Hi all, I have a plan....but I have no idea if it is a new one or not....... Would it be possible for all of us to go back thru our family trees and list our lines by years and locations? I imagine some of you are spitting out your coffee as you read this, because it might be quite a chore. But we might turn up relations and info we didn't know about before. For example: 1775-1800 Stafford County, Falmouth Reveley Spotsylvania County, Pinfield Reveley Towles Payne Campbell County, Lynchburg Reveley etc etc If you would, call your subject NEIGHBORS, and then we could search the archives at our leisure. On the Cumberland England list, we all submitted our emigrants, and you can find them at www.cumberlanduk.com . A lot of our ancestors came from Cumberland, you might check out that List if you are looking for them. Great folks! Later gators, Sarah
What a great idea Sarah.... Since so many of these folks tended to travel/migrate as a community, the same strategy could be used to track the ones who moved en masse to other areas, i.e. North Carolina, TN, etc...Records and cemeteries could be indexed and/or gathered up for them all. Since I subscribe to lists that deal with folks as far back as GEN-MEDIEVAL-L and OEL (Olde England list) in addition to various VA and NC lists, I continually see many of the same surnames on all the various lists. I've come to realize that bumping up against a brickwall can often mean you've found the person who either emigrated out of or immigrated into another area (the ones who just landed by spaceship). Identifying the first date a family appeared in the records, as well as the last appearance can further help to isolate when the migration happened. If known neighbors and/or friends and relations removed to a known location....that's a good spot to look for your own people who suddenly "dropped off the face of the earth". When www.rootsweb.com is back up and running, a periodic site search is a good thing to do. Happy hunting....~malinda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Reveley" <sreveley@grandecom.net> To: <VASTAFFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 12:02 PM Subject: [VASTAFFO-L] Neighbors in Stafford County > Hi all, I have a plan....but I have no idea if it is a new one or not....... > > Would it be possible for all of us to go back thru our family trees and list our lines by years and locations? I imagine some of you are spitting out your coffee as you read this, because it might be quite a chore. But we might turn up relations and info we didn't know about before. > > For example: > > 1775-1800 > Stafford County, Falmouth > Reveley > Spotsylvania County, Pinfield > Reveley > Towles > Payne > Campbell County, Lynchburg > Reveley > etc > etc > > If you would, call your subject NEIGHBORS, and then we could search the archives at our leisure. On the Cumberland England list, we all submitted our emigrants, and you can find them at www.cumberlanduk.com . A lot of our ancestors came from Cumberland, you might check out that List if you are looking for them. Great folks! > > Later gators, > Sarah > > > >