent had planned a series of 5 books to cover the patents and grants through the 17th and 18th centuries. Volume 1 abstracts patent books 1- 5 covering 1623 - 1665 and was published in 1934. Volume II has patent books 6 - 7 covering the years 1666 - 1695 and Volume III has books 9 - 14 covering the years 1695 - 1732. These volumes were delayed when Mrs Nugent's supporter, Anges Bernadine Sitterding, had to abandon the project after the type was set. Copies of Mrs Nugent's corrected proofs survived and were placed in the Va State Library along with the Land Office records. Eventually the set type was destroyed. VSL finally got Volume 2 published in 1977 and Volume 3 in 1979. Volumes IV & V were published in 1994 by the Va Genealogical Society edited by Denis Hudgins. Volume IV covers the years 1732 - 1741 and patent books 15 - 19. Volume V covers 1741 - 1749 and books 20 - 28. This set of books is the "best available chronicle of immigration of freemen, slaves, and indentured servants to colonial Virginia". There are 2 references to Thomas Kirbye in Volume I. The first (page 113) is for the land patent for Lt Richard Popeley - 1250 acres on June 10, 1639 at Middle Plantation (later Williamsburg) for the transportation of 25 persons including Thomas Kirbye. The second (page 156) states that Thomas Kirbye was assigned the land of Thomas Symons on Dec 28, 1642, who received the land for the tranpostation of 9 persons on Nov 25, 1637. Hope this is helpful. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: RE: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Date: 9/3/2003 12:51:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:rex@tyler.net">rex@tyler.net</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) Bev, I have an old yellowed pencil note written in about 1961 that says "Cavaliers and Pioneers - Kirbye, land 1642". I'm not sure what I was looking at when I jotted this down but evidently I had intentions of looking it up. Took time out to finish college, raise a family, etc and today I saw your reference to Cavaliers and Pioneers Vol 1. Can you tell me more about this book or set of books and if in fact there is a Kirbye mentioned. I would very much appreciate any info. From other information I have I believe there was a Thomas Kirbye back in Virginia who may have been one of my great grandfathers, several generations back. I think my Kirby line settled in VA in the early 1600's, then some moved to NC and from there to SC and my great grandfather Richard Monroe Kirby, abt 20 years old, moved from the Spartanburg area to Smith Co in East Texas in about 1878 where my line has been ever since. Thanks, Rex Kirby -----Original Message----- From: Ms2001@aol.com [mailto:Ms2001@aol.com] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 9:27 PM To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA In Cavaliers and Pioneers Vol 1 by Nell Marion Nugent there are several references to Lawrence Hulett - and many variant spellings of Hulett but no other Lawrences. Page 113 - Lawsr Hulett witness to patent for Farncis Derricle & Richard Johnson Oct 14, 1638 Page 226 - show Lawrence Hulett is Treasurer of Council & Company of Adventurers and Planters for Southern Colony of Virginia 10 Dec 1620 (I'm not clear on this date - this is in a legal document and it's very convoluted) Page 259 - Shows Lawrence Hulett transported by Teague Floyne 1 August 1652 The index also shows references for him on Pages 349 & 544 but I cannot find them - I've found the index to C&P is not accurate. Hope this helps. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Date: 9/1/2003 9:37:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: HREF="mailto:lindarogers6330@sbcglobal.net">lindaro gers6330@sbcglobal.net> Reply-to: HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) I am looking for info. a LAWRENCE HULETT and family . He arrived in VA abt 1659 , a indentured servant I believe . I have no info. on his children or grandchildren etc. I have only been able to get to ALLEN HULETT in KY B. 1820 with no record of who his parents where or if he had any ! So I am looking for the family from 1659 to 1820 and don't know where to start . My library will not get inner library loan from out of state , I'm in CA . So that has complicated things ! But worse then that they only have local genealogy books . So I am asking for HELP in a big way . Thank you,Linda outhere in the redwoods and not much more ! ============================== 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 ============================== 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 ============================== 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 library in this rural area finally managed to get cavaliers/pioneers on a inter library loan,the first three abyway . I just need to find which books have my HULETTS in them and maybe I will get to read all about them ! I am excited about this . Linda in Ca with a whole slug of VA ancestors Ms2001@aol.com wrote: To explain what "Cavaliers and Pioneers" is, I've compiled this information from the Introductions to Volumes I - V ........ Cavaliers and Pioneers began with 3 volumes that lists abstracts of the Virginia Land Patents and Grants from 1623-1749 by Nell Marion Negent who was the custodian of the Land Office from 1825 - 1958. Mrs Nugent had planned a series of 5 books to cover the patents and grants through the 17th and 18th centuries. Volume 1 abstracts patent books 1- 5 covering 1623 - 1665 and was published in 1934. Volume II has patent books 6 - 7 covering the years 1666 - 1695 and Volume III has books 9 - 14 covering the years 1695 - 1732. These volumes were delayed when Mrs Nugent's supporter, Anges Bernadine Sitterding, had to abandon the project after the type was set. Copies of Mrs Nugent's corrected proofs survived and were placed in the Va State Library along with the Land Office records. Eventually the set type was destroyed. VSL finally got Volume 2 published in 1977 and Volume 3 in 1979. Volumes IV & V were published in 1994 by the Va Genealogical Society edited by Denis Hudgins. Volume IV covers the years 1732 - 1741 and patent books 15 - 19. Volume V covers 1741 - 1749 and books 20 - 28. This set of books is the "best available chronicle of immigration of freemen, slaves, and indentured servants to colonial Virginia". There are 2 references to Thomas Kirbye in Volume I. The first (page 113) is for the land patent for Lt Richard Popeley - 1250 acres on June 10, 1639 at Middle Plantation (later Williamsburg) for the transportation of 25 persons including Thomas Kirbye. The second (page 156) states that Thomas Kirbye was assigned the land of Thomas Symons on Dec 28, 1642, who received the land for the tranpostation of 9 persons on Nov 25, 1637. Hope this is helpful. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: RE: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Date: 9/3/2003 12:51:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: rex@tyler.net Reply-to: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Bev, I have an old yellowed pencil note written in about 1961 that says "Cavaliers and Pioneers - Kirbye, land 1642". I'm not sure what I was looking at when I jotted this down but evidently I had intentions of looking it up. Took time out to finish college, raise a family, etc and today I saw your reference to Cavaliers and Pioneers Vol 1. Can you tell me more about this book or set of books and if in fact there is a Kirbye mentioned. I would very much appreciate any info. From other information I have I believe there was a Thomas Kirbye back in Virginia who may have been one of my great grandfathers, several generations back. I think my Kirby line settled in VA in the early 1600's, then some moved to NC and from there to SC and my great grandfather Richard Monroe Kirby, abt 20 years old, moved from the Spartanburg area to Smith Co in East Texas in about 1878 where my line has been ever since. Thanks, Rex Kirby -----Original Message----- From: Ms2001@aol.com [mailto:Ms2001@aol.com] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 9:27 PM To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA In Cavaliers and Pioneers Vol 1 by Nell Marion Nugent there are several references to Lawrence Hulett - and many variant spellings of Hulett but no other Lawrences. Page 113 - Lawsr Hulett witness to patent for Farncis Derricle & Richard Johnson Oct 14, 1638 Page 226 - show Lawrence Hulett is Treasurer of Council & Company of Adventurers and Planters for Southern Colony of Virginia 10 Dec 1620 (I'm not clear on this date - this is in a legal document and it's very convoluted) Page 259 - Shows Lawrence Hulett transported by Teague Floyne 1 August 1652 The index also shows references for him on Pages 349 & 544 but I cannot find them - I've found the index to C&P is not accurate. Hope this helps. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Date: 9/1/2003 9:37:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: HREF="mailto:lindarogers6330@sbcglobal.net">lindaro gers6330@sbcglobal.net> Reply-to: HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent from the Internet (Details) I am looking for info. a LAWRENCE HULETT and family . He arrived in VA abt 1659 , a indentured servant I believe . I have no info. on his children or grandchildren etc. I have only been able to get to ALLEN HULETT in KY B. 1820 with no record of who his parents where or if he had any ! So I am looking for the family from 1659 to 1820 and don't know where to start . My library will not get inner library loan from out of state , I'm in CA . So that has complicated things ! But worse then that they only have local genealogy books . So I am asking for HELP in a big way . Thank you,Linda outhere in the redwoods and not much more ! ============================== 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 ============================== 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 ============================== 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 ============================== 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

Here are the VA patents visible on line in photocopies of the original, thus open to you and more complete and accurate than are Nugent's Abstracts, where there are many errors and misinterpretations. You can search VA Land Office Patents by name of ancestor from the bottom of this page if you do not know the Vol. and page numbers. Paul http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/

----- > Subject: [VAROOTS] Reece/Reese > > > I am looking for the parents of Leonidas J. Reece. I found him in the Wise > County, VA 1930 census when he was 46 years old. It said he was born in 1883 > in Virginia. I would appreciate any help you might be able to give me. > > Jean Only Reese family in Wise County. I have seen quite a few examples of people changing from first to middle name. James _seems_ to fit. Anything else fit? Reese, Isaac N. Lived in: Gladeville District, Wise County, Virginia Series: T623 Microfilm: 1732 Book: 1 Page: 23 1900 Census July 6, 1900 374 392 Reese, Isaac N. Head W M June 1843 56 M 34 VA NC NC Carpenter 0 yes yes yes 0 Elizabeth Wife W F Sept 1862 47 M 34 8 4 N. Carolina NC NC Jeremiah L Son W M May 1881 19 S VA VA NC Teamster James L Son W M Apr 1883 17 S VA VA NC Teamster Calvin, Hugh C Son W M Oct 1872 27 M 0 Kentucky VA NC Carpenter Mary C. D-in-law W F May 1880 20 M 0 0 Va *yes all across for all on Education can all read write speak english **************************** Ancestrys pages were taking too long to check out for 1920. They didn't show up in the 1910 mirocode index either. Their name could have been mangled pretty well also. Margy

City of Norfolk marriage records begin in 1803. However Norfolk County records go back to 1706 - they should be housed in the Library of Va and in the City of Chesapeake courthouse. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: [VAROOTS] RACKERBY 1774 Date: 9/4/2003 2:41:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:mjnis@softcom.net">mjnis@softcom.net</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) I hope someone can help me in trying to locate information on William RACKERBY, born in Norfolk about 1774. Father was a John RACKERBY. Are there churches in that area where he might have been christened since I don't know if marriage or birth records go back that far? Thank you. Millie ============================== 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

No as I do not have access to them. Jean

A review of those censuses surely is your first step. Go to the LDS Family History Center near you and tell them the problem. They will help. ----- Original Message ----- From: ROYAL538@aol.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Reece/Reese No as I do not have access to them. Jean ============================== 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

I am looking for the parents of Leonidas J. Reece. I found him in the Wise County, VA 1930 census when he was 46 years old. It said he was born in 1883 in Virginia. I would appreciate any help you might be able to give me. Jean

Have you checked the censuses for 1900, 1910, and 1920 ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: ROYAL538@aol.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 5:44 AM Subject: [VAROOTS] Reece/Reese I am looking for the parents of Leonidas J. Reece. I found him in the Wise County, VA 1930 census when he was 46 years old. It said he was born in 1883 in Virginia. I would appreciate any help you might be able to give me. Jean ============================== 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

Thank you, I'll give the site for STAPP a look see. Vicky <lyonslady@frontiernet.net> <Prayers4u@smartgroups.com> The world is a better place for knowing you. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003

I found William Rackerby born 1774 in Ohio County Kentucky. He married Elizabeth Craddock who was born in Nottoway County, VA. They married about 1798 in Ohio County, Kentucky. --- Millie Niswonger <mjnis@softcom.net> wrote: > I hope someone can help me in trying to locate > information on William RACKERBY, born in > Norfolk about 1774. Father was a John RACKERBY. > Are there churches in that area where he might > have been christened since I don't know if > marriage or birth records go back that far? > Thank you. Millie > > > ============================== > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

I hope someone can help me in trying to locate information on William RACKERBY, born in Norfolk about 1774. Father was a John RACKERBY. Are there churches in that area where he might have been christened since I don't know if marriage or birth records go back that far? Thank you. Millie

From: Janice R Freeman mcdade-dna@juno.com To: ALL McDADE Descendants Announcing: McDADE-DNA Project Visit: the Sept McDade Clan Davidson home page at mcdade.bravepages.com and go to the: McDade Surname DNA Project page under Table of Contents If you have questions, contact me at McDADE-DNA@juno.com You can read more about DNA Testing through the Links at mcdade.bravepages.com or FamilyTreeDNA.com. We are inviting Y O U to participate in our McDADE-DNA Project which we are expecting to be a valuable asset to our paper trail research to show how our various McDADE lines throughout the world may be connected thru : 1. your direct participation if you are a direct line McDADE male descendant (direct male in your McDADE line all the way back to your earliest known McDADE ancestor, including yourself) by participating in the DNA testing. OR 2. your indirect participation (because you are or became a male descendant of a McDADE daughter at some point in your McDADE line OR are a McDADE daughter) by finding the fathers, brothers, uncles, nephews, cousins that are direct line male McDADE descendants in your family and urging them to participate under 1. above. First, if it is at all possible, please participate in the 25 marker test as this gives us a much better analysis of the known, possible, or potential relationships. Each and every participant is an important link in connecting our various lines whether our ancestor was an early arrival in the 1600's or 1700's or a later arrival in the 1800's or 1900's in Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, USA, etc. Our ancestors may have come directly from Scotland or via Ireland, but with McDADE as the primary spelling, we are probably all cousins in one way or another. You may contact me at any time if you have questions. There is no medical connection with any of this, just a check on the male DNA markers that are passed father to son almost intact for many generations, with an occasional mutation. It is especially important to have a male participate (regardless of age) if the male is the only or one of two male McDADE descendants of a father, grandfather or great grandfather. Unfoutunately, the daughters can not do this for this particular easy, efficient, and economical test. I hope you will participate in the launching of this great project for our McDADE's everywhere. Please inform others you feel should be contacted or send me names, e-mail addresses, and or snail addresses and phone numbers for other McDADE kin. I can't wait to see how our markers reveal our potential relationships, especially if many of you will select the 25 plus marker DNA test. Janice Janice ROBBINS FREEMAN McDADE-DNA Project Administrator McDADE-DNA@juno.com

Vicky, I don't know if you are familiar with it, but there is a nice website for the early VA Stapp/Stepps. I ran across it as I was searching everywhere at one time for a Thomas Cooper in Virginia. I have a 2g aunt Rhoda/Rada Stepp who married my uncle Presley Patterson "Uncle Pat" Marsh in the Missouri Ozarks around 1900, give or take. I don't really know any Stepp/Stapp researchers though. Here it is: http://www.ydg.com/stepp/ Good Luck, Janet Hunter In a message dated 9/3/2003 5:44:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lyonslady@frontiernet.net writes: > Need help in finding parents of two STAPP brides. One is Dorothy NORTH b. > 1630 Essex, VA, m. 1650 Old Rappahannock, VA to Abraham STAPP. Have no clue > as to her parents. > > Second bride is Hannah DURHAM who married Joshua STAPP II son of Joshua > STAPP and Mary Ann COFFEE. > > Joshua and Hannah moved to Kentucky before 1814 where Joshua died. Hannah > might have been born in PA. as there is a rumor that her father owned a iron > foundry in that state. > > Any help would be appreciated. The STAPP'S were tobacco planters and slave > owners according to two records I found today. > > Vicky > <lyonslady@frontiernet.net> > <Prayers4u@smartgroups.com> > The world is a better place for knowing you. >

Need help in finding parents of two STAPP brides. One is Dorothy NORTH b. 1630 Essex, VA, m. 1650 Old Rappahannock, VA to Abraham STAPP. Have no clue as to her parents. Second bride is Hannah DURHAM who married Joshua STAPP II son of Joshua STAPP and Mary Ann COFFEE. Joshua and Hannah moved to Kentucky before 1814 where Joshua died. Hannah might have been born in PA. as there is a rumor that her father owned a iron foundry in that state. Any help would be appreciated. The STAPP'S were tobacco planters and slave owners according to two records I found today. Vicky <lyonslady@frontiernet.net> <Prayers4u@smartgroups.com> The world is a better place for knowing you. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003