Saturday, June 29, 2024

Virginia Maps



Powhatan Indian Place Names in Tidewater Virginia by Martha W McCartney and Helen C Rountree

2017

purchase at Amazon

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Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development
by by Library of Virginia (Author), Marianne M. McKee (Editor) 2000

Virginia Land Patents and Grants

 Library of Virginia

https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/land-grants


Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants



Friday, June 28, 2024

Link in my Bio deeAuvil Blog





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this seems like the perfect solution to collecting rainwater out in my pasture where there is no irrigation. It has built in gutter system! BUT the roof is made of plastic. I guess the plastic can get in the water? I need to learn about that... In the meantime could someone design something just like this but with stainless steel roof and gutters? Thank you.
now I see this one is sold out. here is a similar greenhouse with gutters:

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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Draper Manuscript Collection


From the Wisconsin Historical Society website "Lyman Copeland Draper's manuscript collection was bequeathed to the Wisconsin Historical Society. Draper (1815-1891) was a lifelong student of early American history.
The collection as a whole covers primarily the period between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812 (ca. 1755-1815). The geographic concentration is on what Draper and his contemporaries called the "Trans-Allegheny West," which included the western Carolinas and Virginia, some portions of Georgia and Alabama, the entire Ohio River valley, and parts of the Mississippi River valley."
description
how to order copies


You need to start here:
1.Guide to the Draper manuscripts
 by Harper, Josephine L. 1983
borrow at archive.org


2. Index to the Draper Manuscripts: Series NN, The Pittsburgh and Northwest Virginia Papers
 indexed by Karen Mauer Green 2003
"The index includes every name mentioned in the text."
where is this available?
familyrootspublishing.net
link (I purchased June 2024)

3. Index to Lyman C. Draper manuscripts
 by Barbara E. Schull Wolfe
I don't know where to see this book other than maybe an LDS genealogy center

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they don't actually say they have copies?? or how to view them?? CdA 2024

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Draper Manuscript Collection guide at FamilySearch
Draper Manuscript Series Coverage Table
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some can be seen at archive.org




















Virginia Wills & Probate

Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1900

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62347/


Virginia Will Records

ancestry.com


Virginia Probate Records

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Virginia_Probate_Records


The Ancestor Hunt

https://theancestorhunt.com/blog/free-virginia-probate-records-and-wills/


Library of Virginia

Wills and Estate Records Index

https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/wills

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Ancestry.com

Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal (this searches everyone everywhere?)

link

United States Probate Records

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States_Probate_Records


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my old notes

Tazewell County Library 

Tazewell County Courthouse (you need to go in person to search the wills)
Complete since 1800. There are two indexes, one from 1800-1908, the other commencing with January 1, 1909. The first volume contains both devisors and devisees, the later volume is indexed by devisors only.

Virginia Wills Before 1799, by William Montgomery Clemens
     * At Access Genealogy  searchable
     * Ancestry.com ($) searchable


West Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records

West Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1724-1985

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9087/


West Virginia Will Books, 1756-1971 Index and images for will books from all 55 counties of West Virginia. Additional records will be added as they are completed.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1909099


The Ancestor Hunt

https://theancestorhunt.com/blog/free-west-virginia-probate-records-and-wills/


West Virginia Probate Records

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/West_Virginia_Probate_Records


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Ancestry.com

Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal (this searches everyone everywhere?)

link

United States Probate Records

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States_Probate_Records

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Virginia Books



Journals of the House of burgesses of Virginia

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/08/journals-of-house-of-burgesses.html


Adventurers of Purse And Person

ΣCroshaw & ΣWest 

Jester, Annie Lash & Hiden, Martha Woodruff

description at familysearch

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1149556?availability=Family%20History%20Library

read 1st edition (1956) familysearch

link

can borrow 1st edition (1956) at archive .org

https://archive.org/details/adventurersofpur0000anni

the fourth edition, 2004, comes in three volumes

by John Frederick Dorman 

Contents: v. 1. Families A-F -- v. 2. G-P -- v. 3. R-Z.

this is not online (2024) and hard to buy. I bought 3 volumes separately on eBay

search eBay

purchase at Amazon (but cheaper on eBay)

https://amzn.to/45JpUyD

purchase at Historic Jamestowne (pricey)

https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/books/all-books/adventurers-of-purse-and-person/

I'm going to include a link to Google Books although preview and search are not available at this time - 2024 - (maybe in the future?)

Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants

1st edition, 1934 is one volume 1623 - 1800

Search or read at the Open Library

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6315441M/Cavaliers_and_Pioneers

Vol 1: 1623-1666

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48408/

https://archive.org/details/cavalierspioneer00nuge/page/n6/mode/thumb

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000005095363&seq=9

Vol 2: 1666-1695

https://archive.org/details/cavalierspioneer00nuge/page/n18/mode/thumb

Vol 3: 1695 - 1732

https://archive.org/details/cavalierspioneer0000nell/page/n5/mode/2up

Vol 4: 1732-1741

https://www.therainwatercollection.com/reference/ref055.pdf

you can purchase Volumes 4-8 at Virginia Genealogical Society prices $5-$35

purchase at Amazon

search eBay "Cavaliers and Pioneers"

The Virginia Shop at the Library of Virginia is supposed to sell them but I only see them in their bulk section where you have to buy 10 at a time (?!)

https://www.thevirginiashop.org/

Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep and Tangled Branches. Volume II




Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666

by George Cabell Greer

purchase at Amazon

search eBay


How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of their Formation

Hiden, Martha Woodruff

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=39148

https://archive.org/details/howjusticegrewvi0000mart

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Marriages of some Virginia residents, 1607-1800

 by Wulfeck, Dorothy Ford, 1986

https://archive.org/details/marriagesofsomev0001wulf

purchase at Amazon

Records of the Virginia company of London

ΣCroshaw
by Virginia Company of London; Kingsbury, Susan Myra
https://archive.org/details/recordsofvirgini03virg/page/n24/mode/thumb?q=crashaw

Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635

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search eBay


A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory by Johnston, David E 1906

https://archive.org/details/historyofmiddlen00john/mode/1up

purchase at Amazon

search eBay




Trans-Allegheny Pioneers: Historical Sketches of the First White Settlements West of the Alleghenies 1748 and After

familysearch.org

purchase at Amazon




Life in Old Virginia by James J. McDonald, 1907



Cabells and their kin. A memorial volume of history, biography, 1895

ΣNicketti



https://archive.org/details/cabellstheirkinm00brow/page/n5/mode/2up

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89080567506&seq=1

https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/551682-the-cabells-and-their-kin-a-memorial-volume-of-history-biography-and-genealogy

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Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives

ΣSkaggs

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48239/

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The Colonial Virginia register. A list of governors, councillors and other higher officials, and also of members of the House of burgesses, and the revolutionary conventions of the colony of Virginia. Comp. by William G. and Mary Newton Stanard.

Hathi



Draper Manuscript Collection

description

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS4103

"The geographic concentration is on what Draper and his contemporaries called the "Trans-Allegheny West," which included the western Carolinas and Virginia, some portions of Georgia and Alabama, the entire Ohio River valley, and parts of the Mississippi River valley."

see my blog post



Some Emigrants to Virginia : Memoranda in Regard to Several Hundred Emigrants to Virginia During the Colonial Period Whose Parentage is Shown or Former Residence Indicated by Authentic Records

Early Child Immigrants to Virginia, 1619-1642

Yesterday Today And Tomorrow The Eastern Virginia Powhatan Confederate Algonquin Speaking American Indian by Shirley McCowan, Raymond S. Adams 1987

The life and adventures of Captain John Smith: comprising an account of his travels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Also, the early history of Virginia and England; including sketches of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, and other distinguished characters by Armstrong, W. C 1855

https://archive.org/details/lifeadventuresof00arms_0/page/n11/mode/thumb