Go to _http://www.wvculture.org/vrr_ (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr) and it will display numerous counties from which you can choose to research. Or you can let the site select ALL of the available counties of West Virginia. Don't be discouraged if you don't get a find. It may mean that the person who retrieve the information from the original document couldn't read the handwriting and may have spelled the surname or first name differently than what you may have. In this case, type some letters with a wildcard in certain positions. For example, I am researching the surname Nazelrod but it has been spelled many, many ways. Therefore, I enter "N*l*r*d" minus the quotation marks and the site will show me ALL of the surnames that fit into the category. Try it! It contains priceless information! Wanda

Wanda...this site wont work for me, is the address correct? Rose ----- Original Message ----- From: <WPolyniak@aol.com> To: <wvhardy@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [WVHARDY] Which state has the records? > Go to _http://www.wvculture.org/vrr_ (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr) and > it > will display numerous counties from which you can choose to research. Or > you > can let the site select ALL of the available counties of West Virginia. > Don't > be discouraged if you don't get a find. It may mean that the person who > retrieve the information from the original document couldn't read the > handwriting > and may have spelled the surname or first name differently than what you > may > have. In this case, type some letters with a wildcard in certain > positions. > For example, I am researching the surname Nazelrod but it has been > spelled > many, many ways. Therefore, I enter "N*l*r*d" minus the quotation marks > and the > site will show me ALL of the surnames that fit into the category. Try it! > It > contains priceless information! > > Wanda > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WVHARDY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have read the will of Elizabeth Tharp, written in 1843, and there seems to be question of when it was probated, 1843 or 1863. In the will Elizabeth names her son, Solomon as executor of her estate and in 1860 census for Hardy County, VA, show SolomonTharp, age 48 with wife and children and mother, age 64, Elizabeth Tharp, living with him. My interest in this will is that she names as her heirs, among others, the children of her son, John Tharp, one Elizabeth Ann Tharp, whom I believe might have been my g.g. grandmother that I have been trying to identify parentage. Anyone out there have anything on Solomon Tharp and his parentage, siblings, etc? Sheliamichael@tularosa.net