GFO Virginia Group Meeting, Saturday, September 1, 10:00-12:00.

It's that time again! Come join the Virginia Group for our first fall meeting. Carol Surrency will be speaking about Dunmore's War and we will be planning our fall and winter schedule.

• Come and learn about Virginia's relationship with Great Britain in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
• Find out why Dunmore County changed its name and the last colonial governor was chased out of Virginia to live on a ship.
• Discover how "Dunmore's little war" influenced the Southern campaign during the Revolution impacting Kings Mountain and other major battles.

We meet at the Genealogical Forum of Oregon,
2505 S.E. 11th Ave., Portland , OR, Suite B-18
http://gfo.org/

New Records at the Library of Virginia

See the Quarterly Report of Newly Available Archival Accessions (April-June 2012) at the Library of Virginiaon at: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/news/index.htm#new.

Henrico Parish Vestry Book

The Vestry Book of Henrico Parish, Virginia, 1730-'73: Comprising a History ... edited by Robert Alonzo Brock online at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=zH4FAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=henrico+parish+vestry+book&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gfy0T_ruEsSqiAKxzoCeAg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=henrico%20parish%20vestry%20book&f=false

Petersburg Chancery Digital Project Now Complete

News from the Library of Virginia

"The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the completion of the Petersburg chancery causes digital project. The scanning project was funded by the Circuit Court Records Preservation Program along with a $155,071 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The collection has been digitized from 1787 through 1912 and the images added to the Chancery Records Index. The most recently added suits cover the years 1889-1912."

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/05/16/petersburg-chancery-digital-project-now-complete/

News from the Library of Virginia e newsletter May 2012

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/news/newsletter/stories/2012_05-may.asp#warwick   Early Warwick County Court Records Returned to Virginia The Library of Virginia recently recovered seven documents that had been removed from the Warwick County (now city of Newport News) courthouse by a Massachusetts soldier during the Peninsula Campaign in April 1862. The court records, dated 1688–1751, include wills, a bond, and other legal documents and were discovered by Richard Trask, town archivist of Danvers, Massachusetts, among the Putnam family papers in the Danvers Archival Center at the Peabody Institute Library. The documents were returned to Carl Childs, director of the Library's Local Records Services Branch in a ceremony held in the Gordon Room of the Peabody Institute Library in Danvers on April 30.

May 2012 Meeting

Saturday, May 5 10 am

GFO Meeting Room

Virginia Land Records:

From the Beginning

Types, Terms

Where to Find Them

     and

 How to Use Them

Judi Scott

Southern Campaign

  You're invited to register for the October 12-13, 2012:
10th Francis Marion / Swamp Fox Symposium: "Explore the Southern Campaign with General Marion"
Immerse yourself in Francis Marion's world and the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
Approx. Times: Friday, Oct. 12, 2012: 2 PM - 9 PM and Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012: 9 AM - 10 PM
Site: FE DuBose Campus of Central Carolina Technical College, I-95, Exit 122, ½ mi E on US 521, Manning, SC.
Details on www.francismarionsymposium.com
as schedule is developed
Agenda framework for Presentations:
Friday, October 12, 2012 2 PM Sign-in
2:30 (starts with 2 presentations)
Reception Dinner in Manning
Saturday, October 13, 2012
9 AM Opening, Drinks & Breakfast Snacks
9:30 AM (continues with 6 presentations)
Displays/ Book Signings
An Evening in Rev. History Dinner Theater With Our Historian:
Joe Stukes as Harry Lee

Francis Marion Advocates: Pushing back the frontier of ignorance.
Swamp Fox Murals Trail Society
PO Box 667
Manning, SC 29102
803-478-2645
cells: 803-460-9626, 803-460-7416
Next: www.francismarionsymposium.com Oct 12-13, 2012 Plans coming.
www.francismarioncountry.com - Living History Encampment - Feb. 23-25, 2012 - Very Best Ever.
www.clarendonmurals.com www.francismariontrail.com www.swampfoxtrail.com www.swampfoxcountry.com