This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: henckelgenealogy Surnames: CHALKLEY Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.westvirginia.counties.pendleton/1794/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The official title of Lyman Chalkley's work is "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia" and subtitled "extracted from the original court records of Augusta County 1745-1800." He was a judge of the Augusta County Court and the DAR sponsored the publication. The focus was on records of the Scotch-Irish and he is known to have skipped records of German settlers. The original records are available on microfilm through the LDS Family History Centers. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
To be accurate, the DAR did NOT sponsor the publication of Chalkley's Chronicles. In fact, as an organization, they essentially repudiated it. The DAR had purchased his work but, based on an a scathing evaluation by Thomas Forsythe Nelson, decided against publishing it and voted to give the publication rights to a member, Mrs. Mary S Lockwood, who had worked tirelessly to have the works published through the DAR. (See the preface to Vol. I of the Chronicles). Nelson examined primarily examined Chalkley's work and found 274 errors and [unacceptable] variations in 80 pages selected at random from the 2654 type-written pages and extrapolated that 9,000 such variations would be expected in the whole Writing No. 3. It seems the Judge was indiscriminate in his errors - with the English, Scots-Irish, and Germans suffering alike, although he may have been less familiar with the old German names and probably could not read the several recordings in the German language. Nelson's full report can be found on www.ancestry.com<http://www.ancestry.com/> To Chalkley's credit, I'll say that reading the recordings, even with magnifying glass and computer enhancement, is trying at best. It was a monumental task for one man and, like Mrs. Lockwood, I believe we'd be poorer without access to the work. However, there are reading errors, typing errors, random extraction of names without any seeming reason to select or omit, and, worst of all ,omissions. See: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/va5_chalkleys.htm<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/va5_chalkleys.htm> ----- Original Message ----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com<mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:03 PM Subject: [WVPENDLE] Chalkley's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement inVirginia This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: henckelgenealogy Surnames: CHALKLEY Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.westvirginia.counties.pendleton/1794/mb.ashx<http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.westvirginia.counties.pendleton/1794/mb.ashx> Message Board Post: The official title of Lyman Chalkley's work is "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia" and subtitled "extracted from the original court records of Augusta County 1745-1800." He was a judge of the Augusta County Court and the DAR sponsored the publication. The focus was on records of the Scotch-Irish and he is known to have skipped records of German settlers. The original records are available on microfilm through the LDS Family History Centers. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVPENDLE-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:WVPENDLE-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message