VIRGINIA POSTMASTERS AND POST OFFICES, 1789-1832
compiled by Edith F. Axelson. 248 pages, index. 1991. Working with record
group 28 in the National Archives, the compiler has located the counties for the many post offices
listed and has presented a marvelous panoply of the early postal system in Virginia. This volume
has immense genealogical value for the Virginia researcher: it gives the names of over three
thousand men and women who were postmasters and over one thousand towns and taverns,
creeks and crossroads, streams and stores, all of which boasted a post office for at least a short
period of time.
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A GUIDE TO EPISCOPAL CHURCH RECORDS IN VIRGINIA
Edith F. Axelson. 1988, vi, 136 pages. The disenfranchisement of the Church
of England following the American Revolution, combined with the sale of church properties in the
early nineteenth century and constantly changing parish and county boundaries, have all served to
fragment the ecclesiastical records of the successor Protestant Episcopal denomination. A few of
the older holdings and records of extinct parishes are in library repositories; others are held in
diocesan collections and by the individual churches. Their baptism, confirmation, marriage, and
burial records are of immense value to the genealogical researcher. This volume is the result of
the author's exhaustive search to identify and describe existing church and parish records, and to
correspond with the individual churches on how to obtain information from them. A Guide to
Episcopal Records in Virginia is a major reference tool for every genealogical researcher
who deals with the Church of England in the colonial period and the successor Protestant
Episcopal Church.
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BURNED COUNTY DATA, 1809-1848 (AS FOUND IN THE VIRGINIA CONTESTED ELECTION FILES)
by Benjamin B. Weisiger,III, 1986. 100 pages, index. The author has examined a previously unexplored source of
information for valuable genealogical information regarding "burned counties." The bulk of the
data consists of depositions regarding qualifications of the voter (e.g., land ownership, age, length
of residence in the county, etc.) as well as data gleaned from a number of attached wills, deeds,
and even a Bible register. The following counties and elections are included in the current
volume: Hanover (1825); Buckingham (1809, 1840, 1848); Charles City (1821, 1838);
Gloucester (1827); New Kent (1838); James City (1845); and Caroline (1843).
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SOME WILLS FROM THE BURNED COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA
compiled by William Lindsay Hopkins. 6x9 format. Wills from
circa 1670-1830. Brunswick, Buckingham, Caroline, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City,
Glouster, Hanover, Henrico, James City, King George, King and Queen, King William, Mathews,
Nansemond, New Kent, Prince George, Prince William, Stafford, and Warwick Counties, Va.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABSTRACTS AND COMPILATIONS OF VIRGINIA CITY AND COUNTY RECORDS
compiled by Robert Vernon. 1993, vi, 107 pages. This book contains a list of published abstracts of Virginia city and county
records that are available at the Virginia State Library, in Richmond, Virginia. Although most of
the books listed are abstracts of primary sources, that is, county wills, deeds, court orders,
censuses, etc., the list does contain a few family genealogies. Please note, however, that no
attempt was made to collect compiled genealogies.
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MARRIAGE RECORDS IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY: A RESEARCHER'S GUIDE
(2d EDITION-1988) John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr. 2d edition 1988 [iv], 246 [2] pages, map. This book indexes and annotates more than
1,500 marriage records collections on microfilm, photostat, and in printed form currently in the
Virginia State Library at Richmond. It also notes how to secure the assistance of archival staff in
answering specific questions on your genealogy, and how to borrow original microfilm copies by
interlibrary loan. A new format has been adopted for the second edition which includes a listing
of all original manuscript and photostat materials held by the archives, as well as the microfilm
and published holdings which were in the first edition. At least two hundred titles acquired by the
library in the past five years have been added to the listing, as well as a summary of published
materials for the West Virginia counties. Finally, a full and thorough treatment of each
county's origins and boundary changes has been included.
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TIMESAVING AID TO VIRGINIA-WEST VIRGINIA ANCESTORS
(A Genealogical Index of Surnames from Published Sources)P.G. Wardell,
1990, iv, 429 pp. The author addresses the problem confronting every genealogist--how to
conduct original research in the archives and still find the time to examine the important published
literature, especially older works with inadequate indices. The author has carefully chosen books
which have major genealogical significance, but carry no indices. From these volumes he has
extracted surname entries and compiled them in a listing with the appropriate references to the
original books which may be borrowed through library interlibrary loan. The guide to the
reference book listed here is currently used in notecard form as a major reference source by the
Lloyd House of the Alexandria, Virginia library system. As noted in the title, it includes
references also to West Virginia counties and families. Each entry has been carefully checked and
all references
to a particular surname have been integrated into a single entry. This volume indexes a total of
802 volumes of Virginia family histories and research sources. It is a labor which required years
of careful, patient, page-by-page, examination of these books. This book will prove to be a
classic research tool for Virginia and West Virginia genealogical investigation.
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THE FRIENDLY VIRGINIANS: AMERICA'S FIRST QUAKERS
by Jay Worrall, Jr.
THE CAMPBELL CLAN IN VIRGINIA Campbell, Leslie Lyle. xii, 154 pages, 1954. Reprinted by Iberian Publishing Co., 2018.
Any researcher in Virginia genealogy with a Campbell ancestor is painfully aware of the difficulties involved in sorting out their family line from the myriad branches of the clan, many with similar given names (William, Alexander, Angus, just to note a few) that repeat themselves over countless generations. Leslie Lyle Campbell's early work provides a starting point for one of the major branches of the Campbell clan that settled throughout Virginia, especially in the Valley Region stretching from the Potomac deep into the southwestern corners of the state.
FORERUNNERS: A HISTORY OR GENEALOGY OF THE STRICKLER FAMILIES, THEIR KITH AND KIN Strickler, Harry M., 1925. Reprinted by New Papyrus Publishing Co., 1998.
Harry Strickler's classic work on the Stricklers of the Shenandoah Valley is back in print. Included in this early work is material on not only on
the Stricklers, but also collaterial lines among the following families. Kauffmans, Stovers, Burners, Ruffners, Beavers, Shavers, Brumbachs, Zirkles,
Blossers, Groves, Brubakers, Neffs, Rothgebs, and many other early families of Shenandoah, Rockingham, Frederick, Augusta and Page Counties, Virginia.