Book Review: "Lunenburg County, Virginia Marriages 1750-1853" with Last Name Index N-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s Lunenburg County, Virginia Marriages 1750-1853, 174 pages, appendices, figure, chart and map. Lunenburg County was created in 1746 from a portion of Brunswick County. 2,435 marriage records are reflected in the current volume. They are drawn from a variety of primary sources, including copies of typed bonds in the county court house (the original bonds are missing), scattered ministers' returns in will and deed books, and microfilm records in the Virginia State Library, Archives Division. Two appendices provide a date frequency and a listing of all ministers reporting returns. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1988 original, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia.

If you would like to purchase a copy of this book, let me know.

Here are two sample entries from the book:

• "Callis Pamelia F & Samuel W Oslin 17 Apr 1843; b - Gary Thompson min - John C Blackwell - 21 Apr 1843"
• "Rainey Francis & Cissly M Gee 8 Jan 1847; date approximate min - Daniel Petty - from return list dated 8 Feb 1847"

The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Nance Nash Neal Neathery Neblett Neele Nelson Neville Nevils Newbill Newby Niblett Nolley Norment Northington Norvell Nunnally Nunnerly Ogburn Old Oldham Oliver Ombs Oon Orgain Osborne Oslin Overby Overton Overtrhow Owen Page Palmer Palmore Pamplin Pampton Parham Parish Parker Parmer Parrish Parrott Parsons Patterson Patteson Pattillo Paylor Peace Pearcey Pearcy Pearson Pease Peaseley Peebles Pegram Penick Penn Pennington Peoples Perkerson Perkins Peterson Petteford Pettipool Pettus Petty Pettypool Pewett Phebe Philbeard Philips Phillips Pierce Piercy Pike Pilkinton Pillar Pinnel Pitman Poindexter Pointer Pollard Pollock Pool Popham Portwood Potter Poultney Powel Powell Powers Prewit Price Pride Priest Pritchett Procise Pryor Puckett Pugh Puller Pulley Pulliam Pully Pyle Queesberry Radford Ragsdale Rainey Ramsey Rand Randolph Raney Rash Rawlins Read Reams Reaves Redford Redman Redmon Redmond Reese Rhodes Richards Richardson Richie Riggin Riggins Riggons Rigigett Ritchee Rivers Roach Roads Roberts Robertson Robins Robinson Rodgers Roe Rogers Rose Ross Roslett Royall Ruckes Rucks Rudd Rudder Russell Rutherford Rutledge Rux Ryan Ryland Sadler Sale Samford Sammons Sanders Sands Sandys Saterfield Satterfield Satterwhile Saunders Scarbery Scarbrough Scire Scoggin Scot Scott Seamore Seay Sewal Shackelton Sharp Shaw Sheered Sheffield Shelborn Shelborne Shelburn Shelburne Shell Shelor Shelton Sheneberry Ship Shorter Shule Sikes Silts Simmons Sinclair Singleton Sire Skelton Skinner Slaughter Smith Smithson Snead Somerville Sowon Spain Sparks Spencer Stainback Stanback Stanley Staples Steagall Stegar Stembridge Stephenson Sterne Stevenson Steward Stewart Stokes Stone Stout Strange Street Sturdivant Sullivant Summers Swansberry Sweeney Swepstone Sydnor Syme Tabb Talbert Talley Tally Talor Tankersley Tanner Tarpley Tarry Tatom Tatum Taylor Terry Thacker Thackleton Thackston Thaxton Thomas Thompson Thornton Threatt Thrift Throckmorton Tisdale Todd Tomberlinson Tombs Tomlinson Toombs Toone Towers Towler Townsend Traynum Trotter Tubbyville Tucker Tunstall Tunstill Turleyfield Turner Turpin Twitty Ussery Vaden Valentine Vandyke Vaughan Venable Verser Vincent Vuahgan Wade Wagstaff Walker Wall Wallace Waller Walthall Walton Ward Warner Warren Washband Watkins Watson Watts Weakly Weatherford Weaver Webb Wells Welshe Westbrook Westmoreland Whalepool White Whitehead Whitlock Whitten Whittle Whitworth Wiggleworth Wilborn Wilkerson Wilkes Wilkins Wilkinson Wilks Willard Williams Williamson Willis Willmut Wills Willson Wilmoth Wilson Wimbish Winfree Winn Winningham Wionn Wise Witt Womack Wommack Wood Woodward Wooding Woodson Wooton Wootton Worsham Wrenn Wright Wriglesworth Wyatt Wynn Yancey Yarbrough Yates Young Zachary Zackary

If you would like to purchase a copy of this book, let me know.

Book Review: "Lunenburg County, Virginia Marriages 1750-1853" with Last Name Index A-M

The following is a summary of the last name index of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s Lunenburg County, Virginia Marriages 1750-1853, 174 pages, appendices, figure, chart and map. Lunenburg County was created in 1746 from a portion of Brunswick County. 2,435 marriage records are reflected in the current volume. They are drawn from a variety of primary sources, including copies of typed bonds in the county court house (the original bonds are missing), scattered ministers' returns in will and deed books, and microfilm records in the Virginia State Library, Archives Division. Two appendices provide a date frequency and a listing of all ministers reporting returns. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1988 original, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia.

If you would like to purchase a copy of this book, let me know.

Here are two sample entries from the book:

• "Callis Pamelia F & Samuel W Oslin 17 Apr 1843; b - Gary Thompson min - John C Blackwell - 21 Apr 1843"
• "Rainey Francis & Cissly M Gee 8 Jan 1847; date approximate min - Daniel Petty - from return list dated 8 Feb 1847"

The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Abernathy Abrham Adams Addams Adin Aiken Aikins Aikins Akin Alday Alderson Alexander Allen Alling Almond Alston Ambrose Ames Amos Anders Anderson Andrews Apperson Arms Armstrong Arnold Arvin Ashley Ashworth Atkins Atkinson Atwell Averett Averitt Avory Bacon Bagley Bailey Baines Baker Baldwin Ballard Banks Barksdale Barnes Barrow Barry Bartlett Barton Basbeck Bass Bates Batte Baugh Bayne Beach Bearick Bears Beaseley Beasley Bedford Beevers Belcher Bell Bellsher Bennett Bentley Bently Bethel Betts Beverley Beverly Bevis Biasse Bigger Billups Bing Birchett Bird Bishop Black Blackwell Blagrave Blagrove Blake Blankenship Blankinship Blanks Blanton Blunt Bohannon Bolling Booker Booth Boothe Borum Bose Boswell Bouldin Bowen Bowers Boze Brackett Bradley Bradshaw Bragg Brame Brammer Branagin Branch Brasel Breedlove Brent Bride Bridgeforth Brim Brindle Brinkle Brintle Brizentine Broadnax Broadway Brooks Browder Brown Brubb Bruce Brummer Bryant Brydie Buck Buckhannon Buchnall Buckner Buford Bugg Bullard Burge Burke Burke Burks Burnett Burnette Burton Burwell Bush Buster Butler Byars Byasse Byassee Byesee Byng Cabaness Cabaniss Cabiness Cain Calaham Caldwell Calib Callaham Calliham Callihan Callis Cameron Cammel Camp Campbell Cantalou Cardegill Cargill Carlton Carreer Carrington Carrol Carroll Carter Carver Caudil Caudle Cavender Cayce Chambers Chandler Chaney Chapman Chappell Chavens Chavers Chaves Cheaney Cheany Cheatham Chickley Chishom Chitton Christian Christopher Chumley Chumney Clabourn Cladwell Claiborne Clardy Clark Clarke Claughtoin Clay Clayton Clements Cleuverius Cobb Cocke Cockerham Cole Coleman Collier Collins Colly Colter Comer Connell Conner Cook Cooskey Cooper Cordle Cotter Couch Cousins Covington Cowan Cow Crafton Craghead Craig Craighead Cralle Craven Crawley Creath Creathe Crenshaw Crews Crittenden Cross Crow Crowder Crowe Crymes Cully Cumby Cunningham Cureton Cuttaloe Dabbs Dacux Dagnal Dagnall Dailey Dalton Daly Dance Daniel Dardin Davidson Davies Davis Day Dayley Degraffenreid Degraffenreidt Dedman Degraffenreid Deminan Denkens Denton Depriest Deshazor Dickes Dicks Dickson Dillingham Dixon Dizmang Dobbin Dobbins Dobbyns Dodd Dodson Doggett Doke Dowdy Dowsing Dozer Dozier Drake Dreskill Dudley Dunevant Duniman Dunman Dunn Dunnavant Dupree Eagles Earl Early East Eastham Echols Eckles Eddings Edmonds Edmondson Edmund Edmunds Edmundson Edwards Eggleston Egleton Elam Elder Eldor Eldridge Ellet Ellington Elliott Ellis Elmore Embry Epes Epperson Eppes Epps Erambert Erskine Esters Estes Eubank Evans Evens Falcon Fallin Farguson Farler Farley Farmer Farrar Farriss Fears Featherston Ferrell Figg Filbert Filbird Filboid Finch Fisher Fitzwilson Flinn Flipping Flournoy Floyd Ford Foster Fowles Franklin Freeman Frost Fulilove Fuqua Gafford Gaines Gallion Gandy Garland Garner Garratt Garrett Garrott Gary Gasquet Gaulding Gayle Gee Geers George Gill Gillet Gilliam Gillium Glascock Glasson Glen Glenn Gober Goin Gooch Goode Goodwin Goodwyn Goodwyne Gordon Gosee Gossee Graham Granger Grant Grear Green Gregg Gregory Griffin Grimes Grisham Guantney Gunn Gurney Gwatney Gwin Hailey Haines Haley Haly Hamblin Hamlet Hamlett Hamlin Hammock Hammonds Hammonds Hammons Hampton Haney Hankin Hankins Hanks Hann Hansbrough Hardie Harding Hardrick Hardwick Hardwicke Hardwood Hardy Harper Harris Harrison Harvey Harvy Harwood Haskins Hastin Hastings Hatchet Hatchett Hatchitt Hawkes Hawkins Hawthorn Hawthorne Hayes Haymore Haynes Hays Hazelwood Hazlewood Heath Hendrick Henry Herring Hicks Hight Hightower Hill Hilton Hines Hitchens Hitchings Hitchins Hite Hix Hobson Holmes Holt Hood Hoomes Hooper Hopkins Howard Hubbard Huddlestone Hudgin Hudgins Hudson Hughes Huling Hull Hundley Hunnicut Hurt Hutcherson Hutchinson Inge Ingram Innes Insco Irby Irvine Isbell Jackson Jameson Jarrett Jarrott Jefferson Jeffress Jenkins Jennings Jeter Johns Johnson Johnston Jones Jordan Jusco Justice Justis Kearsey Keats Keeling Keesee Keeth Keeton Kelly Key King Kirk Kirkland Knight Knott Lacey Ladd Laffoon Lamb Lambert Lamkin Lampkin Landrom Landrum Lanier Lawrence Lay Legrand Lee Lefoe Lemay Leonard Lertie Lester Lett Lewis Ligon Lipscomb Lock Locke Lockhead Logan Loury Love Lowery Lowry Lucas Lynch MacCaden MacKan Macan Maddox Maddux Mallery Mallory Malone Maloney Manley Manly Manson Marable Marr Marron Marrow Marshall Martin Mason Mathes Mathews Matthew Matthews Matthis Maury Maxey May Mayes Mayton McAlister McCargo McClaughlin McConico McConnico McCraw McCutcheon McCutcheson McFarland McIntire McKee McKenney McKie McKinney McLaughlin McMachen McQuaid McQuie Meadows Meanley Meanly Middleton Miller Mills Minor Mitchell Mize Mohorn Monday Monroe Moody Moon Moor Moore More Moreton Morgain Morgan Moring Moriset Morris Morrison Mosby Moseley Moses Moss Mount Mourning Mullins Munday Murrell Murrill

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Family Tree Maker 2008 is breaking my heart – a little

Family Tree Maker 2008 is breaking my heart – a little. I want to use it and I even volunteered to be a beta tester. The program should be great but I just cannot get into it. I cannot get excited about the new format for a few reasons, none of which have to do with bugs or errors with the program. I think the software engineers have ironed out most of the problems but I cannot get over the feel of it. I just do not feel comfortable with the program yet and do not know if I will ever feel good about it.

When I used to sit down with Family Tree Maker 16, I could burn through a stack of documents to enter within an hour or two. Family Tree Maker 2008 is so complicated, or maybe detailed is a better word, that it takes five times as long to get anything done. I find myself spending more time entering data than I actually spent at the archives looking for the stuff!

There are so many screens to enter data, sometimes the same information in more than one spot. I feel like I have to be diligent and enter everything but there is so much stuff! If you scan and document the source, the repository, the actual data and maybe a media item, you just spent an hour. That would take only a few minutes in FTM 16.

With FTM 16, things went faster because the layout was simple. I could use the tab and alt keys to jump all over the screen with little effort. It is as if FTM 2008 gives you too many options and I am overwhelmed.

Don’t get me wrong, I love FTM 2008. I think it is a great program, and it is probably the future of genealogy, but it is dense. I am a young guy – only 30 – and I consider myself to be pretty computer savvy. I know that older, less computer-literate individuals have got to be having a hard time with it.

I have honestly lost interest in genealogy over the past few months, largely because of FTM 2008. It is so bulky and slow, I dread sitting down and spending hours with it. I probably have not touched it in over a month. I hate to go back to FTM 16 because I have made changed to my file in FTM 2008 that will not go backward. I am almost stuck with 2008 now and that is somewhat depressing.

I think I am going to try and give it another shot in the next few days. One evening, after the wife and kids go to bed, I will pull out a few documents and maybe time myself on how long they take to enter. I am honesty in a funk right now and have almost no interest in even trying. I wish I could find a document that I have been looking for a long time, something to stimulate my interest again...Does anyone out there have a copy of Francis Lett’s will from Brunswick or Mecklenburg County, Virginia? As far as I know, it does not exist, but that might re-spark my interest enough to give FTM 2008 another try.

Query - Lemuel B. Hill born about 1809-10

Here is a query I got from one of our mailing list members. If you know anything about these folks, please leave a comment about them.

"My Great-Great Grandfather Lemuel B. Hill was born in Virginia about 1809-10. I am trying to find his parents. Possibilities are Hartwell Hill from Brunswick County, Virginia or a Charles Hill who was involved with trade with the native people."