Virginia Group Meeting: October 6, 10 am

Come join us for our October meeting. We have had requests to discuss the history and settlement of Virginia as we have many new members since our very first meeting so that will be this month’s discussion, with some additional information.

We'll talk about the Roanoke Colony, Jamestown, geographical regions and how they affected settlement, Cavaliers, who owns the Ohio River, land records and other factors of the settlement of Virginia.

We’ll also have show and tell for those of you who made some discoveries this summer. Please share.

Carol and I would like to implement our plan to provide individual assistance with your research project. First come, first served. We’ll need some very specific information from you.

• Name 
• Location 
• Time Period 
• What is the specific problem or goal. For example: I’m looking for the parents of John Smith of Lunenburg County, or where did he live before he migrated to Kentucky in 1890, etc. 
• What records have you already researched. Be very specific. 

For the November 3rd meeting Ginger Christmas-Beattie will present "Transcribing old documents”, a lecture on reading the English handwriting of America in the 16th and 17th centuries. This can be applied to any document once one has an understanding of the old grammatical forms.

Ginger has over 40 years of practical genealogical research experience, and has been involved with the Genealogical Society of Washington County, as well as other genealogical societies throughout the United States. As author and publisher, she has produced 13 books and 7 CD's of historic documents, census and court records and a book on the Christmas Family history through her business, Ancestral Tracks.

Original Land Grants-Loudoun County, Virginia

The Loudoun County Mapping Office has several historical maps online, including one showing the original land grants in the area.

Loudoun County Land Grants.

There is a also link to a table of the owners of the land here.

Virginia Circuit Court Preservation Program

In a message dated 8/31/2012 12:26:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Bari.Helms@LVA.VIRGINIA.GOV writes:

"The Virginia Circuit Court Preservation Program (CCRP) is celebrating its
20th anniversary this year. Part of the Library of Virginia's Local Records
Services branch, the program was created in 1992 to address the
preservation needs of some of the most important records in the state - the records of Virginia's 120 circuit courts. ...

Twenty years later, access to Virginia's historic court records has never
been wider with more than 7 million digital chancery court images from
fifty-seven counties and cities now available online through the Chancery
Records Index (CRI), created to increase access to Virginia's historic equity
cases."

http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryofVa/LibraryofVa>

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/