At 04:47 PM 4/12/2003 -0400, you wrote: >I have read that prior to 1800 the law of Virginia required that marriages >be registered in the Anglican Parish of the region. I am assuming this was >pre Revolutionary War period. Therefore there may be marriage information >that could be obtained from UVA records or British records through the >Anglican Church. Has anyone ever researched this area for marriage info? >Betty Yes, while Virginia was a colony and under the rule of the King of England, marriages were required to be recorded in the records of the Anglican Parish. The basic problem was that there were not enough Anglicans in this region to have an active Anglican Parish. The early settlers of the Shenandoah Valley were Scotch-Irish, Swiss and Germans and each brought their own religions and pastors. You might check with the Virginia State Library, although the early Virginia Anglican parish records seem to have all been published. The earliest pastors in the frontier were on horseback, using homes, barns, and outdoors for their church buildings and not having a set schedule. Depending upon the religion and the person they kept private journals of their activities. Many of these have been published. Perhaps someone can let us know the nearest Anglican parish to the present day Pendleton County. Nedra Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist [email protected] Registrar, Oregon State Society DAR Regent, Portland Chapter, DAR Historian, Henckel Family National Association Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, [email protected] CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. http://www.bcgcertification.org/