Don, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to find these records without your mentioning them on this message board. I found a case relating directly to my ancestors - (William and Susannah Good) I haven't read the complete case yet but it looks to be twelve pages of interesting reading. Thanks for the heads up! Teresa Snyder -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Silvius Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 7:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VASHENAN] LVA digital is working again Something new from the folks at the Library of Virginia in the Digital Collection - and it's searchable. A warning though. If you use a dial-up connection this is probably going to be slow and if you don't already have it, install the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader - which will be slow over dial-up. Shenandoah County Chancery records are now searchable and viewable. go to http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/chancery/index.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

A note about the Chancery records on the LVA site - and what I found (so far). In the documents from an 1844 case involving my 4th great-grandfather, Frederick R. Mowery, born 1788 - there is an image of a document with his signature, and it was dated 1844. When I mentioned in a previous email using photos in genealogy and genealogical documents, an image of a signature is an example of what I meant. Frederick R. Mowery died in 1866, so chances are he never had his photograph taken, but there is a photograph of his signature. Maybe not much to get excited about, but another piece to add to that puzzle. Don