Genealogy is where you confuse the dead and irritate the living!
Learn-N Bibliography
Talk given by
Lynne Darrouzet, 10-24-2009
Cavaliers & Pioneers, at Plano Library
GEN 929.3755 CAV
(10 volumes, 1623 to 1782)
Library of Virginia Land Patent Database
http://tinyurl.com/
libraryofvirginia
Direct Line Software Deeds
www.directlinesoftware.com/
pool.htm
Deeds (by county-published abstracts at Plano and Dallas libraries,
microfilm at the
Family History Library)
Wills (by county-published
abstracts at Plano and
Dallas libraries,
microfilm at Family
History Library)
Parish Vestry books
(includes land boundary
processioning, )
Court order books (by county-published
abstracts at Plano and Dallas libraries,
microfilm at Family History Library)
Road orders (part of court records,
published by Virginia Transportation
Research Council, online at
www.virginiadot.org –
search site for road orders)
Tithable lists (by county–published copies check libraries, search
by county name
on Google)
Maps – look for historical maps or purchase topo maps
Adventurers of Purse & Persons, at Plano Library [GEN
929.3755 ADV
v.1, v.2 and v.3]
Southside Virginia Genealogies,
at Plano Library [GEN 929.3755 SOU]
Carolyn Earle Billingsley, Communities of Kinship: Antebellum
Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier,
2004, University of Georgia Press
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the
Old South, 1982, 2007, Oxford University Press
Charles J. Farmer, In the Absence of Towns, Settlement and
Country Trade in Southside Virginia 1730-1800, 1993, Rowman and
Littlefield Press
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