Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts

Friday, May 9, 2025

1 Research Challenge: Elinipsico - Allanawissica

 I'm trying to find the first instance where Elinipsico (son of Cornstalk) is referred to as Allanawissica.

REVOLUTION ON THE UPPER OHIO, 1775-1777

published in 1908

Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
EDITED BY
REUBEN GOLD THWAITES, LL. D.

You can read it online

https://archive.org/details/revolutiononuppe01thwa

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The first Instance that I have found of Elinipsico (spelled with two Ls) in a published work is:

Chronicles of border warfare

by Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865

published in 1831

read online

https://archive.org/details/Ayer_154_V7_W8_1831/page/n132/mode/1up?q=ellinipsico

Do you know of anything earlier?




Sunday, December 22, 2024

* "Citing" Wikipedia

 You can cite Wikipedia. Here is an example:

Chicago Style (Notes and Bibliography)Format:

 "Title of Article." Wikipedia. Last modified Month Day, Year. URL.Example:

"Sumner County, Tennessee." Wikipedia. Last modified July 27, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee.

Notes: For Chicago Author-Date style, adapt to:

Wikipedia. 2025. "Sumner County, Tennessee." Last modified July 27, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee.


But of course Wikipedia is not a source. What you need to do is read the Wikipedia article and find out where the editor found that fact and then go get a copy of that book and find that fact in the book and cite that as your source!



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"

Search for "Skaggs"



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

Volume Two

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.
Copyright by The Library of Virginia; this note may be reproduced in full if proper credit is given and no changes are made.

 

Use the link below to access this publication:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/













Tuesday, November 12, 2024

3. Thomas Bailey Christian Locations

 TAZEWELL




from History of Settlement & Indian Wars of Tazewell County, Virginia



Tazewell County Historical Society

Tazewell County Public Library

FamilySearch Tazewell

Tazewell Co. / Buchanan Co., VA, Genealogy

Tazewell Circuit Court: Genealogy Research (birth, death, wills)

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Montgomery County, Virginia

Montgomery County was established in 1777 from Fincastle County
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Don't forget to consider Wythe, Wayne, Tazewell. Don't omitt counties in the Carolina states, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia. Those are the places with the keys to the connections you all seek. Be sure to check Georgia. Heavy Shawano connections are there to our Christians.

:) Red Wolf

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Thomas Mastin's papers for the orphans are found in Tennessee.
There is also one from Hezekiah Whitt in Virginia for the recognition of Thomas Christian as a Cornstalk orphan. Montgomery County is the place to look.

:) Red Wolf
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Wythe County

I have seen someone write that TBC married 1st on 4 JUN 1793 in Wythe County. Hmm, let's see if we can find a source for that.







TENNESSEE
Sumner County

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


all of Tennessee

Tennessee Virtual Archive
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North Carolina
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ΣTBC | ΣSkaggs | ΣJRedWolf











Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Genealogy TV on YouTube

 I had never heard of this - but she is really good!

Genealogy TV on YouTube



https://www.youtube.com/@GenealogyTV

https://www.facebook.com/Genealogytv/

https://genealogytv.org/


Evidence Explained & The Chicago Manual of Style & Dewey Decimal

 

I am going to try to figure out how to cite email & letters (AKA correspondence). I will be using Evidence Explained & The Chicago Manual of Style

some of my questions

1. If the email is written to you do you have to send a second email asking if you can cite first email?
        I found this myself: Yes you need to get permission from the original emailer. I know this seems obvious, I just wanted to find sources for this answer and I did.
                a. Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, 4th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2024), 174.
                b. Editorial Staff. The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017), 851

2. Citing something means the reader should be able to access the original, correct? How can that be if the email is only on the computer and not published?

I'm going to be asking these questions at the Evidence Explained forums


And reading The Chicago Manual of Style

(There is an online (CMOS), free trial, and I think you can ask questions there? I will try it and report back)

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Part B citing books when there are multiple editions

I need to be able to cite one particular edition of a book when there are multiple editions.

For this example I am going to use

Pocahontas, Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants
by Wyndham Robertson 1887

the first thing to look at is the actual title page


Since there was no classification system at this time the only way to distinguish this edition would be to use the publication year (1887) and maybe the page numbers (no, because Internet sources are not consistent on how many page numbers of first edition)?
This is before ISBN, so it won't have one, UNLESS someone assigned a number "posthumously", which it looks like someone did:
ISBN (still searching for isbn number)

The Chicago Manual of Style citation 2024:
Robertson, Wyndham. Pocahontas: Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants Through Her Marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, Gentleman; Including the Names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Boling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewel, Walke, West, Whittle, and Others. United States: J. W. Randolph & English, 1887.

MLA

Robertson, Wyndham, 1803-1888, and R. A. (Robert Alonzo) Brock. Pocahontas, Alias Matoaka: And Her Descendants Through Her Marriage At Jamestown, Virginia, In April, 1614, With John Rolfe, Gentleman; Including the Names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Bolling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Polythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, And Others. Richmond: J. W. Randolph & English, 1887.

APA

Robertson, W., Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo). (1887). Pocahontas, alias Matoaka: and her descendants through her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, gentleman; including the names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Bolling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Polythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, and others. Richmond: J. W. Randolph & English.


WorldCat OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1651163





Going forward. What about a newish book?






Friday, August 23, 2024

The Handbook of North American Indians

 The Handbook of North American Indians is a series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Native American studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978


I noticed this in the Wikipedia article about Aaron Carapella - that he used these books as a reference to make his maps.

So I am trying to find where to read them. SO far no luck and they are 300 dollars each on eBay

WORK IN PROGRESS


Σindigenous

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and her descendants

NOTE: I am just beginning to try to sort this out and it is really confusing with the different revisions which each have different re-print years. I may have made mistakes. Please comment if you see any. I'm sorting thru - Sept 2024 - and when I am done I will do a double check. So stay tuned to updates!


Since I am studying Virginia history I can't really get away from doing research on Matoaka even though there have been a thousand books written about her and I can't read them all. I am going to start by sorting out the first (?) book about her genealogy - below - there have been updates and different versions published since the original and I will sort that out here. 

[List of books about Pocahontas https://history-on-trial.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/pocahontas/bib.php ]


Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and her descendants through her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, gentleman; including the names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Boling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, and others by Robertson, Wyndham, 1803-1888 Publication date 1887


by Robertson, Wyndham, 1803-1888

Publication date 1887

Richmond : J.W. Randolph & English

search at ancestry

https://search.worldcat.org/title/12695344

https://search.worldcat.org/formats-editions/963597579

WorldCat OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 824616935

Call Number 929.273 P75br - this just goes to genealogies


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Pocahontas' descendants : a revision, enlargement, and extension of the list as set out by Wyndham Robertson in his book Pocahontas and her descendants (1887)

by Stuart E. Brown, Lorraine F. Myers, Eileen M. Chappel

Publisher: Pocahontas Foundation, [Berrryville, Va.], 1985


Amazon

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Genealogical Publishing Co.; 3rd edition (January 1, 1997)

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806314079

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806314075

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Corrections and additions to Pocahontas' descendants

by Stuart E. Brown, Lorraine F. Myers, Eileen M. Chappel

Publisher: Pocahontas Foundation, [Berrryville, Va.], 1992

ISBN-13 978-0317405163

FamilySearch 

Archive.org

Amazon ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0006EZN2A

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Third Corrections And Additions To Pocahontas’ Descendants
by Stuart E. Brown, Jr. and Lorraine F. Myers; Published: 1997, Reprinted: 2003; Softcover; 197 pp; ISBN 9780806315423; Item GPC716
The Pocahontas Foundation, based upon information furnished to it, has compiled a tentative list of the descendants of Pocahontas, a list set forth in Pocahontas' Descendants. This present volume, the third involving additions and corrections to the existing work, contains more than 120 pages of changes and revisions, with a forty-page index of 6,500 names. The name of the spouse of a Pocahontas descendant is listed even though that spouse is not a descendant of Pocahontas, but the name of a parent of such a spouse is not indexed unless, of course, that parent is a descendant of Pocahontas as well. This new volume is an indispensable adjunct to contemporary Pocahontas scholarship.

Published: 1997, Reprinted: 2003

ISBN 9780806315423

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Pocahonta's (sic) Descendants, With Corrections and Additions
Fourth and Fifth Corrections and Additions
by Stuart E. Brown, Lorraine F. Myers 2001 and 2004, 2090



ISBN 0-8063-5242-6


Amazon Publisher ‏ : ‎ Genealogical Publishing Company (June 1, 2009)
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806352426
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806352428


ΣPowhatan







Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Books I am Missing, can't buy, not online

An annal begins with Ezekiel and Margaret (Watkins) Phelps, 1793-94 Statement of Responsibility: by Geneva M. Phelps Parsons, West Virginia : G.M. Phelps, c1989

Includes Shaffer, Bolyard, Bowman, Auvil, Annon, Moyer and other related families. Ezekiel and Margaret Phelps were married 1793/94 in Maryland and settled in Anne Arundel County, All Hollows Parish.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/452851?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Genealogical notes on some ancestors and descendants of Noah Birchfield (1825-1912) : with a few allied lines Bailey, Christian, Crapps, Harman, Johnston, Lester, Robinett & others Statement of Responsibility: compiled by James de Maris Birchfield & William O. Birchfield, Sr
(Auvil) 929.273 B531bj (ordered this from abe books July 2024)

Skaggs Tangled Roots by Ida M Lancaster
can't be accessed at familysearch, I don't know where to get this

Hardesty’s Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia 1884 Special Virginia ed.
$695 on eBay

Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume Four: Pelham-Avery-West: Descendants for Nine Generations of Thomas West.
$70 at Amazon
search which volumes?
ebook $59
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Adkins, Ronnie, "The Adkins Family of Wayne County, West Virginia, Also Cabell, Lincoln and Boone", Bookcrafters, Virginia: 1990, p. 4-6, about Littleberry

ΣTBC | ΣSkaggs 















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

purchase at Amazon


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

purchase at Amazon

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

purchase at Amazon



Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives

ΣSkaggs

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

purchase at Amazon



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