Genealogy Research & Education

Genealogy is where you confuse the dead and irritate the living!

Colonial Virginia
Sources

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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