Digital Library of Books and Resources
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READ --- Keeling - Family Ancestral Photos of Joy Coleen Risley Tilton (B29902)
AR Boone County // Tilton - Joy Coleen Risley Tilton
Free / The Keeling family of Lead Hill and other local areas, Arkansas (1949 and ever since), temporarily of California (1946-1949), formerly of Maryville, Blount, Tennessee ... this family page includes a large number of some amazing Keeling family photos online ... >> This line descends from Abel Keeling (1821–1910) ... born 11 DEC 1821, Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, and passed 14 JUL 1910, Lead Hill, Boone, Arkansas, USA
READ --- History of Perquimans County (B6034)
NC Perquimans // Winslow, Mrs Watson Winslow
Paywall - Ancestry / 520 pages, published 1974 ... Table of Contents lists families highlighted within the book. Contains good solid history of families and the region itself.
READ --- Golding (c.1704-c.1782) of Orange County, Virginia, and Ninety Six District, South Carolina (B6519)
SC Laurens // Ed Dittmer,1990
Free / Library / Commissioned research by Ed Dittmer (1990) for the Golding Family Association, which no longer exists. Ancestry of William Golding (c.1704-c.1782) of Orange County, Virginia, and Ninety Six District, South Carolina. A 1992 update was published to the 1990 study. ... PDF of book is in my files but this study is not known to be available as a download on the web.
READ --- Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina no.76 1971 (Michaux) (B3541)
SC South Carolina // Huguenot Society of South Carolina
Free / 152 pages, published 1971 ... includes notes on Michaux and many other families across the central southern Atlantic area. Book can be read online for free and individual pages downloaded for free.
READ --- Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina v. 21 -26 (1915-1921) (B37379)
SC South Carolina // Huguenot Society of South Carolina
Free / Research through the year 1921 ... some amazing stuff but the version of the book available does not seem searchable nor is there an index. Research is not just limited to South Carolina families.
READ --- A compilation of the original lists of the Protestant immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773 (B5790)
SC South Carolina // Revill, Janie Revill
Free / 163 pages, published 1939 ... 4000 families listed ... freely accessible versions of this book are available from various sources. Published at Columbia, S.C., The State company, 1939 ... can also be found online at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48270/images/ProtestantImmigrantsSC-007017-1
READ --- Wilkinson and kindred families Genealogy (B3456)
US Family Genealogy // Wilkinson; Marcellus McEwin Wilkinson, 1949
Paywall - Ancestry / 547 pages -- well indexed.
READ --- Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War, Vol. I (B31011)
US Southern USA // Clark, Murtie June Clark
Paywall - Ancestry / Volume I: Officials Rolls of Loyalists Recruited from and North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana; published by Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1981
READ --- Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War, Vol. I (B34326)
US Southern USA // Clark, Murtie June Clark
Paywall - Ancestry / Volume I: Officials Rolls of Loyalists Recruited from and North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana; published by Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1981
READ --- Passengers to America, Emigrants from England (B15148)
US USA // Tepper; Michael Tepper, 1980
Paywall - Ancestry / 567 pages --- A consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Although reference is made to New England the passenger records cover all of the original colonies and the Carribean.
READ --- Two Huguenot families: De Blois, Lucas (includes Chatillon) (B31158)
US USA // Fox, Frank B. Fox
Free / 156 pages, published 1949 ... DeBlois (de Bloise) and Lucas families of France and New England. Some very interesting history on the Chatillon family back to 12th century. No presence of Gaudin, Godin and Michaux families in the book.
READ --- United States, Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865 (B32371)
Free - Family Search / This collection consists of images of index cards of Confederate officers acquired from the 'Military Order of the Stars and Bars' ... also available on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61982/
READ --- The Warrens and You (Warren Family History) (B16468)
US USA // Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
Free HathiTrust / Research of Warren family members with earliest origin in the American South. Not all Warrens are related. 306 pages; Kansas City, MO: Brown-White-Lowell Press, 1958
READ --- A History and Genealogy of the Warren Family in Normandy, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Holland, Tuscany, United States of America, Etc. (A.D. 912-1902) With Numerous Pedigrees (B7274)
US USA // Warren, Rev Thomas Warren
Free / >> No index of surnames but searchable. Be fonetikally open-minded. Warren can also be found as Wareyn; other surnames enjoy similar creativity. 404 pages. Full book downloadable as PDF ... This Warren Genealogy takes a broad perspective in time and place(s) in researching Warrens and intermarried families. Various Warren lines represented. Excellent research starting point and FREE to download. Published 1902 by the Reverend Thomas Warren of Ireland.
READ --- Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature, of what it was Made by Man, and of Some of the Men who Made it (B1697)
VA Albemarle // Woods, Rev. Edgar Woods
Free - Google Books / 422 pages, 1901. Free to read! on Google Books … This book was reprinted in 1982 and you can still buy on Amazon or ebay. 1982 is an exact reprint of 1901’s book. Both the print and digital have a nearly useless index. HOWEVER, the free ebook is fully searchable … Note to self: No GFolks in book, but other families of interest (Dabney et al).
READ --- Albemarle County Census, 1783 (and other counties) (B13150)
VA Albemarle // US Census Bureau
Free-US Census Bureau / Albemarle's 1783 census starts on page 80. More info about Virginia's pre-1790 census can be found here: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/386611?availability=Family%20History%20Library ...
READ --- The Albemarle of Other Days (B38598)
VA Albemarle // Mary Rawlings
Free / Published 1925, 146 pages ... Albemarle County Virginia History ... book begins with pre-settlement and notes on the early settlement.
READ --- The Rucker family genealogy, with their ancestors, descendants and connections (B4192)
VA Amherst // Wood, Sudie Rucker Wood, 1871-
Free-Source / 585 pages ... by Sudie Rucker Wood (1871-), Publication date 1932, Publisher Richmond, VA, Old Dominion Press. Copyright not renewed as per Stanford database.
READ --- Genealogical and historical notes on Culpeper County, Virginia, History of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia (B38570)
VA Culpeper // Green & Slaughter; Raleigh Travers Green and Philip Slaughter
Free / 352 pages by Green, Raleigh Travers, 1872-; Slaughter, Philip, 1808-1890. --- Archive.org ...
READ --- Goddin Family Genealogy (B27616)
VA Family Genealogy // Vaughan; Arnetta Goddin Vaughan
Paywall - Ancestry / 85 pages --- Publisher A. H. Goddin, 1952. Details English history and arrival in Virginia in 1600s ... NOTES TO SELF: related to Godwin; no indication of kin to Goaldner or Golden; James City, Virginia ...
READ --- The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793 (B29047)
VA Gloucester // Chamberlayne; C. G. (Churchill Gibson) Chamberlayne
Free / 429 pages --- Archive.org: Digital free to read/download ... Chamberlayne, C. G. (Churchill Gibson), 1876-1939; Virginia State Library.
READ --- Goochland Books indexed on Google (B24035)
VA Goochland // Various Authors
Free and Paywall / Various books via Google search; many are free to read and/or download. GFolks research priority area for 1700s. ... All of the free or digitally readable books will be eventually added to this book index.
READ --- Goochland County, Virginia Marriages, Wills and various parish notes as kept from 1750-1797 (B23224)
VA Goochland // Douglas, Rev. William Douglas
Free / Searchable … Goochland County, Virginia … Marriages, Wills and various parish notes as kept from 1750-1797 as collected and kept by the Rev. William Douglas … an amazing 422 page book … these notes were inherited by a g-g-grandson and published in 1928 … good source of info for the many French Hugenot descendents of the region … there is a good index AND this book is fully searchable … // No GFolks
READ --- Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800 (B10901)
VA Isle of Wight // Chapman, Blanche Adams Chapman, 1938
Paywall - Ancestry / 387 pages. Excellent indexing of names; some 40 pages devoted just to the index. Reprinted 2003; Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Company.
NOTE TO SELF: No Gfolks or K. Goodwins and Godwins. Hollands galore but no N.
READ --- Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. III, Charles City, Henrico, Lower Norfolk (Princess Anne), Washington and York Counties (B19957)
VA James River area // Fleet; Beverly Fleet
Paywall - Ancestry / 833 pages --- The Original 34 Volumes Reprinted in 3, Volume III, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc, 1988.
READ --- Descendants of REV. BENJAMIN DOGGETT of Virginia (B34540)
VA Lancaster // Heflin, Blanche Doggett Heflin, 1985
Free / Published 1985. 170 pages. Begins with Richard Doggett of Groton, Suffolk, England, residing there 1526. Five generations later, Rev Benjamin Doggett baptized at Ipswich, England 28 Oct 1636 and passing at Lancaster County, Virginia in 1682; married at St. Mary le Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk, England on 21 Sept. 1664 to Mrs. Jane Garrard, so arrived in Virginia after 1664. ... Book has extensive index with many old Virginia families represented.
READ --- Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, VA from 1653 to 1812 (B17398)
VA Middlesex // National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia, 1897
Free / S-L-O-W to load ... go get a cup of coffee and come back. The book should be completed loaded, THEN download so you have a copy for yourself ... 336 pages, published 1897 ... Two special notes: NOT everything got properly indexed when this book was digitized. Some people in the end-of-book index cannot be found by searching. Go to the page listed in the index. Also spelling was different back then don't you know. Is not uncommon for 'Catherine' to be spelt as 'Chatherine', not that there are not already many ways to spell the name otherwise. Perhaps to save ink and paper, many abbreviations are used for both names and other things ... Overall this book is super indexed in that this PDF book contains the registry of life events in the parish as well as an index at the end of the book. Unique to this parish record are the many slaves that are listed by name and their own life events ... Published by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia. Printed by Wm Ellis Jones, Steam Book and Joe Printer at Richmond.
READ --- Early British Colonial Settlers [pre 1776] of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties (B37470)
VA Northern Neck // Marshall, website curator Mike Marshall
Free / Early British Colonial Settlers [pre 1776] of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties … NOTE TO SELF: GFolks and Keelings
READ --- Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. I, Accomack, Lancaster, Richmond, Northumberland, Westmoreland Counties, 833 pages (B14640)
VA Northern Neck / Middle Peninsula // Fleet, Beverly Fleet
Paywall - Ancestry / The Original 34 Volumes Reprinted in 3, Volume I, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc, 1988.
READ --- Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 (B22809)
VA Northern Neck / Middle Peninsula // Headley, Robert K Headley, 1938
Paywall - Ancestry / Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800, Marriages and Marriage References for the Counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Old Rappahannock, Richmond, and Westmoreland. Families of interest within book: Gouldman, see Goldman ... 506 pages, 1938 with copyright renewed 2003 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland.
READ --- Kegley's Virginia Frontier, The Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783 (Excerpts) (B18886)
VA Roanoke // Kegley, F. B. Kegley, 1938
READ --- Bible Records of Suffolk and Nansemond County Virginia, Together With Other Statistical Data (B23771)
VA Suffolk // Norfleet, Fillmore Norfleet, 1963
Free / Published 1963. 236 pages. This book by Fillmore Norfleet is about as comprehensive as it gets in research of the Norfleet family.
READ --- Some prominent Virginia families (B25379)
VA Viginia // Bellet, Louise Pecquet du Bellet
Free-Source / 310 pages by Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, 1853-
Publication date 1907
Publisher Lynchburg, Va.: J.P. Bell Company;
READ --- Early pre-1650 Virginia history (B38599)
VA Virginia // Bruce & Glover; Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover, 1895
Free / Early pre-1650 Virginia history; many names and original source documents: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 2, edited by Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover, 1895
READ --- Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, Vol. I, 1915-1975 (B7670)
VA Virginia // Hutton & Bott; Mary Louise M. Hutton; additions by Mrs. George L. Bott
Paywall - Ancestry / Published 1915-1975, 325 pages; compiled by Mary Louise M. Hutton, supplemented by additions by Mrs. George L. Bott (1979-1988) ... There is no index, or need thereof as individuals are listed alphabetically. That said, there are several appendixes of later name additions beginning with page 300 so check those as well.
READ --- Virginia Land Records (B33883)
VA Virginia // William and Mary College Quarterly
Paywall - Ancestry / 897 pages --- Source: Virginia Land Records, excerpted and reprinted from The Virginia Magazine of History and Beiography, the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine and Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine with notes by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1982. ... NOTE TO SELF: Reviewed entries for John Goddin (pg128, 1658), Edward Goulding (pg 658, 1654), Stanley and Francis Goar (pg 303, 1712)
READ --- Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, Alphabetical Register of Virginians (B20854)
VA Virginia // Gwathmey; John H. Gwathmey
Paywall - Ancestry / 885 pages --- Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc, 1979 ...
READ --- History and genealogies of the families of Miller, Woods, Harris, Wallace, Maupin, Oldham, Kavanaugh, and Brown (illustrated) (B10205)
VA Virginia // W. H. Miller
Free / Book available for download as PDF ... Rich with pre-1750 and 1600s Virginia families ... full name of the book is informative as to featured surnames: History and genealogies of the families of Miller, Woods, Harris, Wallace, Maupin, Oldham, Kavanaugh, and Brown (illustrated) : with interspersions of notes of the families of Dabney, Reid, Martin, Broaddus, Gentry, Jarman, Jameson, Ballard, Mullins, Michie, Moberley, Covington, Browning, Duncan, Yancey, and others
READ --- The Dameron-Damron genealogy; the descendants of Lawrence Dameron of Virginia, with notes on the related Northumberland county families (B4615)
VA Virginia // Snow, Helen Foster Snow
Free / Published 1953, 868 pages ... Entire book can be downloaded via Google Books ... The Dameron-Damron genealogy; the descendants of Lawrence Dameron of Virginia, with notes on the related Northumberland county families of Gaskins, Harvey, Bledsoe, Tignor, Ball, Coppedge-Coppage, Waddy, Taylor, Smith, and the John Ladd Family originating Lower Norfolk county, Virginia.
READ --- Captain Roger Jones, of London and Virginia Some of His Antecedents and Descendants (B2980)
VA Virginia // Jones, Lewis Hampton Jones
Free / 442 pages, published 1891 ... Captain Roger Jones, of London and Virginia Some of His Antecedents and Descendants, including the families of BATHURST, BELFIELD, BROWNING, CARTER, CATESBY, COCKE, GRAHAM, FAUNTLEROY, HICKMAN, HOSKINS, LATANE, LEWIS, MERIWETHER, SKELTON, WALKER, WARING, WOODFORD, AND OTHERS.
READ --- The Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters of Virginia, and Allied Families (B19181)
VA Virginia // Anderson, William Pope Anderson, 1874-1951
Free / 178 pages, published 1938 ... can be read online but not downloaded.
READ --- The Maupin Family History (B37093)
VA Virginia // Sherman, Nellie Cadle (Watson)
Free / 160 pages, published 1962 ... The Maupin family with allied branches of Miller, Harris, Martin, Ballard, Michie, Dabney, White, Jarman, Mullins, McKenzie, Adkins, Waltrip, Jones, Neal, Hall, Rea families. Provides pre-U.S. arrival and post arrival settlement history.
READ --- Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. V., Families named Th-Y (B8395)
VA Virginia // Barnes, Robert and Catherine Barnes
Paywall - Ancestry / 1020 pages, published 1982 as excerpts from William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. V. for focus on families alphabetically named Thompson-Yates. Indexes and featured families published in William and Mary College Quarterly (WMQ) between 1892-1943 ... well indexed for WMQ collection of over 500 articles.
READ --- History of the Maupin family : including some of the Spencer, Via, Rice, Graves, Ballard, Gentry, Miller, Hawkins, Bates, Woods, Harris, Washington, Chapman, White, Jarman, Michie, Kirby, Mullins, Pressnel, Dabney, Rea, Heard, Reed, and others (B39425)
VA Virginia // Maupin, Ruby G. Heard Maupin
Free - Family Search / 277 pages. Originally released without claim of copyright. Free to download and to share. A special feature of this genealogy is some pre-1600 history that includes history of a Maupin knight in the crusades and includes some lore going back to 14th century.
READ --- Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1850 (B2208)
VA Virginia // Bentley, Elizabeth Petty Bentley, 1984
Paywall - Ancestry / 804 pages ... An index of marriage records from the 'The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly' ... this is a very large collection but should not be considered definitive or even close. There are many Virginia marriages documented elsewhere that do not appear in this book --- but certainly this an outstanding book for you to have access to for this time period.