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END OF 2008 ADDITIONS |
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Completed January
8, 2009 |
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Created
/ Added
Alexander Melville Bell
obit / religion
pg.
~ 12/22/2008 |
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Description:
The Association Review, By American Association to
Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf;
Published by The American Association to
Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.,
1905 (Item notes: v.7 1905) Original from
the University of Michigan; Digitized Jul
12, 2006 |
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Updated 2009
Front Blurb Westmoreland County
pg.
~ 12/20/2008 |
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Created
/ Added R Crawford
Sanford Deaths obits / religion
pg.
~ 12/20/2008 |
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Created
/ Added R Crawford
Sanford Births census
pg.
~ 12/20/2008 |
|
Description:
graciously transcribed
and abstracted by Rebecca Crawford [Rebecca.Crawford@nara.gov],
May 6, 2008; Family Names: Guthridge,
Sorrell, Sanford, Kilman. |
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Created
/ Added
Parish Map
pg.
~ 12/16/2008 |
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Updated
Places
[see below] pg.
~ 12/15/2008 |
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Updated
Misc. Cemeteries
[see below] pg.
~ 12/15/2008 |
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Description:
Abstracted from The Historical Atlas of
Westmoreland County |
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Judge Richard
Parker’s son John drowned in the
Potomac as he was boarding his ship in 1810. |
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Daniel McCarty,
of ‘Longwood’, died between May and July
1744; he and his wife are buried on a knoll
just below the old house site.
Penelope Higgins b: abt 1713 d: 26 Mar 1732 |
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In 1608
Captain John Smith sailed up the
Rappahannock, fought with local Rappahannock
Indians; Richard Featherstone was
killed. He was buried along the banks of
the Rappahannock. |
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Updated
Places of Interest
pg.
~ 12/7/2008 |
Description:
Initially called "Locust
Grove," The Grove was built in 1832 by
David Taylor,
great-grandfather of the current owner. |
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Created
/ Added
Port Conway page
~ 12/7/2008 |
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Created
/ Added
Fleming Family Cemetery page
~ 12/7/2008 |
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Added
Mothershead
link to Family Group Sheets page ~ 12/5/2008 |
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Created
/ Added
Blenheim
pg.
~ 12/3/2008 |
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Added
Scarborough & Brown Lineage pg to
Repository
~ 12/2/2008 |
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Updated
Vitals & Entrance
pg.
~ 11/19/2008 |
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Created
/ Added
Patents
pg ~
11/18/2008 |
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Description:
The United States Patent Office, various
years. |
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Updated
Soldiers of 1776
pg.
[Wm McClanahan]
~ 11/17/2008 |
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Created
/ Added
Irish
Land Grants pg ~
11/17/2008 |
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Description:
The Journal of the American-Irish Historical
Society, Vol. VIII, 1914 |
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Created
/ Added
Irish Marriages pg ~
11/17/2008 |
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Description:
The Journal of the American-Irish Hist
Society, Vol. VIII, 1914, pgs. 223–224 |
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Updated
Smiths Mount
Cemetery
pg ~ 11/6/2008 |
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Description:
Abstracted from The Historical Atlas of
Westmoreland County |
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Created
Mothershead
1691
Land Grant pg ~
10/29/2008 |
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Description:
Virginia County
Court Records Deed & Will Abstracts of
Stafford Co., VA 1686-1693"
by Ruth and Sam
Sparacio, and microfilm records available
from the state of Virginia. |
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Created
Mathews to
Footman
Land pg ~
10/29/2008
~
NOT PRINTED |
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Created
Humphrey Pope ~ Nathaniel Mothershead
Land pg ~
10/29/2008 |
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Created
/ Added
George H Mothershead
Civil War Bio page ~
10/29/2008 |
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Description:
Photo and information courtesy of
Great-Granddaughter
Betty J. Mothershead Ranson,
Florence, SC |
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Created
/ Added
Willoughby N.
Claybrook
Family page ~
10/28/2008
~
NOT PRINTED |
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Description:
History of Alabama and
Dictionary of Alabama Biography,
By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen |
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Created
/ Added
L A Richardson Obit page ~
10/27/2008
~
NOT PRINTED |
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Description:
Sunday June 29,
2008;
By ELLEN ROBERTSON, TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF
WRITER |
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Created
/ Added
Fire & Destruction
[Resources] page ~
10/26/2008
~
NOT PRINTED |
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Created
Solomon Redmond 1783
~
.pdf
page ~
10/26/2008 |
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Date published: October 2008,
found on eBay |
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Created
Hennage Story page ~
10/21/2008
~
NOT PRINTED |
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Date published: 1/30/2007
;
Photos by ROBERT A. MARTIN/THE FREE LANCE-STAR |
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Created
Tar & Feather page ~
10/21/2008
~
NOT PRINTED |
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Description:
Married Well
and Often: Abstracted from the Brooklyn
Eagle December 9, 1901 |
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Updated Main
Law & Order page ~
10/11/2008 |
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Updated Main
Marriage page ~
10/11/2008 |
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Created
Early Marriage Laws
page ~
10/11/2008 |
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Description:
Married Well
and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of
Virginia, 1649-1800 |
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Created
DeAtley Family Cemetery page ~
10/11/2008 |
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Description:
Site Visit & abstracts of the
US Federal Census, 1900. |
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Created
Washington Family Cemetery page ~
10/10/2008 |
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Updated Main
Religion page ~
10/4/2008 |
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Updated
Dictionary of Terms page ~ 9/28/2008 |
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Description:
Virginia
Genealogy: Sources & Resources,
by Carol
McGinnis; 1993 |
|
Updated
All Family Group Sheet Main pages ~ 9/28/2008 |
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Created
Thomas Chandler
Family Group Sheet page ~ 9/28/2008 |
|
Description:
Prepared by:
D. E. Cummins;
NOT BLOODY GUARANTEED
dec405@comcast.net.
Copyright © 2008,
D. Cummings. All Rights Reserved. ~ With Many Thanks !
|
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Updated
main Places page ~ 9/25/2008 |
|
Updated
Witches
[new story] page ~ 9/24/2008 |
|
Created
Mount Pleasant
page ~ 9/22/2008 |
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Updated
Wirtland
[new pic] page ~ 9/20/2008 |
|
Created
Taylor
House
page ~ 9/20/2008 |
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Created
Claymont
page ~ 9/20/2008 |
|
Added
Birkett
gravestone pic
to Leedstown [Hungerford] Cemetery page ~ 9/20/2008 |
|
Note Sitemeter down for maintenance ~ 9/13 & 14/08 |
|
Added George
Monroe Carter
burial [Taylor House]
to Misc. Cemeteries page ~ 9/12/2008 |
|
Updated
Wills Abstract [added Thos. Millner] page ~ 9/12/2008 |
|
Description:
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of
the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume
I: 1658-1674. V. L. Skinner, Jr. (2004) pg
25. |
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Created
Remains Removed
[CSA] page ~ 9/7/2008 |
|
Updated
Religion [added family cemeteries] page ~ 9/7/2008 |
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Updated
Religion [added funeral homes] page ~ 9/7/2008 |
|
Created
Emanuel Episcopal King George
page ~ 9/6/2008 |
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Note Sitemeter will be down the
weekend of 9/13 & 14/08 ~ 9/6/2008 |
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Updated
Books page ~ 9/6/2008 |
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Updated
Books page ~ 8/31/2008 |
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Updated
main Places page ~ 8/30/2008 |
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Created
Wirtland
page ~ 8/30/2008 |
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Created
Roxbury
page ~ 8/30/2008 |
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Created
Twiford
page ~ 8/30/2008 |
|
Updated
Misc Cemeteries [added Haywood]
information ~ 8/30/2008 |
|
Created
The Great House
page ~ 8/29/2008 |
|
Description:
The following
infomation was copied from "Westmoreland
County, Virginia 1653-1983" Edited by Walter
Biscoe Norris Jr., Westmoreland County Board
of Supervisors, Montross, Virginia, 1983. |
|
Updated
Family Group Sheet [H ~ O] page
~ 8/26/2008 |
|
Richard Henry Lee
Gen. Henry Lee |
|
Updated
Servants & Slaves page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Created
Insurrections
page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Created
1866 Tax Assessments
page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Description:
The Federal Census, pg 29, 1866 |
|
Updated
main Census page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Created
Slave Owners 1782
page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Description:
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jan., 1902), pp. 229-235;
Published by:
Virginia Historical Society |
|
Updated
Runaway Slaves page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Updated
main Marriages page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Description:
St. Paul's Parish Register: (Stafford-King
George Counties, Virginia) 1715 – 1798; St.
Paul's Parish Register. John B. C. Nicklin.
(1962). |
|
Created
John Wimpey Family
page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Created
James Luttrell
page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Description: Abstracted from
Virginia Soldier of 1776.
Compiled from documents on file in the
Virginia Land Office, L. A. Burgess, Vol. 1;
1973 |
|
Updated
main Lawmaking page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Created
Early Immigrant Servants
1623 -
1666 page ~ 8/24/2008 an EMAIL Invitation
! |
|
Description: Abstracted from
Ancestry.com Early Virginia
Immigrants 1623 – 1666 by George Cabel Greer |
|
Updated
main Wills page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Updated
Westmoreland Will
Abstracts
page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Updated
Marquee on westmorelandmain page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Created
Runaway Servants
[1739] page ~ 8/24/2008 |
|
Description: From
Genealogical Abstracts from
The American Weekly Mercury, 1719-1746;
pg 106, 107 |
|
Created
St. Mary's
Episcopal Church
page ~ 8/23/2008 |
|
St. Mary's Episcopal
Church |
|
Realigned
all Colonial Beach pages ~
8/16/2008 |
|
Updated
Colonial Beach Churches
page ~ 8/16/2008 |
|
Realigned
graphics on all Cemetery pages ~
8/16/2008 |
|
Created
St Paul's Parish
Register
[Religion] page -
8/16/2008 |
|
Created
Westmoreland
Ponds & Lakes
page ~
8/12/2008 |
|
Created
Redirect for
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vawestmo/
page
~
8/10/2008 |
|
Updated
Croxton
Family Bible
[file corrupted]
~
.pdf
page ~
8/10/2008 |
|
Updated
Theme [Westmoreland 2009]
website-wide ~ 8/10/2008 |
|
Updated
Post Offices page [added Former
Monroe Hall Post Office]
pic ~ 8/9/2008 |
|
Created
Mystery Photo
[Unknown Westmoreland Home]
page ~ 8/9/2008 |
|
Added
Naval Activities in Virginia
Link to WWII Causalities page ~ 8/5/2008 |
|
Updated
Shipping page [added Earl Biscoe,
schooner]
information ~ 8/3/2008 |
|
Created
George A. Reed
Family Group Sheets page ~ 8/3/2008 |
|
Updated
Misc Cemeteries [added
Locust Farm
Cemetery]
information ~ 8/3/2008 |
|
Description: Abstracted from
www.congressionalcemetery.org [R152 S185] |
|
Created
Ephesus Christian Church
Cemetery pages ~
7/31/2008 |
|
Created
Brown-Lucas Family
Cemetery page ~
7/31/2008 |
|
Updated
Colonial Beach Churches
page ~ 7/31/2008 |
|
Added
Free Search
Engine to Search page ~ 7/31/2008 |
|
Updated
Places page ~ 7/28/2008 |
|
Added
Immigrant Servants
Link to Lawmaking page ~ 7/27/2008 |
|
Created
Colonial Beach Churches
page ~ 7/27/2008 |
|
CB United Methodist,
CB Baptist Church,
St. Elizabeth |
|
Updated
Related Books &ct page ~ 7/26/2008 |
|
Created
Bacon's Rebellion
Military page ~
7/26/2008. |
|
Description:
Westmoreland Deed Book
1665 - 1677; p. 301, 325 |
|
Updated
Militia Officers
page ~ 7/26/2008 |
|
Updated
Cemetery & Religion pages ~ 7/26/2008 |
|
Created
Smiths Mount
Cemetery page ~
7/26/2008 |
|
Description: [Sale Information]
The Virginia
Herald July 15, 1815 3:4 |
|
Updated
Dictionary of Terms
page ~ 7/26/2008 |
|
Created
Early Westmoreland Marriages
page ~ 7/23/2008 |
|
Description:
Extracted
from: Virginia Marriage Records, Indexed by
E. P. Bentley. (1984). |
|
Added
West Ford Family
Link to Family Group Sheets page ~ 7/22/2008 |
|
Updated
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Link on Indian Resources page ~ 7/22/2008 |
|
Updated
Steamboat Era Museum
Link on Neighbors page ~ 7/22/2008 |
|
Removed
Port Kinsale Maritime Museum
Link on Neighbors page ~ 7/22/2008 |
|
Updated
Northumberland County
Link on Neighbors page ~ 7/22/2008 |
|
Updated
Lancaster
County
Link on Neighbors page ~ 7/22/2008 |
|
Created
Charles Buck Family
page ~ 7/19/2008 |
|
Updated
Family Group Sheet pages ~ 7/19/2008 |
|
Description:
A
diary: with reminiscences of the war &
refugee life in the Shenandoah Valley,
1860-1865;
Information
furnished by Mrs. John Randolph Tucker,
Welch, West Virginia |
|
Created
Horrible Crimes
of the 2nd MA Negro Vol. Infantry
page ~ 7/19/2008
|
|
Description:
From the
Campaign Age,
08/18/1864
Richmond Requirer. |
|
Updated
Sheriffs
page ~ 7/19/2008 |
|
Created
1790 Census
page ~ 7/19/2008
|
|
Description:
Extracted
from: Early Records, Hampshire County,
Virginia. C.M. Sage. (1939). |
|
Updated
Colored Troops
Civil War page ~ 7/19/2008
(2/24/2007) |
|
Fixed WWI
Draft Registration pages in
Military section ~ 7/19/2008 |
|
Added
Henry C. Brown to
Military pg. ~ 7/19/2008 |
|
Created
Henry Critcher
Brown
Family pg. ~ 7/19/2008 |
|
Description:
History of the American Negro...
By AB Caldwell (1921); Pages 428 – 430 |
|
Added
John Cary Obit to Obit pg. ~ 7/16/2008 |
|
Description:
Dictionary of American
Biography, Including Men of the Time... By
F S Drake; pg. 168 |
|
Added
Allerton / Starr Marriage to Marriage
pg. ~ 7/9/2008 |
|
Description:
American Marriage Records Before 1699.
William Montgomery Clemens. (1926), pg 23.
|
|
Updated All
.pdf
links in
site ~
6/29/2008 |
|
Created
St. Mary's County MD Marriages
pg. ~ 6/29/2008 |
|
Description:
Abstracts The
Northern Neck
Historical Mag.
Dec 1998 Vol.
XLVIII, No. 1 [5591 – 5769] |
|
Updated Book
List pg ~
6/25/2008 |
|
Updated
BraveNet Search on Search pg ~
6/15/2008 |
|
Updated PicoSearch on Search pg ~
6/15/2008 |
|
Fixed
Essex County Madstone link ~ 6/13/2008 |
|
Added
Maptech link to Maps pg. ~ 6/9/2008 |
|
Created
Local hunter bags
coyote pg. ~
5/25/2008
|
|
Description:
Date published:
December 5, 2007;
By Mark Fike, The Journal
Press |
|
Created
Lost Route 205 Cemetery pg. ~
5/25/2008
|
|
Updated
(c) copyrights on ALL site pages ~
5/23/2008 |
|
Created
Powell Family Cemetery pg. ~ 5/23/2008 |
|
Added
Colonial
Beach Ghosts pg. ~ 5/23/2008 |
|
Updated
meta-tags on ALL site entrance pages ~
5/18/2008 |
|
Added
Oak
Grove Cemetery page ~
5/11/2008 |
|
Added
Bowie Pies page ~
5/9/2008 |
|
Description:
Richmond Times-Dispatch;
December 15, 1985;
Author: Christine Reid |
|
Updated links
on
Resources page ~
5/9/2008 |
|
Updated ALL
2nd Tier 'Place' pages ~
5/8/2008 |
|
Added
Garden Tour
pg. ~ 5/8/2008 |
|
Description:
Richmond Times-Dispatch
April 12, 1987;
The Northern Neck tour will
be held this year in Westmoreland County. |
|
Added
Farming link to main Vitals pg. ~ 5/8/2008 |
|
Added
John Hallowes
to Family Group pg. ~ 5/8/2008 |
|
Description:
Winston of
Virginia and Allied Families. Torrence,
Clayton. Richmond, VA. (1927) page 272;
Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666. Greer,
George Cabell. Unknown. 1912; page 143;
Colonial Families of the United States of
America, Volume 5. George Norbury
Mackenzie. (1912); The Maryland Historical
Society Magazine Vol. 5, No. 3, 1910; page
268; The Ark and the Dove Adventurers; Pages
138 – 139; By The Society of the Ark and the
Dove; 2005; George Ely Russell, Donna Valley
Russell |
|
Added
Death Extracts
~ .pdf
to Lawmaking &
Family Group Sheets
pgs. ~ 5/8/2008 |
|
Added
Birth Extracts
~ .pdf to
Lawmaking & Family Group Sheets
pgs. ~ 5/8/2008 |
|
Description:
Extracted &
Transcribed by Rebecca Crawford,
2008; The Library of Virginia
Microfilm reels. |
|
Added
County Post Offices
pg. ~ 5/8/2008 |
|
Description:
Extracted &
Transcribed from -
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Brooks_Byrd.htm |
|
Added
Cople Cheese Factory
to Farming pg. ~ 5/8/2008 |
|
Description:
Bulletin -
Virginia Department of Agriculture and
Immigration, page 12; By Dept. of
Agriculture and Immigration, Virginia, 1922. |
|
Added
Cavalla
Home to Places pg. ~ 5/6/2008 |
|
Added
Epidemics & Wars
pg ~ 5/2/2008 |
|
Description:
I am not sure
of the original source of this list: it has
floated around the internet for awhile. I
have slightly rearranged it, corrected
spellings, and modified a couple of things -
Sue;
This list has been edited to
include the Virginia area only. This
listing comes from Judy Nordgren and the
Rootsweb Mailing List ; Rootsweb Kids pages
and additional web research. |
|
Added
Brown Family History
pg ~ 5/1/2008 |
|
Added
Civil War
Databases
link to Military pg. ~ 4/20/2008 (Alexander
Street Press) |
|
Updated 9th
Cavalry
Civil War
Enlistments ~
4/20/2008 |
|
Updated ALL
1st Tier pages ~ 4/19/2008 |
|
Added
St. Mary's Episcopal
Church
link to Religion pg. ~ 4/19/2008 |
|
Added
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Catholic
link to Religion pg. ~ 4/19/2008 |
|
Updated ALL
Broken Links ~ 4/15/2008 |
|
Updated Broken Links -
Virginia Family Group Sheets
~ 4/15/2008 |
|
Updated /
removed Broken Links -
Omohundro Family
~ 4/15/2008 |
|
Added
Noteworthy 2007 link to
Resource pg. ~ 4/8/2008 |
|
Updated /
removed Broken Links - Sandy Family
~ 4/7/2008 |
|
Added
Servants &
Slaves
pg ~ 2/27/2008 |
|
Added
Colored Volunteers
link to Civil
War pg ~ 2/27/2008 |
|
Added Maria
Certificate
pg ~ 2/20/2008 |
|
Added Maria
to
Ships pg ~ 2/20/2008 |
|
Added
Rose Family Abstracts [Wills]
pg.
~ 2/12/2008 |
|
Description:
Rose, Christine, Abstracts of early
Virginia Rose estates : wills, inventories,
accounts and administrator's bonds before
1850. San Jose. Calif.: Priv. print, by
Rose Family Bulletin. 1972. 52 pgs. |
|
Added
The Clifts plat to
Misc. Inscriptions
pg.
~ 2/11/2008 |
|
Description:
Living and Dying on the 17th Century
Patuxent Frontier.
JA King,
DH Ubelaker, MH Trust - 1996 |
|
Added
Hedges Family
link to Family
pg.
~ 2/11/2008 |
|
Updated
Civil War
pg.
~ 2/11/2008 |
Description:
Richmond Dispatch.
Military Matters in
King George.
King George Co.,
June 19, 1861
|
|
Updated Land
sales pg. added
Mount
Pleasant, 1814
~ 2/10/2008 |
|
Added
Warsaw, VA Place pg. ~ 2/6/2008 |
|
Added
St. Johns Epis. Church
Cemetery pg. ~ 2/6/2008 |
|
Added
Emancipations
link to Lawmaking pg. ~ 2/1/2008 |
|
Added
Popes Creek Baptist Church
~
.pdf
Interments File
~ 1/25/2008 |
|
Added
Providence Methodist Church
~
.pdf
Interments File
~ 1/23/2008 |
|
Added
guano
link to Farming pg. ~ 1/10/2008 |
|
Updated
Militia Officers
pg. ~ 1/8/2008 |
|
Description:
Transcribed from Virginia Colonial Militia 1651- 1776 &
Various Web Resources |
|
Description:
Historical Register of Virginians in the
Revolution, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, 1775
- 1783. John H. Gwathmey. (1979) |
|
Added Status
Bar title
code to Splash & Entrance pgs. ~ 1/8/2008 |
|
Description: Some emigrants to Virginia
by William George Stanard, 1911 |
|
Updated
Early Immigrants
page ~ 1/6/2008 |
|
Added FavIcon
code to Splash & Entrance pgs. ~ 1/5/2008 |
|
Added
Westmoreland County Burials
link [Find A Grave] to Cemetery
page ~ 1/5/2008 |
|
NEW 2008 Noteworthy
Page to Westmoreland County website ~ 1/3/2008 |
|
Westmoreland County website debut ~
3/29/2006 |
