Linda; Thanks for your insight on Warren Co. research, it's a big help. With respect to the Wills, it you get a chance I'd really appreciate a look-up on: Charles M. ADAMS and Elizabeth J. Austin ADAMS Mary T. AUSTIN Thanks so much - Best Regards; Sandy Adams Linda Whitmer wrote: > Greetings, > If you are looking for ABSTRACTS, it is true. Handley has most available > abstracted Warren Co records. But if you want ORIGINAL records, visit the > Warren County courthouse. If photocopies of originals will do, the Warren > Heritage Society's Laura Virginia Hale Archives has photocopies of some > records and also has published and non-published abstracts of Warren County > records. (note: there's a difference between abstracts and transcriptions) > > Inter-library loan is also an option. You can seek books and micro-film > from Richmond. > > The Hale Archives is a wonderful resource for Warren Co genealogy, regional > history and civil war information. There are a lot of little treasures in > small archives, well worth a trip to check them out. > > Linda Whitmer > (former Archivist, LVHale Archives) :) > > PS: I've begun abstracting Warren County Will books. I have the rough > draft of Will Book A complete and most of Will Book B. I'll do simple look > ups. BTW, I abstracted ALL contents, not just the wills. > > At 08:38 PM 12/2/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Try The Library of Virginia in Richmond. > > > >http://leo.vsla.edu/archives/genie.html > > > >This address is for the genealogy archives. > >Good luck, > >Pat > > > >Sandy Adams & Ed Webb wrote: > > > >> My brother was at the Warren County Library in Front Royal this > afternoon doing > >> some research for me and he was advised that most of the Warren County > records, > >> including birth, death, marriage transcriptions, are housed in the > archives at the > >> Handley Library in Winchester. They told him that the Handley Library > holds the > >> records for much of the Shenandoah Valley region . > >> > >> Does anyone have any insight on this? The Handley Library website seems > to verify > >> this information. Is there anyplace else - other than the Warren Co. > Library and > >> the Handley Library - that we should be looking? > >> > >> Thanks- > >> Sandy Adams