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In This Issue:

Southside Virginia Genealogies, a New CD by John W. Pritchett
40% Price Cut on Three Family Archive CDs
Famous Books on New England Genealogy
COLOSSAL SAVINGS on Big-Content CDs from genealogical.com
What's New at the Genealogy Warehouse for January

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SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES, a New CD by John W. Pritchett

According to the website of the Library of Virginia, "Southside Virginia stretches from the James River south to the North Carolina border. It extends as far east as Isle of Wight and Southampton counties and has as its western boundary the foothills of the Blue Ridge." In terms of Virginia's contemporary county boundaries, Southside is comprised of (from east to west) the present-day counties of Isle of Wight, Surry, Sussex, Southampton, Prince George, Dinwiddie, Chesterfield, Brunswick, Greensville, Amelia, Cumberland, Powhatan, Nottoway, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Prince Edward, Buckingham, Appomattox, Charlotte, Halifax, Bedford, Campbell, Pittsylvania, Franklin, Henry, and Patrick.

If you are on the trail of Southside Virginia ancestors, you must consult our new CD publication, SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES, by John W. Pritchett, the new starting-point for genealogical research on its subject. (We will feature an article by Mr. Pritchett in next week's issue of "Genealogy Pointers.")

SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES began as a simple compilation of the author's Virginia family heritage. When it became apparent that all of Mr. Pritchett's lines extended into colonial Virginia, he expanded his scope to include many prominent Southside families. This, in turn, led him to create four appendices identifying nearly half of the residents appearing in specific Southside county tithable lists as well as enumerations of colonial Henrico, Chesterfield, and Amelia counties.

The author originally published his findings on the Internet under the title, "The Family History of John W. Pritchett," which could be found at his website, www.Virginians.com. To date, over a million people have visited the site, which comprises over 4,000 pages.

Now Mr. Pritchett has incorporated a number of important features of his website onto our new CD. Researchers, who can access the CD's contents by means of the Adobe Reader, will encounter 400 first-person narratives, containing, among other things, a recap of notable individuals in each family. In all, the narratives refer to more than 1,000 members of the Virginia legislature and 230 members of Congress. The CD contains 65,000 citations to Virginia genealogical resources, and a full-name index of nearly 90,000 entries. (Since devoting his energies to the creation of this product, Mr. Pritchett has re-configured Virginians.com to include only the first generation of families named on the CD--the only means of gaining access to the full range of information on all Southside generations.)

To see a complete list of the hundreds of principal surnames covered in SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES, please access the following:
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7540

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40% PRICE CUT on Three Family Archive CDs

We have slashed the prices on three of our CD products by 40%. Each of these CDs is a terrific value. "Connecticut Military Records," for example, encompasses the best reference books documenting military service by residents of that state from the French and Indian War through the Mexican War. The fully indexed and searchable "Ohio Vital Records #1, 1800-1850" is your entrée to the vast source record contents of perhaps the most important Ohio periodical of yesteryear, "Gateway to the West--Ohio." The third discounted CD falls into the how-to category. Our "German Genealogy Research Guide" contains the page images of four of the most important guidebooks in all of German genealogy.

We believe that the remaining copies of these incomparable CDs will fly out of our warehouse until supplies are depleted. If you have ever contemplated acquiring one or more of these excellent bargains, now may be your best opportunity. Scroll down for more details about the CDs and the cost savings you can enjoy.

CONNECTICUT MILITARY RECORDS: Soldiers and Officers

This CD contains images of the pages of various books published by GPC that provide a complete record of Connecticut men who served in the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War, with emphasis on Connecticut soldiers in the Revolution. The page images are united by a single electronic index to 167,000 individuals.
Was $29.99 Now $17.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7120

OHIO VITAL RECORDS #1, 1800-1850

This CD consists of a fully indexed and searchable version of the erstwhile Ohio genealogy magazine, "Gateway to the West," which was published by Anita Short and Ruth Bowers from 1967 to 1978. From common pleas court records, guardianships, naturalizations, and deed abstracts to the more conventional births, marriages, deaths, cemetery records, and wills, "Gateway" offered a range of genealogical source material spanning 76 of Ohio's 88 counties. This terrific CD covers 93,000 Ohio settlers from the first half of the 19th century--every one of whom is searchable by means of the CD's electronic index. Compared to the original $125.00 selling price of the bound book version, this CD is a genealogist's bargain at the retail price of $29.99. Now it's a steal at $17.99.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7175

GERMAN GENEALOGY RESEARCH GUIDE

This Family Archive CD combines four outstanding books designed specifically for Americans who are researching their German ancestry. While the books do not contain pre-researched and ready-made genealogies, they do contain all the information you'll need to develop your own family history. All four books, originally published by GPC, are the best in their respective fields. Having them together on this one CD gives you quick, easy, and comprehensive access to a wealth of German genealogical resources.

The best known of the four titles, Angus Baxter's groundbreaking "In Search of Your German Roots," is designed to help you trace your German ancestry not only in Germany but also in all the German-speaking areas of Europe. Ernest Thode's two celebrated reference works--the "Address Book for Germanic Genealogy" and the extremely helpful "German-English Genealogical Dictionary"--may also be found here. Lastly, Professor George F. Jones' "German-American Names" gives the spellings and variants of 15,000 names and explains the meaning of names, borne today by Americans, that derive from the German language or its dialects.
Was $29.99 Now $17.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7199

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FAMOUS BOOKS on New England Genealogy

If you have New England ancestors and want to acquire a reliable collection of genealogy references that you will consult over and over again, here are a handful of titles that easily fill the bill!

GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of Maine and New Hampshire

This indispensable reference is the northern New England equivalent of James Savage's four-volume compendium of 17th-century New England settlers, "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" (temporarily out of print). The GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of Maine and New Hampshire contains extensive biographical and genealogical data on every family established in those colonies/states before 1699. Listed are the births, marriages, and deaths of the settlers through the third generation and sometimes into the fourth. Also included are data on places of origin, residences, wills and deeds, court cases, and highlights of lives and careers. Originally published in five parts, we have consolidated it into a convenient one-volume format.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=4205

If you prefer, you can acquire both of the above titles on a single CD-ROM entitled, GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF NEW ENGLAND, 1600s-1700s.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7169

NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700

Any discussion of the great contributors of New England genealogy will invariably raise the name of Clarence A. Torrey. Torrey compiled his great manuscript collection, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," over a 30-year period at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Gleaned from about 2,000 books and manuscripts, the Torrey collection is a comprehensive listing of the 37,000 married couples that lived in New England between 1620 and 1700. Torrey listed the names of just about every married couple living in New England before 1700, their marriage date or the birth year of a first child, the maiden names of 70% of the wives, the birth and death years of both partners, mention of earlier or later marriages, and the residences of every couple.

Our book, NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700, based on Torrey's manuscript, encompasses the aforementioned information and adds a complete name index. The volume is one of the two or three most consulted works in all of New England genealogy, and it belongs on the bookshelf of every serious New England researcher.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=5825

THIRD SUPPLEMENT to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700

During the 1980s, genealogist Melinde Lutz Sanborn began her ongoing hunt for additional evidence of early New England marriages that had surfaced since Torrey's death nearly 25 years earlier. Working from periodical literature, unpublished sources, the New England Historic Genealogical Society's "Great Migration Project," and other contemporary collections, Ms. Sanborn amassed enough new or corrective information bearing on the Torrey material to publish a first supplement in 1991 and a second supplement in 1995.

Ms. Sanborn has now produced the THIRD SUPPLEMENT to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Compiled primarily from the major genealogical periodicals published since 1995, this new book refers to 20,000 individuals in 6,000 marriage entries. The THIRD SUPPLEMENT will appeal to users of the original Torrey canon and/or the earlier supplements because it contains 80% new information and incorporates all of the information found in the first two supplements. Almost half the size of the original Torrey volume, the THIRD SUPPLEMENT is an essential source for colonial New England research, forever linked to the remarkable work of Clarence Torrey for which it is named.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=5148

Finally, we come to the work of Dr. Charles Edward Banks. Genealogist Banks is probably best known today as the author of four works focused on the origins of English Protestants who came to Massachusetts Bay between 1620 and 1650. The first of the these books, "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers," features sketches of every passenger who came to Plymouth on the "Mayflower" in 1620, the "Fortune" in 1621, and the "Anne" and the "Little James" in 1623. Banks published two books the following year: "The Winthrop Fleet of 1630," the appendix to which accounts for every Puritan who traveled to Massachusetts Bay with John Winthrop, and "Planters of the Commonwealth, 1620-1640," a chronological list of all vessels and their passengers known to have docked in New England during this era. Banks' "Topographical Dictionary of English Emigrants, 1620-1650" was actually edited and published by Elijah Brownell in 1937, six years after the good doctor had died. This book extends the author's published findings by another 10 years. The passengers are arranged by English county (shire) and, when available, are identified by parish, ship, New England town of destination, and source. See below for detailed descriptions of each of these four masterworks.

THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY AND HOMES of the Pilgrim Fathers

This critically acclaimed work contains biographical sketches of 112 passengers who sailed on the first four ships to New England. Along with data on the passengers' origins, family connections, and later histories, it substitutes proof for guesswork and blows holes in many cherished traditions. It includes many little-known facts about their place of residence in England and their parentage and ancestry.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=299

THE WINTHROP FLEET OF 1630

This is an authoritative list of the 700 passengers who are believed to have come to New England with John Winthrop in 1630. Based on research undertaken in England and America, it provides as much data as could be verified on each passenger--name, place of departure, places of residence in England and America, occupation, church affiliation, dates of birth, marriage, and death, and relationships to other passengers.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=306

THE PLANTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH, 1620-1640

Scrupulous in every detail, this work contains the names of 3,600 passengers on the 96 ships that brought them to New England between 1620 and 1640. Working with the same records employed by Savage, Drake, and Hotten and with records unknown or inaccessible to them, Dr. Banks here pulls the several classes of records together to form the most complete and authoritative collection of passenger lists for the period ever published. In addition to the names of passengers and ships, places of origin, and places of residence in America, the book includes indexes to surnames, ships, English parishes, and New England towns.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=304

TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY of 2885 Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650

This "Dictionary" comprises notes on nearly 3,000 emigrants, giving their English homes, names of ships in which they sailed, towns in which they settled in New England, and references to the printed or manuscript sources from which the information is derived.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=305

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COLOSSAL SAVINGS on Big-Content CDs

If you ever needed proof of the great value to be found in purchasing genealogy materials on CD-ROM, here it is. Listed below are our 11 largest CDs. Each one contains at least 300,000 names, and a number of them exceed half-a-million entries. Not only that. When you compare the cost of these CDs with the current retail prices of the books they contain, the savings sometimes range from 10 to 20 times the cost of the CDs.

There's something here to entice most researchers, as the CD topics span New England, the mid-Atlantic states, Virginia, hereditary societies, and Great Britain. You can read a full description of each product by accessing the link below the title. Like the rest of our CD collection, each CD is completely indexed and easily searchable.

THE RICKER COMPILATION of Town Vital Records of Early Connecticut (1,500,000 entries)

THE RICKER COMPILATION consists of an alphabetized and edited list of birth, marriage, death, and related vital records bearing on the inhabitants of the towns of early Connecticut. It is based extensively on the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, the chief resource in Connecticut genealogy, and it covers the period from approximately 1633, when these statistics were first recorded, to around 1850.

In addition to the celebrated Barbour Collection, compiler Jacquelyn Ricker's database also includes vital statistics from the following Connecticut towns not covered by Barbour: Bolton, Coventry, Enfield, Mansfield, New Haven, Vernon, and much of Norwich and Woodstock, as well as information gleaned from lists of source records, Bibles, and church records held in the Connecticut State Library in Hartford. THE RICKER COMPILATION, moreover, includes tombstone transcriptions from more than 400 cemeteries that were originally published in "The Connecticut Nutmegger," a publication of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists formerly edited by Jacquelyn Ricker herself.

Overall, the amount of data in this CD is staggering--one-and a-half million names! Another great feature--the CD's search engine, based on the popular Adobe Acrobat platform--allows you to search the records by name or keyword.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7535

MASSACHUSETTS GENEALOGICAL RECORDS (570,000 entries)

The research value of this CD, with its 570,000 entries, is evident in its sweeping coverage. The majority of the books featured on this CD deal with vital records, passenger lists, censuses, and military records of a slightly later era. Including the first two censuses of Massachusetts for 1790 and 1800, information found on this CD generally consists of name, age, occupation, date and place of birth, marriage, and death, date of arrival, place of residence, family relationships, details of military service, and date and place of burial. Connections from one book to another make this CD a formidable research tool.
Book value: $468.00 CD: $39.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7526

NOTABLE BRITISH FAMILIES (550,000 entries)

Along with an electronic search engine, or index, this Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of the most celebrated works ever published by Burke's (excepting only the various "Burke's Peerage" volumes). While most of the volumes included here deal with British lineages, at least two deal with the British origins of American families. In all, the CD names over 550,000 individuals.
Book value: $505.00 CD: $39.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7367

CONNECTICUT LOCAL AND FAMILY HISTORIES (450,000 entries) (Temporarily out of print)

This two-disc Family Archive CD set contains the largest collection of Connecticut genealogies available--in this format or in any other. Naming some 450,000 individuals, the CDs are based on a collection of books published by GPC that cover the early families of the towns of Fairfield, Guilford, Hartford, Milford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Woodbury, and others as well as books that cover the genealogical history of the entire state.
Book value: $785.00 CD: $39.99 (Temporarily out of print)
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7515

LINEAGES OF HEREDITARY SOCIETY MEMBERS, 1600s-1900s (440,000 entries)

GPC has published the best lineage books, and all are now available on this CD, which also contains an electronic index to the 440,000 persons named! A search on a single name will turn up all references to that name found in any of the 25 volumes contained herein.
Book value: $650.00 CD: $39.99 (Temporarily out of print)
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7506

COLONIAL VIRGINIA SOURCE RECORDS (350,000 entries) (Available in February 2007)

This Family Archive CD identifies 350,000 individuals in a unique collection of colonial Virginia source records--wills and administrations, marriage records, family histories, tax records, newspaper abstracts, and military records. In all, this CD contains images of the pages of 10 books originally published by GPC. Among the 10 are some of the most important Virginia reference books ever published, many of them classics!
Book value: $370.00 CD: $29.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7510

EARLY NEW YORK FAMILIES (350,000 entries)

This two-disc Family Archive CD set contains images of the pages of 16 volumes of New York family histories. Naming as many as 350,000 individuals in histories and biographies that cover the entire state of New York, this massive family history collection is accessed by means of a single electronic index. There is probably no more efficient way of reaching into the very heart of New York genealogy because, as collective genealogies go, this CD compilation is at the very top of its league.
Book value: $520.00 CD: $39.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7157

MARYLAND SETTLERS AND SOLDIERS (325,000 entries)

Consisting of the most authoritative books ever published on Maryland's role in the colonial wars, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812, as well as books containing newspaper abstracts, church records, records of marriages and deaths, tombstone inscriptions, and census records, this Family Archive CD contains a true cross-section of the records of some 325,000 early Maryland settlers and soldiers, all accessed through a single electronic index.
Book value: $287.00 CD: $29.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7521

PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES AND GENEALOGIES, 1600s-1800s (315,000 entries) Low in stock

A unique blend of family history and biography, this CD names 315,000 individuals who lived primarily in southeastern and southwestern Pennsylvania during the colonial and early federal periods. Brought to life in an exhaustive series of historical sketches, essays, biographies, and genealogies, these early Pennsylvanians are the ancestors of hundreds of thousands of persons living today. The CD contains 17 volumes of biographies, county histories, and genealogies that are conveniently accessed by means of a single electronic index.
Book Value: $700.00 CD: $39.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7530

VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES AND BIOGRAPHIES (310,000 entries)

This two-disc CD set identifies some 310,000 individuals in meticulously crafted studies that span as many as three centuries. Until now, this body of material has been totally beyond the reach of the ordinary researcher, available only at a handful of public and university libraries. Drawing liberally on private letters, diaries, and manuscripts, as well as church records, vital records, court records, wills and administrations, books, newspapers, and personal reminiscences, this is one of the best-documented collections of Virginia genealogies and biographies ever assembled.
Book value: $714.00 CD: $39.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7550

EARLY MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE SETTLERS (300,000 entries)

The books featured on this CD range all across the genealogical landscape. They include census records, wills, probate records, military records, gravestone inscriptions, and local histories, naming approximately 330,000 individuals! Probably the most important work found here is the Noyes, Libby, and Davis masterpiece, "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire," which presents genealogical data on every family established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699. Along with the 1790 censuses of Maine and New Hampshire, the books on this CD give names and ages of family members, places of residence, dates and details of vital events, military connections, estate records, details concerning immigration, and personal characteristics.
Book Value: $450.00 CD: $29.99
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=7523

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WHAT'S NEW at the Genealogy Warehouse for January

To begin the New Year, we are adding three more titles to the GENEALOGY WAREHOUSE, our bargain basement for books that have been reduced in price by 40%, 50%, or more below retail. The newcomers deal with genealogical source records pertaining to the Mississippi Valley in the 18th century as well as a number of towns in Connecticut.

If the focus of your research lies south of the Mason-Dixon Line, you will find a list of 13 Virginia WAREHOUSE titles immediately below the "New Additions." If, on the other hand, you prefer to browse through a complete list of nearly 200 WAREHOUSE titles, the following link will let you do just that:
http://www.genealogical.com/genealogy_warehouse.asp

**NEW ADDITIONS**

SPANISH AND BRITISH LAND GRANTS in Mississippi Territory, 1750-1784. Three Parts in One. Originally Published as Monographs 5-7, Selections from "The American State Papers"

This book is based on "Public Lands" and "Claims" records found in "The American State Papers" and consists of British and Spanish land grants or patents made to Americans and subsequently recorded in the Register's Office for the Mississippi Territory. Each record gives the name of the original grantee, the present claimant, date of the grant, patent or commissioner's certificate, acreage, location of the grant, evidence of grant fulfillment, and remarks. Some entries also provide evidence concerning the age of the grantee, date of original survey, names of relatives, and/or witnesses.
Was $26.50 Now $19.50
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=9836

BARBOUR COLLECTION of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vols. 10 & 21

Covering 137 Connecticut towns and taking up over 14,000 typed pages in manuscript, the "Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records" was the life work of General Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. Our 55-volume published edition of the BARBOUR COLLECTION refers to a staggering 1.75 million settlers who took up residence in Connecticut between the mid-17th century and mid-19th century. For a complete list of the towns and dates of coverage in this colossal series, go to the following link and scroll down that page:
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=6311

VOLUME 10: East Hartford (1783-1853), East Haven (1700-1852), East Lyme (1839-1853)

Volume 10 contains the birth, marriage, and death records of approximately 25,000 individuals. In common with all other volumes in the series, it provides names (in alphabetical order), date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and items such as age, occupation, place of residence, and names of officiating ministers.
Was $25.00 Now $17.95
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=6348

VOLUME 21: Killingworth (1667-1850), Ledyard (1836-1855), Lisbon (1786-1850)

This volume names about 27,500 individuals. Entries conform to those in other volumes.
Was $25.00 Now $17.95
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=6362

**VIRGINIA TITLES from the Genealogy Warehouse**

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY. In Five Volumes

The five-volume ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY is a collection of biographical sketches of thousands of Virginians who lived between the early 17th century and the 20th century. Covering the entire spectrum of colonial, Revolutionary, and post-Revolutionary figures, the ENCYCLOPEDIA treats the following personages: founders, immigrants, and early settlers, state councillors and burgesses, landowners, merchants, Revolutionary War figures, governors, justices, politicians, military and naval figures, and a host of prominent 19th-century personalities, including bankers, statesmen, farmers, professionals, businessmen, and Civil War soldiers.
Was $250.00/the set Now $150.00/the set
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=5856

VIRGINIA MILITIA in the War of 1812. In Two Volumes

This two-volume work contains the names and other particulars of some 40,000 Virginia militiamen. The first volume was originally published in 1851 by the Virginia Auditor's Office, and the second, much larger, volume was published a year later as a "Supplement." Both volumes have now been reprinted under the simple title, VIRGINIA MILITIA in the War of 1812. An index--entirely lacking in the original publications--has been added to each volume for the convenience of the researcher.
Was $125.00 Now $75.00
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=6099

VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK LAND GRANTS

The concluding volume in this four-volume series of Northern Neck land grants--and the only one currently in print--is arranged in the same manner as its companion volumes. The abstracts show grant book designation, page number, name of grantee, place of residence, number of acres, location of grant, surveyor, adjoining land owners, and date the grant was issued. Includes a comprehensive index.
Was $28.50 Now $17.00
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=2318

HISTORY OF TRURO PARISH IN VIRGINIA

This work covers the establishment and changing contours of the Truro Parish, the history of individual churches (such as Payne's Church, Pohick, and Zion), the composition of the parish vestry (which, by the way, numbered such Virginia luminaries as George Washington, George Mason, and George Fairfax), church accounts and levies, and so on. Also included are a complete listing of Truro vestrymen, church wardens, and other officials; a list of several hundred Fairfax County voters in 1744; and genealogical and biographical notes of various vestrymen.
Was $22.50 Now $13.50
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=9561

THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA'S NAVY of the Revolution

This volume recounts the exploits of the largest of all the state navies during the Revolution. It features a roster of officers and men derived from a variety of source records.
Was $25.00 Now $10.95
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=5568

LAND CAUSES, Accomack County, Virginia, 1727-1826

These land causes, or chancery suits, for dower, division of lands, and ejectment proceedings for the period 1727 to 1826 give, in full, the declaration of the plaintiff, the answer of the defendants, the verdict of the jury, and depositions, which, in many cases, give the dates of birth, marriage, and death of the parties concerned in the suit. The records include those of the district court as well as the county court, and they name about 4,000 individuals.
Was $28.50 Now $11.95
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=4177

WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1800

These abstracts, naming approximately 30,000 individuals, were compiled with the following objectives: to locate every record of will and administration, to obtain the names of every beneficiary of an estate, to discover the degree of relationship of the beneficiary to the testator or intestate, and to discover the nature of the inheritance. Of great importance to genealogists, special attention is paid to the orders of probate, which often contain the names of children and heirs not mentioned in the body of the will, particularly the "heir at law."
Was $45.00 Now $16.75
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=4183

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY [West] Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1800-1814

This work consists of alphabetically arranged lists of all persons who paid a property tax for every year between 1800 and 1814, except for 1808, when no tax was collected. For each taxpayer, the author has coded the number of white tithables in the household, the number of horses owned, and the number of slaves, if any. On occasion, persons are identified with supporting information.
Was $22.50 Now $13.50
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=9340

ANNALS OF BATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA

This is the standard history of Bath County. Of greatest genealogical import are the chapters devoted to the names of heads of families in Bath in 1782, early marriage records, a roster of Confederate soldiers, and a list of families in Greater Bath.
Was $25.00 Now $17.95
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=9260

A HISTORY OF HIGHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA (Low in stock)

This is the standard genealogical and historical reference on Highland County, with emphasis on the pioneer period and the early settlers and their families. The major portion of the book is devoted to a transcription of the records from the courthouses of Highland County and the adjoining counties of Augusta, Bath, Orange, and Pendleton, and from the Archives at Richmond. Part II, in particular, consists of genealogies of Highland County families. In all, the volume references 11,000 individuals.
Was $45.00 Now $26.95 (Low in stock)
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HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, 1746-1786; Washington County, 1777-1870

This is the definitive history of Southwest Virginia, the area originally comprising Botetourt, Fincastle, and Washington counties and now embracing 19 present-day counties of Virginia and 17 of West Virginia, as well as parts of other counties in these states. Numerous lists of genealogical importance (e.g., colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil War militia, surveyors' lists, civil servants, and elected officials) are scattered throughout the text, as well as biographical sketches of more than 100 prominent citizens.
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LYNNHAVEN PARISH REGISTER [Virginia], 1838-1913

Lynnhaven Parish, Virginia, was the first parish of the Anglican Church established in America, originally encompassing all of Princess Anne County. The work at hand is an indexed facsimile copy of the actual parish register for Lynnhaven Parish for the period 1838 to 1913. Researchers will find records of births, baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages, and burials for Emanuel Church, exactly as they were recorded by church officials during these 75 years. The late genealogist Alice Granbery Walter, who copied the original register for publication, also added a comprehensive surname index to the thousands of entries in its sometimes hard-to-read contents. Mrs. Walter also provided an informative Introduction that outlines the history of the parish.
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Men of Mark and Representative Citizens of HARRISONBURG AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Portraits and Biographies of Men and Women (Low in stock)

The subjects of these biographies include farmers, businessmen, educators, preachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, jurists, statesmen, soldiers, writers, and so on. Part I consists of extended biographical sketches, with accompanying portraits. Part II features shorter, unillustrated essays of a few hundred Rockingham County luminaries of bygone years, any number of whose lines are extended back to the 1700s.
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