Friday, January 10, 2025
Sunday, December 22, 2024
* "Citing" Wikipedia
When I "cite" Wikipedia here I mean go to the Wikipedia article and see what they cite as a source for that fact (if there is a source) - if you want to research further. Example:
Longhunters traveled into the area as early as the 1760s, following existing Indian and buffalo trails. By the early 1780s, they had erected several trading posts in the region. The most prominent was Mansker's Station, which was built by Kasper Mansker near a salt lick (where modern Goodlettsville would later develop). Another was Bledsoe's Station, built by Isaac Bledsoe at Castilian Springs.[1] Sumner County was organized in 1786, just 3 years after the end of the American Revolutionary War, when Tennessee was still the western part of North Carolina.[citation needed]
"Sumner County, Tennessee," Wikimedia Foundation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee
Of course Wikipedia, in itself, is not a source.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
13. Thomas Bailey Christian - Important Christian surname families of the frontier
Important Christian surname families of the frontier
Gilbert: had previously arrived in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1726 and, after living in Lancaster for a time, he and his family were among the first to settle in the Valley of Virginia in 1732. Israel: Early Kentucky pioneer and landowner; founded Fincastle, Kentucky and Christiansburg, Virginia. William: In Dunmore's war; led an expedition against the Overhill Cherokees, which saw little action but compelled some of the chiefs to agree to peace. He served in the commission which negotiated the "Treaty of Long Island of the Holston" with the Cherokees, signed on July 20, 1777.
All roads led to Texas : family histories of the allied families: Pettipool, P'Pool, Pool, Poole, McCain, McCown, Greenwade, Wingard, Mayes; v. 02 |
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 : records of the State enumerations: 1782-1785, Virginia
this is online but I am having trouble finding a good place to search
Ancestry.com has a search but it is only for certain states:
Search for "Sceggs"
Search for "Skaggs"
What it says at FamilySearch (so is this the same as Ancestry?) I'll have to run some comparisons.
Search for "Sceggs"
CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA (AKA Chalkley's)
CHRONICLES
OF THE
Scotch-Irish Settlement
IN
VIRGINIA
EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF
AUGUSTA COUNTY
1745-1800
BY
LYMAN CHALKLEY
Volume One
V1
Volume Two
V2
http://usgwarchives.net/special/chalkley/volume_2/contents.htm one page at a time!
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/204429/?offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=download&n=0&q= Good Search
Volume Three
Here is a good overview but I wouldn't read it here because it is page by page and no search.
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Chalkley's Chronicles
Lyman Chalkley's three-volume Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (Rosslyn, Va., 1912-1913; reprint, 1965) is a popular reference work that contains abstracts taken from the Augusta County court records. Chalkley's Chronicles may serve as a useful source for leads and to identify original records to consult, but there are many reasons to exercise caution when using it.
Before the publication of the Chronicles, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which had been approached to become the publisher, commissioned genealogist and historian Thomas Forsythe Nelson to make an analysis of the work. Nelson's detailed evaluation, in which the Society as well as Herbert Putnam, who was then the Librarian of Congress, and historian J. Franklin Jameson all concurred, was that the typescript of Chalkley's abstracts that had been submitted should not be published. Nelson found that the abstracts contained an abundance of transcription errors, erroneous dates, misspelled names, material omissions, and other serious mistakes. He concluded that the abstracts were "condensed to the point of mutilation" and that many entries misrepresented the contents of the original documents.
Nelson also pointed out that Chalkley had abstracted only some of the records that pertained to persons and families in which he was interested. Publication of the abstracts could easily lead to the erroneous conclusion that the absence in the abstracts of information about a person or a family meant that there was no information on the person or family in the county court's records.
Nelson's whole report, containing detailed comparisons between Chalkley's abstracts and the original records, was published as a substantial pamphlet under the authority of the 21st Congress, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (Washington, D.C., 1912) with the title Report on the Chalkley Manuscripts.
Mary Smith Lockwood, an honorary vice-president-general of the Society, nevertheless proceeded on her own to have the typescript of Chalkley's abstracts published in the familiar three-volume edition.
Many users have no doubt concluded wrongly, as Nelson predicted, that the absence of references in Chalkley's Chronicles indicated a lack of data; and many other users have certainly been mislead by using Chalkley's faulty abstracts and not consulting the original records. Chalkley's Chronicles can be a valuable resource if it is used as a first finding aid for citations but not as a correct reproduction or representation of the full rich entries in the county court's original manuscript records.
An online series on Research in Virginia Documents.
Prepared by Daphne Gentry, Publications and Education Services Division.
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